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Selected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: A Burkeian Analysis

In this study, Kenneth Burke's methods of dramatistic analysis is applied to the selected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, a Black contemporary female poet. The procedure, analysis of poetry for symbolic action, is a functional approach which focuses on the poetic language, Agency. The thesis, divided into four chapters, concentrates on discovery of the Purpose, a Black female motive, for the Act, Giovanni's poetry, in the Scene, contemporary Black America.

Date: August 1973

Creator: Tobola, Carolyn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Survey of the Rhetorical Devices Employed by Women's Liberation Organizations in the United States

Just as themes are important in the analysis of a movement, the means used to promote those themes are just as significant and that is the purpose of this paper. More specifically, the purposes are (1) to describe the sub-groups and report their goals, [2) to describe the numerous rhetorical devices extant in the movement, (3) to classify the subgroups into conservative or liberal categories: conservative, liberal, and those devices used by both conservatives and liberals, and (5) to suggest an… more

Date: December 1972

Creator: Simpson, Charles David