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How Theoretical Lenses Affect Interpretation: Using a Scene from Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly to Juxtapose Pentadic and Generic Criticism

by Alexander Sharp | Jun 4, 2021

This is a rather odd rhetorical analysis. It was an assignment for Dr. Strain’s Rhetorical Theory class at The University of Dayton. The assignment was to look at the same artifact using two different rhetorical lenses and then contrast the two. I went...

The Rhetorical Pronoun Shift in Malcolm Gladwell’s “Harlan, Kentucky”

by Alexander Sharp | Jun 3, 2021

This is the first rhetorical analysis I wrote for grad school. What I like most about it is that it does not depend on any “theoretical lens,” which is something professors unfortunately require for many grad papers. While utilizing scholarship to inform...

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