Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Oct 2012 RSS

Epideictic Rhetoric and the Reinvention of Disability: A Study of Ceremony at the New York State Asylum for “Idiots”

Abstract

“I use epideictic rhetoric to examine how the intellectually disabled person was over time constructed and deconstructed via praise and blame.”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
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2012-10-12
Topics
rhetorical theory disability studies multilingual writers

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