Graduate Colloquium Series: Elizabeth Earle (COMM) 4/9/19
“‘The Word is Action’: The Rhetoric of Miguel de Unamuno’s Journalistic Writings” Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Elizabeth Earle Ph.D. candidate| Department of Communication, 2018-2019 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow Abstract: Although most famous as an author of fiction and philosophy, Miguel de Unamuno wrote 3,000 newspaper articles in which he […]
“‘The Word is Action’: The Rhetoric of Miguel de Unamuno’s Journalistic Writings”
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 4-5 p.m.
Location: 311 Glasscock Building
Elizabeth Earle
Ph.D. candidate| Department of Communication, 2018-2019 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellow
Abstract:
Although most famous as an author of fiction and philosophy, Miguel de Unamuno wrote 3,000 newspaper articles in which he spoke out against the various 20th century Spanish political regimes. In the midst of national crisis and polarization, Unamuno used articles to critique the political and social structures of the time. This project analyzes the rhetorical strategies Unamuno used in his articles in order to illuminate new methods of resisting political ideologies. Elizabeth argues that Unamuno utilized the genre of the newspaper article to expose dogma that controlled Spanish society and to unite the people of Spain into a community. By examining Unamuno’s unique approach, she propagates the idea that we can come to understand the public intellectual in a new way.
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