Karen Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6354-2232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transcendence in Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish symphony
This essay addresses the rhetorical functioning of musical form through a study of the interrelationships among musical, poetic, and structural facets of Leonard Bernstein's Third Symphony. It examines the work's presentation of three bases for faith, arguing that the Symphony's appeal rests in its empowering of human agents by enacting a transcendent rebirth achieved through a series of lateral transformations that move, in Burkean terms, from a…
China Beach and American Mythology of War
The Irony of Sophie's Choice
(1991). The Irony of Sophie's Choice. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-23
Dialectical disorientation in Vietnam War films
“Dialectical disorientation” is a rhetorical form that creates uncertainty and ambiguity through confrontation between two competitive but complementary orientations. This essay examines its dynamics in four films addressing the war in Vietnam: The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. We argue that the works subvert traditional American war mythology. The films present the war as destructive rather than regenerative and pu…
Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century
Catherine II and the Image of Peter I
In 1770 Etienne Falconet notified Empress Catherine II that he preferred to carve only a brief inscription on the base of his monument to Peter the Great: Petro Primo/Catharina Secunda. The empress did not object, and when the statue was finally unveiled in 1782 it bore the sculptor's lapidary phrase on its gigantic granite foundation. Catherine is presumed to have relished the equation which the motto implied, that Peter had been Russia's first …
Inconsistency in Campbell's rhetoric
George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric is an integration of eighteenth‐century psychological and philosophical thought with classical rhetorical concepts. This integration, however, contains a methodological‐epistemological inconsistency. Campbell advocated verification through observation but also accepted the Common Sense dictum that people possess the certainty of original knowledge. Analysis and explanation of the inconsistency reveal impor…
Dialectical disorientation in Vietnam War films
“Dialectical disorientation” is a rhetorical form that creates uncertainty and ambiguity through confrontation between two competitive but complementary orientations. This essay examines its dynamics in four films addressing the war in Vietnam: The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. We argue that the works subvert traditional American war mythology. The films present the war as destructive rather than regenerative and pu…
Catherine II and the Image of Peter I
In 1770 Etienne Falconet notified Empress Catherine II that he preferred to carve only a brief inscription on the base of his monument to Peter the Great: Petro Primo/Catharina Secunda. The empress did not object, and when the statue was finally unveiled in 1782 it bore the sculptor's lapidary phrase on its gigantic granite foundation. Catherine is presumed to have relished the equation which the motto implied, that Peter had been Russia's first …
Transcendence in Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish symphony
This essay addresses the rhetorical functioning of musical form through a study of the interrelationships among musical, poetic, and structural facets of Leonard Bernstein's Third Symphony. It examines the work's presentation of three bases for faith, arguing that the Symphony's appeal rests in its empowering of human agents by enacting a transcendent rebirth achieved through a series of lateral transformations that move, in Burkean terms, from a…
Inconsistency in Campbell's rhetoric
George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric is an integration of eighteenth‐century psychological and philosophical thought with classical rhetorical concepts. This integration, however, contains a methodological‐epistemological inconsistency. Campbell advocated verification through observation but also accepted the Common Sense dictum that people possess the certainty of original knowledge. Analysis and explanation of the inconsistency reveal impor…
Inconsistency in Campbell's rhetoric
George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric is an integration of eighteenth‐century psychological and philosophical thought with classical rhetorical concepts. This integration, however, contains a methodological‐epistemological inconsistency. Campbell advocated verification through observation but also accepted the Common Sense dictum that people possess the certainty of original knowledge. Analysis and explanation of the inconsistency reveal impor…
Catherine II and the Image of Peter I
In 1770 Etienne Falconet notified Empress Catherine II that he preferred to carve only a brief inscription on the base of his monument to Peter the Great: Petro Primo/Catharina Secunda. The empress did not object, and when the statue was finally unveiled in 1782 it bore the sculptor's lapidary phrase on its gigantic granite foundation. Catherine is presumed to have relished the equation which the motto implied, that Peter had been Russia's first …
Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century
The Irony of Sophie's Choice
(1991). The Irony of Sophie's Choice. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-23
Dialectical disorientation in Vietnam War films
“Dialectical disorientation” is a rhetorical form that creates uncertainty and ambiguity through confrontation between two competitive but complementary orientations. This essay examines its dynamics in four films addressing the war in Vietnam: The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. We argue that the works subvert traditional American war mythology. The films present the war as destructive rather than regenerative and pu…
China Beach and American Mythology of War
Transcendence in Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish symphony
This essay addresses the rhetorical functioning of musical form through a study of the interrelationships among musical, poetic, and structural facets of Leonard Bernstein's Third Symphony. It examines the work's presentation of three bases for faith, arguing that the Symphony's appeal rests in its empowering of human agents by enacting a transcendent rebirth achieved through a series of lateral transformations that move, in Burkean terms, from a…
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