Oscar Giner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4497105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Giner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar |
| FAMILY NAME | Giner |
| SIGNATURE | GINER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Waging peace: Transformations of the warrior myth by US military veterans
The mythic authority of the warrior, ancient and contemporary, is examined as a rhetorical formation of US war culture subject to transformation in the discourse of military veterans advocating for peace. The incongruity of veteran soldiers opposed to militarism is a point of cultural tension that reveals a resource for altering the language of war from within. The dissenting voices of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War articula…
Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture
Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture
A critical study of the demonic imagery that has been persistently embedded and codified in America's war culture. The authors examine "the devil myth" in both its past and present iterations and also highlight the counter-myth of the "trickster figure" whose democratic impulses have occasionally succeeded in countering the impulse towards demonization. To unveil the devil myth, the authors identify outward projections of evil onto the faces of A…
Hunting the Devil: Democracy's Rhetorical Impulse to War
The rhetoric of evil, so prominently evident in contemporary presidential public address, articulates a primal motive for the war on terrorism by projecting democracy's shadow onto the external enemy. In this regard, the president's discourse is a manifestation rather than aberration of U.S. political culture, a reflection of the nation's troubled democratic identity. Upon close inspection, it reveals the presence of the mythos of a democratic de…
The Death of Marlon Brando
The ancient books tell the first stories of Scarface: Cain, wounded with a mark and forced to roam the world as an exile and wanderer; Odin, who surrendered one of his eyes in exchange for wisdom; Ahab, who pursued the white whale with a “crucifixion” on his face; Jekyll, changed to Hyde by Satan's signature upon him. By the 1930s, the career of “Scarface Al” Capone had established the mythic measure for gangster criminal behavior in America. Thr…
Hunting the Devil: Democracy's Rhetorical Impulse to War
The rhetoric of evil, so prominently evident in contemporary presidential public address, articulates a primal motive for the war on terrorism by projecting democracy's shadow onto the external enemy. In this regard, the president's discourse is a manifestation rather than aberration of U.S. political culture, a reflection of the nation's troubled democratic identity. Upon close inspection, it reveals the presence of the mythos of a democratic de…
The Death of Marlon Brando
The ancient books tell the first stories of Scarface: Cain, wounded with a mark and forced to roam the world as an exile and wanderer; Odin, who surrendered one of his eyes in exchange for wisdom; Ahab, who pursued the white whale with a “crucifixion” on his face; Jekyll, changed to Hyde by Satan's signature upon him. By the 1930s, the career of “Scarface Al” Capone had established the mythic measure for gangster criminal behavior in America. Thr…
Hunting the Devil: Democracy's Rhetorical Impulse to War
The rhetoric of evil, so prominently evident in contemporary presidential public address, articulates a primal motive for the war on terrorism by projecting democracy's shadow onto the external enemy. In this regard, the president's discourse is a manifestation rather than aberration of U.S. political culture, a reflection of the nation's troubled democratic identity. Upon close inspection, it reveals the presence of the mythos of a democratic de…
Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture
Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture
A critical study of the demonic imagery that has been persistently embedded and codified in America's war culture. The authors examine "the devil myth" in both its past and present iterations and also highlight the counter-myth of the "trickster figure" whose democratic impulses have occasionally succeeded in countering the impulse towards demonization. To unveil the devil myth, the authors identify outward projections of evil onto the faces of A…
Waging peace: Transformations of the warrior myth by US military veterans
The mythic authority of the warrior, ancient and contemporary, is examined as a rhetorical formation of US war culture subject to transformation in the discourse of military veterans advocating for peace. The incongruity of veteran soldiers opposed to militarism is a point of cultural tension that reveals a resource for altering the language of war from within. The dissenting voices of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War articula…
Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Communication Studies (2 works) · Demonology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Imagery (psychology) (2 works)