Ideology, Prosody, and Eponymy: Towards a Public Poetics of Obama and Beowulf.

This article examines and integrates the categories of poetics and rhetoric by comparing concepts of the poetic in Barack Obama's 2008 election victory speech with concepts of political rhetoric in the Old English long poem Beowulf. Using close readings, the paper explores a nexus between these two...

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Published in:	Nebula Vol. 7; no. 1/2; pp. 71 - 98
Main Author:	Clark, Tom
Format:	Article
Published:	Samar Habib Jun2010
Subjects:	Rhetoric & politics Literature Obama, Barack, 1961- Translating & interpreting Political poetry Literary style
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost