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An 8 page discussion of the manner in which rhetoric has been used to define and redefine our identities. While just a couple of generations ago we were content to stand by and watch our men go off to war, for example, today we more and more often find ourselves fighting alongside them. This is an issue which has been explored by a variety of writers. Virginia Woolf, for example, utilized rhetoric to actually define and direct the manner in which women see themselves today both in regard to domestic issues and war. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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According to Kenneth Burke the means by which we come to define and redefine our identities is part of a life-long cognitive developmental process, a process through which we
also formulate our symbolic means of rhetoric. This process is particularly interesting when we compare the manner in which it is manifested in the historic literature and the applicability
of that literature to both historic and contemporary events and issues. One contemporary womens issue of interest today is the role of women in modern society. While just
a couple of generations ago we were content to stand by and watch our men go off to war, for example, today we more and more often find ourselves fighting
alongside them. This is an issue which has been explored by a variety of writers, one of the most interesting of which is Virginia Woolf. Woolf, in fact,
utilized rhetoric to actually define and direct the manner in which women see themselves today. Through her rhetoric, and the subsequent rhetoric developed by other women, we have been
successful in fighting against the tendency to keep women in a subservient position either in the home or in times of warfare. As
Burke notes for the process in general, Woolfs work exemplifies the fact that the symbolic means of rhetoric is directly associated with the attachment and detachment of ideas and meaning
which were important to Woolfs time. Just as this was relevant to Woolfs time, however, so too is it in many ways relevant to ours. Rhetoric such as
that employed by Woolf allowed her, and us, to form identifies as they relate to other people, beliefs and values. This formulation of identify is of particular interest in
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