Type of Document Dissertation Author Pietrzykowski, Marc URN etd-08062007-120124 Title Winning, Losing, and Changing the Rules: The Rhetoric of Poetry Contests and Competition Degree Ph.D. Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. George Pullman Committee Chair Dr. Lyneé Gaillet Committee Member Dr. Marti Singer Committee Member Keywords
- Stylistics
- Competition
- Debate
- Rhetoric
- Composition
- Poetry
- Poetics
- Contest
- History
- Categorization
- Cognitive Science
- Conceptual Blending
- Cognitive Linguistics
Date of Defense 2007-06-28 Availability unrestricted Abstract This dissertation attempts to trace the shifting relationship between the fields of Rhetoricand Poetry in Western culture by focusing on poetry contests and competitions during several
different historical eras. In order to examine how the distinction between the two fields is
contingent on a variety of local factors, this study makes use of research in contemporary
cognitive neuroscience, particularly work in categorization and cognitive linguistics, to
emphasize the provisional nature of conceptual thought; that is, on the type of mental activity
that gives rise to conceptualizations such as “Rhetoric” and “Poetry.” The final portions of the
research attempt to use some modeling techniques derived from cognitive linguistics as invention
strategies for producing stylistically idiosyncratic academic knowledge, and for examining the relationship between the stylistic markers we associate with each of the two aforementioned fields.
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