"The Flea" Circus: Rhetorical Argument & Donne

Identifier

3

Author

Ashley Nicole Brown

Date

2012

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Major

English

Concentration

Professional Writing

Committee Chair

Loel Kim

Committee Member

Dmitri Stanchevici

Abstract

John Donne's 'The Flea' is grounded in its historical context and discussed from the perspective of Burke's conception of consubstantiality and his four master tropes. The poem's argumentation is analyzed in order to demonstrate that the manipulation in the argument has a detrimental effect on the reader. The author argues that the poem may nonetheless have helped to liberalize sexual attitudes since it was first published.

Comments

Undergraduate Honor's Thesis

Library Comment

Honors thesis originally submitted to the Local University of Memphis Honor’s Thesis Repository.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Ashley Nicole, ""The Flea" Circus: Rhetorical Argument & Donne" (2012). Honors Theses. 3.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/honors_theses/3