Dr. Stacy Cacciatore

Book Reviews

Literature Review – Analyzing food rhetoric in The Sopranos

April 23, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment

Assignment: Find out what is already known about your subject and communicate that knowledge concisely in 1,500 words or less. The form of this portion of the project could be an annotated bibliography, a bibliographic or informative essay (i.e., a review of the literature), or some other format conducive to conveying information. Your purpose at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Film Rhetoric Tagged: body image, literature review, sopranos

The Association of Small Bombs Book Review

April 23, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan By Stacy Cacciatore The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan is a fascinating novel that centers on a bomb that goes off in the Delhi marketplace in 1996. This “small bomb”, which kills approximately 50 people, isn’t a huge event that gets discussed in the media … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Masters Degree Tagged: book review, karn mahajan, the association of small bombs

While the City Slept Book Review

April 23, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment

While the City Slept by Eli Sanders By Stacy Cacciatore This book was written by a journalist who wrote about the murder of two women in 2009 by a young man who was mentally disturbed. The opening scene was riveting and the description of the scream, red house and white curtain billowing out of the window … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Masters Degree Tagged: book review, while the city slept

On Kenneth Burke – Grammar of Motives

April 22, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment
Posted in: Book Reviews, Burke, Ph.D Digital Portfolio Tagged: grammar of motives, kenneth burke

Book Review: Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

April 22, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment

Book Review: Food, Feminisms, Rhetoric  by Melissa Goldwaithe by Stacy Cacciatore Historically, the study of women and food has been deemed unworthy of scholarly attention. Melissa Goldwaithe turns this on its’ head with Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics. In the past feminist scholars have been reluctant to study the intersection of gender and food. Goldwaithe acknowledges this at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Reviews Tagged: feminism, food, food and desire, rhetoric

Book Review – Tasteful Domesticity by Sarah Walden

April 21, 2019 by stacy Leave a Comment

In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden explores the scholarship on cookbooks and how they’ve served as a rhetorical space for women in nineteenth-century America. She claims that Tasteful Domesticity is the first book-length study of women’s rhetoric in American cookbooks (13). Walden posits that cookbooks not only “satisfy Aristotle’s famous definition of rhetoric as ‘locating the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Ph.D Digital Portfolio Tagged: book review, rhetoric, tasteful domesticity

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