Defense Date
10-25-2019
Graduation Date
Spring 5-8-2020
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
dissertation
Degree Name
PhD
Department
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Janie Harden Fritz
Committee Member
Ronald C. Arnett
Committee Member
Erik Garrett
Keywords
The Spiritual Exercises, Orality and Literacy, Emblem, Semiotic Phenomenology, Personalism
Abstract
Informed by the work of Walter Ong, in the first prelude of the First Week in the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius of Loyola used an emblematical image, the “prison-cage”, to provide phenomenological accounts for the exercitants to examine the existential situation within. This dissertation explores into the difficulty of being rhetorical in mediating on the existential situation emblematically. I try to understand the orality-literacy dynamic within the Exercises through the theoretical framework of semiotic phenomenology. The Ignatian emblematics can be understood as phenomenological descriptions that asked the exercitants to provide the parts of moral-phenomenological reductions and phenomenological interpretations within personalism.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Qian, H. (2020). St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1870