Defense Date
3-20-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Degree Name
Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
First Advisor
Janine Morris, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Mario D'Agostino, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Juliette Kitchens, Ph.D.
Keywords
Delivery, Arrangement, Ecology, Visual Rhetorics, Material Rhetorics, Sonic Rhetorics, Waka, Ikebana
Abstract
Rhetorical applications of delivery and arrangement have grown to reflect the global interconnectedness of cultures, bodies, and material objects. Informed by rhetorical and ecological approaches to delivery and arrangement (Edbauer Rice; Lambke;), this project performs a rhetorical and ecological analysis of ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and waka (Classical Japanese poetry) by Meishu-Sama and Saigyō Hōshi. Waka and ikebana, as compositional modes, reveal an interpolation of delivery and arrangement that invites both composer and audience to embody nature. As such, this project examines the visual-material and sonic rhetorics of waka and ikebana in order to discover how delivery and arrangement affect the composition, composer, and audience of the art forms. Rhetoricians who are invested in ecological, material, cross-cultural, and artful applications of canons might benefit from a study of this project with the goal of contributing to discourses on materiality and rhetorical ecological relationships.
NSUWorks Citation
Bianca Oliveira. 2023. The Materiality of Waka and Ikebana: Locating Ecological Relationships Between Delivery and Arrangement. Master's thesis. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, . (126)
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcas_etd_all/126.