Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Ivan Davis
Abstract
The term muscle car appears to have atrophied to an automotive legend, or simply a marketing term synonymous with any powerful four seat sedan apart from heritage or point of origin. Through generic critical analysis, this thesis paper seeks to quantify the problematic identity of the muscle car. By use of transparent and theoretically consistent analytic procedures, this paper seeks to identify the rhetorical principles behind the genre's characteristic form, thereby producing a qualitative framework. This framework will then be utilized as a tool to qualitatively assess modern vehicles that identify as muscle cars, in order to determine whether they actively participate in the muscle car genre.
Recommended Citation
Irvine, John C., "Evolution Over Revolution: A Generic Criticism of the Muscle Car Genre" (2014). Honors Theses. 84.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/84/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/84
Subject Area
Muscle cars., Automobiles.
Presentation Record URL
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/84/
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