Herein, Q.E. takes a look at the dialectic and the rhetorical and how they might be employed so as to make your story as persuasive as it can possibly be.

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Herein, Q.E. begins to apply what was discussed last episode by looking at the ways in which the stories we tell construct the world around us: how fiction shapes reality.

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Herein, Q.E. breaks down the way human beings make meaning - and how the process isn't as infallible as we may think.

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Herein, Q.E. guides us through a particular case study of the power of narrative: that of queerness as it is represented in media.

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Herein, Q.E. sets the stage and develops the fundamental concepts we need to better understand the stories that surround us.

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This podcast is a standalone episode written and distributed for the purposes of a university class in which the author was enrolled. 

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