University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-23-2020 Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi Spencer Todd Bennington University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the Rhetoric Commons Scholar Commons Citation Bennington, Spencer Todd, "Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non- Western Embodied Topoi" (2020). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/8436 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi by Spencer Todd Bennington A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Composition Department of English College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Carl Herndl, Ph.D. Lisa Melonçon, Ph.D. Steven Jones, Ph.D. Cathryn Molloy, Ph.D. Date of Approval: June 19th, 2020 Keywords: martial arts, Daoism, commonplaces, embodied rhetoric, writing studies, pedagogy Copyright © 2020, Spencer Todd Bennington Dedication To Mike and Susie Bennington and the memory of Betty J. Todd. Mom, Dad, Mama--if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here today; I wouldn’t be writing a dissertation at all. And, if by some miracle I did make it to this point all by myself, I would have quit a long time ago without your support.