The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism
1st Edition
Published on 18. October 2012
Book
Hardback
840 pages
978-0-415-51754-6 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together 50 key readings on rhetorical criticism in a single accessible format, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader furnishes instructors with an ideal resource for teaching and practicing the art of rhetorical criticism. Unlike existing readers and textbooks, which rely on cookie-cutter approaches to rhetorical criticism, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader organizes the field conceptually, allowing teachers and students to grapple with the enduring issues and debates surrounding criticism over the past 50 years.
The readings are organized into four sections, each representing key conceptual issues and debates in rhetorical criticism: critic/purpose, object/method, theory/practice, and audience/consequentiality. Each section is preceded by an introductory essay that puts the readings into context. For added flexibility, an alternative table of contents is also included for instructors and students to customize their teaching and reading.
Intended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical criticism, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader uniquely lends itself to thoughtful discussion of the role of the critic in the critical process. It assists readers not only in learning the tools of criticism, but also in reflecting on the values that underlie the critical endeavor.
The readings are organized into four sections, each representing key conceptual issues and debates in rhetorical criticism: critic/purpose, object/method, theory/practice, and audience/consequentiality. Each section is preceded by an introductory essay that puts the readings into context. For added flexibility, an alternative table of contents is also included for instructors and students to customize their teaching and reading.
Intended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical criticism, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader uniquely lends itself to thoughtful discussion of the role of the critic in the critical process. It assists readers not only in learning the tools of criticism, but also in reflecting on the values that underlie the critical endeavor.
Reviews / Votes
"An inspired conversation between reflections on the activity of criticism and models of exemplary criticism, The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism provides a superb introduction to the key theoretical debates in rhetorical criticism."Sonja K. Foss, Department of Communication, University of Colorado - Denver
"Dickinson and Ott's reader on rhetorical criticism features 50 thoughtfully selected essays, which exemplify several accomplished critics' conceptually-driven, generative practices for criticism of public advocacy, while exploring the intricate relationships between theory and practice. Offering a conversational and dialogic orientation to rhetorical criticism as an alternative to a methods approach, The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism is an exceptional resource for teaching criticism to graduate students and advanced undergraduates."
Lester C. Olson, Professor of Communication and Women's Studies & Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher, University of Pittsburgh
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 49 mm
Weight
1747 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-51754-6 (9780415517546)
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The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism
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Persons
Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Greg Dickinson is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.
Greg Dickinson is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.
Content
Part I: Critic/Purpose
Must We All Be 'Rhetorical Critics'? Barnet Baskerville
Criticism Ephemeral and Enduring, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Another Shooting in Cowtown, Thomas W. Benson
Rhetoric, Society and the Critical Response, Philip Wander and Steven Jenkins
Rhetorical Criticism as Moral Action, James F. Klumpp and Thomas A. Hollihan
Communication, Social Justice, and Joyful Commitment, Stephen John Hartnett
Leff in Context: What is a Critic's Role? Barbara Warnick
The Critic as Empath: Moving Away from Totalizing Theory, Celeste Michelle Condit
Criticism and Authority in the Artistic Mode, Bonnie J. Dow
Rethinking Critical Voice: Materiality and Situated Knowledges, Julia T. Wood and Robert Cox
"Voice" and "Voicelessness" in Rhetorical Studies, Eric King Watts
Performing Critical Interruptions: Stories, Rhetorical Inventions, and Environmental Justice Movement, Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Part II: Object/Method
Gettsyburg and Silence, Edwin Black
Words the Most Like Things: Iconicity and the Rhetorical Text, Michael Leff and Andrew Sachs
Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture, Michael Calvin McGee
Object and Method in Rhetorical Criticism: From Wichelns to Leff and McGee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Literature as Equipment for Living, Kenneth Burke
Accidental Rhetoric: The Root Metaphors of Three Mile Island, Thomas B. Farrell and G. Thomas Goodnight
Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality, Ernest G. Bormann
Refitting Fantasy: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Talking to the Dead, Joshua Gunn
The Rhetoric of the American Western Myth, Janice Hocker Rushing
Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum, Greg Dickinson, Brian L. Ott, and Eric Aoki
Memory and Reconciliation at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Victoria J. Gallagher
Show/Down Time: "Race," Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, Thomas K. Nakayama
From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activisim, and the "Violence" of Seattle, Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples
Part III: Theory/Practice
On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic, Robert Scott
Rhetoric as a Way of Being, Thomas W. Benson
Critical Models in the Analysis of Discourse, Thomas B. Farrell
Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism, David Zarefsky
Rhetorical Theory as Heuristic and Moral: A Pedagogical Justification, Barry Brummett
Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois, Maurice Charland
Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis, Raymie E. McKerrow
The Critique of Vernacular Discourse, Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop
The Materiality of Discourse as Oxymoron: A Challenge to Critical Rhetoric, Dana L. Cloud
Another Materialist Rhetoric, Ronald Walter Greene
Nietzsche and the Aesthetics of Rhetoric, Steve Whitson and John Poulakos
Cinema and Choric Connection: Lost in Translation as Sensual Experience, Brian L. Ott and Diane Keeling
Part IV: Audience/Consequentiality
The Second Persona, Edwin Black
The Third Persona: An Ideological Turn in Rhetorical Theory, Philip C. Wander
Contextual Twilight/Critical Liminality: J.M Barrie's Courage at St. Andrews, 1922, Charles E. Morris III
The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy, Celeste Michelle Condit
Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Criticism, Leah Ceccareli
The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African America Culture: "Wassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark P. Orbe
Vernacular Dialogue and the Rhetoricality of Public Opinion, Gerard A. Hauser
Out-Law Discourse: The Critical Politics of Material Judgment, John M. Sloop and Kent A. Ono
Enacting Red Power: The Consummatory Function in Native American Protest Rhetoric, Randall Lake
Creating Discursive Space through a Rhetoric of Difference: Chicana Feminists Craft a Homeland, Lisa A. Flores
Reflections on Criticism and Bodies: Parables from Public Places, Carole Blair
No Time for Mourning: The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the War on Terror, Barbara Biesecker
The Rhetorical Ritual of Citizenship: Women's Voting as Public Performance, 1868-1875, Angela G. Ray
Must We All Be 'Rhetorical Critics'? Barnet Baskerville
Criticism Ephemeral and Enduring, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Another Shooting in Cowtown, Thomas W. Benson
Rhetoric, Society and the Critical Response, Philip Wander and Steven Jenkins
Rhetorical Criticism as Moral Action, James F. Klumpp and Thomas A. Hollihan
Communication, Social Justice, and Joyful Commitment, Stephen John Hartnett
Leff in Context: What is a Critic's Role? Barbara Warnick
The Critic as Empath: Moving Away from Totalizing Theory, Celeste Michelle Condit
Criticism and Authority in the Artistic Mode, Bonnie J. Dow
Rethinking Critical Voice: Materiality and Situated Knowledges, Julia T. Wood and Robert Cox
"Voice" and "Voicelessness" in Rhetorical Studies, Eric King Watts
Performing Critical Interruptions: Stories, Rhetorical Inventions, and Environmental Justice Movement, Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Part II: Object/Method
Gettsyburg and Silence, Edwin Black
Words the Most Like Things: Iconicity and the Rhetorical Text, Michael Leff and Andrew Sachs
Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture, Michael Calvin McGee
Object and Method in Rhetorical Criticism: From Wichelns to Leff and McGee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Literature as Equipment for Living, Kenneth Burke
Accidental Rhetoric: The Root Metaphors of Three Mile Island, Thomas B. Farrell and G. Thomas Goodnight
Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality, Ernest G. Bormann
Refitting Fantasy: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Talking to the Dead, Joshua Gunn
The Rhetoric of the American Western Myth, Janice Hocker Rushing
Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum, Greg Dickinson, Brian L. Ott, and Eric Aoki
Memory and Reconciliation at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Victoria J. Gallagher
Show/Down Time: "Race," Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, Thomas K. Nakayama
From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activisim, and the "Violence" of Seattle, Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples
Part III: Theory/Practice
On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic, Robert Scott
Rhetoric as a Way of Being, Thomas W. Benson
Critical Models in the Analysis of Discourse, Thomas B. Farrell
Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism, David Zarefsky
Rhetorical Theory as Heuristic and Moral: A Pedagogical Justification, Barry Brummett
Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois, Maurice Charland
Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis, Raymie E. McKerrow
The Critique of Vernacular Discourse, Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop
The Materiality of Discourse as Oxymoron: A Challenge to Critical Rhetoric, Dana L. Cloud
Another Materialist Rhetoric, Ronald Walter Greene
Nietzsche and the Aesthetics of Rhetoric, Steve Whitson and John Poulakos
Cinema and Choric Connection: Lost in Translation as Sensual Experience, Brian L. Ott and Diane Keeling
Part IV: Audience/Consequentiality
The Second Persona, Edwin Black
The Third Persona: An Ideological Turn in Rhetorical Theory, Philip C. Wander
Contextual Twilight/Critical Liminality: J.M Barrie's Courage at St. Andrews, 1922, Charles E. Morris III
The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy, Celeste Michelle Condit
Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Criticism, Leah Ceccareli
The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African America Culture: "Wassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark P. Orbe
Vernacular Dialogue and the Rhetoricality of Public Opinion, Gerard A. Hauser
Out-Law Discourse: The Critical Politics of Material Judgment, John M. Sloop and Kent A. Ono
Enacting Red Power: The Consummatory Function in Native American Protest Rhetoric, Randall Lake
Creating Discursive Space through a Rhetoric of Difference: Chicana Feminists Craft a Homeland, Lisa A. Flores
Reflections on Criticism and Bodies: Parables from Public Places, Carole Blair
No Time for Mourning: The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the War on Terror, Barbara Biesecker
The Rhetorical Ritual of Citizenship: Women's Voting as Public Performance, 1868-1875, Angela G. Ray