Rhetorical criticism : perspectives in action /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Communication, media, and politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Elements of rhetorical criticism: the big picture / Jim A. Kuypers
- Part I. Overview of rhetorical criticism : What is rhetoric? / Jim A. Kuypers and Andrew King : A concise sketch of the rhetorical tradition ; The many meanings of rhetoric today ; A larger conception of rhetoric ; What future for rhetoric?
- Rhetorical criticism as art / Jim A. Kuypers : Criticism as a method ; The critical act ; Key issues in criticism
- Understanding rhetorical situations / Marilyn J. Young and Kathleen Farrell : Using the rhetorical situation ; Rhetoric as situated
- Generic elements in rhetoric / William Benoit : The theory and practice of generic rhetorical criticism ; Generic description: an inductive approach ; Generic application: a deductive approach
- On objectivity and politics in criticism / Edwin Black
- Part II. Perspectives on criticism : The traditional perspective / Forbes I. : Tradition criticism ; Critical essay : Mr. Douglass's Fifth of July
- Close textual analysis: approaches and applications / Stephen Howard Browne : CTA guiding principles ; Critical essay : Close textual analysis of Barack Obama's March 18, 2008, speech in Philadelphia
- Criticism of metaphor / David Henry and Thomas R. Burkholder : How metaphors work ; Critiquing metaphor ; Critical essay : Mario Cuomo's keynote address to the 1984 Democratic National Convention
- The narrative perspective / Robert C. Rowland : Describing narrative form and function ; Approaches to narrative rhetorical criticism ; Applications of the narrative paradigm
- Narrative analysis: a systematic perspective ; Critical essay : A narrative analysis of stories about children abducted to Saudi Arabia
- Dramatism and Kenneth Burke's pentadic criticism / Ryan Erik McGeough and Andrew King : Origins of dramatism ; Dramatism ; The pentad ; Critical essays : Example 1. Purpose and agency in Obama's second inaugural address; Example 2. Stressing the agent ; Example 3. Agrarian concerns ; Motives and competing frames ; Finding the dominant term, grappling with the text
- Fantasy-theme criticism / Thomas J. St. Antoine and Matthew T. Althouse : Fundamental concepts ; How to conduct fantasy-theme criticism ; About symbolic convergence theory ; Critical essay : Fantasy themes for college
- Feminist analysis / Donna Marie Nudd and Kristina Schriver Whalen : Why feminism? ; An introduction to feminist rhetorical criticism ; Feminist criticism and the challenge to rhetoric ; Approaches to using feminist criticism ; Critical essay : A feminist rhetorical analysis of Shallow Hal
- Ideographic criticism / Ronald Lee and Adam Blood : Point of departure ; Ideological turn in criticism ; Rhetorical materialism ; Ideographic criticism ; Final thoughts ; Critical essay : The conundrum of <loyalty> and the <market>: the discourses surrounding LeBron James's leaving and returning home
- Part III. Expanding our critical horizons : An eclectic approach to criticism / Jim A. Kuypers : Critical essays ; Personal reflections : Joseph M. Valenzano III on "Cowboys" ; Mary Evelyn Collings on "Texas" ; M. Lane Bruner on "Carnivalesque" ; Jim A. Kuypers on "From science"
- Critical rhetoric: an orientation toward criticism / Raymie E. McKerrow : Starting points: critical rhetoric ; Differentiating critiques of domination and freedom ; Enacting a critical science ; The context for critique ; Critical essay examples
- Criticism of popular culture and social media / Kristen Hoerl : Theorizing the relationship between culture and power ; Strategies for interpreting popular culture and social media ; Critical essays : 1. The hunger games as allegory for class struggle ; 2. The hunger games as the production of authentic whiteness and natural femininity ; 3. The Hunger games franchise as promotional cynicism
- Appendix A. Writing criticism: getting started
- Appendix B. Additional rhetorical perspectives and genres
- Appendix C. Glossary of terms.
