Beschreibung:
Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism brings together fifteen rhetorical critics who address contemporary issues in criticism by answering three key questions: What is the purpose of rhetorical criticism? How do you practice rhetorical criticism? How do you teach rhetorical criticism? The book serves as both guide and resource in all three areas, presenting personal perspectives from top rhetorical critics.
This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as a teaching and learning aid.
Accessibility across areas of expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary rhetorical critics.
Chapter 1: On Objectivity and Politics in Criticism
Edwin Black
Chapter 2: Paddling the Rhetorical River, Revisiting the Social Actor: Rhetorical Criticism as Both Appreciation and Intervention
Jason Edward Black
Chapter 3: Rhetorical Criticism for Underdogs
Dana L. Cloud
Chapter 4: How Should Our Rhetoric Make Us Feel?
Celeste M. Condit
Chapter 5: Rhetorical and Civic Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: A Neo-Classical Rhetoric for the Digital Age
J. Michael Hogan
Chapter 6: The Wilderness Years of Rhetorical Criticism: Our Obsession with Powerlessness
Andrew A. King
Chapter 7: Artistry, Purpose, and Academic Constraints in Rhetorical Criticism
Jim A. Kuypers
Chapter 8: Endless Talk: The Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy of the Rhetorical Conversation
Ryan Erik McGeough
Chapter 9: The Critical Impulse
Raymie McKerrow
Chapter 10: Rhetorical Criticism as Textual Interpretation
Martin J. Medhurst
Chapter 11: The Moral Critic: An Act in Several Histories
Ned O’Gorman
Chapter 12: Practicing Rhetoric
Samantha M. Senda-Cook
Chapter 13: Rhetorical Criticism and Citizenship Education
Robert E. Terrill
Chapter 14: The Glory of Rhetorical Analysis: Communication as a Process Of Social Influence
Kathleen J. Turner
Chapter 15: The Accidental Rhetorician
Marilyn J. Young