Readings in
Rhetorical Criticism
fourth edition
Carl R. Burgchardt, editor
Colorado State University
CONTENTS
I. PURPOSES OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM
Herbert A. Wichelns, “The Literary Criticism of Oratory” (1925)
Ernest J. Wrage, “Public Address: A Study in Social and Intellectual History” (1947)
Wayland Maxfield Parrish, “The Study of Speeches” (1954)
Lloyd F. Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation” (1968)
Edwin Black, Excerpts from Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method (1965)
Edwin Black, “The Second Persona” (1970)
Philip Wander, “The Ideological Turn in Modern Criticism” (1983)
Raymie E. McKerrow, “Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis” (1989)
Carole Blair, Marsha S. Jeppeson, and Enrico Pucci, Jr., “Public Memorializing in Postmodernity: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Prototype” (1991)
II. NEO-CLASSICAL CRITICISM
Forbes Hill, “Conventional Wisdom—Traditional Form—The President’s Message of November 3, 1969” (1972)
Michael C. Leff and Gerald P. Mohrmann, “Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text” (1974)
Stephen Howard Browne, “‘The Circle of Our Felicities’: Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address and the Rhetoric of Nationhood” (2002)
III. CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Michael Leff, “Dimensions of Temporality in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural” (1988)
Stephen E. Lucas, “The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence” (1990)
*Edwin Black, “Gettysburg and Silence” (1994)
IV. DRAMATISTIC CRITICISM
Kenneth Burke, “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’” (1941)
Mari Boor Tonn, Valerie A. Endress, and John N. Diamond, “Hunting and Heritage on Trial: A Dramatistic Debate Over Tragedy, Tradition, and Territory” (1993)
Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki, “The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shephard Murder” (2002)
V. NARRATIVE CRITICISM
Walter R. Fisher, “Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument” (1984)
William F. Lewis, “Telling America’s Story: Narrative Form and the Reagan Presidency” (1987)
*Herbert W. Simons, “From Post-9/11 Melodrama to Quagmire in Iraq: A Rhetorical History” (2007)
VI. METAPHORIC CRITICISM
Michael Osborn, “Archetypal Metaphor in Rhetoric: The Light-Dark Family” (1967)
Robert L. Ivie, “Metaphor and the Rhetorical Invention of Cold War ‘Idealists’” (1987)
*Michael L. Butterworth, “The Politics of the Pitch: Claiming and Contesting Democracy through the Iraqi National Soccer Team” (2007)
VII. SOCIAL MOVEMENT CRITICISM
Leland M. Griffin, “The Rhetorical Structure of the Antimasonic Movement” (1958)
Herbert W. Simons, “Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements” (1970)
Susan Zaeske, “Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions” (2002)
VIII. GENRE CRITICISM
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “Form and Genre in Rhetorical Criticism: An Introduction” (1978)
B. L. Ware and Wil A. Linkugel, “They Spoke in Defense of Themselves: On the Generic Criticism of Apologia” (1973)
James Darsey, “Joe McCarthy’s Fantastic Moment” (1995)
IX. IDEOGRAPHIC CRITICISM
Michael Calvin McGee, “The ‘Ideograph’: A Link between Rhetoric and Ideology” (1980)
John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit, “Reconstructing <Equality>: Culturetypal and Counter-Cultural Rhetorics in the Martyred Black Vision” (1990)
*Catherine H. Palczewski, “The Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument, Icons, and Ideographs in 1909 Anti–Woman Suffrage Postcards” (2005)
X. GENDER CRITICISM
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, “The Rhetoric of Women’s Liberation: An Oxymoron” (1973)
*Bonnie J. Dow, “Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology” (2003)
Charles E. Morris III, “Pink Herring & The Fourth Persona: J. Edgar Hoover’s Sex Crime Panic” (2002)
*John M. Sloop, “Riding in Cars Between Men” (2005)
XI. CRITICAL RHETORIC
Thomas K. Nakayama and Robert L. Krizek, “Whiteness: A Strategic Rhetoric” (1995)
Dana L. Cloud, “Hegemony or Concordance? The Rhetoric of Tokenism in ‘Oprah’ Winfrey’s Rags-to-Riches Biography” (1996)
Kevin Michael DeLuca and Anne Teresa Demo, “Imaging Nature: Watkins, Yosemite, and the Birth of Environmentalism” (2000)
Additional Readings
Index
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