Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-century Perspective

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Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro
Wayne State University Press, 1989 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 518 pages

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Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
7
The NeoAristotelian Approach
26
The Historical Approach
64
THE EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVE
85
The NixonTruman Analog
117
The Epistemic Approach
134
Computer Science as a Rhetoric by James W Chesebro
156
The Dramatistic Approach
174
THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
273
A Paradigm for Communication by Thomas S Frentz
303
A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Style
321
Inaugurating the Presidency by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
343
The Social Movements Approach
361
The Feminist Approach
388
A Typology for Revision
403
From Work to Text by Roland Barthes
441

The Fantasy Theme Approach
177
Flexibility and Interpretation
196
by Ernest G Bormann
210
Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels 1950 to 1983
223
The Realization of Innocence and Guilt
256
The Constructionist Approach
461
The Deconstructionist Approach
477
Index
515
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