Rhetorical Criticism - Perspectives in Action

Helping students learn how to perform rhetorical criticism, this book stresses criticism as an art and as a means to engage in critical thinking. The chapters and sample essays are written by noted experts and geared towards student accessibility. The third edition includes new chapters on visual rhetoric and digital rhetoric.

List of contents

Thoughts on updates for the 3E:

• Add chapter on visual criticism
• Update feminist critique ch
• Query reviewers on keeping fantasy theme analysis and bringing back framing chapter (beyond the news)
• Add Advocacy criticism?
• Add intersectionality?
• Concept criticism?
• Are there chapters that will be cut from this edition? What is the right length for this book to make comprehensive and up to date but keep teachable/affordable?

TOC 2E:

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

Rhetorical Criticism as Art

Jim A. Kuypers

Understanding Rhetorical Situations

Marilyn Young and Kathleen Farrell

Generic Elements in Rhetoric

Bill Benoit

On Objectivity and Politics in Criticism

Edwin Black
Part II. PERSPECTIVES ON CRITICISM

The Traditional Perspective

Forbes I. Hill

Close Textual Analysis: Approaches and Applications

Stephen H. Browne

Criticism of Metaphor

David Henry and Thomas R. Burkholder

The Narrative Perspective

Robert Rowland

Dramatism and Kenneth Burke's Pentadic Criticism

Ryan McGeough and Andrew King

The Fantasy Theme Perspective

Thomas St. Antoine, Matthew Althouse, and Moya Ball

Feminist Criticism

Donna Nudd and Kristina L. Whalen

Ideographical Criticism

Ronald Lee and Adam Blood
Part III. EXPANDING OUR CRITICAL HORIZONS

Eclectic Criticism: Combining Perspectives for Insights

Jim A. Kuypers

Critical Rhetoric: An Orientation Toward Criticism

Raymie McKerrow

Criticism of Popular Culture and Social Media

Kristen Hoerl
Appendix A: Writing Criticism: Getting Started
Appendix B: Additional Rhetorical Perspectives
Appendix C: Glossary of Terms

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Product details

• Authors: Jim A. Kuypers
• Assisted by: Jim A. Kuypers (Editor), Kuypers Jim A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2021
• EAN: 9781538138144
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3814-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc