1st Edition
Landmark Essays on American Public Address Volume 1
Edited By Martin Medhurst
Copyright 1995
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume traces the historical evolution of American academic thought concerning public address -- what it is, how it ought to be studied, and what can be learned by engaging rhetorical texts in an analytical fashion. To begin, one must distinguish among three separate but interrelated uses of the term "public address" -- as practice, theory, and criticism. The essays in this volume represent... Read more
Contents: M.J. Medhurst, Introduction: The Academic Study of Public Address: A Tradition in Transition (1993). H.A. Wichelns, The Literacy Criticism of Oratory (1925). D.C. Bryant, Some Problems of Scope and Method in Rhetorical Scholarship (1937). L.D. Reid, The Perils of Rhetorical Criticism (1944). A.C. Baird, L. Thonssen, Methodology in the Criticism of Public Address (1947). E.J. Wrage, Public Address: A Study in Social and Intellectual History (1947). W.M. Parrish, The Study of Speeches (1954). M. Hochmuth, The Criticism of Rhetoric (1955). E. Black, The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism (1965). B. Baskerville, Must We All Be "Rhetorical Critics?" (1977). G.P. Mohrmann, Elegy in a Critical Grave-Yard (1980). S.E. Lucas, The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship (1981). M. Leff, Textual Criticism: The Legacy of G.P. Mohrmann (1986). S.E. Lucas, The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism (1988). D. Zarefsky, The State of the Art in Public Address Scholarship (1989). Bibliography. Index.
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