1st Edition
Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism Volume 5
Edited By Thomas W. Benson
Copyright 1995
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies some act or event that marks a significant achievement or turning point in the progress or decline of human effort. In the history of an academic discipline, the historically established senses of... Read more
Contents: T.W. Benson, Introduction: Beacons and Boundary-Markers: Landmarks in Rhetorical Criticism (1993). H.A. Wichelns, The Literary Criticism of Oratory (1925). K. Burke, The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle (1939). M.H. Nichols, Lincoln's First Inaugural (1954). C.C. Arnold, Lord Thomas Erskine: Modern Advocate (1958). H.G. Stelzner, "War Message, "December 8, 1941: An Approach to Language (1966). R.L. Scott, A Rhetoric of Facts: Arthur Larson's Stance as a Persuader (1968). J.A. Campbell, Darwin and The Origin of Species: The Rhetorical Ancestry of an Idea (1970). E. Black, The Second Persona (1970). M.C. Leff, G.P. Mohrmann, Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text (1974). K.K. Campbell, Stanton's "Solitude of Self": A Rationale for Feminism (1980). S.E. Lucas, Genre Criticism and Historical Context: The Case of George Washington's First Inaugural Address (1986). M. Charland, Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Québécois (1987).
Biography
Thomas W. Benson
