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Direct linkBass, Jeff D. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
This essay examines the rhetorical persona of the "Fool" as employed by General Charles Gordon in six volumes of journals recorded during the siege of Khartoum by Mahdist forces from September to December, 1884. After identifying the particular rhetorical aspects of the "Fool" as social critic/site of ideological contestation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Rhetorical Theory, Historical Interpretation, Literary Criticism
