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Kallan, Richard A. – 1977
Tom Wolfe is widely regarded as the leading theorist and practitioner of New Journalism, the journalistic genre that combines the stylistic features of fiction and the reportorial obligations of journalism to produce a "novelistic sounding" but nonetheless factual literature. The saliency of Wolfe's stylistic boldness has prompted many…
Descriptors: Journalism, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices, New Journalism
Hershey, Lewis – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1988
Reviews scholarship on the interdependence of rhetoric and poetic language, and proposes a performance as argument model for the oral interpretation of literature. Relates the model to current work on the relationship of narrative to argument and suggests benefits gained from its adoption. (SR)
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Literary Criticism, Literature, Oral Interpretation

Cusella, Louis P. – Communication Quarterly, 1982
Demonstrates that, because of certain elements of the rhetorical situation in which "Kent State" was presented and because of the nature of its composition, the docudrama functioned to purify the image of Bill Schroeder, one of the four students killed on the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Content Analysis, Documentaries, Film Criticism

Benson, Thomas W. – Central States Speech Journal, 1978
Discusses nine senses which constitute a topical system for rhetorical critics. Each suggests a way of assessing the communicative potential of a variety of texts and is represented by the following critics: intentionalists, social critics, Boothians, critics of imitative rhetoric, formalists, genre critics, implicit rhetorical theorists,…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Reading, Literary Genres, Literary Styles
Parker, Maegan – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
For generations, critics have dismissed James Forman's "Black Manifesto" as a rhetorical failure. Such judgments tend to focus on the prophetic and retributive registers of the speech and fail to account for the full range of its ironic structuration. By examining the complex interchange of prophetic, retributive, and tragic registers through…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Invention, Rhetorical Theory, Figurative Language
Nicoll, Katherine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
This paper explores the potential of a poststructuralist and rhetorical analysis in appreciating more fully the discursive work of assessment tasks as mechanisms of power/knowledge within discourses of professional development. It is argued that such analysis may reveal detail in the way in which assessments work as material elements within a body…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rhetoric, Adult Education, Rhetorical Criticism

McCarron, William E. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Knowledge of classical rhetoric is still useful to writing teachers.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Persuasive Discourse

Jensen, Richard J.; Jensen, Carol L. – Central States Speech Journal, 1977
Contends that investigation of the past may contribute to a generic understanding of labor rhetoric and examines the rhetorical dimensions of the 1972 election contest for the leadership of the United Mine Workers. (MH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elections, Higher Education, Historical Criticism

Lucas, Stephen E. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1988
Indicates that the study of American public address is in the midst of a remarkable renaissance with a resurgence of interest in the American oratorical tradition and a growing occupation with the close analysis of rhetorical texts. (JK)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literature Reviews
Stern, Milton R. – ADE Bulletin, 1986
Discusses examples in "Moby Dick" of Melvillean words symptomatic of the significance of Ishmael's rhetorical energy, in order to suggest that Ishmael's language reflects Melville's search for lexical and rhetorical forms that express the democratic impulse. (SRT)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Usage, Literary Criticism

Howell, Wilbur Samuel – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1976
Examines the content of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and William's "The Element of Logick" and points out corresponding similarities of phrasing and doctrine. (MH)
Descriptors: American History, Comparative Analysis, Literary Criticism, Political Influences

Turner, Linda M. – College Composition and Communication, 1973
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, College Instruction, English Instruction, Persuasive Discourse

Yoos, George E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1978
Discusses the ethical and rational qualities of speech acts. (JMF)
Descriptors: Aristotelian Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Logic, Moral Values

Sacksteder, William – Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1979
Presents and defends the thesis that it is analogy which provides justification for any logic, and for any argument to the extent that it depends on logic for justification. Analogy acquires inept support from logic, but logic acquires adroit support from analogy. (JMF)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Literary Criticism, Logic, Persuasive Discourse

Harshbarger, Scott – College English, 1994
Considers Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary technique of providing various, often conflicting, accounts of a narrative scene or event. Analyzes Hawthorne's rhetoric of rumor as featured in "The Scarlet Letter." Shows how Hawthorne tried to translate the dynamics of interpersonal communication into print in this novel. (HB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Literary Criticism