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Wallace, Karl R. – 1970
This book is designed to help teachers and students of speech, language, English, rhetoric, public address, and speech communication understand the nature of discourse and analyze communicative behavior. Chapters deal with (1) the philosophical bases for the relationships between the speech act and the rhetorical act, (2) the basic concepts of the…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Aristotelian Criticism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Humanism
Bass, Jeff D.; Cherwitz, Richard – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1978
Offers theoretical distinctions among the terms sacred, myth, ideology, and political myth. Analyzes representative speeches and debates on imperialism in the United States and Great Britain and contends that the distinction between the two rhetorical typologies concurrently existing in each nation account for the dominance of imperialist rhetoric…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Historical Criticism, Imperialism
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Scharbach, Alexander – College Composition and Communication, 1972
Literary criticism must recognize its origins in common with rhetoric. Only through this recognition can (both) grow to show in a more full measure how literature functions to instruct, delight, express, and move. (Author)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Literary Criticism, Literature, Rhetoric
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Smiley, Sam – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1971
The rich tradition of drama as instrument, the many eloquent defenses of drama as teacher, and the structural potentialities of thought-controlled drama argue convincingly that didactic drama can be both useful and fascinating. (Author)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Aristotelian Criticism, Drama, Literary Perspective
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Heath, Robert L. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1979
Discusses the evolution of Burke's conception of form and explains how he combines form, substance, idea, and audience appeal into a single critical principle. Argues that his theory is important because it provides a rationale for combining language, idea, and appeal. (JMF)
Descriptors: Audiences, Language, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
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Wiethoff, William E. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1978
Argues that Machiavelli's inherent interest in pragmatic, "virtuous" applications of humanistic arts mandated both rhetorical form and matter in his composition of the "Art of War." Proposes that the work reveals Machiavelli's debt to the classically humane ideal of the warrior-orator. (JMF)
Descriptors: Humanism, Literary Criticism, Renaissance Literature, Rhetoric
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Beale, Walter H. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1976
Descriptors: Poetry, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Textual Criticism
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Sloane, Thomas O. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1976
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Rhetoric, Textual Criticism
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Kehl, D. G. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
Describes a method of teaching composition that focuses on rhetorical strategies in fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay, and by considering how these strategies are used effectively to achieve particular effects. (TO)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, College Students, Literary Criticism, Literature
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Pekarsky, Daniel – American Journal of Education, 2007
This article explains the nature of vision-guided educational practice, makes the case for it, and appraises objections to this approach to education. The discussion is grounded in a critique of the rhetoric and practice associated with American education, a critique that emphasizes the continuing failure to think about educational challenges and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Planning, Rhetoric, Criticism
Chesebro, James W.; Hamsher, Caroline D. – Speech Monographs, 1975
Examines the relationship between rhetorical theory and rhetorical criticism, and discusses the current evolution of rhetorical criticism and the theoretical suppositions accounting for this evolution. (MH)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Aristotelian Criticism, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse
Rosenfield, Lawrence W. – Speech Monographs, 1968
Critical discourse is best understood when its logical features are identified. An examination of the basic elements and modes of rhetorical criticism (a form of critical discourse) produces a finite set of options for the critic, thus enabling him to develop a system of alternatives in his critical efforts. For example, by selecting from among…
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism
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Jamieson, Kathleen M. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1975
Contends that is sometimes rhetorical genres and not rhetorical situations that are decisively formative, and cites the papal encyclical, early state of the union addresses and their replies as supporting evidence. (MH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Literary Criticism, Rhetoric
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McGee, Michael C. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1977
Speculates on the relationship between the execution of history in practice and the conceptualization of history in theory by examining the rhetorical elements in the resignation episode of the Duke of Wellington. (MH)
Descriptors: English Literature, European History, Historical Criticism, Rhetoric
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Jarratt, Susan C. – College English, 1989
Investigates the interrelation of the histories of rhetoric and literary studies by examining in detail the writings of Victorian sage Walter Pater. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Rhetoric
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