Legal realism is used to illuminate the motivational character of the rhetorical actions comprising the law. Re-examines traditional sources of rhetoric in this light and finds them to be inadequate to provide a full view of legal actions. Outlines what such a full view of legal motives would involve. (JMF)

In what follows I explore the question of fictionality in history writing. First, I venture into the unfamiliar genre of "ego-histoire" and make my own professional training in the tenets of positivist or realist historiography an object of theoretical reflection and critical analysis. Then as a way of dealing with the literary dimension of…

Case study rhetoric, or the rhetoric of real experience, is concerned with the ways by which case studies appeal to their own intrinsic realness or authenticity. On the surface, case studies are often accepted fully as representing real experience. But the design, arrangement, and emphases of case studies are rhetorically constructed by the writer…