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Modern Rhetorical Criticism, 3/E
Roderick P Hart, University of Texas at Austin
Suzanne M. Daughton, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

ISBN-10: 0205377998
ISBN-13: 9780205377992

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 384 pp
Published: 10/05/2004

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A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style.

The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic analysis to feminist and Marxist approaches. A wealth of original criticism demonstrates how to analyze such diverse forms as junk mail, congressional debates, and traffic regulations, as well as literature. This long-awaited revision contains new coverage of mass media, feminist criticism, and European criticism.

  • Provides a comprehensive survey of the major critical studies of rhetoric produced in the U.S. within the last 30 years, including media, feminist, cultural, Marxist, and postcolonial criticism.
  • Includes analysis of texts such as patriotic oratory, Shakespeare's plays, Orwell's Animal Farm, and more.
  • Equips students with the critical tools and attitudes to comprehend rhetoric. “Critical Probes” provide concrete, critical questions that guide students through the analysis of a text.
  • “Chapter Headnotes” set up the fundamental critical principles of each chapter. These headnotes range from holocaust revisionism to Broadway lyrics, funeral prayers, and social rhetoric.
  • Provides a full chapter on “Analyzing Media” (Ch. 9) that demonstrates how mass media can be studied from a rhetorical vantage point.
  • Includes a full chapter on Feminist criticism (Ch. 13).

  • “Tips for the Practicing Critic” offers advice for students to help them craft their own critiques.
  • More “Critical Probes” have been added and have been redesigned to make them a more effective pedagogical tool.
  • An increased emphasis on feminism and cultural criticism, with more examples featuring women and diverse groups.
  • Chapter 1, “The Rhetorical Perspective,” now covers poetry (and other types of literature) as rhetoric, including literary examples.
  • Both the language of the text and the examples have been rewritten to make the text more engaging and accessible to undergraduate students.
  • Chapter 14, “Ideological Criticism,” now includes coverage of postcolonial criticism.
  • Chapter 9, “Analyzing Media,” now includes coverage of the rhetoric of the Internet.



Preface.

I. INTRODUCTION TO CRITICISM.

 1. The Rhetorical Perspective.

 2. The Critical Perspective.

II. GENERAL FORMS OF CRITICISM.

 3. Analyzing Situations.

 4. Analyzing Ideas.

 5. Analyzing Argument.

 6. Analyzing Form and Structure.

 7. Analyzing Syntax and Imagery.

 8. Analyzing Lexicon.

 9. Analyzing Media.

III. SPECIALIZED FORMS OF CRITICISM.

10. Role Criticism.

11. Cultural Criticism.

12. Dramatistic Criticism.

13. Feminist Criticism.

14. Ideological Criticism.

A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style. The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic analysis to feminist and Marxist approaches. A wealth of original criticism demonstrates how to analyze such diverse forms as junk mail, congressional debates, and traffic regulations, as well as literature. This long-awaited revision contains new coverage of mass media, feminist criticism, and European criticism.

New to This Edition

  • Both the language of the text and the examples have been rewritten to make the text more engaging and accessible to undergraduate students.
  • “Tips for the Practicing Critic” offer advice for students to help them craft their own critiques.
  • An increased emphasis on feminism and cultural criticism, with more examples featuring women and diverse groups.
  • More “Critical Probes” have been added and have been redesigned to make them a more effective pedagogical tool.
  • Chapter 9, “Analyzing Media,” now includes coverage of the rhetoric of the Internet.

About the Authors
Roderick P. Hart holds the Allen B. Shivers Centennial Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, and specializes in political communication, methods of rhetorical criticism, and persuasion in social movements. A four-time winner of the National Communication Association's annual research award and the recipient of the Association's Winans/Wichelns Memorial Book Award, he has published on such topics as the rhetoric of the true believer, rhetorical sensitivity and social interaction, the language of the modern presidency, and communication studies as the new humanities.

Suzanne M. Daughton teaches courses in rhetorical theory and criticism and gender studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has served on several editorial boards and as editor of Women's Studies in Communication. Samples of her work have appeared in Women's Studies in Communication, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Critical Studies in Mass Communication.

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