Must we all be “rhetorical critics”?

Baskerville, Barnet

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“…In 1947, for example, Ernest J. Wrage laid out a program quite contrary to the neo-Aristotelian approach of the day for the study of public address and social history where, in short, public address could be used in the service of the new social and intellectual history. In the 1970s debate flurried about what Bruce Gronbeck (1975) once pronounced as "a distinction" between rhetorical history and rhetorical criticism; some embraced the distinction; others clearly did not (see Baskerville 1977;Lucas 1981). And the role of history in a rhetorical theory of social movements has been an important issue since Leland Griffin's ground-breaking essay (see Andrews 1980;Brown 1981).…”

Section: Communication Arts and Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Altman

1988

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Rhetoric has often been in the scapegoated position of the radically &dquo;other&dquo;-sometimes elevated as the marginal hope of language or more frequently debased as its common whore. It is usually contrasted with logic or science which may assume the figurative position of legitimate 'wife' of the mind. The tendency to expect everything or nothing at all from rhetoric is still prevalent, as is the ambivalence the term itself seems to engender. (Dominick LaCapra 1985) Among the many problems examined in contemporary feminist thought are feminism as politics vis-fi-vis feminism as theory, feminism in science, and the relationships among feminism and other critical studies such as marxism, deconstruction, and postmodernism. Feminist scholarship across the divisions of the academy challenges traditional research questions, procedures, and theories used in the production of knowledge and argues for a reconstitution of knowledge by placing women and their relations at the center of the process of inquiry. Recently, for example, a conference titled &dquo;Feminist Studies: Reconstituting Knowledge&dquo; brought together scholars from the fields of science, history, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and social theory. An important dimension of the conference and its publication, Feminist StudieslCritical Studies, involved the interdisciplinary or, perhaps, non-disciplinary approach to knowledge as a feminist pursuit (de Lauretis 1984). Part of the feminist &dquo;reconstitution&dquo; demands challenging the division and compartmentalization of knowledge established by the academy, the same institution which now, it is claimed by some, works to mainstream feminist critical practice for its own recuperative purposes.Scholars in communication studies are generally open to suggestions of interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge. Communication researchers often work with concepts related to social psychology, organizational theory, and sociology, for example. Media or mass communication theorists work with a variety of social scientific concepts (such as sociological ones), on the one hand, or with critical and interpretive ones (such as political-economy or literary theory), on the other.Rhetorical scholars also work theoretically and critically with concepts related to literary criticism, philosophy, or linguistics. On this fundamental point of the interdisciplinary construction of knowledge, then, it would seem that a feminist

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Section: Communication Arts and Sciencesmentioning

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Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Altman

1988

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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“…As Baskerville recently decried, many scholars in our field have become enamored with critical methodology at the expense of substance, thereby weakening their historical perspective. 21 He might well have added that the testing ground for new methodologies is usually the contemporary era and that many critics prefer to study contemporary rhetoric that is consistent with their own ideological preferences.…”

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Varying historical interpretations of the American revolution: Some rhetorical perspectives

Reid¹

1975

Today's Speech

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“…9 As an instru m en t , rh etoric moves people to acti on ; as a mirror, it ref l ects the ch a racter of the age . We su ggest that the speeches of Re a gan and Bu chanan ref l ect the s t a tus of con s erva tism in an instant of liminal crisis-a crisis bro u ght on , i ron i c a lly, by the su ccesses of con s erva tives in downsizing govern m ent and by the end of t h e Cold Wa r.…”

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Entelechial and Reformative Symbolic Trajectories in Contemporary Conservatism: A Case Study of Reagan and Buchanan in Houston and Beyond

Rowland¹,

Jones²

2001

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This essay uses a close analysis of addresses by former President Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan at the 1992 Republican National Convention to sketch two possible trajectories for contemporary conservatism. The trajectory apparent in the Buchanan speech leads toward anti-government extremism, while that in Reagan's address ironically leads back to traditional liberalism. Implications for the status of conservatism and for the process of rhetorical analysis are developed.

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Must we all be “rhetorical critics”?

Cited by 22 publications

References 3 publications

Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Varying historical interpretations of the American revolution: Some rhetorical perspectives

Entelechial and Reformative Symbolic Trajectories in Contemporary Conservatism: A Case Study of Reagan and Buchanan in Houston and Beyond

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