Rhetorical history and rhetorical criticism: A distinction

Gronbeck, Bruce E.

doi:10.1080/03634527509378178

Cited by 17 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 39 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In my view, the new challenge for rhetorical studies lies not so much in bifurcations such as rhetorical history versus rhetorical criticism (see e.g., Baskerville 1977; Gronbeck, 1975;Lucas, 1981) but rather in the pluralistic dilemmas of rhetorical historical-critical recovery (Lucas, 1988). Sustained evaluation of rhetorical communities will require critical pluralism to advance theory, criticism, and our joint historical, political, and social understanding of public address and publics addressed (Zarefsky, 1989(Zarefsky, ,1994.…”

Section: Critical Localism As a Multiculturalist Stancementioning

confidence: 95%

Multiculturalism, rhetoric and the twenty‐first century

Goldzwig

1998

Southern Communication Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Critical Localism As a Multiculturalist Stancementioning

confidence: 95%

Multiculturalism, rhetoric and the twenty‐first century

Goldzwig

1998

Southern Communication Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…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: 97%

Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Altman

1988

Journal of Communication Inquiry

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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

show abstract

Rhetorical Studies

Gaines¹,

Gronbeck²

2008

The International Encyclopedia of Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The rhetorical impulse may be conceived as the desire to express one's thoughts in a way that affects the thoughts of others. Such an impulse is universal among humans, and historical evidence exists for its cultivation in ancient civilizations of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas (Lipson & Binkley 2004). Early instances of theoretical inquiry concerning rhetorical communication have been documented in China (c. eighth century bce ), Egypt (c. eleventh century bce ), India (c. fourth century bce ), and Greece (including Magna Graecia, c. fifth century bce ; → Rhetoric in East Asia: China and Japan; Rhetoric, Pre‐Socratic; Rhetoric in South Asia). Arguably, each of these regional developments gave rise to a different tradition and trajectory of indigenous rhetorical studies. However, as a historical matter, the European tradition was most closely related to the emergent discipline of communication; accordingly, it receives emphasis here.

show abstract

Rhetorical history and rhetorical criticism: A distinction

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Multiculturalism, rhetoric and the twenty‐first century

Multiculturalism, rhetoric and the twenty‐first century

Rhetorical and Historical Inquiry in the Feminist Reconstitution of Knowledge

Rhetorical Studies

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About