The speech as literary genre

Charles Sears Baldwin

“…24 And finally, in 1958, Murphy asked that speaking as well as writing manifest a "literary" quality. 25 None of these commentators credited Baldwin's earlier delineation of oral style. The ideas expressed by these writers have been with us for many centuries, of course, and this oversight was undoubtedly bibliographical.…”

Speaking

“…In his treatment of John Morley, Moore (1958) added substance to the idea that English historians excel as public-address critics, and Baskerville (1959) approached the same conclusion by identifying "dramatic" and "literary" emphasis in much American criticism. Murphy (1958), however, argued that literary evaluations of speeches can be as solidly based as social or historical ones.…”