Landmark EssaysPub Date : 2020-08-18DOI: 10.4324/9781003059202-6
R. L. Scott
{"title":"A Rhetoric of Facts: Arthur Larson’s Stance as a Persuader","authors":"R. L. Scott","doi":"10.4324/9781003059202-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003059202-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122194133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 2020-08-18DOI: 10.4324/9781003059202-10
K. Campbell
{"title":"Stanton’s “The Solitude of Self’: A Rationale for Feminism","authors":"K. Campbell","doi":"10.4324/9781003059202-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003059202-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134320050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 1988-05-01DOI: 10.1080/00335638809383839
Stephen E. Lucas
{"title":"The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism","authors":"Stephen E. Lucas","doi":"10.1080/00335638809383839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638809383839","url":null,"abstract":"The study of American public address is in the midst of a remarkable renaissance. One aspect of that renaissance is a resurgence of interest in the American oratorical tradition; another is a growing occupation with the close analysis of rhetorical texts. These developments are particularly important given the need to develop a body of critical literature explicating the rhetorical artistry of classic texts from the heritage of American oratory. Like other aspects of study in public address, creating such a body of literature should be regarded as important in its own right, rather than for its potential to fill in the historical record or to enhance the development of rhetorical theory. AMERICAN ORATORS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Edited by Bernard K. Duffy and Halford R. Ryan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987; pp. 468. $65.00.","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115823401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 1988-03-01DOI: 10.1080/07350198809359161
R. A. Harris
{"title":"Bakhtin, Phaedrus, and the Geometry of Rhetoric","authors":"R. A. Harris","doi":"10.1080/07350198809359161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198809359161","url":null,"abstract":"This question, the engine humming at the center of Bakhtin's vision, generating alien words like heteroglossy and polyphony, is one that rhetoricians do not ask. And our work is poorer for the silence. We make inquiries, sometimes very probing ones, into ethos, and occasionally we investigate some rhetor in great detail. But we take identity for granted. It is \"Plato\" or \"Socrates\" or \"Burke\" doing the speaking. What we fail to notice is that these labels do not designate autonomous, univocal entities. They designate composites-collections of voices, some in harmony, some in conflict. Mikhail Bakhtin, then, has something to tell us: listen. Listen and you will hear a verbal carnival of such depth and diversity, of such extravagance and exuberance, that your ears will never be the same again. The most immediate consequence of this newfound affluence is that the traditional triangular paradigm of rhetorical events becomes lopsided. The speaker's corner becomes very heavy. But two questions, in parallel with Bakhtin's obsessive probe, present themselves-\"Who is listening?\" and \"What is being said?\" -and they find similarly multivocal answers. This additional plurality does not so much balance the triangle as burden it. That is, as soon as we start to listen more carefully, the paradigm proves hopelessly inadequate. It simplifies interactions to the point of insignificance, it undervalues or ignores essential elements, and it effects an artificial closure on an inherently openended process. Applying it to any rhetorical event, once we are fitted with our new ears, reveals this inadequacy, but, to keep things in the family, consider how the paradigm fares in an examination of multivalence in the Phaedrus.","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115049502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 1987-05-01DOI: 10.1080/00335638709383799
Maurice Charland
{"title":"Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Québécois","authors":"Maurice Charland","doi":"10.1080/00335638709383799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638709383799","url":null,"abstract":"The rhetoric of Quebec sovereignty is based upon an appeal to a particular motivated subject, the Quebecois. Rhetorical theory usually takes such a subject as a given. A theory of constitutive rhetoric, based on the principle of identification, can account for the constitution of subjects of this type. Such subjects, agents within ideological discourse, are interpellated or called into being through rhetorical narratives. Such narratives constitute collective political subjects through a series of formal discursive effects. These effects result in a discursively constituted subjectivity that can form the basis for an ideological appeal to action.","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127400462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 1986-11-01DOI: 10.1080/00335638609383783
M. Leff
{"title":"Textual Criticism: The Legacy of G. P. Mohrmann","authors":"M. Leff","doi":"10.1080/00335638609383783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638609383783","url":null,"abstract":"During the last decade of his life, G. P. Mohrmann pursued a sophisticated approach to the textual study of rhetorical discourse. His final and unfinished essay on John C. Calhoun's “Speech on the Reception of the Abolition Petitions” illustrates the potential and the complexity involved of this project. This essay extends Mohrmann's working premises to indicate three principles: Textual criticism should eventuate in theoretical understanding of texts rather than generate or test autonomous theoretical postulates; the sequencing or timing of elements within texts offers the ground for critical judgment; and certain foundational conceptions, often expressed as root metaphors, frame the discourse and influence its temporal progression.","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130432204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landmark EssaysPub Date : 1985-12-01DOI: 10.1080/03637758509376118
P. D. Brandes
{"title":"Printings of Aristotle's Rhetoric during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries","authors":"P. D. Brandes","doi":"10.1080/03637758509376118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637758509376118","url":null,"abstract":"This study applies the results of an updated and extended investigation of the printings of Aristotle's Rhetoric between 1477 and 1599 to demonstrate the availability of the Rhetoric during the Renaissance. Four conclusions are drawn: (1) the Rhetoric was widely available, for at least 95 printings occurred during the period examined; (2) the repeated printings of Latin translations by five different humanists indicates a growing demand for the Rhetoric; (3) Victorius's efforts to reconstruct an authentic Greek text had a favorable influence on improving subsequent editions; and (4) the fact that most of the printings appeared in five continental cities indicates that the dissemination of the Rhetoric depended upon its purchase by private scholars and collectors.","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134466791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mikhail Bakhtin as Rhetorical Theorist","authors":"C. Schuster","doi":"10.2307/377158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/377158","url":null,"abstract":"The confusion and obscurity surrounding Mikhail Bakhtin's life compounded by the complexity and semantic density of his books and articles has made this Russian theorist into a kind of Zorro figure, the Masked Marvel of theoretical criticism. Who is this exotic character born in Orel in 1895, exiled to Kazakhstan during the 30s, returning finally to the center of Russian academic life in the 1950s? How is one to talk about Bakhtin's major book on the 18th-century German novel when Bakhtin used the only existing copy as cigarette papers during World War II? How are we to value a man who so undervalues himself that he stores unpublished manuscripts in a rat-infested woodshed in Saransk? What can one say about a writer whose very authorship is in question-since two of his major works (Freudianism and Marxism and the Philosophy of Language) were published under the name of V. N. Voloshinov?' Add to this that Bakhtin is known as a literary theorist (and is thus remote indeed from composition and rhetoric), that he refuses to define his terms, and that his language resists interpretation and paraphrase and we have some idea of the formidable task ahead. To ignore Bakhtin because of these difficulties, however, is to deny rhetoric an important influence. Although much of Bakhtin's work is considered literary criticism, his conceptions of discourse develop implications about language use in the widest possible terms. Bakhtin modifies the communications triangle by 1. Scholars disagree on this point, which may never be resolved. In his introduction to The Dialogic Imagination, Michael Holquist explains that \"There is a great controversy over the authorship of three books that have been ascribed to Bakhtin: Freudianism (1927) and Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929; 2nd ed. 1930), both published under the name of V. N. Voloshinov, and The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship (1928), published under the name of P. N. Medvedev. ... The view of the present editor is that ninety percent of the text of the three books in question is indeed the work of Bakhtin himself' (xxvi). This is a reasonable conclusion. The ideas presented in these works are sufficiently complex and sophisticated that it is difficult to imagine two individuals writing so similarly at the same time within the same community. More likely, Voloshinov may have readily agreed to publish the works under Bakhtin's name so that the latter's ideas could be brought into academic currency. Some intellectual collaboration among the individuals in Bakhtin's circle was inevitable in any case. In the final estimate, it makes little difference whether there was one author named Bakhtin, or several","PeriodicalId":224491,"journal":{"name":"Landmark Essays","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123426911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}