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The Art of Rhetorical Criticism Towards the 21st Century

Feeney, Martin Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066600346

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1978, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Communication Studies.
The viewpoint expressed is that the historian-journalist-scientist-expert commentator model is now inappropriate as a determining perspective for the practice of rhetorical criticism. The ART of rhetorical criticism is more appropriately encompassed by a poet-novelist-writer model. It is within this universe of criticism to suggest that the nature and practice of rhetorical criticism have both in a theoretical and in an applied sense transcended historical, forensic, and scientific analogues. It is within this universe that the rhetorical critic must respond to the power of symbols by individuating a vision and a judgment based upon critical points of departure established and a creative apprehension of rhetorical phenomena. Rhetorical explorations and critical points of departure between 1925-1977 were explicated and analyzed as well as the rhetorical dimensions of rock music, the rhetography of Hollywood sports films, and the moral universe structured by John Cheever's novels.
James Wilcox (Advisor)
Communication

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  • Feeney, M. D. (1978). The Art of Rhetorical Criticism Towards the 21st Century [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066600346

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Feeney, Martin. The Art of Rhetorical Criticism Towards the 21st Century. 1978. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066600346.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Feeney, Martin. "The Art of Rhetorical Criticism Towards the 21st Century." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1978. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066600346

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