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Rhetorical Criticism: A Study In Method
Edwin Black
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Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship This is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single critical paradigm and created a new era in the study of public discourse. Its original publication in 1965 created a spirited controversy. Here Edwin Black examines the assumptions and principles underlying neo-Aristotelian theory and suggests an alternative approach to criticism, centering around the concept of the rhetorical transaction. This new edition, containing Black's new introduction, will enable students and scholars to secure a ... Read more
Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship This is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single critical paradigm and created a new era in the study of public discourse. Its original publication in 1965 created a spirited controversy. Here Edwin Black examines the assumptions and principles underlying neo-Aristotelian theory and suggests an alternative approach to criticism, centering around the concept of the rhetorical transaction. This new edition, containing Black's new introduction, will enable students and scholars to secure a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299075545
SKU
V9780299075545
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About Edwin Black
Edwin Black was professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the co-author, with Harry P. Kerr, of American Issues (1961). He was the co-editor, with Lloyd F. Bitzer, of The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971).
Reviews for Rhetorical Criticism: A Study In Method
Both stimulating and disturbing . . . Mr. Black's provocative book has stressed some genuine shortcomings in traditional theory and criticism and has raised some questions which will not soon be answered . . . every serious student of public address should study this examination of rhetorical criticism. -Journal of Communications | Black set ... Read more