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Olbricht, Thomas H. "Rhetorical Criticism in Biblical Commentaries." Currents in Biblical Research 7, no. 1 (2008): 11–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476993x08094023.

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Biblical commentators through history have employed various methods to facilitate interpretation, including rhetorical criticism, with emphasis on classical rhetoric. Despite a resurgence of interest in rhetoric in the past two decades, only a few commentators in the New Interpreter's Bible and the Hermeneia series have undertaken in-depth rhetorical analysis. Most observations of these commentators are derived from the rhetorics of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian and the Rhetorica ad Herennium. This essay sets forth and evaluates the various methods of rhetorical analysis and their employment in the two above-mentioned commentary series.

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HOWARD,, DAVID M. "Rhetorical Criticism in Old Testament Studies." Bulletin for Biblical Research 4, no. 1 (1994): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26422104.

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Abstract Rhetorical criticism in Old Testament studies—indeed, in biblical studies in general—had its origins in a self-conscious way in 1968, when James Muilenburg issued his now-famous call to go beyond form criticism and focus upon the unique features of a text. Since then, biblical rhetorical criticisms have flourished. However, in Old Testament studies, rhetorical criticism has tended to be primarily a literary concern, with emphasis upon stylistics. Classical and contemporary rhetorical criticisms are very different, however. These focus particularly upon the suasive aspects of spoken discourse. This paper reviews the history of rhetorical criticism in Old Testament studies and in the field of speech and rhetoric, comparing and contrasting approaches. It then issues a call to biblical scholars to practice a truly "rhetorical" criticism, based upon speech and persuasion.

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HOWARD,, DAVID M. "Rhetorical Criticism in Old Testament Studies." Bulletin for Biblical Research 4, no. 1 (1994): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/bullbiblrese.4.1.0087.

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Abstract Rhetorical criticism in Old Testament studies—indeed, in biblical studies in general—had its origins in a self-conscious way in 1968, when James Muilenburg issued his now-famous call to go beyond form criticism and focus upon the unique features of a text. Since then, biblical rhetorical criticisms have flourished. However, in Old Testament studies, rhetorical criticism has tended to be primarily a literary concern, with emphasis upon stylistics. Classical and contemporary rhetorical criticisms are very different, however. These focus particularly upon the suasive aspects of spoken discourse. This paper reviews the history of rhetorical criticism in Old Testament studies and in the field of speech and rhetoric, comparing and contrasting approaches. It then issues a call to biblical scholars to practice a truly "rhetorical" criticism, based upon speech and persuasion.

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Sharma, Balkrishna, and Bishnu Prasad Pokharel. "Theoretical Foundations of Rhetorical Criticism: Rhetorical Critic and Critical Lens." Pursuits: A Journal of English Studies 9, no. 1 (2025): 8–17. https://doi.org/10.3126/pursuits.v9i1.79352.

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This paper discusses rhetoric's historical evolution and theoretical foundations and criticism to scrutinize the significance of rhetoric criticism for oral and written discourse analysis. It emphasizes the lineage of classical rhetoric and its essential progression into contemporary rhetorical practices. These practices demonstrate the use of symbols as strategic and intentional tools for human communication, tracing their significant development from Ancient Greece through Rome to today's frameworks. Prominent figures such as Corax, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian are critically examined for their pivotal contributions to rhetorical theory and its undeniable relevance to civic life. The paper effectively dissects Aristotle's framework of rhetoric, which encompasses three forms and three appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos, all vital components of persuasive language. Furthermore, the text addresses the transformative shift in communication modes during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, wherein rhetoric became predominantly focused on philosophy, literature, and politics. In the present day, the scope of rhetoric has unequivocally expanded to include verbal, nonverbal, kinesthetic, and visual dimensions of communication. The paper also analyzes the critical methodologies employed in rhetorical criticism, highlighting the crucial role of the rhetorical critic in interpreting and evaluating rhetorical artifacts. Investigating various traditions and contemporary adaptations underscores the lasting significance of rhetoric across multiple disciplines, effectively connecting classical principles with modern communicative practices.

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Li, Ke, and Shukang Li. "Towards a Model of Rhetorical Criticism of Metonymy in Chinese Media Texts." Education and Linguistics Research 1, no. 2 (2015): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v1i2.8120.

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<p>Rhetorical criticism is a type of criticism with rhetorical phenomena as its object. In the context of western rhetoric, rhetorical criticism is usually viewed as a method to describe, explain and evaluate certain rhetorical phenomena or act. Metonymy, as a kind of rhetorical device in traditional rhetoric and a cognitive tool in cognitive linguistics, can be regarded as an object for criticism. Accordingly, an analysis of metonymy from the perspective of rhetorical criticism can disclose text builders’ rhetorical motive behind the linguistic use of metonymy. Moreover, it can reveal the ideological meaning of the text (a weak version of ideology) by analyzing and evaluating the terministic screen constructed by the metonymy, to achieve the purpose of rhetorical persuasion and build an “identification” between the addresser and addressee.</p>

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Christian, Timothy J. "The Historical Approach to New Testament Rhetorical Criticism: A Rhetorical Analysis of 1 Corinthians 15." Religions 15, no. 1 (2024): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15010088.

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The historical approach to New Testament rhetorical criticism uses ancient Greco-Roman rhetorical theory and practice to better understand the rhetoric and rhetorical context of the New Testament. Since most Bible scholars and students are unfamiliar with ancient Greco-Roman rhetoric, this article summarizes and explains Greco-Roman rhetoric in an accessible way so that non-experts can understand and apply the historical method of New Testament rhetorical criticism. It provides a rigorous step-by-step process for doing rhetorical analysis followed by a rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians 15 as an example of the method. This analysis displays Paul’s rhetorical prowess in 1 Corinthians 15 and demonstrates that Paul had more than a passing familiarity with Greco-Roman rhetoric. Overall, this article shows that rhetorical criticism is an indispensable and essential tool needed in the arsenal of biblical exegetes for understanding the New Testament in its original contexts.

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Moon, Youngsik. "Classical Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism." Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 11, no. 6 (2020): 1483–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22143/hss21.11.6.105.

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Lund, Marie. "Retoriske figurer og stil som argumentation." Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 45 (2008): 28–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.52610/zxkt8229.

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The theory of rhetorical figures played an important part in certain periods of the history of rhetoric, but lately it has not been of particular interest to rhetorical criticism. Metaphors and rhetorical figures have been the object of literary studies. The modern rhetorical criticism has treated rhetorical figures as subordinate to argumentation. The article presents a recent rhetorical theory with a primary focus on rhetorical figures as well as on argumentation. This rhetorical theory is compared with parallel perspectives of modern theories on metaphors and the analytical perspectives are explored in a reading of a debate between the rapper Niarn and the author Hanne-Vibeke Holst. Keywords rhetorical figures, metaphors, style, argumentation, rhetorical criticism

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Hoegen-Rohls, Christina. "„Rhetorical Criticism“." Praktische Theologie 42, no. 2 (2007): 93–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/prth-2007-0203.

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Dennis L, Stamps. "RHETORICAL CRITICISM AND THE RHETORIC OF NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM." Literature and Theology 6, no. 3 (1992): 268–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/6.3.268.

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Cardozo Mindiola, Cristian. "Criticismo retórico: teoría, aplicación y crítica." Pensamiento Americano 11, no. 22 (2019): 90–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.21803/pensam.v11i21-1.267.

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El presente artículo busca describir el enfoque hermenéutico conocido como “criticismo retorico”, analizar sus presuposiciones, aplicar el enfoque a la carta de Filemón y por ultimo of recer una crítica del enfoque. Este estudio muestra que el criticismo retorico resulta ser una herramienta útil para la hermenéutica literaria ya que en reacción a los movimientos que colocan el significado del texto en la comunidad que lo crea, el criticismo retorico busca determinar las intenciones del autor y los elementos que él usó para hacer persuasivo su discurso.

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Homar, Katie. "Rhetorical Accretion and Rhetorical Criticism in William Hazlitt’s Eloquence of the British Senate." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 20, no. 3 (2017): 285–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.20.3.0285.

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ABSTRACT This paper examines William Hazlitt’s collection, Eloquence of the British Senate (1807), alongside our interest in reception, accretion, and the rhetorical culture of Parliament. I trace Hazlitt’s interpretation of oratory, including his analysis of remediated, printed speech. Hazlitt investigates the circulation and power of oratory in modern print culture, while beginning a multidisciplinary, career-long interest in rhetoric. By mapping how Hazlitt criticizes the status quo while avoiding partisan exposes of corruption, I argue he thinks like a critical rhetorician in ways that enrich our histories of nineteenth-century rhetoric and help us reflect on our own enterprise as historians of rhetoric.

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Crusius, Timothy W., and Roderick P. Hart. "Modern Rhetorical Criticism." College Composition and Communication 42, no. 2 (1991): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/358211.

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Willis-Chun, Cynthia. "Whither Rhetorical Criticism?" Review of Communication 7, no. 4 (2007): 356–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15358590701596898.

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Zurakowski, Michele M. "Modeling Rhetorical Criticism." Speech Communication Teacher 11, no. 2 (1997): 10–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/29945054.1997.12289497.

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Zebiri, Kate. "Towards a Rhetorical Criticism of the Qur'an." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 5, no. 2 (2003): 95–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2003.5.2.95.

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This article represents a tentative and preliminary investigation of the possibilities inherent in a new rhetorical criticism of the Qur'an, i.e. one that does not confine itself to any single tradition but is willing to draw on whatever resources may be deemed useful. It begins by showing why the Qur'an is particularly suited to a rhetorical approach, and goes on to discuss the scope and definition of rhetoric, and to give an overview of its conceptual development in both the Graeco-Roman and Arab-Islamic traditions. It then looks at the special relationship between religion and rhetoric and makes some comparative observations about the Bible and the Qur'an as potential objects of rhetorical criticism. Finally, there is a brief look at selected methodological issues which have particular relevance for the Qur'an: chronology, synchronicity versus diachronicity, the exegetical tradition and the Qur'anic stories (qiṣaṣ). While this article is mainly concerned with theoretical issues, it is to be hoped that some (including this author) will be encouraged to undertake the work of actually applying some of the principles of rhetorical criticism to the Qur'an in a more holistic way than has hitherto been attempted.

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Harvell, Lindsey A. "Modern Rhetorical Criticism: A Rhetorical Journey." Review of Communication 7, no. 3 (2007): 276–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15358590701480598.

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Ceccarelli, Leah. "Rhetorical criticism and the rhetoric of science." Western Journal of Communication 65, no. 3 (2001): 314–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570310109374708.

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Bormann, Ernest G. "Fantasier och retoriska visioner. Den retoriska analysen av sociala verkligheter." Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 60 (April 1, 2012): 7–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.52610/fcdz7687.

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Översatt och med introduktion av Nadja Fransson & Alexander Stagnell. ”Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality”, i Quarterly Journal of Speech 58 (1972) Översättning: Alexander Stagnell och Nadja Fransson.

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Matlock, R. Barry. "Biblical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Inquiry." Biblical Interpretation 5, no. 2 (1997): 133–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851597x00184.

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AbstractRhetoric has risen once more to academic prominence, an apparently "postmodern" restoration of (part of) its "premodern" status. One aspect of this resurgence is the recently emerging extension of rhetoric known as "rhetoric of inquiry," according to which "rhetoric" is sought and analyzed in places where, putatively, it ought not be: in academic discourse itself (rhetoric thus wreaking vengeance on "modern" science, the instrument of its former decline). The present study introduces this "rhetoric of inquiry" movement, suggesting some of its possibilities for examining the discipline of biblical studies. A hermeneutical application (hermeneutics, a near relation of rhetoric, having experienced a similar restoration) is sketched in criticizing the objectivist and anti-rhetorical conception of inquiry that has characterized modern biblical criticism; in this connection, classic objectivist statements and alternative critical perspectives are sampled. Also, the question of the possible improvement of the academy and inquiry by a self-consciously rhetorical perspective is raised with reference to scholarly biblical interpretation, and it is suggested that such a perspective can assist interpretive dialogue simply by clarifying differences.

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Bendrat, Anna, Agnieszka Budzyńska-Daca, Agnieszka Kampka, Ewa Modrzejewska, and Maria Załęska. "Retoryka w Polsce po 1989 r. Przegląd kierunków badań." Poradnik Językowy, no. 10/2021(789) (December 28, 2021): 26–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33896/porj.2021.10.2.

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This paper is dedicated to the development of rhetoric in Poland after 1989 taking into account adaptation processes at two levels: communication practices and research refl ection. The sociopolitical transformations have enabled an unrestricted development of rhetorical activities, which were impracticable in the former Eastern Bloc countries: advertising and marketing, political debates, civic engagement, academic freedom. The adaptation has taken place at the level of communication habits of citizens and rhetorical practices of rhetoric researchers themselves. The study adopts the descriptive methodology and focuses on several aspects: the process of internal differentiation of rhetorical studies, the infl uence of the American rhetorical criticism on the studies, the rhetorical perspective in linguistic research, media studies, and politics. The paper emphasises the cultural characteristics of Polish rhetorical studies, which draw inspiration from three main sources: 1) Old Polish oratory and its modern analyses from the perspective of literary studies; 2) analyses of the propaganda of the times of the Polish People’s Republic, including the media; 3) modern concepts from the areas of argumentation, rhetorical criticism, discourse analysis, and media studies. The overview shows that, after 1989, rhetorical studies can be described as a self-organising system cre ated by dense intertextual relations, relationship networks, and institutional frameworks rather than as a compilation of sparse individual works.

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Sharma, Balkrishna, and Bishnu Prasad Pokharel. "Conceptual Foundation of Framing, Media Framing, and Rhetorical Scholarship." Literary Studies 38, no. 1 (2025): 11–18. https://doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v38i1.75927.

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This article seeks to situate the concepts of framing in the rhetorical act of communication domain. The article's objective is to expand the application of framing analysis in the context of rhetorical criticism and perspectives. It argues that given the contemporary multimodal mode of communication, there is a necessity to expand the horizon of the understanding of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism. Methodologically, the article is designed on qualitative research patterns to understand an in-depth relationship between frames and rhetoric. Anchored to this theme and method, the article is structured on a three-fold pattern: first, it spells out the fundamentals of what counts as frame, showing its disciplinary orientation; second, it delineates its philosophical lineage, and third, it sketches out how the concept of framing can be profitably used to grasp the impact of rhetoric in the complex system of multidimensional human communication. In the ever-expanding and unprecedented burgeoning of communication system, it has become increasingly necessary to adopt a new lens to account for the diversities of rhetorical situations as the ancient or classical methods/approach has become too narrow and failed to capture diverse gateway of rhetorical communication.

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Soto Vega, Karrieann, and Karma R. Chávez. "Latinx rhetoric and intersectionality in racial rhetorical criticism." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 4 (2018): 319–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2018.1533642.

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Keith, William. "Rhetorical criticism and the rhetoric of science: Introduction." Southern Communication Journal 58, no. 4 (1993): 255–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417949309372908.

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Niu, Wang, and Yuan Ying. "Reframing Ethos Rhetorical Criticism." Linguistics and Literature Studies 4, no. 1 (2016): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.13189/lls.2016.040107.

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Jones, Ivor H. "Book Reviews : Rhetorical Criticism." Expository Times 103, no. 4 (1992): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452469210300409.

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Mral, Brigitte. "”Attitude matters”. Attitydyttringar som retoriska medel." Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 56 (December 1, 2010): 6–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52610/qzuj1571.

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Rhetorical criticism refers primarily to studying and critically analyzing explicit expressions of actors in rhetorical situations: arguments, stylistic approaches, visual messages, etc. It can also refer to additionally mapping a more implicit, unspoken and elusive level of implications, for instance, as well as underlying values and premises. This article presents a discussion on yet another elusive but often decisive communication level that has received little attention within the study of rhetoric, namely communication attitudes and how they manifest themselves, verbally as well as non-verbally. Within a rhetoric context, Kenneth Burke discusses the concept of attitude in interesting but undeveloped lines of reasoning. He suggests that his own model of dramatism, the pentad (Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, Purpose), be complemented with attitude as a sixth element. Burke seems to even see attitudes as the core of rhetorical, symbolic action. In this article, in relation to Burke but also to Michael Billig, a line of thought is developed regarding attitudes and attitude expressions as rhetorical means, that is communicative factors that can certainly be unconscious but can also be chosen just like other rhetorical strategies can. Keywords Rhetorical criticism, attitude, Kenneth Burke, dramatism, Michael Billig

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Bengtson, Erik, and Oskar Mossberg. "On tradition, criticism, and green marketing." "Res Rhetorica" 11, no. 1 (2024): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.29107/rr2024.1.8.

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Reviewer Frederik Appel Olsen takes issue with the approach we present in The Virtues of Green Marketing: A Constructive Take on Corporate Rhetoric (Palgrave Macmillan). In this response, we point out three aspects where Appel Olsen paints a misleading picture of our book. They concern a) the role of history in contemporary thinking, b) the role of Aristotle in our argumentation, and c) the legitimate place of rhetorical criticism. Thus, our response treats fundamental questions for the field of rhetoric.

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Kirby, John T. "The Rhetorical Situations of Revelation 1–3." New Testament Studies 34, no. 2 (1988): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500019998.

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The publication of George Kennedy'sNew Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticismmarked the full realization of a growing trend in NT criticism, whereby scholars are beginning to look beyond the limitations of form- and source-criticism for another viable hermeneutical tool. Rhetorical criticism has its origins in the classical canons conceptualized and formulated by the principal rhetoricians of Greek and Roman antiquity, such as Aristotle and Quintilian. This methodology sprang from roots in the ancient world; rhetoric was ‘one of the constraints under which New Testament writers worked’. But it has a universality that transcends its own cultural boundaries, as well as an extraordinary practicality: ‘ … it does study a verbal reality, our text of the Bible, rather than the oral sources standing behind that text, the hypothetical stages of its composition, or the impersonal workings of social forces, and at its best it can reveal the power of those texts as unitary messages’’. Often, too, it is capable of slashing through exegetical Gordian knots that prove otherwise intractable. The ability of rhetorical criticism to evaluate even the more opaque or mystical portions of the NT is a measure of its effectiveness.

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Hallsby, Atilla. "What Is Rhetoric Enough? Forms in and of Rhetoric Scholarship." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 28, no. 1 (2025): 71–96. https://doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.28.1.0071.

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Abstract This article poses the question, What is rhetoric enough? as a provocation about the hurdles emerging scholars must traverse. The first is fear that their scholarship is not “enough” to meet the topical, theoretical, and evidentiary standards of rhetoric studies, while the second is the criticism that there is “too much” rhetoric in communication scholarship. Together, these create a wicked polarity. This article answers this question by drawing on the strategy of prepositional criticism, which posits “both/and” answers as affirmative rejoinders to “either/or” framings of rhetoric’s grounding in either tradition or transformation. To that end, it offers five provisions that elaborate distinct forms in and of rhetoric scholarship: (1) rhetoric can be understood as a contained feature in and productive effect of discourse; (2) exigencies define the context in and purpose of scholarship; (3) theory is embedded in and an enactment of rhetorical criticism; (4) community is invoked in and a creation of academic discourse; and (5) citation can be thought of as a way to document scholars’ due diligence in their writing and as an active habit or practice of constituting a conversation.

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Mattson, Craig E. "Telling Beauty and Tacit Truth: Polanyi, Persuasion, and Visual Imagery." Journal of Communication and Religion 27, no. 1 (2004): 87–116. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcr200427110.

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A thoroughly democratic rhetorical criticism reads visual imagery functionally or ideologically, not aesthetically—or so say a significant number of rhetorical scholars. This essay contends, however, that reintegrating the aesthetic and the rhetorical, so far from allowing beauty to abet abuse of power, actually enables academic discourse to contribute to civic life in some unlooked-for ways. Critiquing Toss's schema for visual rhetorical criticism, I suggest an alternative informed by Michael Polanyi's theory of tacit knowing (alongside Elaine Scarry's aesthetics), and embodied in Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's poetry. The essay concludes with suggestions for ways that an aesthetically informed rhetorical criticism could inform public life phenomenologically, sociologically, and spiritually.

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Banting, Sarah. "Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action." Written Communication 40, no. 1 (2022): 175–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07410883221133290.

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This article examines the power of special topoi to characterize the discourse of literary criticism, and through emphasis on rhetorical action, it sheds light on the limitations of topos analysis for characterizing research articles in disciplinary discourse more generally. Using an analytical approach drawn both from studies of topoi in disciplinary discourse and rhetorical genre theory, I examine a representative corpus of 21st-century literary research articles. I find that while most of the special topoi recognized by Fahnestock and Secor and Wilder remain prevalent in recent criticism, contemporary literary critics tend to draw on only a select subset of those topoi when making claims about their rhetorical actions. The topoi they use most often— mistaken-critic and paradigm—help identify the ways knowledge-making work is undertaken in literary criticism, a discipline often considered epideictic rather than epistemic. But what the special topoi do not capture is precisely the distinctly motivated, actively epistemic character of this disciplinary rhetoric. Based on these findings, I suggest that special topoi must be seen as functioning in the context of the rhetorical action undertaken by literary research articles. These articles undertake not simply persuasion but the particularly humanistic act I refer to as contributing to scholarly understanding: a rhetorical action worth attending to for scholars of disciplinary discourse, because it is deliberately more concerned with practice than product.

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Klumpp, James F., and Thomas A. Hollihan. "Rhetorical criticism as moral action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75, no. 1 (1989): 84–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335638909383863.

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O'Leary, Stephen D., and Mark H. Wright. "Psychoanalysis and Burkeian rhetorical criticism." Southern Communication Journal 61, no. 2 (1996): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373005.

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Bruner, M. Lane. "Rhetorical criticism as limit work." Western Journal of Communication 66, no. 3 (2002): 281–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570310209374738.

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Zarefsky, David. "Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism." Journal of Communication 58, no. 4 (2008): 629–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00405.x.

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Ivie, Robert L. "Scrutinizing performances of rhetorical criticism." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, no. 3 (1994): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335639409384071.

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Dumble, Wende. "Group Project in Rhetorical Criticism." Speech Communication Teacher 5, no. 3 (1991): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/29945054.1991.12289343.

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Rogahn, Kristina. "Precarious Songs." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 44, no. 3 (2024): 492–507. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-11470487.

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Abstract This article investigates multiple sources for the theory and criticism of the taṉippāṭal, a premodern genre of short poetic utterance in Tamil. It argues that although scholars have focused on Tamil scholastic discourse as a source for literary knowledge, certain genres like the taṉippāṭal are better understood through applied literary criticism. The first part of the article discusses the evidence for a theory of the taṉippāṭal within the scholastic works of Tamil grammars (ilakkaṇam) and rhetoric texts (pāṭṭiyal), uncovering a formal concept of genre. The second part reconstructs Tamil taṉippāṭal criticism through close readings of lives of poets (carittiram), which narrativize the poetic utterance within a rhetorical event. It discusses how this critical style reveals a unique theory of the lyric. Finally, the article considers the possibilities and limits of using South Asian styles of literary criticism for both reading individual poems and theorizing genre. It proposes that continued research on comparative literary criticisms is productive for mediating the current methodological demands of area studies and comparative literary studies.

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Young, Marilyn J. "Thoughts on Malcolm Sillars' “Persistent Problems in Rhetorical Criticism”: Problems or Opportunities in Rhetorical Criticism?" Southern Communication Journal 73, no. 4 (2008): 347–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417940802429467.

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George, Ann L. "Grounds of Assent in Joseph Priestley's A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism." Rhetorica 16, no. 1 (1998): 81–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.1998.16.1.81.

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Abstract: Despite Joseph Priestley's contemporary importance, little has been written on his rhetoric, A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (1762). Most commentators group him with the other new rhetoricians Smith, Campbell, and Blair, ignoring the philosophical foundations as well as the political and educational practices that informed Priestley's rhetorical theory. Located within a larger context of reform and a specific rhetorical situation at Warrington Academy, Priestley's Lectures illustrate his attempt to establish rational argument as the most compelling way for Dissenters to argue for religious and civil liberty, a goal that clearly distinguishes Priestley from his Scottish contemporaries and that marks the source of his most original contributions to eighteenth-century rhetoric.

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Whedbee, Karen E. "J. S. Mill on Poetry and Rhetoric." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 7, no. 1 (2004): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.7.1.0017.

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Abstract In his essay “What is Poetry ?”(1833), John Stuart Mill described the difference between rhetoric and poetry using the antithesis, “rhetoric is heard; poetry is overheard.” In the twentieth century, scholars from the field of Speech Communication appropriated Mill's words as justification for the separation of Speech Communication (and rhetorical criticism) from English (and literary criticism). This essay argues that twentieth-century scholars misunderstood Mill's meaning. They failed to recognize that, for Mill, the key issue was not the frequently quoted distinction between rhetoric and poetry but a more problematic distinction between art and science.

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Băiaș, Cosmin-Constantin. "The Problem of Evaluation in the Rhetorical Criticism." Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages 19 (May 3, 2023): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.59168/pgdt6506.

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The field of the communication sciences is a hybrid field with various influences that can be observed in the research methods that are used: the quantitative-scientific and qualitative-interpretive methods. Rhetorical criticism as a qualitative research in the field of communication calls for its own evaluation standards. Our aim is to clarify, through a meta-analysis, the evaluation criteria proposed by different authors and the standards, after which an essay of the rhetorical criticism can be appreciated. We claim that a work of the rhetorical criticism is not just an exercise of creativity and originality, but rather a way of persuasive argumentation.

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Robbins, Vernon K. "New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetorica 3, no. 2 (1985): 145–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.1985.3.2.145.

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LAMBRECHT, JAN. "RHETORICAL CRITICISM AND THE NEW TESTAMENT." Bijdragen 50, no. 3 (1989): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/bij.50.3.2015411.

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Fowler, Robert M., and George A. Kennedy. "New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism." Journal of Biblical Literature 105, no. 2 (1986): 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3260415.

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Evans, R. L. S., and George A. Kennedy. "New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism." Classical World 80, no. 3 (1987): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4350026.

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Berkowitz, Sandra J. "Originality, conversation and reviewing rhetorical criticism." Communication Studies 54, no. 3 (2003): 359–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10510970309363292.

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Warnick, Barbara. "A ricoeurian approach to rhetorical criticism." Western Journal of Speech Communication 51, no. 3 (1987): 227–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570318709374269.

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Griffin, Cindy L. "Teaching rhetorical criticism withThelma and Louise." Communication Education 44, no. 2 (1995): 165–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03634529509379008.

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