Contemporary Western Rhetoric: Critical Models and Methods

Author: (USA) David Nings and others
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Publish Date: 1998-12-01
Features: The flourishing of criticism can be said to be an important academic marker of the 20th century. The emergence of rhetorical criticism is undoubtedly a notable event, especially since the 1960s of this century. In the early decades of this century, rhetorical criticism only had one model—New Aristotelian criticism. Perhaps what can best explain and reflect the characteristics of New Rhetoric and Postmodern Rhetoric is their diversified critical practices. The result of the acceptance and deconstruction of various theories by New Rhetoric and Postmodern Rhetoric has brought about various critical perspectives. Classifying rhetorical criticism into various paradigms is a major feature of most influential rhetorical readers. Although the criteria for selecting representative articles in different perspectives may vary, most rhetorical works recognize dramatistic rhetoric criticism, sociological rhetoric criticism, and postmodern or critical rhetoric criticism as mainstream.