Chapter 1: On Objectivity and Politics in Criticism
Edwin Black
Chapter 2: Paddling the Rhetorical River, Revisiting the Social
Actor: Rhetorical Criticism as Both Appreciation and
Intervention
Jason Edward Black
Chapter 3: Rhetorical Criticism for Underdogs
Dana L. Cloud
Chapter 4: How Should Our Rhetoric Make Us Feel?
Celeste M. Condit
Chapter 5: Rhetorical and Civic Literacy in the Twenty-First
Century: A Neo-Classical Rhetoric for the Digital Age
J. Michael Hogan
Chapter 6: The Wilderness Years of Rhetorical Criticism: Our
Obsession with Powerlessness
Andrew A. King
Chapter 7: Artistry, Purpose, and Academic Constraints in
Rhetorical Criticism
Jim A. Kuypers
Chapter 8: Endless Talk: The Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy of the
Rhetorical Conversation
Ryan Erik McGeough
Chapter 9: The Critical Impulse
Raymie McKerrow
Chapter 10: Rhetorical Criticism as Textual Interpretation
Martin J. Medhurst
Chapter 11: The Moral Critic: An Act in Several Histories
Ned O’Gorman
Chapter 12: Practicing Rhetoric
Samantha M. Senda-Cook
Chapter 13: Rhetorical Criticism and Citizenship Education
Robert E. Terrill
Chapter 14: The Glory of Rhetorical Analysis: Communication as a
Process Of Social Influence
Kathleen J. Turner
Chapter 15: The Accidental Rhetorician
Marilyn J. Young
Jim A. Kuypers is associate professor of communication at Virginia Tech. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies and Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action.
Jim Kuypers assembled 15 top rhetorical critics to contribute to
this excellent volume. . . .The audiences for criticism today are
small, and scholars write in ways that further limit their
potential agency. Kuypers’s edited collection, with the clarity of
argument and audience present especially in a few chapters, offers
a potential breakthrough.
*Southern Communication Journal*
Should Jim A. Kuypers’s Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in
Rhetorical Criticism make its way to your bookshelf (and it
should), you would be right to put it close to other anthologies of
rhetorical criticism— Carl Burgchardt’s with Strata, as well as
Kuypers’s earlier collection with Lexington, to name just two. At
the same time, the book delivers something different than
‘traditionally argued academic essays’ of or about rhetorical
criticism. Instead, writes Kuypers, this is a book of ‘opinion
piece[s] that stress the very personal nature of criticism.’…. It
is both pleasurable and edifying to read these scholars write about
their formation as intellectuals, their different ways of giving
meaning to rhetoric, their tricks in the classroom, their passion,
and sometimes their anguish.
*Rhetoric & Public Affairs*
This is an excellent volume that raises important questions for
rhetorical critics about how we practice and teach our art. This
book offers a range of candid and clear position statements by
prominent scholars that take differing perspectives on what it
means to do rhetorical criticism. It is rare to have a venue
outside conferences, classrooms, and interpersonal conversations to
openly reflect on the diversity of ways to practice and teach
rhetorical criticism. This book expands the reach of these
conversations to its readers and provides a valuable resource for
new and experienced rhetorical critics. Doctoral students and
junior scholars will particularly benefit from this volume as they
seek to define their own positions and begin their teaching
careers.
*Danielle Endres, University of Utah*
Jim Kuypers has assembled an impressive group of rhetorical
scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the contours
surrounding rhetorical criticism for a twenty-first century world.
The insightful chapters cover everything from what it means to do
rhetorical criticism to how criticism can be practiced in a digital
age. Scholars and students will provide from a book that discusses
such wide-ranging issues and is a must for any serious rhetoric
scholar today.
*Jason A. Edwards, Bridgewater State University*
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