Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric

Rhetoric Review Jan 2017

Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric

Maggie M. Werner Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Abstract

Scholars have paid relatively little attention to material symbolic communication in analyzing rhetoric of the body, focusing primarily on the linguistic or on nonsymbolic materiality. Yet the body communicates via a range of material symbolic practices. Delivery offers an analytical framework for understanding the ways that performing bodies communicate in multiple symbolic codes. Through analysis of neo-burlesque, the essay argues that delivery as a critical method for embodied rhetoric highlights the complex interplay between spaces and bodies and audiences that construct particular genres, providing a wider rhetorical vocabulary to critiques of neo-burlesque and other contested sites of women’s erotic performance.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2017-01-02
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246010
Open Access: Closed
Topics: body and rhetoric

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