Rhetoric Review Mar 2008

Holes, God-shaped and Otherwise: A Response toRight Talkand Philip C. Wander

Joshua Gunn The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1Bob Scott, my PhD adviser, uses this phrase to describe relatively uninteresting, scientistic, or cookie-cutter modes of rhetorical criticism. 2Ronald Walter Greene, for example, has been critiquing the neoliberal rhetoric that concerns Smith for some years (see “Rhetorical Capital”; “Rhetoric and Capitalism”). 3I think we could even argue that in the twentieth century, rhetorical studies adopted such a one-sided approach until Burke was taken up and rhetoric-as-seduction eclipsed argumentation, the supplication of good reasons, and so forth. Even so, attempts to more directly engage emotional appeals and affect have been met with some derision (for example, Brockriede; Corder). For a recent, excellent attempt to engage the affect of rhetoric, see Thomas Rickert's Acts of Enjoyment.

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Rhetoric Review
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2008-03-25
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10.1080/07350190801921909
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  1. Rickert Thomas (2007)
    Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject
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