The Role of Criticism
I. Rhetorical Approaches:
A. Traditional
- Rhetoric is the art of discovering all available
means of persuasion. --Aristotle
- Rhetoric as Ornamentation. --Isocrates
- Rhetoric as Argumentation/Disputation.
- Rhetoric as an educational tool.
B. Modern
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- Rhetoric is describing reality
through language.
- Rhetoric as creator of reality.
- Rhetoric as metacommunication
- Rhetoric as Drama
II. Criticism
A. Roles of:
- To discover why something did or did not work.
- As a way to enhance textual skills of the critic
- To classify a text (genre criticism).
- To explain a historical phenomenon (event, work,
speaker, movement, campaign, etc.).
B. Types:
- Formalism.
- Traditional/Aristotelian
- Dramatism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Movement Theory
- Experiential
- Mythic/archetypal
- Hermeneutic
- Semiotic