Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric in popular culture / Barry Brummett.

Author

Brummett, Barry, 1951-

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 243 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Rhetoric
• Popular culture
• Rhetorical criticism
• Popular Culture
• popular culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-233) and index.

Contents

Part I: Introduction to the Rhetorical Criticism of Popular Culture -- Chapter 1: Rhetoric and Popular Culture -- The Rhetoric of Everyday Life -- The Building Blocks of Culture: Signs -- The Building Blocks of Culture: Artifacts -- Definitions of Culture -- Characteristics of Cultures -- Summary of Review -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 2: Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Tradition -- Definitions in General -- The Rhetorical Tradition: Ancient Greece -- Two Legacies from the Greek Rhetorical Tradition -- Definitions of Rhetoric after Plato -- Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century -- New Theories (and New Realities) in the Twentieth Century -- Interrelated Twentieth-Century Changes -- The Texts of Popular Culture -- Summary and Review -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 3: Rhetorical Methods in Critical Studies -- Texts as Sites of Struggle -- Three Characteristics of Critical Studies -- Finding a Text -- Defining a Context -- "Inside" the Text -- The Text in Context: Metonymy, Power, Judgment -- Summary and Review -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 4: Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism -- An Introduction to Critical Perspectives -- Marxist Criticism -- Psychoanalytic and Feminist Criticism -- Dramatistic/Narrative Criticism -- Media-centered Criticism -- Culture-centered Criticism -- Summary and Review -- Looking Ahead -- Part II: Three Critical Studies -- Chapter 5: Paradoxes of Personalization: Race Relations in Milwaukee -- The Problem of Personalization -- The Scene and Focal Events -- Tragedy and Metonymy -- The Paradox of Identification -- The Paradox of Action: The Public and the Personal -- Some Solutions -- Stepping Back from the Critique -- Chapter 6: Twin Peeks: Using Theory in Two Analyses of Visual Pleasure / Barry Brummett and Margaret Carlisle Duncan -- The Basic Theory of Visual Pleasures: Voyeurism, Fetishism, Narcissism -- Three Dimensions of Media -- Analyzing Televised Sports -- Stepping Back from the Critique -- Beyond Visual Pleasures: Analyzing the Shopping Mall -- Stepping Back from the Critique -- Chapter 7: Afrocentrism and Do The Right Thing / Detine L. Bowers -- Racial Violence in New York -- The Afrocentric Rhetorical Condition: Structure and Resistance -- Afrocentric Orientations to Time and Improvisation -- Approaching Do the Right Thing: An Afrocentric Rhetorical Interpretation -- Conclusion -- Stepping Back from the Critique.

ISBN

• 0312065396
• 9780312065393

LCCN

92062790

OCLC

• ocm30831943
• 30831943
• SCSB-8811155

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library