Landmark essays on American public address
By: edited by Martin J. Medhurst.
Contributors: Medhurst, Martin J.
Series: Landmark essays -- v. 1.
Publisher: Hermagoras Press; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Davis, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Oratory -- United States -- History and criticism; Rhetoric -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The academic study of public address: A tradition in transition / Martin J. Medhurst; title: The literary criticism of oratory / Herbert A. Wichelns; title: Some problems of scope and method in rhetorical scholarship / Donald C. Bryant; title: The perils of rhetorical criticism / Loren D. Reid; title: Methodology in the criticism of public address / A. Craig Baird and Lester Thonssen; title: Public address: A study in social and intellectual history / Ernest J. Wrage; title: The study of speeches / Wayland Maxfield Parrish; title: The criticism of rhetoric / Marie Hochmuth; title: The practice of rhetorical criticism / Edwin Black; title: Must we all be "rhetorical critics"? / Barnet Baskerville; title: Elegy in a critical grave- yard / G.P. Mohrmann; title: The schism in rhetorical scholarship / Stephen E. Lucas; title: Textual criticism: The legacy of G.P. Mohrmann / Michael Leff; title: The Renaissance of American public address: Text and context in rhetorical criticism / Stephen E. Lucas; title: The state of the art in public address scholarship / David Zarefsky.