Rhetorical challenges: Critical studies in strategy, tactics, judgment and argument

In a series of essays, various approaches to rhetorical criticism are developed and illustrated. Each essay is built around a different textual artifact and each essay has an independent critical purpose. Despite this diversity, the essays work together to promote rhetorical criticism as a means of political activism; the individual exercises in rhetorical criticism serve the overarching theme that the selection of a course of political action can never be made with confidence, nor is there any rational mechanism by which we can adjudicate approaches to political action.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Chase, Kenneth Richard

Contributors dc:contributor

• Conley, Thomas M.

• Sociology, Theory and Methods
• Speech Communication
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Chase, Kenneth Richard

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9010823
(UMI)AAI9010823

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22570