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Rhetorical Criticism-Narrative and Dramatic Criticism
Forms of Criticism
Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument
The corrective of the scientific rationalization would seem necessarily to be a rationale of art -- not, however, a performer's art, not a specialist's art for some to produce and many to observe, but an art in its widest aspects, an art of living. Kenneth Burke.
Central Claim: A narrative paradigm is one way that people reason together in certain situations, and it permits resolution of the dualisms of modernism, such as fact v. value, intellect v. imagination, and reason v. emotion. Whereas stories are the manifestation of the entire mind, narratives are moral constructs.
Central Focus or Purpose for Criticism: The narrative paradigm seems to try to cover too much territory and it doesn't really seem to give rise to a viable alternative to the rational world paradigm.
D. Arguments About the Text: Fisher asserts that all communication...
Further, some communication does not conform to the values most people share. The narrative approach does not seem to have a more democratic frame than the hierarchical structure of the rational world paradigm. Moreover, storytelling in and of itself does not ensure that experts or elites will not dominate despite the narrative paradigm. Essential and continuous storytelling is the essence of the narrative paradigm, as human beings quite naturally use storytelling for meaning-making and communication.
E. Key Terms and Definitions: 1) a narrative that is a theory of symbolic actions, whether deeds or words, that convey meaning to those who create them or interpret them; 2) a framework that directs inquiry and understanding about the nature and functions of the experience.
The Rhetoric of Hitler's "Battle"
A. Citation:
The appearance of Mein Kampf in unexpurgated translation has called forth…
relied upon within the world of communications. This discussion will focus on the theory of narrative paradigm. We will discuss when and why the theory developed and how the theory of narrative paradigm has been researched. Then we will discuss the theory in detail including the views of rational world paradigm. In addition we will summarize what scholars believe to be true about the paradigm theory. We will also
Creation Myth Analysis Case Study of the History of Biblical Creation Narratives What Is Myth? What Is History? Manetho Josephus Jeroboam Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Myth? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 History? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Both Myth and History? An Analysis of the Biblical Creation Narrative of Genesis 1:1-25 and Egypt's Possible Influence on the Historical Record God created the world in just six days, and rested on the seventh, but scholars have not rested at all over the millennia in their investigation of
Conclusion In the final analysis the film under discussion can be deconstructed and critiqued from a postmodern perspective. This refers to the underlying ideologies and metanarratives that inform the narrative and imagery of the film. From a postmodern point-of-view truth is never static or fixed and is always relative to a certain context or stance. The film in question makes use of a number of rhetorical devices to put forward its
Although "peace" appears in the speech as often as "United Nations," I am arguing that "United Nations" is the more primary of the two terms here, having precedence over "peace" since I believe that Bush is asking his listeners to focus on the formal authority of the United Nations as the font from which peace can be coaxed. Focusing on peace as the primary term would (I believe) make the
Poe "Always in debt, Poe both sought and sneered at the popular audience of his day." -- Andre Carrilho Poe is said to have believed that fiction was art only as much as it avoided didactics and carried the meaning lightly, leaving much to the imagination of the reader (Jannaccone 1974). Telling a story that engages readers deeply and introducing characters that readers truly care about are attributes of interesting fiction.
Barclay goes on to identify the Christian inspiration (Christ Himself), the handicap (the effects of Original Sin), and the means for perseverance (Barclay references the word "hupomone," which is another way of saying "the patience which masters" things) (173). In the same manner, Donald Guthrie speaks of the text as showing a "need for discipline" (248). Guthrie observes that the discipline must be Christ-centered and Christ-focused: "Looking to Jesus (aphorontes