Stylistic analysis by both rhetoricians and literary critics is incomplete, often subjective, impressionistic, and sometimes misleading. The ideal method is objective analysis, based on adequate verbal samples, which identifies and describes the style of any writer or speaker as distinctive to that person alone. In order to do this, the theories…

Critical discourse is best understood when its logical features are identified. An examination of the basic elements and modes of rhetorical criticism (a form of critical discourse) produces a finite set of options for the critic, thus enabling him to develop a system of alternatives in his critical efforts. For example, by selecting from among…

Essays and reviews by film critic John Simon, originally published in "The New Leader" magazine, are collected here. They cover the period from 1967 to 1970, a period that some contend has brought about major changes in the art of filmmaking and in the subject matter on which that art focuses. (JK/JY)

The contents of this book represent one critic's views on some qualities and questions in the theater between 1964 and 1975 and include relevant biographical (e.g., the career of Joseph Papp) and historical articles. The five parts of the book deal with theaters--American and foreign; productions--revivals and new plays; notes on music; stages of…

Contends that is sometimes rhetorical genres and not rhetorical situations that are decisively formative, and cites the papal encyclical, early state of the union addresses and their replies as supporting evidence. (MH)

Discusses the dynamics of the Bantu Kinema Educational Experiment as a small group filmmaking process and examines the documentary ideal of the subject-generated film or videotape. (MH)

Discusses the relationship between doublespeak and humor in the works of George Orwell, W.H. Auden, Doris Lessing, and others. Suggests that one of the most effective responses to doublespeak is humor, a response which acknowledges doublespeak's incongruities and laughs at them. (ARH)

Evaluates President Nixon's speech of November 3, 1969 in literary terms-as an example of the genre known as the quest story. (AN)

Remarks directed, largely, to Annis Pratt's The New Feminist Criticism" which appears on pp. 872-78 of this issue; a version of a paper presented at Workshop on Feminist Literature and Feminine Consciousness at annual convention of Modern Language Association of America (New York, December 27, 1970). (Editor)

Examines Rudolf B. Gottfried's attack ( Our New Poet: Archetypal Criticism and The Fairie Queene," PMLA," vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 1362-77) on Frye's Anatomy of Criticism" and The Structure of Imagery in The Fairie Queene" and A. C. Hamilton's The Structure of Allegory in The Fairie Queene." (SW)

Speculates on the relationship between the execution of history in practice and the conceptualization of history in theory by examining the rhetorical elements in the resignation episode of the Duke of Wellington. (MH)

Investigates the rhetorical implications of Sydney Pollack's translation of Isak Dinesen's autobiographical texts. Argues that Pollack's film uses strategies of transference, redefinition, antithesis, and displacement to renarrate Dinesen's writings, resulting in a depoliticized romantic adventure. Finds that these strategies misrepresent Dinesen,…

Argues that the rhetorical impact of "Agnes of God" stems from the unconventional treatment of dialectical conflict, and from the film's "dialectical disorientation." Discusses rhetorical implications of form, arguing that "Agnes of God" is representative of a class of highly configural films that function to jar…

Investigates the interrelation of the histories of rhetoric and literary studies by examining in detail the writings of Victorian sage Walter Pater. (SR)

After evaluating a proposal by Jon Star (2005) that mathematics educators reconceptualize the construct of procedural knowledge, we offer an alternative reconceptualization based on an extension and amalgamation of his and other conceptualizations of procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge. We then propose some implications for research…