Mod 17

• Social Movements Rhetoric


  Principally concerned with the exercise of agency in movement struggles to make a difference in the world
• Social Movements Rhetoric sees humans as capable of making a difference by their choice of words and symbolic actions
• Fantasy-themed Criticism


  A method of rhetorical criticism that seeks to understand how shared realities within a group shape the way people think and act
• Goal of doing fantasy theme criticism


  To understand why certain groups feel the way they do by understanding characters, settings, and actions, each labelled as a theme
• Steps Involved in Fantasy-themed Criticism

  1. Code the artifact

  2. Construct a rhetorical vision
• Coding the artifact


  • Determine the setting, characters, and actions
• Constructing a rhetorical vision


  Look for patterns in the themes that were coded in the artifact
• Feminist Criticism


  Critiques patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these reflect masculine ideology
• Postmodern criticism


  Revolves around the idea that there's no such thing as absolute truth or certain reality
• Close Textual Analysis


  Works in sections, analyzes for intrinsic and extrinsic meaning, identifies relationship to the rest of the text, uses rhetorical devices, requires structure and aesthetics