The following entry gives an overview of trends in literary criticism in the United States, providing background information on the development of modern English departments, examining leading critical paradigms, and detailing several of the most significant thinkers and trends within the field of rhetoric.
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
This essay builds upon the work of George Bataille to develop an account of rhetoric's general economy that operates in terms of the relational and always entangled affective-rhetorical "turning" of all matter in the cosmos. This orientation to rhetoric's general economy affords five takeaways for rhetorical studies, especially for scholars interested in new materialist vantage points: 1) a conceptualization of rhetoric's materiality that operates in terms of an ongoing process that I call entangled entropic movement; 2) a perspective on discursive overdetermination that does not assume in advance an immaterial and unchanging extrarhetorical context that dialectically (re)produces transcendent metaphysical oppositions; 3) a view on "troping" that applies to all material bodies (organic and inorganic); 4) an agenda for rhetorical new materialisms that centers vocabularies derived from physics rather than vocabularies derived primarily from the life sciences and cognitive sciences; 5) new materialist reading strategies that are capable of critiquing the human discourses and tropes that often function in the interest of capitalism and colonialism to the detriment of local ecologies and communities. The essay is part of the RSQ forum on Rhetorical New Materialisms. To cite this article: Laurie Gries, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Nathaniel Rivers, Jodie Nicotra, John M. Ackerman, David M. Grant, Gabriela R. Ríos, Byron Hawk, Joshua S. Hanan, Kristin L. Arola, Thomas J. Rickert, Qwo-Li Driskill & Donnie Johnson Sackey (2022) Rhetorical New Materialisms (RNM), Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 52:2, 137-202.
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