| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The nature of rhetorical criticism | p. 3 |
| Doing rhetorical criticism | p. 11 |
| Neo-Aristotelian criticism : genesis of rhetorical criticism | p. 25 |
| Sample essays | p. 33 |
| Conventional wisdom - traditional form - the President's message of November 3, 1969 | p. 35 |
| The power of Saddam Hussein's war rhetoric | p. 56 |
| Critical approaches | p. 67 |
| Cluster criticism | p. 69 |
| Sample essays | p. 75 |
| The Hay-Wain : cluster analysis in visual communication | p. 78 |
| A cluster analysis of Enron's code of ethics | p. 94 |
| Construction of an enemy in George W. Bush's state of the union speech | p. 101 |
| Fantasy-theme criticism | p. 109 |
| Sample essays | p. 116 |
| Narrative analysis of sexual etiquette in teenage magazines | p. 118 |
| Coping with loss : U2's "one tree hill" | p. 136 |
| The sociopolitical messages of graffiti art | p. 140 |
| Feminist criticism | p. 151 |
| Sample essays | p. 161 |
| "Ladybug picnic" : engendering pyrophobia and promethean desire | p. 163 |
| Judy Chicago's The dinner party : empowering of women's voice in visual art | p. 168 |
| Americanizing gay parents : a feminist analysis of Daddy's roommate | p. 182 |
| Generic criticism | p. 193 |
| Sample essays | p. 202 |
| Family photographs : a generic description | p. 205 |
| Beauty in conflict : discussion on art | p. 212 |
| "A time of shame and sorrow" : Robert F. Kennedy and the American jeremiad | p. 219 |
| Ideological criticism | p. 239 |
| Sample essays | p. 248 |
| Civilized colonialism : Pocahantas as neocolonial rhetoric | p. 253 |
| Cyber ideology : an ideological criticism of the UNICEF, UNAIDS, and UNFPA web sites | p. 272 |
| A tale of two ideologies : Winona LaDuke's vice presidential nomination acceptance speech | p. 280 |
| Metaphor Criticism | p. 299 |
| Sample essays | p. 305 |
| Indigestible food, conquering hordes, and waste materials : metaphors of immigrants and the early immigration restriction debate in the United States | p. 307 |
| Making the familiar foreign : dissent and metaphor surrounding the Iraq War | p. 320 |
| Architectural metaphor as subversion : the Portland building | p. 325 |
| Narrative criticism | p. 333 |
| Sample essays | p. 341 |
| The rhetorical power of a compelling story : a critique of a "toughlove" parental support group | p. 344 |
| The model minority myth of Asian Americans in 1966 : a narrative criticism | p. 356 |
| Boy story 2 : a narrative analysis | p. 377 |
| Pentadic criticism | p. 383 |
| Sample essays | p. 390 |
| A pentadic analysis of Senator Edward Kennedy's address to the people of Massachusetts July 25, 1969 | p. 392 |
| A pentadic analysis of the CRACK web site | p. 401 |
| Teddy bears at Greenham common | p. 407 |
| Generative criticism | p. 411 |
| Sample essays | p. 430 |
| Haunting Argentina : synecdoche in the protests of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo | p. 431 |
| Star of fear, star of hope : North Star to reach reality | p. 455 |
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