NEOARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM HISTORY OF NEOARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM a k
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NEO-ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM
HISTORY OF NEO-ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM: � a. k. a. Neo-Classical Criticism � Herbert Wilchelns (1925): “The Literary Criticism of Oratory” � Sought to distinguish study of oratory from study of literature
ASSUMPTIONS OF NEO-ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM: � Concerned with particular audience response � Concerned with reasonable effect � Judges rhetoric by its persuasive appeals and effects
NEO-ARISTOTELIAN ANALYSIS: � Goal is to identify aspects of the rhetorical action that explains its persuasive effect on the audience. � Reconstructing the context: � Context/Occasion � Audience � Rhetor
CLASSICAL CANONS OF RHETORIC � Invention � Arrangement � Style � Delivery � Memory
INVENTION: � The main ideas, themes, lines of argument, and content � Inartistic Proofs � Artistic Proofs: � Ethos � Logos � Pathos � Inductive Arguments � Deductive � Enthymeme
ARRANGEMENT: � Types of organization structures � Chronological � Spatial � Thematic � Problem-solution � Cause-effect � Delayed thesis
STYLE: � Word choice � Dramatic depictions � Stories � Metaphors � Repetition
DELIVERY: � Use of voice � Facial expressions � Body movement/posture � All non-verbal components
MEMORY: � Not as relevant today
LIMITATIONS OF NEO-ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM: � Effects can be difficult to isolate and verify � Strict interpretation of effects doesn’t allow for moral judgments � Works best with oral presentations
Russian formalism
Descriptive criticism vs prescriptive criticism
Define historical criticism
The difference between criticism and constructive criticism
Traditional approach in literary criticism
History also history physical
Northrop frye archetypes
Principle of new criticism
Conflicts in the old man and the sea
Criticism of von thunen model
Engelsian marxist criticism
Features of new criticism
