![]() In Critical Essay #2 and in Blog Post #7, I used the cultural feminist perspective to analyze the rom-com The Wedding Singer. These terms, in particular, will carry throughout the rest of my life as we live in a patriarchal society and I identify as a woman, but it will also serve me well as I continue my college career as an English major.Īs a rhetor myself, this course made me realize how my words and various other forms of delivery can effect how well I persuade my audience. I also learned that there are multiple feminist perspectives the cultural, liberal, and Marxist feminist perspectives which all work to highlight different ways that people who do not identify as cyst white men are oppressed by our society through a given artifact. But, I had never learned the proper terms, like hegemony, model, and anti-model used to analyze an artifact through the feminist and neo-Marxist perspectives. Of course, I had previous knowledge of feminism, the patriarchy, the gender binary, and the resulting gender roles. Similarly, I had understood how some commercials and speeches worked to persuade audiences, but I did not necessarily know how ideologies, through hegemonies, worked in rhetoric. I explored this concept more in my Critical Essay #2 about Adam Sandler’s influence on his audience for The Wedding Singer and how The Office formed bonds of intimacy with its audience in Blog Post #8. I had previously been aware of the concept of a celebrity influencing the perception of a character or product, but I had never fully grasped it until learning of the media-centered perspective and Parasocial Relationship Theory. Thus, leading to social media influencers being sponsored by different companies wanting them to promote their product or service. Specifically, the Parasocial Relationship Theory is an interesting way to view how an actor or celebrity can use their relationship with their audience to persuade them to view them as a friend. As technology has expanded to television and radio so did the public’s perception of the celebrities and actors. One of the ways the course helped me increase my understanding of rhetoric (although the whole class was just that) was the Media-Centered Perspective. ![]() Although this is how rhetoric was first analyzed and used systematically, Kenneth Burk grew Arstitotle’s theories to extend into perspectives like the Dramatistic Perspective which I utilized in Blog Post #4 and again in Critical Essay #1. They would then use these systematic approaches to rhetoric to teach the wealthy how to deliver speeches better. Aristotle and other sophists originally used the term rhetoric in context to speeches as that was the main form of persuasion in Ancient Greece. Another form of this is the 5 canons of rhetoric which include invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Aristotle also defined the rhetorical triangle, consisting of ethos, pathos, and logos, which must make up any sort of argument in order to engage an audience and make sense logically. For instance, we learned that Aristotle is considered the “Father of Rhetoric” and that he was able to define rhetoric in a systematic way. With that being said, the various perspectives we covered have helped me to notice the numerous ways in which popular culture, whether it be a movie, commercial, or speech of some kind, is always making a rhetorical argument to persuade us.Īt the beginning of the course, we reviewed some of the history and origins of rhetoric. ![]() I also personally found the more philosophically profound perspectives more interesting, like Burke’s Dramatistic Perspective and ideas about the human condition. However, I found it really intriguing to learn about the various rhetorical perspectives and theories that are used to convey different rhetorical arguments in popular culture. So, going into this class I did not have much background knowledge on rhetoric except for the little bit I picked up in English 165. English 301: Rhetorical Criticism was my second course in my Rhetoric and Professional Writing concentration, following my Technical Writing class with Dr.
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