Thomas S Frentz
Biographic Data
| ID | 107223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Frentz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Frentz |
| SIGNATURE | FRENTZ T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Fire Bad, Water Good”
This is the story of my three-year odyssey trying to diagnose and treat an ever-increasing neck pain. It begins with a mistake, moves through a year in a pain management clinic, tells of a cancer scare, chronicles visits with a world-renowned neurosurgeon who advises me against having done what he does, and concludes with a rheumatologist who gives me both good advice and some relief. I then reflect on some lessons I learned along the way
Killing With Kindness: Confessions of an Obsessive
This is a story about how my obsessive lifestyle inhibits the development of a new intimate relationship. The story unfolds in three parts-the first, documenting obsessive disorders from two medical perspectives; the second, personalizing the disorder in terms of my past relational life; and the third, working through my current relationship through an extended conversation between that intimate other and me
Is It Time Yet
This is a story of my impending retirement brought about by three synchronistic events. As the story unfolds, I come to see retirement as a form of symbolic death. That insight teaches me three important lessons. First, that I can forestall this form of death by continuing to write and teach in retirement. Second, that I need to reach out more to others so as not to isolate myself from life. Third, that my habit-driven life style may be a futile …
Layered Reflections on a Written Story Through Real-Time Conversation
In this work, the authors develop a dialogical method for generating layered reflections about a written story. The authors then apply this method to an existing narrative so as to discover important, but nonobvious meanings that might facilitate the psychological growth of the storyteller. The dialogical interchange used here to prompt deeper reflections will hopefully generalize to anyone using this method
Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth
Contesting interpretations of An Inconvenient Truth that treat it as political jeremiad, autobiography, or science documentary, we contextualize the film within Joseph Campbell's monomyth and argue that its rhetorical efficacy arises in part because Al Gore's personal transformation animates the documentary footage with jeremiad advocacy. In turn, this fusion of genres enhances Gore's credibility to assess the dangers of global warming and to adv…
Split Selves and Situated Knowledge: The Trickster Goes Titanium
Grounded within Donna Haraway's theory of feminist objectivity that foregrounds split selves, embodied vision, and situated knowledges, the author tells of his experiences with the medical practitioners who performed his hip replacement surgery. The story unfolds in three episodes: the first highlighting the trickster, a second his conversion into a cyborg, and the third a trickster/cyborg hybrid. Reflecting back on the story, he suggests how Har…
Festum Asinorum: A Trickster at Play
In January 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer. This story tells of my relationships with the medical professionals who treated me. Like Arthur Frank, my goal was to receive the treatment I needed without sacrificing the humanity I valued. Being socialized by my father's self-destructive wolfish approach to authority, I struggle to overcome those tendencies with medical practitioners and to replace them with a more benign canine-the humor-laced, ru…
The gods must be crazy: The denial of descent in academic scholarship
In this work, we expand the literature of discontent with academic scholarship by showing how our malaise is grounded metaphorically in the uncritical celebration of “up” and the vilification of “down.” We then historicize these metaphors through classical Greek poetry and philosophy to rediscover how flowing back and forth between Apollonian upness and Dionysian descent produced creative conditions for living well. We eventually revisit the acad…
Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior
(1993). Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior. Communication Monographs: Vol. 60, Into the New Century, pp. 83-89
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism, part II: A case study of Jaws
This essay offers a case study follow‐up to an article previously published in this journal. The present installment applies the critical approach developed in the initial work, which integrates ideology and archetypal concerns, to examine the film Jaws. The critique is situated as a counterpoint to prior analysis by Marxist critic Fredric Jameson and archetypal critic Jane Caputi. Set within the American culture myth of the frontier hunter, Jaws…
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism
This essay develops an approach to rhetorical criticism by integrating the work of Marxist literary critic Frederic Jameson with that of the depth psychologist C. G. Jung. The emergent perspective reconceptualizes the cultural psyche as composed of historical and universal elements, redefines the rhetorical and moral functions of narrative texts, and casts the rhetorical critic as an agent of moral change
The Frankenstein Myth in contemporary cinema
Through an examination of Rocky IV, Blade Runner, and The Terminator, this essay constructs an evolving dystopian shadow myth that expresses repressed fears the culture has about its relationship to technology. In its patriarchal form, the myth depicts an increasing division of technological agency from human agent, leading toward an entelechial end of human obsolescence. If this tragic “perfection” is to be averted, the myth implies, the culture…
Rhetorical conversation, time, and moral action
This essay argues that if Alasdair MacIntyre's moral philosophy is extended by integrating a classical sense of rhetoric with a language‐action conception of temporal narration, rhetoric and moral action can be reunited in rhetorical conversation
Inferential model criticism of “the empire strikes back”
This essay develops an “Inferential Model” of rhetorical criticism which integrates procedures from qualitative methodology with more traditional perspectives from communication and rhetoric. The method allows the critic to generate an interpretive evaluation of discourses which incorporates insights from both critic and audience. Given the overall method, “The Empire Strikes Back” is examined in terms of the responses of children. Finally, the e…
The deer hunter”: Rhetoric of the warrior
Using a Psychological/Ritual Model of criticism, the essay argues that the rhetorical force of "The Deer Hunter" is explained by men's participation in rituals, such as deer hunting, which affect the patterns of psychological change they experience during and after war. These changes affect the future regeneration of the society
Language‐action: A paradigm for communication
(1976). Language‐action: A paradigm for communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 333-349
Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist
(1975). Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 40-47
Toward a resolution of the generative semantics/classical theory controversy: A psycholinguistic analysis of metaphor
Based on a behavioral test of three psychological models of metaphor, this study lends support for the Generative Semantics, as opposed to the Classical Theory, approach to linguistic theory
Language‐action: A paradigm for communication
(1976). Language‐action: A paradigm for communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 333-349
Rhetorical conversation, time, and moral action
This essay argues that if Alasdair MacIntyre's moral philosophy is extended by integrating a classical sense of rhetoric with a language‐action conception of temporal narration, rhetoric and moral action can be reunited in rhetorical conversation
The deer hunter”: Rhetoric of the warrior
Using a Psychological/Ritual Model of criticism, the essay argues that the rhetorical force of "The Deer Hunter" is explained by men's participation in rituals, such as deer hunting, which affect the patterns of psychological change they experience during and after war. These changes affect the future regeneration of the society
Is It Time Yet
This is a story of my impending retirement brought about by three synchronistic events. As the story unfolds, I come to see retirement as a form of symbolic death. That insight teaches me three important lessons. First, that I can forestall this form of death by continuing to write and teach in retirement. Second, that I need to reach out more to others so as not to isolate myself from life. Third, that my habit-driven life style may be a futile …
Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist
(1975). Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 40-47
Split Selves and Situated Knowledge: The Trickster Goes Titanium
Grounded within Donna Haraway's theory of feminist objectivity that foregrounds split selves, embodied vision, and situated knowledges, the author tells of his experiences with the medical practitioners who performed his hip replacement surgery. The story unfolds in three episodes: the first highlighting the trickster, a second his conversion into a cyborg, and the third a trickster/cyborg hybrid. Reflecting back on the story, he suggests how Har…
Festum Asinorum: A Trickster at Play
In January 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer. This story tells of my relationships with the medical professionals who treated me. Like Arthur Frank, my goal was to receive the treatment I needed without sacrificing the humanity I valued. Being socialized by my father's self-destructive wolfish approach to authority, I struggle to overcome those tendencies with medical practitioners and to replace them with a more benign canine-the humor-laced, ru…
Toward a resolution of the generative semantics/classical theory controversy: A psycholinguistic analysis of metaphor
Based on a behavioral test of three psychological models of metaphor, this study lends support for the Generative Semantics, as opposed to the Classical Theory, approach to linguistic theory
Layered Reflections on a Written Story Through Real-Time Conversation
In this work, the authors develop a dialogical method for generating layered reflections about a written story. The authors then apply this method to an existing narrative so as to discover important, but nonobvious meanings that might facilitate the psychological growth of the storyteller. The dialogical interchange used here to prompt deeper reflections will hopefully generalize to anyone using this method
Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth
Contesting interpretations of An Inconvenient Truth that treat it as political jeremiad, autobiography, or science documentary, we contextualize the film within Joseph Campbell's monomyth and argue that its rhetorical efficacy arises in part because Al Gore's personal transformation animates the documentary footage with jeremiad advocacy. In turn, this fusion of genres enhances Gore's credibility to assess the dangers of global warming and to adv…
The gods must be crazy: The denial of descent in academic scholarship
In this work, we expand the literature of discontent with academic scholarship by showing how our malaise is grounded metaphorically in the uncritical celebration of “up” and the vilification of “down.” We then historicize these metaphors through classical Greek poetry and philosophy to rediscover how flowing back and forth between Apollonian upness and Dionysian descent produced creative conditions for living well. We eventually revisit the acad…
Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior
(1993). Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior. Communication Monographs: Vol. 60, Into the New Century, pp. 83-89
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism, part II: A case study of Jaws
This essay offers a case study follow‐up to an article previously published in this journal. The present installment applies the critical approach developed in the initial work, which integrates ideology and archetypal concerns, to examine the film Jaws. The critique is situated as a counterpoint to prior analysis by Marxist critic Fredric Jameson and archetypal critic Jane Caputi. Set within the American culture myth of the frontier hunter, Jaws…
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism
This essay develops an approach to rhetorical criticism by integrating the work of Marxist literary critic Frederic Jameson with that of the depth psychologist C. G. Jung. The emergent perspective reconceptualizes the cultural psyche as composed of historical and universal elements, redefines the rhetorical and moral functions of narrative texts, and casts the rhetorical critic as an agent of moral change
Inferential model criticism of “the empire strikes back”
This essay develops an “Inferential Model” of rhetorical criticism which integrates procedures from qualitative methodology with more traditional perspectives from communication and rhetoric. The method allows the critic to generate an interpretive evaluation of discourses which incorporates insights from both critic and audience. Given the overall method, “The Empire Strikes Back” is examined in terms of the responses of children. Finally, the e…
Toward a resolution of the generative semantics/classical theory controversy: A psycholinguistic analysis of metaphor
Based on a behavioral test of three psychological models of metaphor, this study lends support for the Generative Semantics, as opposed to the Classical Theory, approach to linguistic theory
Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist
(1975). Conversion of America's consciousness: The rhetoric of The Exorcist. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 40-47
Language‐action: A paradigm for communication
(1976). Language‐action: A paradigm for communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 333-349
The deer hunter”: Rhetoric of the warrior
Using a Psychological/Ritual Model of criticism, the essay argues that the rhetorical force of "The Deer Hunter" is explained by men's participation in rituals, such as deer hunting, which affect the patterns of psychological change they experience during and after war. These changes affect the future regeneration of the society
Inferential model criticism of “the empire strikes back”
This essay develops an “Inferential Model” of rhetorical criticism which integrates procedures from qualitative methodology with more traditional perspectives from communication and rhetoric. The method allows the critic to generate an interpretive evaluation of discourses which incorporates insights from both critic and audience. Given the overall method, “The Empire Strikes Back” is examined in terms of the responses of children. Finally, the e…
Rhetorical conversation, time, and moral action
This essay argues that if Alasdair MacIntyre's moral philosophy is extended by integrating a classical sense of rhetoric with a language‐action conception of temporal narration, rhetoric and moral action can be reunited in rhetorical conversation
The Frankenstein Myth in contemporary cinema
Through an examination of Rocky IV, Blade Runner, and The Terminator, this essay constructs an evolving dystopian shadow myth that expresses repressed fears the culture has about its relationship to technology. In its patriarchal form, the myth depicts an increasing division of technological agency from human agent, leading toward an entelechial end of human obsolescence. If this tragic “perfection” is to be averted, the myth implies, the culture…
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism
This essay develops an approach to rhetorical criticism by integrating the work of Marxist literary critic Frederic Jameson with that of the depth psychologist C. G. Jung. The emergent perspective reconceptualizes the cultural psyche as composed of historical and universal elements, redefines the rhetorical and moral functions of narrative texts, and casts the rhetorical critic as an agent of moral change
Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior
(1993). Reconstructing a rhetoric of the interior. Communication Monographs: Vol. 60, Into the New Century, pp. 83-89
Integrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism, part II: A case study of Jaws
This essay offers a case study follow‐up to an article previously published in this journal. The present installment applies the critical approach developed in the initial work, which integrates ideology and archetypal concerns, to examine the film Jaws. The critique is situated as a counterpoint to prior analysis by Marxist critic Fredric Jameson and archetypal critic Jane Caputi. Set within the American culture myth of the frontier hunter, Jaws…
The gods must be crazy: The denial of descent in academic scholarship
In this work, we expand the literature of discontent with academic scholarship by showing how our malaise is grounded metaphorically in the uncritical celebration of “up” and the vilification of “down.” We then historicize these metaphors through classical Greek poetry and philosophy to rediscover how flowing back and forth between Apollonian upness and Dionysian descent produced creative conditions for living well. We eventually revisit the acad…
Festum Asinorum: A Trickster at Play
In January 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer. This story tells of my relationships with the medical professionals who treated me. Like Arthur Frank, my goal was to receive the treatment I needed without sacrificing the humanity I valued. Being socialized by my father's self-destructive wolfish approach to authority, I struggle to overcome those tendencies with medical practitioners and to replace them with a more benign canine-the humor-laced, ru…
Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth
Contesting interpretations of An Inconvenient Truth that treat it as political jeremiad, autobiography, or science documentary, we contextualize the film within Joseph Campbell's monomyth and argue that its rhetorical efficacy arises in part because Al Gore's personal transformation animates the documentary footage with jeremiad advocacy. In turn, this fusion of genres enhances Gore's credibility to assess the dangers of global warming and to adv…
Split Selves and Situated Knowledge: The Trickster Goes Titanium
Grounded within Donna Haraway's theory of feminist objectivity that foregrounds split selves, embodied vision, and situated knowledges, the author tells of his experiences with the medical practitioners who performed his hip replacement surgery. The story unfolds in three episodes: the first highlighting the trickster, a second his conversion into a cyborg, and the third a trickster/cyborg hybrid. Reflecting back on the story, he suggests how Har…
Layered Reflections on a Written Story Through Real-Time Conversation
In this work, the authors develop a dialogical method for generating layered reflections about a written story. The authors then apply this method to an existing narrative so as to discover important, but nonobvious meanings that might facilitate the psychological growth of the storyteller. The dialogical interchange used here to prompt deeper reflections will hopefully generalize to anyone using this method
Is It Time Yet
This is a story of my impending retirement brought about by three synchronistic events. As the story unfolds, I come to see retirement as a form of symbolic death. That insight teaches me three important lessons. First, that I can forestall this form of death by continuing to write and teach in retirement. Second, that I need to reach out more to others so as not to isolate myself from life. Third, that my habit-driven life style may be a futile …
Killing With Kindness: Confessions of an Obsessive
This is a story about how my obsessive lifestyle inhibits the development of a new intimate relationship. The story unfolds in three parts-the first, documenting obsessive disorders from two medical perspectives; the second, personalizing the disorder in terms of my past relational life; and the third, working through my current relationship through an extended conversation between that intimate other and me
“Fire Bad, Water Good”
This is the story of my three-year odyssey trying to diagnose and treat an ever-increasing neck pain. It begins with a mistake, moves through a year in a pain management clinic, tells of a cancer scare, chronicles visits with a world-renowned neurosurgeon who advises me against having done what he does, and concludes with a rheumatologist who gives me both good advice and some relief. I then reflect on some lessons I learned along the way
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