Janice Hocker Rushing
Biographic Data
| ID | 5595346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Hocker Rushing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice Hocker |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushing |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHING J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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…
Putting Away Childish Things: Looking at Diana's Funeral and Media Criticism
I had not planned to watch Diana's funeral. Like so many, I had learned of her gruesome death while viewing CNN, and had observed with some surprise how my shock grew into something like grief for a woman I had never met and only managed to see once from a great distance while attending some pompous horse show in London. Surely, the loss of Mother Theresa the night before was much more significant, if not more tragic, and I would tune in to her e…
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…
Evolution of “the new frontier” in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal co‐optation of the feminine archetype
Feminine symbolism in the American frontier myth is an evolving cultural/rhetorical manifestation of a developing archetypal process. The land‐based frontier myth represents a middle stage in which a once‐whole image of the feminine was split by the emergence of patriarchy. An analysis of the films Alien and Aliens reveals that the frontier myth is evolving, at least in this case, into a land/space hybrid, in which the lost feminine is encountere…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
Mythic evolution of “The new frontier” in mass mediated rhetoric
This essay combines the concept of “rhetorical narration” with Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad to argue that definitional cultural myths are rhetorically meaningful in relation to social consciousness when both are viewed as evolving teleologically. It delineates two phases of change in America's frontier myth associated with the transformation of the pentadic term “scene” from land to space, as represented in recent space fiction films: a myt…
Ronald Reagan's “star wars” address: Mythic containment of technical reasoning
Ronald Reagan's “Star Wars” address is viewed as part of the culturally evolving myth of the New Frontier. The speech creates the illusion of both preserving and transcending science by subordinating technical reasoning to the purpose of nuclear holocaust, and by using technical reasoning to the purpose of preventing nuclear holocaust, and by using technoscience to rescript history to remove temporal and spatial markers. Science is left free to a…
E.T. As rhetorical transcendence
This essay explicates a cosmological evolutionary perspective termed “the perennial philosophy” in order to interpret how various scholarly and popular discourses constitute a collective exigence of fragmentation and a rhetoric of transcendent wholeness. The framework is then used to analyze the mythic rhetoric of E.T., which is based on collaboration rather than combat, transcendence rather than dialectic. E.T. is seen as an oxymoronic child who…
The rhetoric of the American western myth
Expanding upon the Social Value Model of Rushing and Frentz, this essay argues that the fundamental values of the American Western myth exist in the paradoxical form of Individualism vs. Community. Four historical eras are discussed in terms of how the Western film rhetoric of each was patterned in response to threats to the myth. Early Westerns enacted a pattern of “dialectical emphasis” (of Community): classic Westerns, “dialectical reaffirmati…
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
The rhetoric of the American western myth
Expanding upon the Social Value Model of Rushing and Frentz, this essay argues that the fundamental values of the American Western myth exist in the paradoxical form of Individualism vs. Community. Four historical eras are discussed in terms of how the Western film rhetoric of each was patterned in response to threats to the myth. Early Westerns enacted a pattern of “dialectical emphasis” (of Community): classic Westerns, “dialectical reaffirmati…
Ronald Reagan's “star wars” address: Mythic containment of technical reasoning
Ronald Reagan's “Star Wars” address is viewed as part of the culturally evolving myth of the New Frontier. The speech creates the illusion of both preserving and transcending science by subordinating technical reasoning to the purpose of nuclear holocaust, and by using technical reasoning to the purpose of preventing nuclear holocaust, and by using technoscience to rescript history to remove temporal and spatial markers. Science is left free to a…
E.T. As rhetorical transcendence
This essay explicates a cosmological evolutionary perspective termed “the perennial philosophy” in order to interpret how various scholarly and popular discourses constitute a collective exigence of fragmentation and a rhetoric of transcendent wholeness. The framework is then used to analyze the mythic rhetoric of E.T., which is based on collaboration rather than combat, transcendence rather than dialectic. E.T. is seen as an oxymoronic child who…
Evolution of “the new frontier” in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal co‐optation of the feminine archetype
Feminine symbolism in the American frontier myth is an evolving cultural/rhetorical manifestation of a developing archetypal process. The land‐based frontier myth represents a middle stage in which a once‐whole image of the feminine was split by the emergence of patriarchy. An analysis of the films Alien and Aliens reveals that the frontier myth is evolving, at least in this case, into a land/space hybrid, in which the lost feminine is encountere…
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
Putting Away Childish Things: Looking at Diana's Funeral and Media Criticism
I had not planned to watch Diana's funeral. Like so many, I had learned of her gruesome death while viewing CNN, and had observed with some surprise how my shock grew into something like grief for a woman I had never met and only managed to see once from a great distance while attending some pompous horse show in London. Surely, the loss of Mother Theresa the night before was much more significant, if not more tragic, and I would tune in to her e…
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…
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 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
The rhetoric of the American western myth
Expanding upon the Social Value Model of Rushing and Frentz, this essay argues that the fundamental values of the American Western myth exist in the paradoxical form of Individualism vs. Community. Four historical eras are discussed in terms of how the Western film rhetoric of each was patterned in response to threats to the myth. Early Westerns enacted a pattern of “dialectical emphasis” (of Community): classic Westerns, “dialectical reaffirmati…
E.T. As rhetorical transcendence
This essay explicates a cosmological evolutionary perspective termed “the perennial philosophy” in order to interpret how various scholarly and popular discourses constitute a collective exigence of fragmentation and a rhetoric of transcendent wholeness. The framework is then used to analyze the mythic rhetoric of E.T., which is based on collaboration rather than combat, transcendence rather than dialectic. E.T. is seen as an oxymoronic child who…
Mythic evolution of “The new frontier” in mass mediated rhetoric
This essay combines the concept of “rhetorical narration” with Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad to argue that definitional cultural myths are rhetorically meaningful in relation to social consciousness when both are viewed as evolving teleologically. It delineates two phases of change in America's frontier myth associated with the transformation of the pentadic term “scene” from land to space, as represented in recent space fiction films: a myt…
Ronald Reagan's “star wars” address: Mythic containment of technical reasoning
Ronald Reagan's “Star Wars” address is viewed as part of the culturally evolving myth of the New Frontier. The speech creates the illusion of both preserving and transcending science by subordinating technical reasoning to the purpose of nuclear holocaust, and by using technical reasoning to the purpose of preventing nuclear holocaust, and by using technoscience to rescript history to remove temporal and spatial markers. Science is left free to a…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
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…
Evolution of “the new frontier” in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal co‐optation of the feminine archetype
Feminine symbolism in the American frontier myth is an evolving cultural/rhetorical manifestation of a developing archetypal process. The land‐based frontier myth represents a middle stage in which a once‐whole image of the feminine was split by the emergence of patriarchy. An analysis of the films Alien and Aliens reveals that the frontier myth is evolving, at least in this case, into a land/space hybrid, in which the lost feminine is encountere…
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
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…
Putting Away Childish Things: Looking at Diana's Funeral and Media Criticism
I had not planned to watch Diana's funeral. Like so many, I had learned of her gruesome death while viewing CNN, and had observed with some surprise how my shock grew into something like grief for a woman I had never met and only managed to see once from a great distance while attending some pompous horse show in London. Surely, the loss of Mother Theresa the night before was much more significant, if not more tragic, and I would tune in to her e…
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…
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