Mikhail Bakhtin and the rhetorical tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9239178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Murphy, John Murphy (0000-0003-0200-7778, University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-277 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630109384336 |
| OpenAlex | W2056702330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
Over the course of the past decade, the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has exerted an increasing influence in rhetorical studies. This essay explores the ways in which rhetorical scholars have embraced Mikhail Bakhtin as a rhetorical theorist in spite of the fact that he disdained rhetoric. The first section of the essay examines the concept of tradition, elucidates three definitions of the rhetorical tradition commonly available to theorists, and explains the processes through which these definitions articulate as rhetorical theorists even those people who attack rhetoric. The essay then turns to the rhetorical reception of Mikhail Bakhtin, critiques the strategies that frame him as a rhetorician, and offers an alternative reading of his key discussion of rhetoric and of the rhetorical tradition in general. The conclusion argues that the reception of Bakhtin suggests a pattern in rhetorical studies. As rhetoricians encounter theorists who condemn rhetoric, they tend to defer the instrumental aspect of rhetoric, its potential for manipulation, in favor of a more benign view of rhetorical action. It is dangerous to disregard the danger of rhetoric in pursuit of a higher status for rhetoric
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetoric · Rhetorical criticism · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical modes · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
The Dialogic Imagination
Marxism and literature
Norms of Rhetorical Culture
Text, context, and the fragmentation of contemporary culture
The axiological foundations of Plato's theory of rhetoric
Novelizing” the stage
Inventing Women
The birth of understanding
Images of savagery in American justifications for war
The Gorgias
The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
Inventing authority
The forms and limits of prudence in Henry Clay's (1850) defense of the compromise measures
Critical rhetoric and postmodern theory
The agon of Jeremiah
Contested histories of rhetoric
The rhetoric of heteroglossia in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
Status, marginality, and rhetorical theory
Performing as a moral act
Words the most like things
Between past and future
Critical rhetoric
Rhetoric of Motives
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2010 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |