The ideological turn in modern criticism

1983/03/01 by Philip Wander · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Narrative Theory and Analysis #Criticism #Ideology #Sociological criticism #Sociology #Theatre criticism #Social criticism #Critical theory #Epistemology #Literary criticism #Psychoanalysis #Aesthetics #Philosophy #Psychology #Law #Political science #Politics #Literary theory #Linguistics #Literary science

paper · doi:10.1080/10510978309368110

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Abstract

This essay offers an approach to the ideological underpinnings of 20th‐century criticism, especially but not only American speech criticism. In juxtaposing social events with critical and metacritical statements offered by Herbert Wichelns, Kenneth Burke, Forbes Hill, Lawrence Rosenfield, and Martin Heidegger, the study isolates the ideological force of varied approaches to criticism.

Citations

• The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology
• A Study in Nativism: The American Red Scare of 1919-20

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• Ideological criticism [wikipedia]