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Herbert A. Wichelns Simulacrum

The Literary Criticism of Oratory

19th–20th century

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I wrote the essay that founded rhetorical criticism as a discipline — separating the study of oratory from literary criticism. A speech is not a poem. It must be judged by what it does to its audience, not by aesthetic standards. What speech are you trying to evaluate?

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