Argues that textual criticism can offer a theoretically sound and practically useful base for the rhetorical reading of texts. Maintains that the study of controversy, approached through "representative anecdotes," offers an appropriate frame for expanding textual criticism into an intertextual arena. (SR)

Argues that meaning in a rhetorical work results from an interaction between discursive form and representational content linguists call "iconicity." Illustrates this approach through close analysis of passages selected from Edmund Burke's "Speech to the Electors of Bristol." Considers applications in broader contexts. (KEH)

Argues that some of the complexity and tension in Lucretia Coffin Mott's speech results from the conflicting demands of the immediate situation and the speaker's broader views on theological and social issues. Suggests the speech's inherent tensions are not fully resolved, particularly those between a typological sense of history and a progressive…