The ideological turn in modern criticism

Gendered politics and presidential image construction: A reassessment of the “feminine style”

“…Other theorists and critics also call for the politicization of rhetorical criticism (McKerrow, 1989;Wander, 1983) and resist a positivistic view of criticism as generative of truth or knowledge. Most recently, Ivie (1995) suggests that rhetorical criticism should be "productive," a form of advocacy that "strategically reconstructs the interpretive design of speech (and other forms of symbolic action) in order to diminish, bolster, or redirect its significance" (n.p.).…”

Multiculturalism, rhetoric and the twenty‐first century

“…As I conceive it, critical localism is a project demarcated toward the realization of democracy in action. It is consonant with Wander's (1983) call for ideological criticism but recognizes, to paraphrase Baskerville (1977), that we do not all necessarily have to be ideological critics (or critical theorists, or practitioners of cultural studies, or ethnographers). Indeed, not all of us will do diis, and those who do may not do it all the time.…”

“…6 For an early articulation of the ideological turn in criticism see Wander & Jenkins (1972). For further discussions on ideological criticism see the invited responses to Wander's (1983) argument submitted by Megill (1983), Rosenfield (1983) and Hill (1983). Campbell (1983) responded to Hill's essay and later McGee (1984), Francesconi (1984) and Corcoran (1984) joined the fray.…”

Orwellian Language and the Politics of Tribal Termination (1953–1960)

“…Applied to the ideological function of language, McGee (1984McGee ( , 1982 and Wander (1984Wander ( , 1983 contend that discourse serves agents of social and economic power. Critics, thus, should fashion their interpretative capacities to understand, in Cloud's (1994) words "how political and economic power is mediated, reinforced, perpetuated, and challenged in the texts we study" (p. 143).…”