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The performance of literature as argument

Lewis B. Hershey

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This article reviews scholarship on the interdependence of rhetoric and poetic language and proposes a performance as argument model for the oral interpretation of literature. The article places the model in the context of current work on the relationship of narrative to argument and suggests the benefits gained from adoption of the model for the generation of critical discourse from performance‐based knowledge.

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This article reviews scholarship on the interdependence of rhetoric and poetic language and proposes a performance as argument model for the oral interpretation of literature. The article places the model in the context of current work on the relationship of narrative to argument and suggests the benefits gained from adoption of the model for the generation of critical discourse from performance‐based knowledge.

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This article reviews scholarship on the interdependence of rhetoric and poetic language and proposes a performance as argument model for the oral interpretation of literature. The article places the model in the context of current work on the relationship of narrative to argument and suggests the benefits gained from adoption of the model for the generation of critical discourse from performance‐based knowledge.

Key concepts: Argument (complex analysis), Scholarship, Rhetoric, Interpretation (philosophy), Epistemology, Context (archaeology), Narrative, Sociology

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