The Unbearable Obliqueness of Rhetoric

ABSTRACT

This short essay explores oblique approaches to rhetorical theory and practice and, in doing so, accidently arrives at a renewed appreciation of Aesthetics.

KEYWORDS:

• Aesthetics
• oblique
• sense

Acknowledgments

I thank Crystal Colombini for reading versions of this essay and offering editorial guidance that made the essay much better. I also thank the anonymous reviewer whose questions and suggestions undoubtedly strengthened the work.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ One such encounter with the oblique can be found in Debra Hawhee’s A Sense of Urgency (177n13).

² Thanks to Eunsong Kim for pointing me toward Glissant’s discussion of the opaque.