The epideictic character of rhetorical criticismFootnote¹

The author wishes to thank Carolyn Miller for a review of the early version of this essay when it was presented at CCCC, and Theresa Enos, William C. Covino, and Richard Leo Enos for their editorial comments and suggestions on the article version of the paper.

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