Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.
Introduction: The academic study of public address: A tradition in transition / Martin J. Medhurst -- The literary criticism of oratory / Herbert A. Wichelns -- Some problems of scope and method in rhetorical scholarship / Donald C. Bryant -- The perils of rhetorical criticism / Loren D. Reid -- Methodology in the criticism of public address / A. Craig Baird and Lester Thonssen -- Public address: A study in social and intellectual history / Ernest J. Wrage -- The study of speeches / Wayland Maxfield Parrish -- The criticism of rhetoric / Marie Hochmuth -- The practice of rhetorical criticism / Edwin Black -- Must we all be "rhetorical critics"? / Barnet Baskerville -- Elegy in a critical grave- yard / G.P. Mohrmann -- The schism in rhetorical scholarship / Stephen E. Lucas -- Textual criticism: The legacy of G.P. Mohrmann / Michael Leff -- The Renaissance of American public address: Text and context in rhetorical criticism / Stephen E. Lucas -- The state of the art in public address scholarship / David Zarefsky.