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NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
1.
Introduction: The New Rhetoric of Video Games. For a several page over-
view of classical rhetoric, see Ian Bogost,
Persuasive Games: The Expressive
Power of Videogames
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). For depth in the
history of rhetoric, see Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg,
The Rhetorical
Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present
(New York: Bed-
ford topics, 2000). For illustrations of how rhetorical criticism can be done,
see Carl R. Burgchardt,
Readings in Rhetorical Criticism
(State College, PA:
Strata Publishing, 2010).
2.
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Susan Schultz Huxman,
The Rhetorical Act:
Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cen-
gage Learning, 2009), 5.
3.
Ibid., 14.
4.
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, “The Ontological Foundations of Rhetorical The-
ory,”
Philosophy and Rhetoric
3, no. 2 (1970): 101.
5.
Kenneth Burke,
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature
and Method
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 5.
6.
Kenneth Burke,
A Rhetoric of Motives
(Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1969), 43. Emphasis in the original.
7.
Ch. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca,
The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argu-
mentation
(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969), 149.
8.
Robert L. Scott, “On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic,”
Central States Speech
Journal
18 (1967): 13.
9.
Ibid., 17.
10.
Richard A Cherwitz and Thomas J. Darwin, “Why The 'Epistemic' In
Epistemic Rhetoric? The Paradox Of Rhetoric As Performance,”
Text and
Performance Quarterly
15 (1995): 192.
11.
Ronald Greene, “The Aesthetic Turn and the Rhetorical Perspective on
Argumentation,”
Argumentation & Advocacy
35, no. 1 (1998): para. 6.
12.
John Lyne, “Knowledge and Performance in Argument: Disciplinarity and
Proto-Theory,”
Argumentation & Advocacy
35, no. 1 (1998): para. 14.
13.
Edward Schiappa, “Second Thoughts on the Critiques of Big Rhetoric,”
Phi-
losophy and Rhetoric
34, no. 3 (2001): 260.
14.
More information about the turn toward 'big rhetoric' can be found in:
Joshua Gunn, “Size Matters: Polytoning Rhetoric's Perverse Apocalypse,”
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
38, no. 1 (2008).
15.
David Zarefsky, “Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism,”
Journal of
Communication
58 (2008): 634.
16.
Ibid., 633.
