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This book was clearly written as a college textbook for relatively young students - the author's voice addresses them as potentially bored with this class, and he gives various in-text exercises, which I just skimmed. However, he writes clearly and he's interesting, and he does a great job of providing simple, up-front definitions of what "rhetoric" means today, along with various aspects of "critical theory," as he's writing about both topics at once. It was published in 1994, and I liked his references to media of the time, like my beloved Northern Exposure.
Read this for school, was interesting enough but also boring
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I would never punish my undergraduates with this one; grad students maybe but the I'm just taking this class for credit crowd would die from boredom. Despite his attempts at inclusivity, Brummett's white privilege is so great he can't see the forest from the trees. His hip hop chapter offended me from beginning to end.