A review by eve_prime
Rhetoric in Popular Culture by Barry Brummett

4.0

 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.