Contents: M.J. Medhurst, Introduction: The Academic Study of Public Address: A Tradition in Transition (1993). H.A. Wichelns, The Literacy Criticism of Oratory (1925). D.C. Bryant, Some Problems of Scope and Method in Rhetorical Scholarship (1937). L.D. Reid, The Perils of Rhetorical Criticism (1944). A.C. Baird, L. Thonssen, Methodology in the Criticism of Public Address (1947). E.J. Wrage, Public Address: A Study in Social and Intellectual History (1947). W.M. Parrish, The Study of Speeches (1954). M. Hochmuth, The Criticism of Rhetoric (1955). E. Black, The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism (1965). B. Baskerville, Must We All Be "Rhetorical Critics?" (1977). G.P. Mohrmann, Elegy in a Critical Grave-Yard (1980). S.E. Lucas, The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship (1981). M. Leff, Textual Criticism: The Legacy of G.P. Mohrmann (1986). S.E. Lucas, The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism (1988). D. Zarefsky, The State of the Art in Public Address Scholarship (1989). Bibliography. Index.