Environmental Rhetoric

Here are some key subfields in rhetorical theory to guide you in choosing a critical theory. You will obviously want to narrow your topic/focus from there. The easiest way to do this is to choose a single text/scene/line that you think will provide something interesting to highlight with your theory. (Example: considering Winnie the Pooh from an animal rhetorics perspective might suggest a new way of reading the book that most people haven’t considered.)

Environmental Rhetoric

Animal Rhetorics

Object-Oriented Ontology (the rhetoric of things)

Ambient Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Evolutionary Theory

Rhetoric and Agency (a la Carolyn Miller)

Environmental Risk_Rhetoric

Environmental Health_Rhetoric

Rhetorical Analysis of Environmental Writing (under any appropriate paradigm, such as neo-Aristotelian or Marxist rhetoric)

Actor-Network Theory (as it applies to environments and agents; see Bruno Latour)