The diatribe: Last resort for protest
- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 58 (1) , 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335637209383096
Abstract
The diatribe is a unique rhetorical form. The rhetor relies on obscenities, strident moralism, slang, and advocacy of a “counter‐culture” to protest corrupt cultures. It was invented by the Cynics of Athens and revived by the Yippies to protest the war in Vietnam. It is a product of basic commitments about the nature of man and forged by circumstances that rhetors believe exclude conventional means of protest.Keywords
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