Rhetorical Analysis Of The Resistance Salter

Salter believes that literature has changed a lot in the last few years; people today are not as appreciative of fine literature anymore. His main argument relies heavily on changes in pop culture over the years and how it has influenced what our society views as good story telling. He believes literature has provided a lot for society and much of our progress as the human race would not be possible without it. His argument has many holes in it, many being fallacies and making generalization without facts to back up his claims.
Salter begins his argument by stating everything depends on language, making this the foundation of his argument of how important it is. He argues how language is essential to describe a god, even though he may exist,

He goes from describing experiences and events he begins to criticize the state of literature. While quoting a passage out of the “Resistance” essay written by Deborah Eisenberg, he goes into detail about how it made him stop reading at that spot. He uses the keyword disaster to compare the coming of a Dionysian from the earth’s crust to our cultures ability to deal with literature. The word Dionysus comes from a Greek god of irrational and chaos, he uses that to represent our cultures attitude to literature. He is over emphasizing the attitudes to the current state of literature by bringing the ideas of god into. This analogy takes the concept of “disaster” in literature is taken to an extreme. While using false analogies, he is also using quotes from someone else in this section. This quote is just the opinion of someone else without being backed up by any facts. Since most of the sentence from that quote is missing, we can assume that it is taken out of context because some key elements are missing from

He wants to build his argument on his own definition, and rationalizes the dictionary version as being vague just to promote his own version. Salter goes on to calling the Star Wars movies junk, only because it’s something he doesn’t like himself. Resorting to name calling makes it seems as if he is desperate to win his case. He compares them to the Trojan War, and goes on to call it the collapse of taste. Salter points out the relationship of Star Wars to a comic strip known as Flash Gordon, which has many of the same themes and elements. He is making a hasty generalization because many pieces of work out there will have similarities to each other. Salter thinks that he can identify people who have no real interest in art, history, or language. His method for determining this has no explanation, he seems to think just because of scholar he is more that qualified to judge others. He even goes on to say that these people do not think culture is not a part of their lives. Then he goes on to mention movies and music. These two categories are part of culture, calling them pop-culture does not make them irrelevant. Calling pop-culture soulless shows his bias in accepting new