Raed Dakhil Kareem

The current study rhetorically analyses Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar movie and novelisation as a case study via an eclectic framework based on models suggested by Kenneth Burke (1969) of rhetoric and Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1971) of discourse analysis.

The current study investigates ten extracts taken from two collections of popular fictions; 'The Darcy Monologues' edited by Boyd and (اشياء صغيرة/ The Little Things) written by Samira Azzam.

This study proposes that it is possible to combine approaches from critical discourse analysis with appraisal theory to broaden one's perspective on the many factors beyond the individual's control that shape an evaluation's final form and intended meaning. The data for this study was collected from Jose Saramago's Blindness, namely 10 extracts taken from the climax of the story.