Judgment Calls: Sweating the Little Things in Reginald Rose’s and Sidney Lumet’s Twelve Angry Men

Judgment Calls: Sweating the Little Things in Reginald Rose’s and Sidney Lumet’s “Twelve Angry Men”: Rhetorical possibilities for literature and criticism were once common concerns, as we know, yet modernist (and even more postmodernist) literary thinkers generally, for all of their interest in matters rhetorical, have not taken up anything they might have wanted to call the “rhetorical rationality” of poetry—usually just the opposite.