| Date |
Topics
and Readings |
Assignments
Due |
| FINAL
EXAM WEEK —
M DEC 12 |
(Note:
There will NOT be a final class meeting during final exam week.
Jim will be available for consultation on Tuesday the 13th from
11-12 and on Wednesday the 14th from 2-3, and also by appointment.)
•
Enjoy your holidays! •
|
WED
DEC 7 —> take-home final exam to be distributed via ANGEL
email.
DUE
F DEC 9, by midnight: Historical investigation paper. Send
electronic copy to instructor via email.
DUE
W DEC 14, by midnight: Take-home final exam. Send electronic
copy to instructor via email. |
WEEK
1
M AUG 29
5-7:50 pm |
COURSE
OVERVIEW; WHAT IS RHETORIC? WHAT'S AT STAKE IN DEFINING IT?;
WHAT USE IS THEORY? WHY STUDY HISTORY?
READ
OVERVIEWS
OF HISTORY OF RHETORIC
- Bedford, "A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition"
http://www.bedfordbooks.com/bb/history.html
- Gruber,
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sg7/eng512fall00/overview.html
DEFINITIONS
- Cline, "Rhetorica" --> http://rhetorica.net/canon.htm
- Burton --> http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Encompassing%20Terms/rhetoric.htm
- Rouzie --> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ciwhite/592/triangle.html
- Fleming --> http://www.wisc.edu/english/jdfleming/rhetoric.html
- Vitanza --> http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/rherotics.html
- Wikipedia, "Rhetoric," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
SYLLABUSES
--> scan main syllabuses + reading lists to get a sense of variation
compared to AL 805
- Atwill --> http://web.utk.edu/~jatwill/english_682.htm
- Church --> http://gemini.utb.edu/achurch/rhetslbs.html
- Mountford --> http://www.u.arizona.edu/~roxanne/womanrhetor/
- Vitanza --> http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/
--> see, in particular, http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/syllabus.html
- Crowley --> http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/syllabi/syllabi/crowley530.htm
- Ballif --> http://www.english.uga.edu/mballif/courses/8900F03pp.html
- Vitanza --> http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/5351hist199vjv.html
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*****
IMPORTANT: Complete Week 1 readings by first class meeting on Monday,
August 29th
*****
|
WEEK
2
M SEPT 5 |
LABOR
DAY — NO CLASS |
|
WEEK
3
M SEPT 12
|
ARISTOTLE'S
RHETORIC
READ
-
general introduction (RT* 1-16)
-
introduction to classical rhetoric (RT 19-41)
- introduction to Aristotle (RT 169-178)
-
Russo (commentary on Aristotle's rhetoric) --> http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/aristotle/rhetoric/rhetoric1a_nts.htm
-
Aristotle, The Rhetoric —> read in its entirety,
either the Kennedy or Corbett/Rhys Roberts edition (RT version is
an excerpt)
-
Raymond, "Enthymemes, Examples, and Rhetorical Method"
(ANGEL-PDF)
-
Porter, "Ch 2: Recovering an Ethics for Rhetoric and Writing:
Classical and Modern Views," in Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked
Writing (Ablex, 1997), pp 23-48 (ANGEL-PDF)
- Wildcat, "Indigenizing Politics and Ethics: A Realist Theory"
(ANGEL-PDF)
*
RT = The Rhetorical Tradition, 2nd ed
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Honeycutt, ed. Online, hypertextual version of Aristotle's Rhetoric
(Rhys Roberts translation)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Ehoneyl/Rhetoric/index.html
- Aristotle, Poetics; Nicomachean Ethics; Politics
- Barker, "Aristotle's Reform of Paideia"
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciBark.htm
- Honeycutt, Bibliography on Aristotle's Rhetoric
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/Rhetoric/cite.html
- Atwill, Janet. Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal
Arts Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1998).
- Enos, Richard, and Janice Lauer. "The Meaning of 'Heuristic'
in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Its Implications for Contemporary Rhetorical
Theory.'' A Rhetoric of Doing (Southern Illinois University
Press, 1991).
- Garver, Eugene. Aristotle’s Rhetoric: An Art of Character
(University of Chicago Press, 1994).
- Gross, Alan, and Arthur Walzer, eds. Rereading Aristotle’s
Rhetoric (SIU Press, 1999).
- Halloran, Michael. "Aristotle's Concept of Ethos, or If Not
His Somebody Else's. " Rhetoric Review 1 (Spring 1982):
58-63.
- Kinneavy, James, and Catherine Eskin. "Kairos in
Aristotle's Rhetoric." Written Communication 11 (1994):
131-142.
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|
WEEK
4
M SEPT 19
|
PLATO
AND THE SOPHISTS; HISTORIOGRAPHY
READ
- introduction to Plato (RT 80-87)
- Plato, Phaedrus (RT 138-168)
- Swearingen, "A Lover's Discourse: Diotima, Logos, and
Desire" (ANGEL-PDF)
-
Welch, "Interpreting the Silent 'Aryan Model' of Histories
of Classical Rhetoric" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Berlin, "Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric: Politics, Power,
and Plurality" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Bizzell, "Feminist Methods of Research in the History of
Rhetoric" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Royster, "A View from the Bridge" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Royster, "To Call a Thing By Its True Name: The Rhetoric
of Ida B. Wells" (ANGEL-PDF)
-
"The Black Athena Debate"
http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~alford/athena.html
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Plato, Gorgias (RT 87-138, particularly 87-99, 118-138)
- Weaver, "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric"
(RT 1361-1371)
- Vitanza, "Bibliography on Historiography" http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/biblio/historiography.html
- Atwill, Janet. “Plato and the Boundaries of Art.”
Rhetoric Reclaimed (Cornell University Press, 1998).
- Kastely, James. Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition (Yale
University Press, 1997).
- Neel, Jasper. Plato, Derrida, and Writing (Southern Illinois
University Press, 1988).
- Swearingen, Jan. "The Rhetor's Eiron: Plato's Defense of
Dialogue," PRE/TEXT 3 (1982): 289-335.
- Swearingen, Jan. Rhetoric and Irony (Oxford University
Press, 1991).
- Vitanza, Victor, ed. Writing Histories of Rhetoric
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1994)
- Lunsford, Andrea, ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical
Tradition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).
|
DUE:
PhD students should send an email to the instructor indicating their
preferences (three top choices) for class presentation.
|
WEEK
5
M SEPT 26
|
THE
SOPHISTS AND KAIROS; MATERIAL RHETORIC
GUEST
FACULTY: Ellen Cushman
READ
- Borges, "Avatars of the Tortoise" (ANGEL-PDF)
-
Gorgias, Dissoi Logoi, Aspasia, Isocrates (RT 42-79)
- Jarratt and Ong, "Aspasia: Rhetoric, Gender, and Colonial
Ideology" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Murphy, Introduction (SHWI* 1-7)
- Massey, "On the Origin of Citizenship in Education"
http://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/journal/articles97/massey.html
-
Enos, "Ancient Greek Writing Instruction" (SHWI 9-34)
-
Buchanan, "Declaration by Design: Rhetoric, Argument, and Demonstration
in Design Practice" (ANGEL-PDF)
- "Woven Wampum Beadwork"
http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm
- Smith, "Material Rhetoric: Wampum Records" http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/features/smith/episodes/1789/comments/Cher/wampum.html
- Horn-Miller, "Wampum"
http://www.wampumchronicles.com/wampumtext.html
-
Davis, "The Rhetoric of Quilts: Creating Identity in African-American
Children's Literature"
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n1_v32/ai_20610473/pg_1
- Cushman, "Toward a Rhetoric of New Media"
http://www.msu.edu/%7Ecushmane/newmedia/identity/metis.html
*note:
SHWI = Studies in the History of Writing Instruction
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Resources on Gorgias --> http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/caufiej/gorgias2/
- Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold (Southern Illinois University
Press, 1997), pp 1-73.
- Jarratt, Susan. Rereading the Sophists (Southern Illinois
University Press, 1991). --> particularly chapter on "The
First Sophists and Feminism" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Crowley, Sharon. "Of Gorgias and Grammatology." CCC
30 (1979): 279-284.
- Crowley, Sharon. "Plea for the Revival of Sophistry."
Rhetoric Review 7 (1989): 318-334.
- Enos, Richard. Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle (Waveland
Press, 1993).
- Gale, Xin Liu. “Historical Studies and Postmodernism: Rereading
Aspasia of Miletus.” College English 62 (2000): 361-386.
- Havelock, E. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural
Consequences (Princeton University Press, 1982).
- McComiskey, Bruce. Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2002).
- Miller, Carolyn. "The Polis as Rhetorical Community."
Rhetorica 11 (1993): 211-240.
- Schiappa, Edward. Protagorus and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy
and Rhetoric (University of South Carolina Press, 1991).
- Schiappa, Edward. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical
Greece (Yale University Press, 1999).
- Vitanza, Victor. “The Sophists?” “Helen(ism).”
In Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric
(SUNY Press, 1997).
- Kerferd, G.B. The Sophistic Movement (Cambridge University
Press, 1981).
- Tyabji, "The Story Behind the Stitches"
http://www.asiasociety.org/speeches/tyabji.html
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DUE:
MA students should send an email to the instructor indicating their
preference/s for the terminology paper.
|
WEEK
6
M OCT 3 |
ROMAN
RHETORIC; MEDIEVAL RHETORIC
(carryover from last class: Isocrates, Massey, Borges, Enos)
PRESENTATION
Jim
Frederickson, Quintilian and the Institutes of Oratory
READ
- Cicero (RT 283-343). De Oratore
- Quintilian (RT 359-428), Institutes of Oratory
- Murphy, "The Key Role of Habit in Roman Writing Instruction"
(SHWI 35-78)
-
introduction to medieval rhetoric (RT 431-449)
- Augustine and ars praedicandi (RT 450-485)
- Boethius (RT 486-491)
- ars dictaminis (RT 492-502)
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Anonymous, Rhetorica ad Herennium (RT 241-282)
- Cicero, De Inventione, De Oratore
- Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana
-
Lanham, "Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth
Century" (SHWI 79-121)
- Enos, Richard. The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1988).
- Kennedy, George. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World
(Princeton U Press, 1977).
- Murphy, James. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (University
of California Press, 1974).
- Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, pp 74-117
- Marrou, H. A History of Education in Antiquity (New American
Library, 1964).
- Meador, Prentice. “Quintilian and the Institutio Oratia."
In A Synoptic History of Rhetoric (Hermagorus Press, 1983).
- McKeon, Richard. "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages." In The
Province of Rhetoric (Ronald Press, 1965). |
DUE:
PhD students should have negotiated their class presentation topic
and have it scheduled it by this date
|
WEEK
7
M OCT 10 |
CLASSICAL
RHETORIC — THE RECOVERY OF INVENTIO; DEVELOPING A RHETORIC
METATHEORY
(carryover from last class: Cicero, medieval rhetoric)
PRESENTATION
Angela
Haas, Material Rhetoric
READ
- Lauer, "Issues in Rhetorical Invention" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Lauer, "Issues over the Nature, Purpose, and Epistemology
of Rhetorical Invention in the Twentieth Century" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Bell, Walch, & Katz, "'Aristotle's Pharmacy': The Medical
Rhetoric of a Clinical Protocol in the Drug Development Process"
(ANGEL-PDF)
- Balkin, "A Night in the Topics: The Reason of Legal Rhetoric
and the Rhetoric of Legal Reason" http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/articles/topics1.htm
- Young, Becker, Pike "Writer and Reader: Strategies for Change"
[Rogerian Rhetoric](ANGEL-PDF)
- Terrill, Malcolm X, Ch 1 and Ch 5
- King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
--
and "Statement from Eight Alabama Clergymen," http://alexirvine.net/mlk/public_statement.html
- memory —> http://www.answers.com/topic/memoria-1,
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Canons/Memory.htm
- delivery —> http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Canons/Delivery.htm
RHETORICAL
ANALYSIS
- UBC Writing Centre, "Writing a Rhetorical Analysis"
http://www.writingcentre.ubc.ca/workshop/tools/rhet1.htm
- Burton, “Basic Questions for Rhetorical Analysis" http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Pedagogy/Rhetorical%20Analysis%20heuristic.htm
- Kiefer, “Doing a Rhetorical Analysis of a Text” http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/co300man/pop6c.cfm
- Howard, “Rhetorical Analysis”
http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Handouts/RhetAnal.html
- Henning, "The Three Artistic Proofs"
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner.hum.faculty.mu/writing/workshop7b.html
- Rhetorica, "Analyzing Argument"
http://rhetorica.net/argument.htm
- O'Conner, "Rhetorical Analysis of King's 'Letter from Birmingham
Jail'"
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner.hum.faculty.mu/writing/king1a.html
STASIS
- "Stasis"
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Canons/Invention/Stasis.htm
- "Prelli's Variation on Classical Stasis Theory"
http://courses.missouristate.edu/mkl808f/Spring2003/487/prelli_on_stasis.htm
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Chiasmus —>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus
- McKee & Porter, "The Ethics of Digital Writing Research:
A Rhetorical Approach" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Young, Richard, and Yameng Liu, eds. Landmark Essays
on Rhetorical Invention in Writing (Hermagoras Press, 1994).
- Porter, James. Audience and Rhetoric (Prentice Hall,
1992), pp 1-28.
- Lauer, Janice M. Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
(Parlor Press, 2004).
- Murphy, James J., ed. The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern
Writing (MLA, 1982).
- Connors, Ede, and Lunsford, eds. Essays on Classical Rhetoric
and Modern Discourse (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).
- Kennedy, G. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular
Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (University of North
Carolina Press, 1980).
- Sloane, Thomas. "Reinventing Inventio." College
English 51 (September, 1989): 461-473.
- Shevory,
“From Censorship to Irony: Rhetorical Responses to 9/11"
http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/papers/shevory030816_outline.html
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|
WEEK
8
M OCT 17 |
RENAISSANCE
RHETORIC
(carryover: medieval rhetoric, invention meta-theory)
READ
- introduction to renaissance rhetoric (RT 555-580)
- Christine de Pizan (RT 540-551)
- Ramus (RT 674-697)
- Bacon (RT 736-745)
- Sor Juana Inés (RT 780-788)
- Abbot,
"Rhetoric and Writing in the Renaissance" (SHWI 145-172)
- Redfern, "Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the
City of Ladies" (ANGEL-PDF)
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Ong, Orality and Literacy
-
Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, pp 118-179
- Bacon, Francis. Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum
- Duhamel. Albert. "The Logic and Rhetoric of Peter Ramus."
Modern Philology 46 (1948): 163-171.
- Ong, Walter. Ramus, Method and the Decay of Dialogue: From
the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Harvard University
Press, 1958).
|
DUE:
MA students should turn in take-home midterm exam (electronic version
preferred) |
| WEEK
9
M OCT 24 |
THE
EMERGENCE OF PRINT CULTURE; ENLIGHTENMENT RHETORIC
(carryover:
Peter Ramus)
PRESENTATIONS
Stewart
Whittemore, Vico
READ
- introduction to Enlightenment rhetoric (RT 791-813)
- Locke (RT 814-827)
- Vico (RT 862-878)
-
Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
(pp 42-107, 148-278)
- Kinross, "The Rhetoric of Neutrality" (ANGEL-PDF)
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Porter, Audience and Rhetoric, pp 29-49
- Corbett, "John Locke's Contributions to Rhetoric," in
The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing.
- McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
- Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext,
and the History of Writing (Erlbaum, 1991).
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|
WEEK
10
M OCT 31 |
ENGLISH
RHETORIC IN THE 18TH CENTURY; RHETORIC/COMPOSITION IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
IN THE 19TH CENTURY
(carryover:
Enlightenment Rhetoric, Kinross)
PRESENTATIONS
Kendall Leon, writing instruction in the 19th century
Dundee Lackey, Hugh Blair
Lindsey LaTour, metonymy
Amy
Diehl, techne
Luke Capizzo, kairos
READ
- Blair (RT 947-979)
- Ferreira-Buckley & Horner, "Writing Instruction in Great
Britain: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (SHWI 173-212)
-
introduction to 19-century rhetoric (RT 983-999)
- Bain & Hill (RT 1141-1151)
- Wright & Halloran, "From Rhetoric to Composition: The
Teaching of Writing in America to 1900" (SHWI 213-246)
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Campbell (RT 898-946)
- Berlin, James A. Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century
American Colleges (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984).
- Mulderig, "Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Shaping
of Alexander Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric,"
in The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing
- Longaker,
Mark Garrett. "The Economics of Exposition: Managerialism,
Current-Traditional Rhetoric, and Henry Noble Day." College
English 67 (2005): 508-531. |
DUE:
MA students must complete terminology paper + presentation by
this date.
DUE:
Send an email to the instructor identifying your topic idea/s
for the historical investigation paper
|
WEEK
11
M NOV 7 |
19TH
CENTURY RHETORICS; THE FORMATION OF ENGLISH AND THE EMERGENCE OF
COMPOSITION
(carryover: 19th-century rhetoric introduction)
PRESENTATIONS
Jim Ridolfo, Delivery
Michael McLeod, logos
READ
- Stewart (RT 1031-1044)
- Grimké (RT 1045-1060)
- Douglass (RT 1061-1084)
- Terrill,
Malcolm X, Ch 2
- Gates (RT 1543-1581)
- Crowley,
Composition in the University (Chs 1-6, pp 1-131; Ch 10,
pp 215-227)
- Crowley, "Composition is Not Rhetoric"
http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_1/crowley.html
- Hobbs & Berlin, "A Century of Writing Instruction
in School and College English" (SHWI 247-289)
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Crowley,
Composition in the University (in its entirety)
- Berlin, James A. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction
in American Colleges, 1900–1985. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois Univ. Press, 1987.
- Stewart, "Two Model Teachers and the Harvardization of English
Departments," in The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing.
- Miller,
The Formation of College English (Pittsburgh UP, 1997).
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WEEK
12
M NOV 14 |
THE
MODERN RE-EMERGENCE OF RHETORIC: THE NEW RHETORIC
PRESENTATIONS
Jay
Steichmann, Bakhtin
READ
- introduction to modern and postmodern rhetorics (RT 1183-1205)
- Bakhtin (RT 1206-1245)
- Perelman (RT 1372-1409)
- Toulmin (RT 1410-1431)
- Woolf (RT 1246-1256, 1262-1269)
- Kinneavy, "The Aims of Discourse" (ANGEL-PDF)
CARRYOVER
- Crowley,
Composition in the University (Chs 1-6, pp 1-131)
- Crowley, "Composition is Not Rhetoric"
http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_1/crowley.html
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Bitzer, "The Rhetorical Situation"
http://www.missouri.edu/~engjnc/texts/bitzer_situation.html
- Sipiora, "Rearticulating the Rhetorical Tradition: The Influence
of A Theory of Discourse"
http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/8/Articles/15.htm
- Porter, Audience and Rhetoric, pp 51-77.
- Perelman, The Realm of Rhetoric (University of Notre
Dame Press, 1982).
- Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric: A Treatise
on Argumentation (1969) |
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WEEK
13
M NOV 21 |
THE
RHETORICAL TRADITION OF THE AMERICAS
(carryover: Bakhtin, Perelman, Toulmin, Woolf)
GUEST
FACULTY: Damián Baca
READ
- Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera
(RT
1582-1604) —> read in its entirety, if possible
- Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone"
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/2504/pratt.html
- Baca, "Codex Rhetorics of Resistance" (ANGEL-DOC)
- Powell, "Down by the River" (ANGEL-PDF)
-
Powell, "Rhetorics of Survivance" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Howe, "The Story of America: A Tribalography" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Lyons --> http://web.syr.edu/~mdlattim/Lyons_class/
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Special issue of College English on Rhetorics from/of
Color, ed. Victor Villanueva (Volume 67.1, September 2004).
- Powell, "Listening to Ghosts: An Alternative (non)argument,"
from ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy (Boynton
Cook, 2002).
- Gerald Vizenor, "Postindian Warriors" from Manifest
Manners (Wesleyan University Press, 1994).
- Louis Owens, "Columbus Had It Coming," from Mixedblood
Messages (University of OK Press, 1998).
- Julia Cruikshank, "Oral History, Narrative Strategies, and
Native American Historiography," from Clearing a Path
(Routledge 2002).
- Kennedy, George A. Comparative Rhetoric (Oxford University
Press, 1998). |
DUE:
Send an email planning report to the instructor informing him of
your decision about the paper topic for your historical investigation
paper: what is your topic? what question or issue of significance
does this investigation address? List 3-7 of the key sources that
you will be using to develop this paper.

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| WEEK
14
M NOV 28

|
THE
BEGINNINGS OF POSTMODERN RHETORIC
(carryover: Perelman)
PRESENTATIONS
Jason
Wirtz, rhetoric vs poetics in the 19th century
Collin Craig, Dissoi Logoi
READ
- Burke (RT 1295-1347)
- Kenneth Burke's pentad as a heuristic for invention
http://www.csupomona.edu/~uwc/non_protect/tutor/TutorTraining/tutman4-1.htm#_burke1
- Foucault (RT 1432-1470)
- Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
(ANGEL-PDF)
-
"The Shannon-Weaver Model"
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/introductory/sw.html
- Vitanza, "Notes on Theories of Communication"
http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/notes1c.html
- Transmission models -- criticism
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/introductory/trancrit.html
SUPPLEMENTAL
- Wikipedia, "Michel Foucault"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
- Wikipedia, "Kenneth Burke"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Burke
- Virtual Burke Parlor
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/dblakesley/burke/index.html
- KB Journal
http://www.kbjournal.org/
- The Kenneth Burke Society
http://www.home.duq.edu/~thames/kennethburke/Default.htm
- Wikipedia, "Jurgen Habermas"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habermas
- Grady & Wells, "Toward a Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity:
Introducing Jurgen Habermas"
http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/6/Articles/3.htm
- Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
- Kellner, "Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical
Intervention"
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/habermas.htm
- Porter, Audience and Rhetoric, pp 79-155
- Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (University of California
Press, 1969; 1950).
- Burke, A Grammar of Motives (University of California
Press, 1969; 1945).
- Burke, Language as Symbolic Action (University of California
Press, 1966).
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DUE
BY W NOV 30 (optional): Draft, abstract, outline, or short excerpt
of historical investigation paper -- IF you want instructor feedback.

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WEEK
15
M DEC 5 |
AUTHORSHIP
AND OWNERSHIP
(carryover: Burke)
PRESENTATION
Martine
Rife, The History of the Discourse of Intellectual Property (i.e.,
invention)
READ
- Barthes, "The Death of the Author" (ANGEL-PDF)
http://faculty.smu.edu/dfoster/theory/Barthes.htm
- Foucault, "What is an Author?" (ANGEL-PDF)
- Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
- Lunsford, "Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Textual
Ownership" (ANGEL-PDF)
- CWRU Authorship Collective, "Beyond Authorship: Imagining
Rights in Traditional Culture and Bioknowledge"
http://home.cwru.edu/~ijd3/authorship/index.html
- CWRU Authorship Collective, "Collaboration"
http://home.cwru.edu/~ijd3/authorship/collaboration.html
- CWRU Authorship Collective, "Crazy Horse"
http://home.cwru.edu/~ijd3/authorship/crazyhorse.html
- Rose, short excerpt from Mothers and Authors
http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v22/v22n4.rose.html
SUPPLEMENTAL
- US Copyright Law (US Code, Title 17) —> scan some sections
selectively
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
- Fair Use, US Copyright Law (US Code, Title 17, Section 107)
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and copywrongs: The rise of
intellectual property and how it threatens creativity (New
York University Press, 2001).
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. (2002, July). Copyrights and copywrongs:
Why Thomas Jefferson would love Napster. MSNBC.
http://joshua.zutnet.org:8000/Onderwerpen/copyrightcopywrong/
- Porter, "Digital Copyright — Generally Useful Resources"
http://www.rhetoric.msu.edu/ip/copyright_resources.html
- WIPO Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples
http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/meetings/1998/indip/
- Seadle, "Whose Rules? Intellectual Property, Culture, and
Indigeneous Communities"
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/seadle/03seadle.html
- Woodmansee, "The Genius and the Copyright: Economic and Legal
Conditions of the Emergence of the 'Author.'" Eighteenth-Century
Studies 17 (1984): 425-48.
- Lunsford & West. (1996). Intellectual property and composition
studies. College Composition and Communication, 47.3, 383-411.
- Woodmansee & Jaszi. (1995). The law of texts: Copyright in
the academy. College English, 57, 769-787.
- "Legal and Conceptual Issues in Intellectual Property."
(1998). Special Issue of Computers and Composition, ed.
Laura Gurak and Johndan Johnson-Eilola.
http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/archives/v15/15_2_html/15_2_Contents.html
- "Copyright, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property."
(1998). Special Issue of Kairos.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/index_f.html
- Samuelson, Pamela. (1998, March). The netizen: Maximum copyright,
minimum use. Wired News.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/11372.html
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WED
DEC 7 —> take-home final exam to be distributed
DUE
F DEC 9, by midnight: Historical investigation paper |
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SPEECH
ACT THEORY VS DECONSTRUCTION: DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT WRITING IS?
- Dobrin, "Do Not Grind Armadillo Armor"
- Berube, "Jacques
Derrida, resquiescat in pace, and may his work trouble us all"
- "Speech Acts" [background to speech act theory] http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/speech_acts.html
- Derrida, "Signature Event Context" (RT 1471-1490)
- Searle, "Reply to Derrida" (ANGEL-PDF)
FEMINIST
RHETORIC
- Cixous (RT 1520-1542)
http://www.drama21c.net/feminism/articles/Medusa1.htm
- Irigaray, selected chapters from I Love to You -- "Sexual
Difference as Universal," "He I Sought But Did Not Find,"
"I Love to You" (ANGEL-PDF)
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