FALL 2005
SCHEDULE & READINGS

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NOTES ABOUT THE SCHEDULE:

* This schedule is a DYNAMIC document, not a static one. It will be updated and revised regularly, probably once per week. Make sure to check at least once per week for updates and modifications. REFRESH the page (in your browser) to make sure that you are looking at the current version. :)

* The upcoming class is always posted at the top of the schedule. Past classes are pushed to the BOTTOM of the schedule.

* "RT" refers to The Rhetorical Tradition, 2nd ed. "Supplemental" readings provide either general background information or more in-depth treatment of a given topic. Try to read them when you can ... PhD students especially!

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

*****
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.

 

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

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

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).

 

 

 

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).

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)

 

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.

 

 

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).

DUE BY W NOV 30 (optional): Draft, abstract, outline, or short excerpt of historical investigation paper -- IF you want instructor feedback.

 

 

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).
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WED DEC 7 —> take-home final exam to be distributed

DUE F DEC 9, by midnight: Historical investigation paper

EXTRA MATERIAL

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)