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| DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
| January 9 |
• Sophistic fragments on the topic, fragments relating to Protagoras, and fragments relating to Gorgias
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Gorgias's "Encomium of Helen" (in the fragments but especially the more recent Kennedy translation in the appendix to Aristotle's On Rhetoric)
• Isocrates's "Encomium of Helen," "Against the Sophists," and "Antidosis" |
| January 16 |
• Plato, Ion, Protagoras, Gorgias, Phaedrus
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| January 23 |
•
Aristotle, On Rhetoric (read the full text for this class)
Exercise due |
| January 30 |
• Aristotle (discussion continues)
• Hsün Tzu, "Encouraging Learning," "The Regulations of a King," "Rectifying Names"; also skim "Improving Yourself," "A Discussion of Music," and "Man's Nature is Evil"
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Han Fei Tzu, "Wielding Power," "The Difficulties of Persuasion," "The Five Vermin," "Eminence in Learning"
Exercise due |
| February 6 |
• Cicero, De inventione
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Ad Herennium |
| February 13 |
• Cicero, De oratore
• Longinus, Demetrius, Hermogenes
Exercise due |
| February 20 |
• Quintilian, Orator's Education (Institutes), Books 1 - 3 and 10 - 12
• Theon, Apthonius, Nicolaus |
| February 27 |
Vacation |
| March 6 |
• St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
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Boethius, de Topicis Differentiis, "Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric"
Take-home exam due |
| March 13 |
• Anonymous, Principles of Letter Writing (Murphy edition)
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Geoffrey Vinsauf, New Poetics (Murphy edition)
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Robert of Basevorn, Form of Preaching (Murphy edition)
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Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, Treasure of the City of the Ladies (The Book of the Three Virtues)
•
Pan Chao, Lessons for Women |
| March 20 |
• Desiderius Erasmus, On Copia of Words and Ideas
• Peter Ramus, Attack on Quintilian and Questions of Brutus (Attack on Cicero)
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Thomas Wilson, The Art of Rhetorique
Exercise due |
| March 27 |
• Baldesar Castiglione, Book of the Courtier |
| April 3 |
• Francis Bacon, On the Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum
• Rene DesCartes, Discourse on Method
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Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures |
| April 10 |
• John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
• Mary Astell, Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest and Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II, Wherein a Method is Offer'd for the Improvement of Their Minds
• Giambattista Vico, "On the Study Methods of Our Time" and The New Science
• David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste"
Exercise due |
| April 17 |
• George Campbell, Philosophy of Rhetoric (Golden and Corbett edition)
• Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Golden and Corbett edition)
• Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric (Golden and Corbett edition) |
| April 23 |
Take-home exam due |
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