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| Date |
Assignment |
| January 6 |
Introductions to the Course and to Rhetoric.
MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” (Portnoy) |
| January 13 |
Aristotle, On Rhetoric.
Jordan, June. “Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the
Future Life of Willie Jordan.” (Portnoy)
Dorfman, Ariel. “The Urge to Help.” (Portnoy)
Liebman, Marvin. Letter to William F. Buckley, Jr., and Buckley’s
Response. (Portnoy) |
| January 20 |
Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge. |
| January 27 |
Class Canceled: Snow Day
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| February 3 |
Black, Edwin. "The Second Persona."
McGee, Michael Calvin. "The Ideograph: A Link Between Rhetoric
and Ideology."
Fisher, Walter. "Narrative as Human Communication Paradigm."
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses."
Charland, Maurice. "Constitutive Rhetoric."
Fields, Barbara Jeanne. "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the
United States."
Women's Antiremoval Petition, 1830. (Portnoy) |
| February 10 |
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble (10th anniversary edition).
Covers and pages from Dispute Resolution Journal. (Ellis) |
| February 17 |
Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives.
Burke, Kenneth. from Attitudes Toward History.
Burke, Kenneth. "Definition of Man."
Burke, Kenneth. "Terministic Screens."
Simon, Scott. "Unrighteous Reverends." (Lutman)
Simon, Scott. "Reflections on the Events of September 11."
Deckenback, Reverend John R. "Terror and Faith." |
| February 24 |
“Spring” Break |
| March 2 |
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric.
Bitzer, Lloyd. "The Rhetorical Situation."
Vatz, Richard. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation."
Biesecker, Barbara. "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation
from Within the Thematic of Differánce."
Fahnestock, Jeanne. from Rhetorical Figures in Science.
Walton, Douglas. "Persuasive Definitions and Public Policy
Arguments."
Schiappa, Ed. from Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics
of Meaning.
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| March 9 |
Fahnestock, Jeanne. "Accommodating Science."
Fahnestock, Jeanne and Marie Secor. "The Rhetoric of Literary
Criticism."
McCloskey, Deirdre. from Rhetoric of Economics.
Scott, Joan Wallach. from Only Paradoxes to Offer.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Discovering the Subject of the
'Great Constitutional Discussion'."
Jasinski, James. "A Constitutive Framework for Rhetorical
Historiography."
Turner, Mark. from The Literary Mind.
Lakoff, Robin. from Talking Power: The Politics of Language.
Floyd, Ronnie. "A Biblical Response." (Nair) |
| March 16 |
Warner, Michael. Letters of the Republic.
Anderson, Benedict. from Imagined Communities.
Balibar, Etienne. "The Nation Form: History and Ideology."
Adams, Mike S. "My Recent Speech on Ideological Diversity." (Thomson)
Fields, Suzanne. "Winning the War with Words." |
March 23
(Class meets 4 - 9:00) |
Bourdieu, Pierre. Chapters from Language and Symbolic Power.
Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Forms of Capital."
Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech. Introduction.
Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech. Chapter 4.
Derrida, Jacques. "Declarations of Independence."
Hot Springs Letters. (Mackintosh on Bourdieu)
Gillespie, Ed. "Positive Vision Vs. Protest and Pessimism." (Friedlander on Butler)
Republican National Committee. Press Release.
Gore, Al. "Global Warming and the Environment." |
| March 30 |
Mailloux, Steven. Reception Histories.
White, James Boyd. from Justice as Translation and When Words Lose Their Meaning.
Morrison, Toni. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken."
NOW Statement of Purpose, 1966. (St. Pierre)
Note: you need to read only the actual Statement of Purpose, not the other material on the page. |
| April 6 |
Norton, Anne. Republic of Signs.
Scarry, Elaine. "The Difficulty of Imagining Other Persons."
Cobbe, Frances Power. "Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors. Is the Classification Sound?" (Hakala) |
| April 13 |
Presentations. |
| April 20 |
Writing Workshop. |
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