Seminar in Rhetorical Theory
Summer 1996
Schedule
(1) Situating Rhetorical Theory and Rhetorical History
Todorov, "The Misery and Splendor of Rhetoric"
Todorov, "The End of Rhetoric"
Aristotle, "On Rhetoric" (selection)
Gorgias, "Encomium to Helen"
Isocrates, "To Nicocles"
| Lecture |
MOO Discussion |
(2) Animal Symbolicum
Burke, Language as Symbolic Action (selections)
MOO Discussion (click Here for links to Burke!)
(3) Rhetoric and Narrativity
Fischer, (selections TBA)
(4) Rhetoric, Dialectic, and the "Postmodern" Turn
Nietsche, "On Truth and Falsity in an ExtraMoral Sense"
Peter Heckman, "Nietzsche's Clever Animal: Metaphor in 'Truth and Falsity"
Blair, et al., "Introduction" to Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language
| Nietzsche MOO Discussion | Nietzsche Web Pages |
(5) Marxism and "Post-Marxism"
Marx, TBA
Gramsci, "Philosophy and Spontaneous Philosopy"
(6) Post-Marxism in Rhetorical Perspective: The Question of Ideology
McGee, "In Search of 'The People'"
McGee, "The Ideograph"
(7) Discursivity
Foucault, (selections TBA)
| Foucault Web Pages |
(8) Rhetoric and the Performative Speech Act
Austin, (selection)
Derrida, Limited Inc.
| MOO Log! | Derrida Archives | Join Derrida Discussion List | More Derrida Links |
(9) Case Studies in Rhetoric and Social Change: Ethnic Identities
Sennett, "The Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity"
(10) Case Studies (continued): Feminism and Postcolonialism
Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"
Trinh, Woman Native Other
| Cixous Bibliography | Quotes from the Laugh of the Medusa | More on Cixous | Trinh Archive | An Essay on Reassemblage | Trinh's Home Page
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