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                                                Major Figures: Modern Rhetroric

                                                Professor Arthur Walzer

 

Texts (Available for purchase in Books Underground)

Burke, Kenneth.  Philosophy of Literary Form. 3^rd ed.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1973

Burke, Kenneth.  Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: U of California P, 1974.

Foucault, Michel.  The Archaeology of Knowledge.  Trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Foucault, Michel.  The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.  Vol 1.  Trans. Robert Hurley.  New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Lakoff, George.  Moral Politics.  2^nd ed. U of Chicago P, 2002.

Perelman, Chaim and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca.  The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation.  Trans. John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver.  Indiana: U of Notre Dame P. 1971.

 

Texts (On Reserve at McGrath Library)

 The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  edd. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.

Habermas, , Jürgen.  “What is Universal Pragmatics?”  In Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy.  Boston:: Beacon P, 1979.  1-68.

Foss, Sonia K, Karen A. Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. 3^rd ed.  Illinois: Waveland Press, 2002.  233-64.

Selections from Judith Butler, TBA

 

Texts on Web CT Reserve

Biesecker, Barbara.  “Michael Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric.  Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 351-64.

Charland, Maurice.“Constitutive Rhetoric. . . .” QJS, 73 (1987): 133-50. 

Cloud, “’To Veil the Threat of Terror. . . QJS 90 (2004):285-306.”

Fahnestock, Jeanne.  “The Tactics of Evaluation in Gould and Lewontin’s ‘The Spandrels of San Marco.”  In Understanding Scientific Prose, ed. J. Selzer.  Madison: U of Wisc P, 1993. 158-79. [R]

Gould and Lewontin.  “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adoptionist programme.” In Understanding Scientific Prose, ed. Jack Selzer.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993.  339-56. [R]

Gross, Alan G.  “Defining Occupational Disease: An Archaeology of Medical Knowledge.” In Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of the Other, ed. Michael Huspek and Gary P. Radford.  NY: SUNY UP, 1997.  269-88.

Gross, Alan G. and Arthur E. Walzer.  “The Challenger Disaster and the Revival of Rhetoric in Organizational Life.”  Argumentation 11 (1997): 75-93.

Habermas, Jürgen “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article.”  In Critical Theory and Society: A Reader.  Ed. Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner.  London: Routledge, 1989. 136-42.

Karon, L.“Presence in the New Rhetoric.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric: 9 (1976): 96-111.

Koerber, Selection from U.S. Breastfeeding Education and Promotion, 1978-99: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis.  Diss, 2002..

Lay, Mary, M., Billie J. Wahlstrom, Carol Brown.  “The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Conflicts and Conversation in the Minnesota Home Birth Community.”  QJS: 82 (1996): 383-401.

McGee,  Michael. “The Ideograph: A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology.” QJS 66 (Feb. 1980)..

Zagacki., K..  “Spatial and Temporal Images in the Biodiversity Dispute.”  QJS: 85 (1999):417-35.

 

 

Course Calendar

 

Part 1: From Kenneth Burke to Althusser

 

 

17 January:  Introductions.  Background                         WB: Paul A, Grace C

19 January: Background: Positivism, Behaviorism, Logical Positivism.

Assignment: Locke, Essay on Human Understanding (1690) :BK I, Introduction; Book III, chaptrs 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke1/Essay_contents.html

Campbell, Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776), Preface, Introd., BK I. chapters, 1, 7. 8. http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/Ulman1/Campbell/TPOR_TOC.htm.

       

 

24 January Burke Against Logical Positivism.                                                WB: Marnie H, Brenda H

Assignment: Burke, . “Semantic and Poetic Meaning” in Philosophy of Literary Form (PLF), 138-67.

26 February: Burke’s Philosophy of Literature.

Assignment: Burke, “Philosophy of Literary Form” in PLF, 1-137.

 

31 January Burke’s New Rhetoric                                                                     WB: Steve J, Matt K.

      Assignment: Burke, “Four Master Tropes,” Grammar of Motives, 503-17 in Bizzell and Herzberg White, Tropics of Discourse, pp. 51-80 (esp 73-4); 121-134 (esp 130-134)..                                                

2 February Dramatism.

Assignment: Burke, Grammar of Motives, xv-xxiii &pp. 3-31; Bizzell and Herzberg (1990), 992-1018;

Ling, “A Pentadic Analysis of Senator Edward Kennedy’s Address to the People of Massachusetts, July 25, 1969,” Central States Speech Journal 21 (1970: 81-86; rpt in Sonja K. Foss, Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 2^nd ed. (Waveland, 1996), 464-71.

Edward Kennedy, “Speech to the People of Massachusetts, July 25, 1969, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedychappaquiddick.htm

 

7 February: Burke on Identification.                                                 WB: Zoe N, Merry R

Assignment: Burke, 8.  “Traditional Principles of Rhetoric,” Rhetoric of Motives (ROM), pp. 49-110. Introduction” and “The Range of Rhetoric,”ROM, xii-xv and 3-46; ROM, pp.245-95.

9 February Applications                                                                   

Assignment: Burke, Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf: (www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/

 “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle,” Philosophy of Literary Form, pp. 191-221.

Tonn, and  Diamond, “Hunting and Heritage on Trial: A Dramatistic Debate Over Tragedy, Tradition, and Territory.”  QJS 79(1993): 165-81. 

Schulman, “Burke’s Principle of Identification in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.

 

14 February:  Ideology:                                                                                       WB: Kim S, Randy S, Maggie V

Assignment: Communist Manifesto.          

.  http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Althusser, Louis.  “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus.”  http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/LPOE70.html

16 February:  Applicaitons:

Assignment: McGee, “The Ideograph: A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology.” QJS 66 (Feb. 1980). 

Charland, “Constitutive Rhetoric. . . .” QJS, 73 (1987): 133-50. 

Cloud, “’To Veil the Threat of Terror. . . QJS 90 (2004):285-306.”

 

Part II: Foucault and Butler

 

21 February: Foucault: Introduction.                                                                WB: Paul A, Grace C

Assignment Foucault, ”The Discourse on Language,” Archaeology of Knowledge, 215-35.

23 February: Foucault

Assignment: History of Sexuality, pp. 1-80.                             

 

28 March, Foucault.                                                                                             WB: Marnie H, Brenda H

      Assignment: History of Sexuality, 81- 159.               

02 March, Foucault Reading #3 (Archaeology of Knowledge).   

 

07 March Foucault.                                                                                              WB: Steve J, Matt K

Assignment: .Biesecker, “Michael Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric.  Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 351-64.

Lay, Wahlstrom, and Brown.  “The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Conflicts and Conversation in the Minnesota Home Birth Community.”  QJS: 82 (1996): 383-401.

Koerber, Selection from U.S. Breastfeeding Education and Promotion, 1978-99: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis.  Diss, 2002.

Radford, Gary.  “Foucault Inserted: Philosophy, Struggle, and Transgression.”  In Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of the Other, ed. Michael Huspek and Gary P. Radford.  NY: SUNY UP, 1997.  117-44. 

Gross, Alan G.  “Defining Occupational Disease: An Archaeology of Medical Knowledge.” In Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of the Other, ed. Michael Huspek and Gary P. Radford.  NY: SUNY UP, 1997.  269-88.  

09 March.  Butler. 

Assignment: TBA.          

Spring Break: 13 March- 19 March.

 

III.  Perelman and Olbrecht-Tyteca

 

21 March:  Butler.                                                                                                 WB: Zoe N, Merry R

      Assignment: TBA

23 March: Backgrounds.Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca’s Program.

Assignment: “Conclusion,”  The New Rhetoric, 509-14 “Introduction,” The New Rhetoric, 1-10.

 

28 March Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca : On Audience:                                  WB: Kim S, Randy S, Maggie V

        Assignment: “Part 1: Framework,” New Rhetoric, 11-62.

        Ede, Lisa, Andrea Lunsford.  “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy.”  CCC 35 (1984): 155-71.[Available through JSTOR.]

30  March Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca: Framework:

Assignment: New Rhetoric, 63-114.                         

 

04 April March Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca: Presence                                 WB: Paul A, Grace C

        Assignment: New Rhetoric, 115-83, esp. 171-75.

        Karon,   “Presence in the New Rhetoric.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric: 9 (1976): 96-111.

06 April: Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca: Lines of Argument:

Assignmment: New Rhetoric, 185-197; 261-279; 293-309; 350-362;371-411; 411-71 (impt);

490-502 (impt)

Part V: Habermas

 

11 April: Pereleman, Olbrecht-Tyteca: Application:                                       WB: Marnie H, Brenda H

        Assignment: Gould and Lewontin.  “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adoptionist programme.” In Understanding Scientific Prose, ed. Jack Selzer.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993.  339-56.

        Fahnestock, “The Tactics of Evaluation in Gould and Lewontin’s ‘The Spandrels of San Marco.”  In Understanding Scientific Prose, ed. J. Selzer.  Madison: U of Wisc P, 1993. 158-79.

        Zagacki., K..  “Spatial and Temporal Images in the Biodiversity Dispute.”  QJS: 85 (1999):417-35

13 April: Habermas: the Public Sphere.

Assignment, 2   Foss, Foss, and Trapp.  “Jürgen Habermas.”  In Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. 3^rd ed.  Illinois: Waveland Press, 2002.  233-64.

Habermas, Jürgen.  “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article.”  In Critical Theory and Society: A Reader.  Ed. Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner.  London: Routledge, 1989. 136-42.

               

 

18 April: Habermas: Reconstructed Sciences,                                                 WB:        Steve J, Matt K

Assignment: Habermas, “What is Universal Pragmatics?”  In Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy.  Boston:: Beacon P, 1979.  1-68 (McGrath Library Reserve)

 

20 April Habermas: Universal Pragmatics: # 4 and applications: 7, 8.        

        Assignment: Gross, Alan G. and Arthur E. Walzer.  “The Challenger Disaster and the Revival of Rhetoric in Organizational Life.”  Argumentation 11 (1997): 75-93.

[Others TBA.]

 

Part VI: Lakoff

 

 

25 April:  Lakoff.  TBA.                                                                                       WB         Zoe N, Merry R

27 April   Lakoff    TBA

 

02 May: Lakoff     TBA                                                                                       WB: Kim S, Randy S, Maggie V

04 May   Lakoff or Fish.