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Spring 2000 MWF 1:30 - 2:20 Kuykendall 313 |
John Zuern Office: Kuykendall 219 Office Phone: 956-3019 zuern@hawaii.edu Office Hours: M 12:00 - 1:30, W 2:30 - 4:00 and by appointment |
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Objectives Policy Materials Required Texts Media on Reserve World Wide Web Assignments Reading Schedule |
ObjectivesIn this class we will examine classic texts from the rhetorical tradition alongside contemporary examples of rhetoric ranging from recent scholarship in composition studies to presidents1 speeches and corporate web sites. Our aim will be to reflect on how language has been and continues to be employed to entertain, to instruct, to persuade, and to manipulate. You will receive a firm grounding in the history of rhetoric and will engage some of the philosophical questions that arise from the study of rhetoric: how can we speak and write convincingly? what are the ethical demands on speakers and writers? what is the relationship between rhetoric and truth? in what ways can language be political? in what ways can it be violent? A background in rhetoric, and an understanding of its philosophical foundations as well as its practical applications, will be highly valuable to a wide range of students, especially those entering fields such as teaching, literary criticism, professional writing, publishing, politics, and law.
You will submit a draft of your research paper to me and to the members of your research group. You will be graded only on the revised version of this draft.
Grading
Attendance Please speak with me immediately if any circumstances arise that make it difficult for you to attend class or to complete assignments on time. It is often possible to work out solutions to such problems, but you are responsible for keeping me informed about your situation. Don1t wait until the end of the semester, when we will have few alternatives.
Scholastic Dishonesty
Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. A course packet (available at Professional Image in Puck's Alley)
Media on Reserve We will be adding to a list of online resources as the semester goes on. The following will be assigned.
Lincoln, Abraham,
Gettysburg Address
King, Martin Luther, Jr., I Have a Dream
Morisson, Toni , Noble Lecture
Kennedy, John F. ,
Inaugural Address
Clinton, William J. ,
Second Inaugural Address
Brent, Doug , Rhetorics of the Web:Implications for Teachers of Literacy |
| M January 10 |
introduction to the course: what is rhetoric? what is a tradition?
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| W January 12 |
Bizzell and Herzberg, "General Introduction" (1 - 15)
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream |
| F January 14 |
Bizzell and Herzberg, "Introduction: Classical Rhetoric" (19 - 37) Gorgias, "Encomium of Helen" (40 - 42) Isocrates, "Against the Sophists" 46 - 49)
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| M January 17 |
holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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| W January 19 |
Plato, Gorgias (61-82; to the line "Yes, what else, indeed, are we to say, Socrates?") |
| F January 21 |
Plato, Gorgias (82-112) |
| M January 24 | Plato, Phaedrus (113 - 122; to the line "Speak then without fear.") |
| W January 26 | Plato, Phaedrus (122 - 143) |
| F January 28 | Weaver, "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric" (1054 - 1065) |
| M January 31 | Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I (151 - 160) |
| W February 2 | Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II (179 - 194; from the line "The use of persuasive speech is to lead to decisions.") |
| F February 4 | Ovid, Metamophosis, "Ajax and Ulysses and the Arms of Achilles" (packet) |
| M February 7 | Cicero, Of Oratory, Book I, Sections I - XXIII (200 - 215) |
| W February 9 | Cicero, Of Oratory, Book I, Sections XXIV - LXII (215 - 232) |
| F February 11 |
Quintillian, Institutes of Oratory, Book XII, Introduction - Chapter XI (346 - 362) Reiner, A Few Good Men (video on reserve) |
| M February 14 |
Bizzell and Herzberg, "Introduction: Medieval Rhetoric" (367 - 380) Augustine, Concerning the Teacher, Chapters I - VII (packet) |
| W February 16 | Augustine, Concerning the Teacher, Chapters VIII - XIV (packet) |
| F February 18 |
Boethius, "An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric" (425 - 428) Anonymous, "The Principles of Letter Writing" (431 - 438) Chaucer, "Retraction" (packet) |
| M February 21 | holiday: Presidents Day |
| W February 23 |
Bizzell and Herzberg, "Introduction: Renaissance Rhetoric" (463 - 482) de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (488 - 493) Cereta, "Letter to Augustinius Aemilius, Curse against the Ornamentation of Women" and "Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, Defense of the Liberal Education of Women" (495 - 498) |
| F February 25 | Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (625 - 633) and Novum Organum (631 - 633) |
| M February 28 | Erasumus, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Book I (502 - 524) |
| W March 1 | Bizzell and Herzberg, "Introduction: Enlightenment Rhetoric" |
| F March 3 | Vico, On the Study Methods of Our Time (714 - 727) |
| M March 6 | Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Chapter IV (753 - 755); Chapters VII - IX (771 - 787) |
| W March 8 | Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Lecture I (798 - 802); Lecture XXV (818 - 822); Lecture XXXII (822 - 827) |
| F March 10 |
Whatley, Elements of Rhetoric, Introduction, Parts 1 - 3 (831 - 836) Bain, English Composition and Rhetoric (874 - 877) Hill, The Principles of Rhetoric (881 - 884) |
| M March 13 | Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (888 - 896) |
| W March 15 | Bizzell and Herzberg, "Introduction: Twentieth Century Rhetoric" (899 - 921) |
| F March 17 | Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning (1077 - 1089; to "The Structure of Argument") |
| M March 20 | Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning (1089 - 1103) |
| W March 22 | Toulmin, The Uses of Argument (1106 - 1122) |
| F March 24 |
review of rhetoric and logic DUE: rhetorical analysis |
| March 27 - 31 | Spring Break |
| M April 3 | Burke, Language as Symbolic Action (1034 - 1041) |
| W April 5 |
Austin, How to Do Things with Words (packet)
Morisson, Noble Lecture |
| F April 7 | Butler, "On Linguistic Vulnerability" (packet) |
| M April 10 |
Barthes, "Toys," "Plastic," "Myth Today" (packet) DUE: draft of research paper |
| W April 12 | Foucault, The Order of Discourse (1154 - 1164) Haynes, Safe(video on reserve) |
| F April 14 | Gates, "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning" (1185 - 1223) |
| M April 17 | Kennedy, Comparative Rhetoric (packet) |
| W April 19 | Treaty of Annexation (packet) Lili`uokalani, "Official Protest to the Treaty," "The Treaty Analyzed," "Hawaiian Autonomy" (packet) |
| F April 21 | holiday: Good Friday |
| M April 24 |
Kennedy, Inaugural Address 20 January 1961
Trask, "Neocolonialism and Indigenous Structures"
Clinton, Second Inaugural Address |
| W April 26 |
Fell, "Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures" (677 -685) Cixous and Clément, A Woman Mistress (1245 - 1251) |
| F April 28 |
Brent, Rhetorics of the Web:Implications for Teachers of Literacy Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments Vol .2 No. 1 Spring 1997 |
| M May 1 | Berlin, "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories" (packet) |
| W May 3 |
wrap-up DUE: final research paper |
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