Course Schedule

Mon 08/28

• Course Overview

Wed 08/30

• Course Overview, Take 2

Fri 09/01

• Boethius, “An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric”

Mon 09/04

• John Poulakos, “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric”

Wed 09/06

• Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and Its Discontents

Fri 09/08

• Bronislaw Malinowski, from Myth in Primitive Psychology

Mon 09/11

• Walter Lippmann, from Public Opinion
• Presentation on Invention

Wed 09/13

• Walter Lippmann, from The Phantom Public
  • Selection 1
  • Selection 2
• Presentation on Arrangement

Fri 09/15

• Lippmann
• Presentation on Style
• Practice RRA Due

Mon 09/18

• John Dewey, from The Public and Its Problems
• Presentation on Memory

Wed 09/20

• George Herbert Mead, from Mind, Self, and Society
• Presentation on Delivery

Fri 09/22

• Mead & Dewey
• Presentation on Audience

Mon 09/25

• Edward Bernays, from Propaganda
  • Ch. 1-2
• Presentation on Ethos

Wed 09/27

• Kenneth Burke, “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle”
• Presentation on Logos

Fri 09/29

• Burke & Bernays
• Presentation on Pathos

Mon 10/02

• Ferdinand de Saussure, “Object of Linguistics” & “Nature of Linguistic Signs” from Course in General Linguistics
• Presentation on Epideictic Rhetoric

Wed 10/04

• Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
• Presentation on Forensic Rhetoric

Fri 10/06

• Saussure & Nietzsche
• Presentation on Deliberative Rhetoric
• RRA #1 Due

Mon 10/09

• I.A. Richards, from The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Lecture 2)
• Presentation on Scheme

Wed 10/11

• I.A. Richards, from The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Lecture 3)
• Presentation on Trope

Fri 10/13

• Richards
• Presentation on Topoi

Mon 10/16

• Chaim Perelman & Lucie Olbrechts-Tolteca, from The New Rhetoric
• Presentation on Decorum

Wed 10/18

• Wayne Booth, “The Revival of Rhetoric”
• Presentation on Doxa

Fri 10/20

• Perelman, Olbrechts-Tolteca, & Booth
• Presentation on Enthymeme

Mon 10/23

• Lloyd F. Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation”
• Presentation on Mystification

Wed 10/25

• Martin Luther King, Jr, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
• Presentation on Conspiracy

Fri 10/27

• Bitzer & King
• Presentation on Jeremiad

Mon 10/30

• J.L. Austin, from How To Do Things With Words
• Presentation on Motive

Wed 11/01

• Jacques Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context”
• Presentation on Power

Fri 11/03

• Austin & Derrida
• Presentation on Toulmin Argument

Mon 11/06

• Simone De Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
• Presentation on Epistemic Rhetoric

Wed 11/08

• Betty Friedan, from The Feminine Mystique
• Presentation on Cybernetics

Fri 11/10

• RRA #2 Due

Mon 11/13

• De Beauvoir and Friedan
• Presentation on Neo-Aristotelianism

Wed 11/15

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from Signifying Monkey
• Presentation on Dramatism

Fri 11/17

• Sonja K. Foss & Cindy L. Griffin, “Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric”
• Presentation on Public Sphere

Mon 11/20

• Gates and Foss & Griffin

Wed 11/22

No Class

Reading Day

Fri 11/24

No Class

Thanksgiving Break

Mon 11/27

• George Kennedy, “A Hoot in the Dark”

Wed 11/29

• Richard Doyle, Darwin’s Pharmacy (pp. 27-42)

Fri 12/01

• Kennedy & Doyle

Mon 12/04

• Jim W. Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”

Wed 12/06

• Jenny Edbauer, “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: from Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies.”
• RRA Paper #3 Due 12/12