Porter – Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy
Porter, James E. “Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy.” in Rhetorics and Technologies : New Directions in Writing and Communication. Ed. Stuart Selber. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Print. P. begins by noting that the digital economy of Web 2.0 should signal a paradigmatic shift in how we understand writing and rhetoric. Relying on Anderson’s The Long Tail and Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, P.... Read More
Lyon – Susanne K. Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Rebirth of Rhetoric
Arabella Lyon – “Susanne K. Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Rebirth of Rhetoric” (Controversial/Educational) L. notes that Langer, “developed and popularized a vision of language as emotive, creative, and multifarious: as structuring our perceptions, expressing our experiences, creating and communicating knowledge within a community” (267). Langer’s expertise was in rhetorical epistemology, or the study of how we know through language. ... Read More
Glenn – Introduction to Rhetoric Retold
Cheryl Glenn – Rhetoric Retold: Regendering The Tradition From Antiquity Through the Renaissance Introduction: Mapping the Silences, or Remapping Rhetorical Territory Glen begins by highlighting that women have long occupied the idios or private domain of the oikos, sustaining friendships, families, and their men from within those confines. As such, the female body has long been enclosed, excluded from patriarchal spaces where rhetorical practices... Read More
McComiskey – Laws, Works, and the End of Days
McComiskey – “Laws, Works, and the End of Days: Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in Miqsat Ma’aseh ha-Torah (Dead Sea Scroll 4QMMT)” In this piece M. considers how the 4QMMT sea scroll – a letter – create identification by citing scriptural laws that would be commonly agreed upon; however, the same document also creates distinction by criticizing the Temple priests’ incorrect interpretations of more ambiguous... Read More
CCR601 – R&P 42.3
Bayer, Thora I. “Hegelian Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-19. Print Rhetoric is an antistrophe to dialectic (antistrophe is the “turning back” of the chorous on the audience in the traditional ancient Greek play). Kant considered dialectic the “logic of illusion” that occurs when reason takes its powers beyond experience to make claims concerning the nature of the soul, world, and God (203). Kant is responsible... Read More
