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Texts
James L.
Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist, William E. Coleman. The Rhetoric of Western
Thought, 7th ed. (2000). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
ISBN: 0-7872-1968-1
Hikins, James
W. Remarks on the Development of Rhetoric.(1996). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall
Hunt Publishing Company.
ISBN: 0-7872-2511-8
Lecture Notes
Lectures
are available, on- line. You should study them, thoroughly, before
coming to class. These will be further discussed in class.
Grades
80% of your
grade is based on reading summaries (20 @ 40 points each). 20% is based
on a term paper (in two parts, 100 points each).
Final Grade
Scale
1000-885:
A 884-785: B 784-685: C 684-585: D <585: F
Reading summaries
Your course
grade is based on written summaries of the readings. You must complete
the summaries prior to class on the day due; they will be picked up at
the start of each class. Summaries will NOT be accepted after the start
of class on the due day. Each summary should indicate the thesis of the
reading and details about the major points covered therein. Outlines are
NOT acceptable. Generally, summaries should run no longer than 5 pages
per chapter read (typed/word processed, 1 inch margins and top & bottom,
double spaced, 12 point font). Summaries may be emailed before class meetings.
Extra Credit
You may
earn up to 50 points (5 @ 10 points each) extra credit by completing a
reading summary of passages listed in the supplementary reading list at
the end of this document. Each summary must treat a separate topic/person/theory/reading.
Extra credit must be turned in, one per day, within one week of class
treatment of the personage/concepts covered in the reading material.
Term Paper
10 page term
paper. First draft (worth 1/2 of the total) due on Oct. 17; final paper
Dec. 3, 2002. Paper must be documented (MLA or APA) and must depend more
on printed than web-based sources. Paper topics [select one]: (1) Make scholarly
argument against Hikins' claim that post-modernism no longer dominates 21st
century thinking/life; (2) Propose a 7th canon of rhetoric; (3) Make scholarly
argument against one of Hikins' three dimensions of 21st century rhetoric
(p. 98-100); (4) Propose the inclusion of a rhetorician not included in
our course by reviewing their concept of rhetoric.
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are responsible to the same syllabus schedule, regardless of outside
or BU- sponsored activities. I always accept materials early.
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provide extensive bibliographic resources. Use them.
- Familiarize
yourself with the Index to Journals in Comunication Studies Through
1995, edited by Ronald J. Matlon and Sylvia P. Ortiz. It is available
in the reference section of the library and is a standard bibliographic
source for research in communication studies.
- Familiarize
yourself with using COMSERVE and its COMINDEX, available on CD ROM in
the reference section of the library. That service provides bibliographic
sources for materials since 1990 and for journals not indexed in Matlon
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- Study
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checking, and re-checking.
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on one storage location/modality. "My computer ate it" will
NOT suffice for excuse.
Schedule
In-Class Schedule[with
reading assignment]
[I reserve the right to make modifications, with notice, throughout
the term]
8/29
class 1
Welcome, orientation, early definitions
(Golden, xiii-xvii; Hikins, 1- 6; summary 1, due 9-3)
9/3
class 2
Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (Hikins, 61-75; summary 2, due 9-5)
9/5
class 3
Rhetoric's central questions (Golden, 1-11; Hikins, 15-19; 39-53;
summary 3, due 9-10)
9/10
class 4
Pre-Socratics (Golden, 15-27; Hikins, 20; summary
4; due 9-7)
9/12
class 5
Plato (Golden, 193-207; summary
5; due 9-17)
9/17
class 6
Weaver (Golden, 29-43; Hikins, 20-21; summary
6; due 9-19)
9/19
class 7
Aristotle (Golden, 263-287; summary 7; due 9-24)
9/24
class 8
Perelman (Golden, 45-60; Hikins 22, summary 8;due 9-26)
9/26
class 9
Isocrates, Cicero, & Quintilian (Golden, 235-261; summary 9; due
10-1)
10/1
class 10
Toulmin (Golden, 61-68,Hikins, 23-24; summary 10; due 10-3)
10/3
class 11
Christianization of Rhetoric, St. Augustine, Middle Ages (Golden, 69-75;
Hikins 25-27; summary 11 due 10-8)
10/8
class 12
Middle Ages to Renaissance (Golden, 97-106; 289-292; summary 12; due
10-10)
10/10
class 13
Renaissance & Epistemology: Bacon,Descartes, Ramus & Vico/Grassi
(Golden, 119-137)
10/14-10/15 Fall Break
10/17
class 14
Paper first draft due.
Campbell and Whately (Golden 209-233, summary 13 due 10/22)
10/22 class 15
Kenneth Burke
10/24
class 16
Kenneth Burke (Golden 340-367, summary 14 due 10/29)
10/29
class 17
Women in Rhetoric
10/31 class 18
Women in Rhetoric (Golden 173-192, summary 15 due 11/5).
11/5
class 19
I. A. Richards (Golden, 297-301).
11/7 class 20
Foucault
11/12
class 21
More
American discourse theorizing (McLuhan, Fisher, Bormann, McGee). (Golden,
371-389, summary 16 due 11/14).
11/14
class 22
African
American Rhetoric (Golden, 390-404; s ummary 17; due 11/19)
11/19
class 23
Asian rhetorical systems (G0lden, 405-427,
summary 18 due 11/21)
11/21 class 24
Rhetoric in the 21st Century (Golden, 427-435,
summary 19, due 11/26)
11/26 class 25
Rhetoric in the 21st Century (Hikins 87-103, summary 20; 12/3)
12/3 class 26
Rhetoric in the 21st Century
Final Term Paper Due
12/5 class 27: off
12/10 class 28:
Pick up papers (required attendance at risk of one full letter grade
on papers).
Supplementary Readings
Jaeger, Paideia v.1, 286-331. (sophists) (DF 77 .J274)
Kennedy, Art of Persuasion, p. 26-70 (sophists) (PA 3265. K4)
Smith, "The Father of Debate: Protagoras of Abdera,"
QJS March, 1918.
_____, "Corax and Probability" QJS, Feb. 1921.
_____, "Gorgias: a study of oratorical style" QJS,
Nov. 1921.
(I have hard copies of these three articles. Library has microfilm).
Jaeger,Paideia,v.2,126-160(Plato)(PN 183 G6 1989)
Jaeger, Paideia, v.3, 182-196 (Plato)
Rhetorica Ad Herennium: Books I & II, III or IV. (PA 6156
R4 1964)
St.Augustine, On Christian Doctrine,Book 2(linguistics)(BR
65 .A655 E5)
Longinus, On the Sublime, ch. 1-15 (PA 4229 .L5 E5 1985
Wilson, John F. and Carroll C. Arnold (1983). Rhetorical theory:
A heritage. In John F. Wilson and Carrol C. Arnold, Public speaking as a
liberal art, 5th edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, pp. 306-339.
Cushman, Donald P. & Phillip K. Tompkins (1980). A theory
of rhetoric for contemporary society. Philosophy and Rhetoric 13: 43-67.
McGee, Michael Calvin (1982). A materialist's conception of
rhetoric. In Ray E. McKerrow (Ed), Explorations in rhetoric: Studies in
honor of Douglas Ehninger. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, pp. 23-48.
Bazerman, Charles. from Enos & Brown (eds) DEFINING THE
NEW RHETORICS. Chapter 1: A contention over the term RHETORIC.
Booth, Wayne C. THE VOCATION OF A TEACHER: RHETORICAL OCCASIONS.
Chapter 6: To those who do not teach English, but who belive that something
called `English' should be taught: Mere rhetoric, rhetorology, and the search
for a common learning.
Clark, Donald L. RHETORIC IN GRECO-ROMAN EDUCATION. Chapter
2: What the ancients meant by rhetoric; Epilog 262-266.
Corbett, Edward P.J. CLASSICAL RHETORIC FOR THE MODERN STUDENT
3rd ed). Chapter 1: Introduction.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapter 1, pages 13-26.
Hauser, Gerald. INTRODUCTION TO RHETORICAL THEORY. Chapters
1: The eventfulness of rhetoric; 2: Rhetorical thinking.
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapter
I: The Rehabilitation of rhetoric.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT: General Introduction, 1-15; Gorgias,
38-42.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION. p. 1-7.
Enos, Richard Leo. GREEK RHETORIC BEFORE ARISTOTLE. Chapters
1: Emerging notions of rhetoric: Homer, Hesiod, and the rhapsodes; 2: The
evolution of logography in Hellenic discourse; 3: The birth of Hellenic
rhetoric and the growth of the Sicilian sophistic; 4: Significant contributors
to Sicilian Rhetoric.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapter 1, pages 1-12.
Gill, Ann. RHETORIC AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Chapter Three:
Rhetoric.
Golden, J., Berquist, G., and W. Coleman. THE RHETORIC OF WESTERN
THOUGHT (1st ed). Chapter 2: The world of Greece and Rome.
Murphy, James J (ed.) SYNOPTIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC.Chapter
1: The Origins and Early Development of Rhetoric (p. 3-19).
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT p. 19-28; Isocrates, 43-54; Plato, 55-142.
Clark, Donald L. RHETORIC IN GRECO-ROMAN EDUCATION. Chapter
3 The Schools.
Clark, Norman. "The Critical Servant : An Isocratean Contribution
to Critical Rhetoric. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 82, #2, May 1996: 111-124.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 8-13.
Enos, Richard Leo. GREEK RHETORIC BEFORE ARISTOTLE. Chapter
V: The platonic rejection of sophistic rhetoric and its Hellenic reception.
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapters
II: Plato and the sophists; III: Isocrates and the power of logos.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Aristotle, 144-194;
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, p. 13-28.
Welch, Kathleen. Ch. 2: "An Isocratic Literacy Theory:
An Alternative Rhetoric of Oral/Aural Articulation." In ELECTRIC
RHETORIC.
Samuel Ijsseling. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapter
IV: The history and system of Greek rhetoric
Murphy, James J (ed.) SYNOPTIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC.
Chapter 2: Aristotle (Forbes I. Hill), p 19-76.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Cicero, 195-250; Quintilian, 293-363;
Medieval Rhetoric, Introduction 367- 380; Augustine 381-422.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapter
3 Late Classical and Medieval Greek Rhetorics and 4 Rhetoric in the Latin
Middle Ages.
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapters
5: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Rome, 6: Augustine and Rhetoric, and 7: The
Liberal arts and education in the Middle Ages.
Murphy, James J (ed.) SYNOPTIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC.
Chapters 3: The age of codification: Hermagoras andthe pseudo-Ciceronian
(James J. Murphy) p. 77-89), 4: Cicero's Rhetorical Theory (Donovan Ochs),
p. 90-150; 5: Quintilian and the INSTITUTIO ORATORIA (Prentice A. Meador,
Jr) p. 151-176; 6: The end of the ancient world: The second sophistic and
Saint Augustine (James J. Murphy) p. 177-184.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Part 3, Renaissance Rhetoric, Introduction,
463-482. Ramus, 557-583; Wilson, 584-621; Vico, 711-727.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapter
5 Rhetoric and Renaissance Humanism.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapter 6: Ernesto Grassi.
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapter
8: The Italian Humanists
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Bacon, 622-634. Enlightenment rhetoric
introduction, 637-669; Campbell, 746- 795; Blair, 796-827; Whately, 828-858.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapters
6 (Eighteenth Century Rhetorics), 7 (Rhetoric in the Ninteenth Century),
8 (Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century).
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapters
9 (Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes and the New Science) 10 ( Pascal and the
art of persuasion), 11 (Sacred Eloquence), 11 (Kant and the enlightenment).
Arthur E. Walzer, "Campbell on the Passons: A ReReading
of the Philosophy of Rhetoric, QJS, 85 (1) 1999, 72-85.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Nietzsche, 885-896; Twentieth Century
Rhetoric, Introduction, 897-923; Bakhtin, 924-963.
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapters
XIII (Marx, Nietzsche and Freud), XIV (Nietzsche and Philosophy).
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapters 1 (Educating the Eloquent
Speaker) and 2 (Incapacitating the Eloquent Speaker).
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. I. A. Richards, 964- 988; Weaver, 1042-1065.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Richards,
260-267; Weaver, 277-284.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapters 2 (I.A. Richards) and 3 (Richard M. Weaver).
Ijsseling, Samuel. RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CONFLICT. Chapters
XV (Philosophy and metaphor) and XVI (Who is actually speaking whenever
something is said?)
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapter 3 (The flame of oratory,
the Fireside Chat.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Kenneth Burke, 989- 1041.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapter
9: Burke, 268-276.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON
RHETORIC. Chapter 7 (Burke).
Hawhee, Debra. "Burke and Nietzche" QJS 85 (1999)
129-145.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapter 4 (The "effeminate"
style).
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Chaim Perelman, 1066-1103.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapter
10: Perelman, 296-299; 307-310 (Outline of THE NEW RHETORIC)
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON
RHETORIC. Chapter 5 (Perelman).
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapter 5 (The memorable phrase,
the memorable picture.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Stephen Toulmin, 1104-1125.
Conley, Thomas M. RHETORIC IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION, Chapter
10: Toulmin, 291-296.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapter 4 (Stephen Toulmin).
Gill, Ann. RHETORIC AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Chapter Nine:
The rational paradigm.
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Michel Foucault, 1126-1164.
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON
RHETORIC. Chapter 8 (Foucault).
Gill, Ann. RHETORIC AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Chapter Ten: Structuralism,
then Michel Foucault, 173-185.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapter 7 Conversation and self-revelation).
Bitzer, Lloyd. The Rhetorical Situation. PHILOSOPHY & RHETORIC
Vol. 1, No. 1. (stacks or copy my copy)
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. Chapter 11 An unending conversation 324-340.
Gill, Ann. RHETORIC AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Chapter Eleven:
Postmodernism.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapter 6 (Dramatizing and Story
Telling).
Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION: READINGS
FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT. Gates, 1185-1223; Cixous, 1224-1250;
Kristeva, 1251-
Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
ON RHETORIC. 10 (Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition).
Gill, Ann. RHETORIC AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Chapter Twelve
Voice.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ELOQUENCE IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: THE
TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHMAKING. Chapters 8 (The divorce between
speech and thought) and 9 (Mating the best of the old and new).
Lu, Xing and David Frank.(1993) On the study of anchient
Chinese Rhetoric/Bian. WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION 57 (4): 445-463
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