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Objectives
As a result of the course, students should (1) gain an appreciation for the rhetorical perspective (2) become familiar with major historical rhetorical personages (3) become familiar with major historical rhetorical epochs and their forces (4) become familiar with major rhetorical theories.
Text
James L.
Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist, William E. Coleman, and J. Michael Sproul. The
Rhetoric of Western Thought, 9th ed. (2007). Dubuque, Iowa:
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
ISBN: 0-7575-3838-X (paperback)
Lecture Notes
Lectures
are available, on- line. You should study them, thoroughly, before
coming to class. These will be further discussed in class.
Grades
Reading
summaries (20) 350
Questions of the day (25) 350
Research Paper (first draft) 150
Research Paper (final) 150
Total points 1000 points
Final Grade Scale
1000-885: A 884-785: B 784-685: C 684-585: D <585: F
Reading summaries
35% of your course grade is based on written summaries of the text
readings.
Complete the summaries prior to class on the day due; they are due at
or before the start of each class. Summaries pasted into email or
Microsoft Word attachments are acceptable. Each summary should
list the material covered by title and page numbers. 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 major points covered
therein. Outlines are NOT acceptable. Summaries should run no longer
than
5 pages (typed/word processed, 1 inch margins and top & bottom, double
spaced, 12 point font).
Questions
of the day
35% of your grade is based on answering questions
drawn from the lecture notes assigned for the day’s class session.
You must be present in class in order to answer/submit answers to questions
of the day.
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
(no repeats on the same person).
Extra credit must be turned in, one per day, within one week of class
treatment of the personage/concepts covered in the reading material.
Research
Paper
30%
of your grade is based on submission of a scholarly research paper on the
topic "Contemporary Rapprochement--English, Philosophy, Speech/Communication
approaches to rhetoric." 10 page term paper. First draft (worth 125) due
on Nov.8; final paper Dec 6. Paper must be documented (MLA). Source credibility is crucial (beware of anonymous blogs or other materials without clearly identifiable and credible schoarly sources).
Special Procedures
- Office
Hours: Tues: 10:30-12; Thurs: 1:30-2:30, and by appointment
- COM
303 has a BlackBoard site to which I will post grades and announcements.
- We have a class
e-mail alias
<com30301-fa@bumail.bradley.edu>. Please check it daily (if you
forward your mail out of it, be sure to empty the BU box regularly).
I deduct 25 points (I'll notify you) from your score total each time--after
the first (I'll warn you of this one)-- that I get bounced mail because
your box is full or otherwise not functional.
- I will
answer questions, live or via phone or email about course content ANYTIME
between the hours of 8am-9pm [CT] though our dinner time is usually
between 5-7, during which I would prefer to be left alone. I will not
answer questions about course mechanics (“what’s due in
class in the morning?”) on, or the night before, due dates.
- Please
do not use tobacco products in class. I am distracted by their use and
will insist that you leave if you persist.
- Laptops
may be used in class only to take or display notes. No email, web browsing,
or chat.
- All
students are responsible to the same syllabus schedule, regardless of
outside or BU- sponsored activities. I always accept materials early.
- Our textbook provides 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 through 1995. 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
& Ortiz.
- Always
locate and study printed/published scholarly sources prior to supplementary web-based material—although
the web links I provide on Rhetorical Resources feature lots of great
stuff. You may well locate online versions of printed/published material. Again, source credibility is crucial.
- Students
with certified learning disabilities: Make arrangements with me, immediately.
- Plagiarism
will not be tolerated. Do not borrow from, or share materials with,
others. Do your own work. Cite sources fully and accurately. Otherwise,
failure and referral to university authorities loom.
- Study
the readings for understanding so that you can discuss them in detail.
Otherwise, class will be boring hard and you won't be able to keep up.
- Re-write
your summaries and papers whenever possible. Avoid turning in early
drafts.
Your work should be the result of extensive writing, re-writing, checking,
and re-checking. I grade for writing too.
- Copy
and back-up your computer work every 10 minutes or so. Do NOT depend
on one storage location/modality. "My computer ate it" will
NOT suffice for excuse.
- Policy regarding e-mail communication about grades:
As a matter of the Communication Department policy to protect student privacy
and in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, questions
and
concerns regarding grades must be presented in person or in a written letter.
Instructors will not respond to questions and concerns communicated through e-mail
or telephone calls regarding grades.
- Policy
regarding student absence due to an illness:
When missing classes and related assignments due to an illness,
it is the student's responsibility to provide a document issued
by a medical authority to verify
the student's absence due to illness, unless the Office of the Associate Provost
for Student Affairs informs an instructor of the basis for the student's absence.
Instructors will not call the Health Center or any other source to verify the
student's reason for absence.
Schedule
In-Class Schedule[with
reading assignment]
[I reserve the right to make modifications, with notice, throughout
the term]
Don’t
forget to arrange for an absentee ballot for Nov. 4 if needed
Remember: You will be quizzed over the online lecture notes the day
the topic is listed on the syllabus.
8/30 Welcome, orientation, and start of introductory lecture notes.
9/4 "On the social origins of rhetoric and rhetorical systems" (Golden,
1-30; summary 1); Introduction to rhetorical theory
9/6 "The world of Greece and Rome" (Golden,
31-52; summary 2); Pre-Socratic Sophists.
9/11 Plato (Golden, 53-66; summary 3).
9/13 Weaver (Golden, 267-282; summary 4).
9/18 Aristotle (Golden, 67-81; summary 5).
9/20 Perelman (Golden, 323-346; summary 6).
9/25 Summary and catch up: Classical Greek Rhetoric (nothing due
though in-class quiz will be held).
9/27 Education of the Citizen-Orator: Isocrates (Golden, 83-85),
no summary due; in class quiz over Isocrates pt. 1 and 2 online
notes).
10/2 Rhetoric in Rome (Golden, 85-97; summary 7) in class quiz over
Cicero and Quintilian online
notes).
10/4 Toulmin (Golden, 295-321; summary 8).
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Fall break Oct. 6-9
10/11 Christianization of Rhetoric & St. Augustine (Golden, 99-117;
summary 9).
10/16 Renaissance & Ramus (Golden, 105-117, summary 10)
10/18 Brittish/Continental Theory and Enlightenment Rhetoric (Golden, 119-145; summary 11)
10/23 Epistemologists & New Science(Golden, 147-167; summary 12).
10/25 Kenneth Burke, pt 1. (Golden, 247-265; summary 13), in class quiz,
Burke pt. 1 & 2)
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10/24: Midterm grades due at registrar.
10/30 Kenneth Burke, pt. 2, in class quiz,
Burke pt. 1 & 2
11/1 Campbell and Whatley (Read Golden read
and summarize Golden, 169-187; summary 14)
11/4 Vote
11/6 McCluhan and I. A. Richards (Golden, 235-246; 379-386; summary 14)
11/8 Michel Foucault (Golden, 387-402; summary 15)
11/13 Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric (Golden, 4463-474; summary 16)
Paper draft 1 due
11/15 African American Rhetoric (Golden, 443-462; summary
17)
11/20 Eastern/Asian Rhetoric (Golden, 477-498; summary 18).
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last day to drop classes 11/21
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Thanksgiving break 11/21-25
11/27 Meetings over paper draft, by times, in office during class.
11/29 Narration and Fantasies (Fisher & Bormann from online notes
only; summary 19)
12/4 Digital Rhetoric (Golden, 499-508, summary 20)
12/6 Post Modern Rhetorical Theory (Golden, 509-516 and McGee in
online notes; summary 21)
12/7 Final papers due
12/11
Friday December 14, 12-2pm: final exam period. Must attend and pick up paper
or receive “0” on final paper.
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
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Foss, S., Foss, K, and R. Trapp. CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
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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
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speech and thought) and 9 (Mating the best of the old and new).
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