Monthly Archives: November 2015

Historical Rhetorics Week 15: Ramus and the Death of Rhetoric

Ong’s Ramus and Rhetoric’s Slow Death I’ve got a link here to the Historical Rhetorics wikibook, which has discussion of a few other key passages from Ong’s book on Ramus. We should note the extent to which the death of … Continue reading

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Rhetoric and Gaming 14.2: Usability Testing and Revisions

Hi all, a quick post today to formalize our dates. In today’s class, we will do more usability testing on your games, paying specific attention to the provided instructions. You will have this weekend to revise your instructions. Every group … Continue reading

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Historical Rhetorics Week 14: Augustine’s Weak Defense

Today’s plan: Secondary Source Presentations Augustine’s [Philosophical] Rhetoric Some Discussion of Semiotics and Hermeneutics Break The Transcendental Signifier, The Big Other, and the Other (with a Capital O)

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Historical Rhetorics 12: Quintilian and Lanham’s Strong Defense

Today’s plan: Secondary Source Presentations Discuss Quintilian Quintilian and Postpedagogy Bob’s self-named “shtick” Break An Answer Given By Way of a Long(ish) Speech: Why I Love Lanham’s Strong Defense

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Historical Rhetorics 11: Cicero

Today’s plan: Secondary source presentations Tracing the Legacies of the Greeks Break Stasis Theory (and a little bit of Johnson’s Rasselas

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