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Historical Rhetorics Week 15: Ramus and the Death of Rhetoric

Posted on November 23, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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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Historical Rhetorics Week 14: Augustine’s Weak Defense

Posted on November 16, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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

Posted on November 9, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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

Posted on November 2, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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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Historical Week 6: Isocrates

Posted on September 28, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Some preliminary reactions to the first round of papers Secondary Source presentations Discussion of Isocrates: major concepts, grid issues, etc Break Papillion, Welch, Haskins, Vitanza Paper Day Reactions Here’s some jumbled cut and paste from my feedback. The … Continue reading →

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