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ENG 319 1.R: Ong on Writing as a Technology

Today’s Plan: Check the Shared Reading Space (25 minutes) A Quick Introduction to Something Like Poststructuralism (40 minutes) Reading Plato’s Gorgias (20 minutes) Homework A Quick Introduction to Something Like Poststructuralism I want to open by highlighting a few sentences … Continue reading

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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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Rhetorical Theory 1.2: Walter Ong

We’ve got a number of things to address in today’s class: First, I want to introduce four terms to help us think about philosophy, rhetoric, and language Second, we need to discuss the Ong reading Third, I want to go … Continue reading

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