Today’s Plan:
- Blankenship Write Ups
- Blankenship Questions
- For Next Class
Write Ups
Blankenship and Corder. I think I came up with something.
Blankenship Questions
- Explicate Blankenship’s distinction between empathy and pity/sympathy (see pg. 6, also pg. 17 distinction between “seeing with” and “seeing as”
- Examine Blankenship’s discussion of Linquist’s “surface acting” vs. “deep acting.” (pg 8-9), how can/should a professor inhabit her power? What are the opportunities and pitfalls?
- The tricky question of when to resist and when to listen: how can we (faculty, people) negotiate that? 9pg. 14)
- Very difficult passage to explicate on the legacy/influence of postmodern theories (pg. 17): empathy, affect:empathy::power:suspicion
- Rhetorical empathy methods (pg. 20): how does this compare/resonate with Miller? How/can we put Miller and Blankenship in conversation?
For Next Class
Due: Rhetorical Analysis papers. Important: I will be laying out our next project (and asking for feedback). If possible, please have a laptop with you (or a device with which you are comfortable typing).
