English 576 History and Theories of Rhetoric
Lecture Links
9/8
JonBenet Ramsey ransom note
Greece itself, and Magna Grecia, the Greek colonies, circa 550 B.C.E.
Athenian Government Structures in the Age of Pericles
Dobson's The Greek Orators, at the Perseus Digital Library
"Gorgias," article from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Reflections on the Encomium of Helen
9/13
Schematic of Plato's Ideal Society
The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic; animated version on YouTube
9/20
9/22
Argument Map of an excerpt from the Phaedrus: "The professors of rhetoric teach an illegitimate art."
Collaborative Reading Procedure for Difficult Texts
Cheat sheets on Phaedrus: McAdon and Murray
9/27
The syllogism: The Square of Opposition
Rhetorical Analysis: Mario Savio, 12/2/64: video, text.
9/29
Graphic summary of Aristotle's Rhetoric
Outline of Aristotle's Rhetoric
10/4
10/6
Timothy McNiven, "Rhetorical Gesture and Response in Ancient Rome"
10/27
11/1
Neitzsche: Human, All Too Human, Ch. 6: Man in Society
11/3
Rhetorical Analysis Blog by grad students at Carnegie-Mellon
11/17
Foucault article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Bentham's Panopticon
The Burkean Parlor
11/22
Phallocentrism/phallogocentrism (briefly) (slightly more extendedly)
Questions on Cixous
12/8
Borges: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
