Calendar
WEEK 1: UNDERSTANDING OUR APPROACH TO THE CLASS
Thurs. 9/1
Due:
Thomas King, “‘You’ll Never Believe What Happened’ Is Always a Great Way to Start.” 1-29. (2003)
Malea Powell, “Stories Take Place: A Performance in One Act.” 383-406. (2012)
Victor Villanueva, “On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism.” 645-661. (1999).
Jacqueline Jones Royster, “Disciplinary Landscaping, Or Contemporary Challenges in the History of Rhetoric.” 148-167. (2003)
In class:
Introductions
Discuss Syllabus
WEEK 2: HISTORIOGRAPHY
Thur. 9/8
Due:
James A. Berlin, “Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric: Politics, Power, and Plurality.” 112-127. (1994)
Julie Cruikshank, “Oral History, Narrative Strategies, and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada.” 3-28. (2002)
Michel Foucault, “Introduction” to The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse of Language. 3-17. (1972)
Christine Oravec and Michael Salvador, “The Duality of Rhetoric: Theory as Discursive Practice.” 173-192. (1993)
Hayden White, “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality.” 1-25. (1987)
WEEK 3: THE WEST
Thur. 9/15
Due:
Gorgias, “Encomium to Helen.” 76-84. (around 414 BCE)
Plato, “Gorgias.” 1-125. (around 380 BCE)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Ancient Greece
WEEK 4: THE WEST
Thur. 9/22
No Class. I will be presenting a film at Miami University.
WEEK 5: THE WEST
Thur. 9/29
Due:
Isocrates, “Against the Sophists.” 160-177. (Around 393 BCE)
Susan C. Jarrat, “Introduction: Redefining Classical Rhetoric.” xv-xxiv. (1991)
Susan C. Jarrat, “The First Sophists: History and Historiography.” 1-29. (1991)
Richard Leo Enos, “The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric.” 183-196. (2004)
WEEK 6: THE WEST
Thur. 10/6
Due:
Aristotle, Rhetoric. (Around 322 BCE):
Book 1:
parts 1-3. 1-48
Part 6. 53-55
Parts 9-11. 58-61
Book 2:
parts 18-26. 65-86
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. (Around 350 BCE):
Book 6. 1-12
Cicero, Da Oratore (55 BCE):
Book 1. 1-82
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Ancient Rome
WEEK 7: THE WEST
Thur. 10/13
Due:
Peter Ramus, “From Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian.” 1-25. (1549).
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning. Book 1: 1-43. (1605).
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book 1. Chapters 1-2. 1-21. (1689)
Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Preface and Lectures 1 and 2. v-40 (1812)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: The Enlightenment
WEEK 8: INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA
Thur. 10/20
Due:
Robert A. Williams, “National Mythologies and American Indians.” 14-39. (1999)
Robert A. Williams, “Understanding American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Piece.” 124-137. (1999)
LeAnne Howe, “The Story of America: A Tribology.” 29-48.
Tehanetorens, “Wampum Belts of the Iroquois.” (Selections). 10-33. (1999)
Angela Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice.” 77-100. (2007)
Andrea Riley Mukavetz, “Towards a cultural rhetorics methodology: Making research matter with multi-generational women from the Little Traverse Bay Band.” 108-125. (2014)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Indigenous North America
WEEK 9: INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA
Thur. 10/27
Due:
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Chapters 1, 2, and 3. 5-65. (1883)
Charles Eastman, From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian. Chapters 1-6: 1-91. (1916)
Malea Powell, “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing.” 396-434. (2002)
Malea Powell, “Down by the River, or How Susan La Flesche Picotte Can Teach Us about Alliance as a Practice of Survivance.” 38-60. (2004)
WEEK 10: AMÉRICA LATINA
Thur. 11/3
Due:
Walter Mignolo, “On Describing Ourselves Describing Ourselves: Comparatism, Differences, and Pluritopic Hermeneutics.” 1-25. (1995)
Walter Mignolo, “Nebrija in the New World: Renaissance Philosophy of Language and the Spread of Western Literacy.” 29-67. (1995)
Victor Villanueva, “Maybe a Colony: And Still Another Critique of the Comp Community.” 183-190. (1997)
Jessica Enoch, “‘Para la Mujer’: Defining a Chicana Feminist Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century.” 20-37. (2004)
Damián Baca, “Rethinking Composition, Five Hundred Years Later.” 229-242. (2009)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Latin America
WEEK 11: AMÉRICA LATINA
Thur. 11/10
Due:
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (editors), This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition, Writings by Radical Women of Color. 1-336. (1981 original. 2015 fourth edition)
WEEK 12: NO CLASS. I will be having surgery that day.
Thur. 11/17
Due:
WEEK 13: NO CLASS. Thanksgiving break.
Thur. 11/24
WEEK 14: AFRICA/AFRICAN AMERICAN
Thur. 12/1
Due:
Carol S. Lipson, “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to Maat.” 79-97. (2004)
Maulana Karenga, “Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World.” 3-22. (2003)
Adisa A. Alkebulan, “The Spiritual Essence of African American Rhetoric.” 23-40. (2003)
Jacqueline Jones Royster, “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own.” 29-40. (1996)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Africa/African American History
WEEK 15: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND YOUR DEFINITIONS
Thur. 12/8
Due: Defining Rhetoric Presentation (by class time).
Geneva Smitherman, “English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don’t Do?.” 59-65. (1972)
Geneva Smitherman, “African-American English: From The Hood to the Amen Corner.” 4-31. (1995)
Geneva Smitherman, “Language and African Americans: Movin On up a Lil Higher.” 186-196. (2004)
Gwendolyn D. Pough, “It’s Bigger than Comp/Rhet: Contested and Undisplined.” 301-313. (2011)
andré carrington, “Implicating the State: Black Lives, A Matter of Speculative Rhetoric.” No page numbers. (2015)
Sun. 12/11
Due: Defining Rhetoric Essay (by midnight).
Thurs. 9/1
Due:
Thomas King, “‘You’ll Never Believe What Happened’ Is Always a Great Way to Start.” 1-29. (2003)
Malea Powell, “Stories Take Place: A Performance in One Act.” 383-406. (2012)
Victor Villanueva, “On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism.” 645-661. (1999).
Jacqueline Jones Royster, “Disciplinary Landscaping, Or Contemporary Challenges in the History of Rhetoric.” 148-167. (2003)
In class:
Introductions
Discuss Syllabus
WEEK 2: HISTORIOGRAPHY
Thur. 9/8
Due:
James A. Berlin, “Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric: Politics, Power, and Plurality.” 112-127. (1994)
Julie Cruikshank, “Oral History, Narrative Strategies, and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada.” 3-28. (2002)
Michel Foucault, “Introduction” to The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse of Language. 3-17. (1972)
Christine Oravec and Michael Salvador, “The Duality of Rhetoric: Theory as Discursive Practice.” 173-192. (1993)
Hayden White, “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality.” 1-25. (1987)
WEEK 3: THE WEST
Thur. 9/15
Due:
Gorgias, “Encomium to Helen.” 76-84. (around 414 BCE)
Plato, “Gorgias.” 1-125. (around 380 BCE)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Ancient Greece
WEEK 4: THE WEST
Thur. 9/22
No Class. I will be presenting a film at Miami University.
WEEK 5: THE WEST
Thur. 9/29
Due:
Isocrates, “Against the Sophists.” 160-177. (Around 393 BCE)
Susan C. Jarrat, “Introduction: Redefining Classical Rhetoric.” xv-xxiv. (1991)
Susan C. Jarrat, “The First Sophists: History and Historiography.” 1-29. (1991)
Richard Leo Enos, “The Art of Rhetoric at Rhodes: An Eastern Rival to the Athenian Representation of Classical Rhetoric.” 183-196. (2004)
WEEK 6: THE WEST
Thur. 10/6
Due:
Aristotle, Rhetoric. (Around 322 BCE):
Book 1:
parts 1-3. 1-48
Part 6. 53-55
Parts 9-11. 58-61
Book 2:
parts 18-26. 65-86
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. (Around 350 BCE):
Book 6. 1-12
Cicero, Da Oratore (55 BCE):
Book 1. 1-82
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Ancient Rome
WEEK 7: THE WEST
Thur. 10/13
Due:
Peter Ramus, “From Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian.” 1-25. (1549).
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning. Book 1: 1-43. (1605).
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book 1. Chapters 1-2. 1-21. (1689)
Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Preface and Lectures 1 and 2. v-40 (1812)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: The Enlightenment
WEEK 8: INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA
Thur. 10/20
Due:
Robert A. Williams, “National Mythologies and American Indians.” 14-39. (1999)
Robert A. Williams, “Understanding American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Piece.” 124-137. (1999)
LeAnne Howe, “The Story of America: A Tribology.” 29-48.
Tehanetorens, “Wampum Belts of the Iroquois.” (Selections). 10-33. (1999)
Angela Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice.” 77-100. (2007)
Andrea Riley Mukavetz, “Towards a cultural rhetorics methodology: Making research matter with multi-generational women from the Little Traverse Bay Band.” 108-125. (2014)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Indigenous North America
WEEK 9: INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA
Thur. 10/27
Due:
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Chapters 1, 2, and 3. 5-65. (1883)
Charles Eastman, From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian. Chapters 1-6: 1-91. (1916)
Malea Powell, “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing.” 396-434. (2002)
Malea Powell, “Down by the River, or How Susan La Flesche Picotte Can Teach Us about Alliance as a Practice of Survivance.” 38-60. (2004)
WEEK 10: AMÉRICA LATINA
Thur. 11/3
Due:
Walter Mignolo, “On Describing Ourselves Describing Ourselves: Comparatism, Differences, and Pluritopic Hermeneutics.” 1-25. (1995)
Walter Mignolo, “Nebrija in the New World: Renaissance Philosophy of Language and the Spread of Western Literacy.” 29-67. (1995)
Victor Villanueva, “Maybe a Colony: And Still Another Critique of the Comp Community.” 183-190. (1997)
Jessica Enoch, “‘Para la Mujer’: Defining a Chicana Feminist Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century.” 20-37. (2004)
Damián Baca, “Rethinking Composition, Five Hundred Years Later.” 229-242. (2009)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Latin America
WEEK 11: AMÉRICA LATINA
Thur. 11/10
Due:
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (editors), This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition, Writings by Radical Women of Color. 1-336. (1981 original. 2015 fourth edition)
WEEK 12: NO CLASS. I will be having surgery that day.
Thur. 11/17
Due:
WEEK 13: NO CLASS. Thanksgiving break.
Thur. 11/24
WEEK 14: AFRICA/AFRICAN AMERICAN
Thur. 12/1
Due:
Carol S. Lipson, “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric: It All Comes Down to Maat.” 79-97. (2004)
Maulana Karenga, “Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World.” 3-22. (2003)
Adisa A. Alkebulan, “The Spiritual Essence of African American Rhetoric.” 23-40. (2003)
Jacqueline Jones Royster, “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own.” 29-40. (1996)
In class: Historical Context Presentation: Africa/African American History
WEEK 15: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND YOUR DEFINITIONS
Thur. 12/8
Due: Defining Rhetoric Presentation (by class time).
Geneva Smitherman, “English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don’t Do?.” 59-65. (1972)
Geneva Smitherman, “African-American English: From The Hood to the Amen Corner.” 4-31. (1995)
Geneva Smitherman, “Language and African Americans: Movin On up a Lil Higher.” 186-196. (2004)
Gwendolyn D. Pough, “It’s Bigger than Comp/Rhet: Contested and Undisplined.” 301-313. (2011)
andré carrington, “Implicating the State: Black Lives, A Matter of Speculative Rhetoric.” No page numbers. (2015)
Sun. 12/11
Due: Defining Rhetoric Essay (by midnight).