Victor J. Vitanza
UTA, E5311 (& Huma5301):
Foundations of Rhetoric and Composition
Spring 2000


CLASS NOTES:


For each seminar meeting, I have prepared and made available on the E5311 Web site my notes for the evening. Students are expected to download them and to have read them before class. I write these notes so as to think about what I want to say in dis/respect to the readings. They are notes, in the genre of notes; they are not essays. In some cases, the notes might not make any sense to someone who just picks them up and reads them. In some places they do not make much sense to me, but I have notated the nonsense in hopes that when rethinking/redrafting the nonsense, I might be able to make sense of it. I try to speak and ask questions from my (having written the) notes.

The Notes are subject to being revised from time to time. They are "Thinking"-Notes!

Anyone may link to the files, may download the files, may quote from the files in print, as long as I have been notified prior to the linking and quoting. Since the NOTES are 'published' here, they are Copyright(ed) 1999-2000 by Victor J. Vitanza.


ClassNotes: Available & Forthcoming

Wks 1-2 (parts a, b, c, d, and e.) dis/Locating ourselves in the discipline, the field, the "whatever."

Wk 3 Richard Rorty's contingency, irony, solidarity: a reexamination of contingencies of logos, ethos, pathos

Wk 4 Plato and Gorgias, BEing?

Wk 6a & Wk 6b Philosophy versus Rhetoric. Homo seriosus vs. Homo rhetoricus

Wk 8 Wayne Booth, Modern Dogma, Starting from Assent

Wk 9 Kenneth Burke's comedic-tragedy

Wk 11 James Berlin, writing instruction in American colleges, 1900-1985

Wks 13-14 Paulo Freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

Wk 16 Gregory Ulmer, Aleatory Procedures and HyperRhetoric


Wk 5, notes forthcoming.
Wk 7, notes forthcoming.
Wk 12
Wk 15



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