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Over time, this narrow focus has been expanded, rejected, and reconfigured, and nowadays rhetorical critics sometimes seek to encompass all forms of human symbolic activity, generally regard rhetoric as constitutive rather than strictly instrumental, and often conceive rhetoric as a system that generates and regulates meaning throughout a culture. In this course, using disciplinary history as the primary organizing principle, we will study various approaches to rhetorical criticism and their associated concepts of theory, method, object, and purpose. For the most part, we will be studying conceptions of and approaches to criticism, but in order to maintain some connection with critical practice, we will also read and refer to two important texts in the history of American political rhetoric: Booker T. Washingtons Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition (found on line at  HYPERLINK "http://www.americanrhetoric.com" www.americanrhetoric.com), and W.E.B. Du Bois essay Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others (found on line at  HYPERLINK "http://www.bartleby.com/114/3.html" www.bartleby.com/114/3.html. Texts Carl Burchardt, ed. Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 3rd ed. State College, Pa: Strata, 2005. Leah Ceccarelli, Shaping Rhetoric with Science: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Shrodinger, Wilson. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2001. Michael W. Pfau, The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln. East Lansing: Michigan St. U Press, 2005. Robert Terrill, Malcolm X: Inventing Rhetorical Judgment (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004)/ Sacvan Bercovitch, American Jeremiad. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979). All five books are available at the Campus Bookstore. Supplementary Reading: Burgchardts book includes an excellent bibliography and can be used as a guide to additional readings By far the best reference for contemporary rhetorical studies in general and rhetorical criticism in particular is James Jasinskis Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001). The Western Journal of Communication has published special issues devoted to an assessment of the state of the art in rhetorical criticism four times over past half century: in 1957, 1980, 1990, and 2001. A consecutive reading of these issues can provide a rather good sense of the history and development of rhetorical criticism. Assignments Class Discussion: Student participation is a vital part of a seminar course, and I will count it as an important part of your final grade. Participation requires that you show up, but more than that, it also requires that you join in the discussion, and quality participation requires informed, responsive, and intelligent contributions. It is your responsibility to come to class preparedto have read the assignments and to be ready to talk about them intelligently. To help promote the conversation, I will ask each of you to prepare discussion questions and email them to all other members of the class at least 24 hours before the seminar session. We will work out a rotation so that some part of the class will produce questions for one session, another group for the next session, and so on in rotation through the term. Book Review: Write a review of one of the four books that we will discuss at the end of the term (i.e. Ceccarelli, Pfau, Bercovitch, or Terrill). The review must be no longer than 1500 words. Consult the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, or Rhetoric and Public Affairs to use as a model for both the form and content of your review. This paper is due February 20. Critical Study: Write a paper of from eight to ten pages that presents a critic analysis of Washingtons Cotton States Exposition Speech and/or DuBois Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others. This paper should not make direct application of any particular critical method to the texts but it should demonstrate an understanding of and an ability to apply the various critical theories we have studied. This paper is due March 26 Final Paper: This paper should be twenty to thirty pages, and it should deal with critical theory. You need to characterize the main developments in the field and present your own views about the theory, method, object, and purpose of rhetorical criticism. You should also refer to the Washington and DuBois texts as points of reference. This paper is due May 1. Grading Class participation will count for 15% of the grade, the book review for 10%, the analysis paper for 25% and the final paper for 50%. Course Schedule Note: RIRC stands for Burgchardts Readings in Rhetorical Criticism. Items marked with an asterisk* are not found in any of the required book and will be provided as photo-copies. Date Topic Reading Jan. 16 Orientation Jan. 23 Traditional Criticism Wichelns, Literary Criticism of Oratory and its Critics Wrage, Public Address (RIRC, 3-34) Black, excerpts from Rhetorical Criticism (RIRC, 46-57) Hill, Conventional Wisdom, (RIRC, 138-150) Hill/Campbell Exchange* Jan. 23 Dramatism Burke, excerpts from Lexicon Rhetoricae Rueckert, excerpts from Kenneth Burke* Burke, Rhetoric of Hitlers Battle Tonn, Endress, & Diamond, Hunting (RIRC, 188-219). Jan. 30 Metaphor & Campbell and Jamieson, Form and Genre Genre Ware and Linkugel, They Spoke in Defense (RIRC, 400-427) Osborn, Archetypal Metaphors Ivie, Metaphor and Rhetorical Invention Kuusisto, Heroic Tale (RIRC, 306-54) Feb. 13 Ideology Black, Second Persona Wander, Ideological Turn (RIRC, 87-113) McGee, The Ideograph Lucaites and Condit, Reconstructing (RIRC, 452-486) Feb. 20 Feminism Campbell, Rhetoric of Womens Liberation (RIRC, 510-522) Cloud, Hegemony or Concordance (RIRC, 542-562) Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship (RIRC, 356-98) Feb. 27 Close Reading Jasinski, Status of Theory and Method* Lucas, Stylistic Artistry (RIRC, 569-83) Browne, Circle of Felicities, (RIRC, 163-186) Leff, Neo-Classical Criticism Revisited* March 5 Spring Break March 12 Agency and Ethos Amossy, Ethos at the Crossroads* Miller, Automation* March 19 Visual Rhetoric Edwards and Winker, Representative Form (RIRC, 486-509) Finnegan, FSA Photography and New Deal Visual Culture* March 26 Post Modernism McKerrow, Critical Rhetoric (RIRC, 114-136) Charland, Constitutive Rhetoric* Blair, Jeppeson, & Pucci, Public Memorializing April 2 Rhetoric of Science Ceccarelli, Shaping Science with Rhetoric April 9 The Jeremiad Bercovitch, American Jeremiad April 16 Text and Context Pfau, The Political Style of Conspiracy April 23 Radical Rhetoric Terrill, Malcolm X      ./012HIJQ  ) C D E Q  Q  5 Q    & . 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