Category Archives: Writing 593 Rhetorical Tradition (Winter 2006)

language as action

Posted on March 17, 2006 by Michael

After this quarter and reading some Burke and Foucault, I’m beginning to think quite a bit about how language is action. As a discipline, English, Rhetoric and Composition all too often views “artifacts” as products, not as actions. Thus, Bakhtin … Continue reading →

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Falling for Foucault

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Michael

Recently, I’ve been reading some Foucault for theory group and for Writing 593. I’ve read sections of The Order of Things, the essays “What is an Author” and “Nietzsche, Geneology, History,” and an excerpt from “The Order of Discourse.” From … Continue reading →

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from Enos’s Encyclopedia

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Michael

Reynolds, John Frederick. “Delivery.” Ed. Theresa Enos. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. New York: Garland, 1996. 172-173. Reynolds writes: Delivery, however, is the more readily revived of rhetoric’s two “problem canons,” both … Continue reading →

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quotes and my thoughts on Ong’s “Contest and Other Adversatives”

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Michael

Here are some quotes and some of my thoughts as I read Chapter 1 of Fighting for Life by Walter Ong. “The biological side of our nature is nothing to be ashamed of.” (10) “Contest is a part of human … Continue reading →

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King Kong’s mating display

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Michael

If you’ve seen the new King Kong, you probably noticed the intense mating ritual that King Kong and Ann Darrow engaged in. King Kong starts this ritual atop his mountain by violently displaying his strength and then expressing his frustration … Continue reading →

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