Lecture Notes
(these will be updated as the semester progresses)

• January 16th: "Introduction to English 472" powerpoint (see BlackBoard) and notes
• January 18th: "Herrick, Chapter One and "Rhetorical Criticism" powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• January 23rd: Ehninger's "Systems of Rhetoric," "Ideological Criticism" powerpoint (see BlackBoard), and Wander's "Ideological Turn"
• January 25th: Crowley's "Reflections on an Argument that Won't Go Away"
• January 30th: Herrick, Chapter Two and Gorgias, “Encomium" and Sophists powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• February 1st: Crowley's "Plea for the Revival of Sophistry”
• February 6th: Poulakos’s “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric” and Jarratt’s “The First Sophistics and the Uses of History”
• February 13th: Herrick Chapter Three, Plato and Plato’s Gorgias, and Plato powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• February 15th: McComiskey ’s “Plato’s Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias"
• February 20th: Herrick Chapter Four and Aristotle and Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Books I and II, and Aristotle's Rhetoric powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• February 22nd: Quandahl’s “Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting Invention” and Herrick Chapter Five
• February 27th: Herrick Chapter Eight, Locke’s “Essay on Human Understanding” selections from Book III — Chapter IX — Of the Imperfection of Words and Chapter X — Of the Abuse of Words, and Locke powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• March 1st: Corbett ’s “John Locke’s Contributions to Rhetoric”
• March 6th: Herrick Chapter Nine and Scott’s "On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic"
• March 8th: Farrell’s "Knowledge, Consensus, and Rhetorical Theory"
• March 20th: Herrick Chapter Ten
• March 22nd: Bitzer's "The Rhetorical Situation" and Rhetorical Situation powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• March 27th: Vatz’s “Myth of the Rhetorical Situation” and Biesecker ’s "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation” and Rhetorical Situation powerpoint (see BlackBoard)
• April 3rd: Campbell’s “Rhetoric of Women's Liberation” and Biesecker ’s "Coming to Terms”
• April 5th: Bizzell’s "Opportunities for Feminist Research in the Histories of Rhetoric" and Glenn ’s “Sex, Lies, and Manuscript”
• April 10th: Mattingly ’s “Telling Evidence”
• April 12th: Herrick, Chapter Eleven
• April 17th: Foucault’s "The Discourse on Language” and Biesecker’s "Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric"
• April 19th: Berlin’s "Revisionary History” and Glenn’s “Remapping Rhetorical Territory”
• April 24th: Royster’s “Disciplinary Landscaping”
• April 26th: Bizzell’s “Editing the Rhet Tradition”