ENG 651 Advanced Studies in History and Theories of Rhetoric:
Modern and Contemporary Theories of Rhetorical Invention
Spring 2007

 Course Homepage: www. public.asu.edu/~mdg42/651home.html

Syllabus
(Tentative)
ENG 651 Ln# 13207                                                                                        Note: Assignments due on date listed.

Week 1   January 22             Introduction to the Course

Week 2   January 29             Invention in Classical Rhetoric

Read:  pp. 1-29; 45-55 in Lauer’s Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
            pp. 176-91 Enos’s “Literacy in Athens during the Archaic Period” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention
pp. 16-35 Hawhee’s “Kairotic Encounters” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 3   February               Invention in the Long Modernity

Read:  pp. 29-45; 56-64 in Lauer’s Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
            pp. 192-211 Williams and Enos’s “Vico’s Triangular Invention” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention
            pp. 1-14 in Crowley’s Methodical Memory

Week 4   February 12          Invention in the Long Modernity

Read:  pp. 15-95 in Crowley’s Methodical Memory

Week 5   February 19          Invention in the Long Modernity

Read:  pp. 96-169 in Crowley’s Methodical Memory
            pp. 36-52 Lyon’s “Rhetoric and Hermeneutics” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 6   February 26          Invention in the Long Modernity

Read:  Chapters 1-8 in Battersby’s Gender and Genius
Due: Informal Proposal on Seminar Project

Week 7   March 5                 Invention in the Long Modernity

Read:  Chapters 9-16 in Battersby’s Gender and Genius
pp. xi-xxi Atwill’s “Introduction” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 8   March 12                           *** Spring Break   March 12-16*** No Classes

Week 9   March 19               Invention in the Twentieth Century

Read:  pp. 65-119 in Lauer’s Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
pp. 1-15 Lauer’s “Rhetorical Invention” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

 

Week 10  March 26              Invention in the Twentieth Century

Read:  pp. 1-62 in LeFevre’s Invention as a Social Act
            pp. 64-95 Phelps’s “Institutional Invention” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Due: Annotated Bibliography

Week 11  April 2                   Invention in the Twentieth Century

Read:  pp. 62-140 in LeFevre’s Invention as a Social Act
            pp. 96-130 Flower & Deems’s “Conflict in Community Collaboration” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 12 April 9        Invention in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Century

Read:  pp. 120-148 in Lauer’s Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
            pp. 53-63 Liu’s “Invention and Inventiveness in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 13  April 16      Invention in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Century

Read:  pp. 131-47 Lazere’s “Invention, Critical Thinking and the Analysis of Political Rhetoric” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention
            pp. 148-62 Satterfield & Antczak’s “American Pragmatism” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention
            pp. 163-175 Wang “Inventing Chinese Rhetorical Culture” in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention

Week 14  April 23                 Sharing our findings

Conference Presentations on Invention

Week 15  April 30                 Sharing our findings

Conference Presentations on Invention

            DUE:  Scholar’s Log

Seminar Paper is due on or before Monday, May 6 by 4:40.