Sept 11: Counter-Statement (63-122)
Suggested Prompt and Tag: In the Preface to the first edition of Counter-Statement, Burke discusses two general types of writing or rhetorical approach (or even criticism): pamphleteering and inquiry. What's the difference between the two? How might each relate to notions of rhetoric as the study of the use of persuasive resources (rhetorica docens) and the use of persuasive resources (rhetorica utens)? Which way do you think Burke leans, and why? Tag: Pamphlinquiry.
Sept 13: Counter-Statement (123-225)
Note that the readings on Revolutionary Symbolism have been set back to Week 6.