Oct 9: October Break.
Oct 11: Digital Packet: Readings from The Philosophy of Literary Form. There are two readings listed below ("Freud--and the Analysis of Poetry") and ("parlorprassages") with material from this book. Try to read the Freud essay by October 16. We'll discuss the "parlor" passages in class together as time allows.
Digital Packet: Blakesley, "Kenneth Burke's Pragmatism--Old and New" (for next Tuesday) and readings from Burke's essays in Direction.
Thought for the day . . .
"[a] rhetorician, I take it, is like one voice in a dialogue. Put several such voices together, with each voicing its own special assertion, let them act upon one another in cooperative competition, and you get a dialectic that, properly developed, can led to views transcending the limitations of each" (Kenneth Burke, "Rhetoric--Old and New" 63).