COMM
8504: Textual Analysis and Criticism
Class
Schedule
Please note that Weeks 1-6 are firmly set; however, the subsequent weeks may change. I will inform you of changes to the schedule.
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Week 1: Sept. 4 |
Introduction |
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Unit I: The
Text and Criticism in the Speech Communication Field |
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Week 2: Sept. 11 |
Ed
Black, Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in
Method. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965), 10-90,
132-147. Rod Hart, "Theory-building and Rhetorical
Criticism: An Informal Statement of Opinion," Central States Speech Journal 27 (1976): 70-77. Rod Hart, "Contemporary Scholarship in Public
Address: A Research Editorial," in Western
Journal of Speech Communication 50 (1986): 283-295 W. Charles Redding, "Extrinsic and Intrinsic
Criticism," Western Speech 21
(1957): 96-103. Barnet Baskerville, "Must We All Be 'Rhetorical
Critics'?" Quarterly Journal of
Speech, 63 (1977): 107-116. G. P. Mohrmann, "Elegy in a Critical
Grave-Yard," Western Journal of
Speech Communication 44 (1980): 265-274. Edwin Black, “A Note on Theory and Practice in
Rhetorical Criticism,” Western Journal
of Speech Communication 44 (1980): 331-336. Michael Leff, "Textual Criticism: The Legacy of
G.P. Mohrmann," Quarterly Journal
of Speech 72 (1986): 377-389. Stephen Lucas, "The Renaissance of American
Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism," Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988):
241-260. |
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Week 3: Sept. 18 |
Textual Analysis, Art, and Ideology Karlyn
K. Campbell, "The Nature of Criticism in Rhetorical and Communication
Studies," Central States Speech
Journal 30 (1979): 4-13. Michael
Leff, "Interpretation and the Art of the Rhetorical Critic," Western Journal of Speech Communication
44 (1980): 337-349. Michael
Leff, and Andrew Sachs, "Words the Most Like Things: Iconicity and the
Rhetorical Text," Western Journal
of Speech Communication, 54 (1990):252-273. Michael
Leff, "Things Made by Words: Reflections on Textual Criticism," Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992):
223-231. Michael
Calvin McGee, "Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary
Culture," Western Journal of
Speech Communication, 54 (1990):274-289. Barbara
Warnick, "Leff in Context: What is the Critic's Role?" Quarterly Journal of Speech (1992):
232-237. Celeste
Condit, "Rhetorical Criticism and Audiences: The Extremes of McGee and
Leff," Western Journal of
Communication, 54 (1990): 330-345. J.
Robert Cox, "On 'Interpreting' Public Discourse in Post-Modernity,"
Western Journal of Speech Communication, 54 (1990): 317-329. Carole
Blair, Julie R. Brown, and Leslie A. Baxter, “Disciplining the Feminine,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994):
383-409. |
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Week 4: Sept. 25 |
The Return to “Perspective” Dilip
Parameshwar Gaonkar, "Object and Method in Rhetorical Criticism: From
Wichelns to Leff and McGee," Western
Journal of Communication 54 (1990): 290-316. John
A. Campbell, “Between the Fragment and the Icon: Prospect for a Rhetorical
House of the James
Arnt Aune, "Public Address and Rhetorical Theory," in Texts in Context, Michael C. Leff and
Fred J. Kauffeld, eds. (Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1989), 43-51. Leah Ceccarelli, “Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical
Criticism,” Quarterly Journal of Speech
(1998): 395-415. Robert
Hariman, "Afterword: Relocating the Art of Public Address," in Rhetoric and Political Culutre in
Nineteenth-Century James
Jasinski, “The Status of Theory and Method in Rhetorical Criticism,” Western Journal of Communication 65
(2001): 249-270. Michael
Leff, “ Bonnie
Dow, “Criticism and Authority in the Artistic Mode,” Western Journal of Communication 65 (2001): 337-348. Stephen
Browne, “Context in Critical Theory and Practice,” Western Journal of Communication 65 (2001): 330-335. |
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Week 5: Oct. 2 |
Textual Analysis in Action Stephen
E. Lucas, "The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Amy
R. Slagell, "Anatomy of a Masterpiece: A Close Textual Analysis of
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address," Communication Studies 42 (1991): 155-171. Michael
Leff, "Dimensions of Temporality in Lincoln's Second Inaugural," in
Readings in Rhetorical Criticism,
Carl R. Burgchardt, ed. (State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 1995),
526-530. Martin
J. Medhurst, “Reconceptualizing Rhetorical History: Eisenhower’s Farewell
Address,” Quarterly Journal of Speech
(1994): 195-218. Stephen
H. Browne, "Encountering Angelina Grimke: Violence, Identity, and the
Creation of Radical Community,” Quarterly
Journal of Speech 80 (1996): 55-73. Beth
Innocenti Manolescu, “Style and Spectator Judgment in Fisher David
Zarefsky, “ Edwin
Black, “The Ultimate Voice of |
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Unit II: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Textual
Criticism |
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Week 6: Oct. 9 |
The
New Criticism Movement Rene Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory
of Literature, 3rd ed. (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace &
Co., 1956). Definitions and Distinctions, 14-53. The Extrinsic Approach to the Study of Literature, 73-74, 81-124. The Intrinsic Approach to the Study of Literature, 139-225, 238-269. |
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Week 7: Oct. 16 |
The New
Historicism Movement Simon During, “New Historicism,” Text and Performance Quarterly 11
(1991): 171-189 A. Aram Vesser, The
New Historicism (New York: Routledge, 1989). Greenblatt, "Towards a Poetics of
Culture," 1-14. Lentricchia, “Foucault’s Legacy—An New Historicism?”
231—242. Schaeffer, “The Use and Misuse of Giambattista
Vico,” 89—101. Lowder Newton, "History as Usual?"
151-167. Fish, “Commentary: The Young and the Restless,”
303—316. |
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Week 8: Oct. 23 |
Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Part I Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde, eds., Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A
Reader (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997). Jost and Hyde, "Introduction," 1-44. Gadamer, "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics," 45-59. Ricoeur, "Rhetoric-Poetics-Hermeneutics," 60-72. Altieri, "Toward a Hermeneutics Responsive," 90-107. Palmer, "What Hermeneutic Can Offer Rhetoric," 108-131. Kahn, "Humanism and the Resistance to Theory," 149-170. Leff, "Hermeneutical Rhetoric," 196-214. Garver, "Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Prudence in the
Interpretation of the Constitution," 171-195. Mailloux, "Articulation
and Understanding: The Pragmatic Intimacy Between Rhetoric and
Hermeneutics," 378-394. |
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Week 9: Oct. 30 |
Rhetorical
Hermeneutics, Part II Steven Mailloux, Rhetorical
Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989). Steven Mailloux, “Rhetorical Hermeneutics Revisted,” Text and Performance Quarterly 11
(1991): 233-248 |
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Unit III:
The Practice of Textual Criticism |
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Week 10: Nov. 6 Short Paper 1 |
Style and the Sublime Geoffrey
Leech and Michael Short,“Style and Choice,” in Style
in Fiction, (London: Longman, 1981), 10—41. Geoffrey
Leech, “Stylistics and Functionalism,” in The
Linguistics of Writing, Nigel Fabb, ed. (New York: Methuen, 1987),
chapter 5. Richard
Lanham, Style: An Anti-Textbook
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), chapters 1, 3. Longinus,
On the Sublime, James A. Arieti and
John M. Crossett, trans. (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985), selections. Edmund
Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the
Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Menston, England:
Scolar Press, 1970), selections. |
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Week 11: Nov. 13 Short Paper 2 |
Syntax, Structure, and Form Geoffrey
Leech and Michael Short,“The Rhetoric of Text,” in Style in Fiction, (London:
Longman, 1981), 209—256. Richard
Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric
(Hermagoras Press, 1985), chapter 5. |
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Week 12: Nov. 20 Short Paper 3 |
Metaphor and Meaning I.
A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric
(London: Oxford University Press, 1936), 92-120. Max
Black, “Metaphor,” 63—82. George
Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We
Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 69-125. David Douglass, “Research on Metaphor in
Communication Studies: 1960-1999,” An essay presented at the Western States
Communication Association, |
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Weeks 13, 14, and 15. Nov. 27 Short Paper 4 Dec. 4 Short Paper 5 Dec. 11 Short Paper 6 |
Choose
your topic each week from one of the following:
A Trope Through the Textual Woods: Simile, Synecdoche, and Metonymy
Kenneth
Burke, “Four Master Tropes,” in A
Grammar of Motives (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1945), 503-517. Arthur
Quinn, Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to
Turn a Phrase (Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. 1982), 5-17, 49-59. Stephen
J. Brown, “Simile,” “Personification,” and “Metonymy and Synecdoche,” in The World of Imagery: Metaphor and Kindred
Imagery (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927), 118-162. Raymond
W. Gibbs, Jr., “Metonymy,” in The
Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding,” (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994), 319-358. Irony Ernst
Behler, Irony and the Discourse of
Modernity (Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1990), 73-110. Wayne
C. Booth, A Rhetoric of Irony
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), Genres both Real and Imagined review, Bakhtin, “The Problem of Speech Genres,” in
The Discourse Reader ed. Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland (New York:
Routledge, 1999), 121-132. Karlyn
Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “Form and Genre in Rhetorical
Criticism: An Introduction,” in Form
and Genre Shaping Rhetorical Action (Falls Church: Speech Communication
Association, 1978), 9-32. Thomas Conley, “The Linnaean Blues: Thoughts on the
Genre Approach,” in in Form, Genre, and
the Study of Political Discourse (Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina
Press, 1986), 59-78. George
Aichele, Jr. “Genre and Reality,” in The
Limits of Story (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1985), 77-102. Space and Geography in Textual Contexts Henri
Lefebvre, The Production of Space,
trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 1-67. Michel
de Certeau, “Spatial Stories,” in The
Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall (Berkeley: U of
California Press, 1984), 115-130. Time in Textual Contexts Wesley
A. Kort, Modern Fiction and Human Time:
A Study in Narrative and Belief (Tampa, FL: U Presses of Florida, 1985),
3-21, 61-70, 107-116, 155-165. Hans
Meyerhoff, Time in Literature
(Berkeley: U of California Press, 1968), 1-35. Paul
Ricoeur, “Time and Narrative,” in Time
and Narrative, trans. Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, vol. 1
(Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1983), 52-87. It is a Narrative World Roland
Barthes, “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives,” in Image Music Text, trans. Stephen Heath
(New York: Hill and Wang: 1977), 79-124. Wallace Martin, Recent
Theories of Narrative (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1986), John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit,
“Re-constructing Narrative Theory: A Functional Perspective,” Journal of Communication 35 (1985):
90-108 |
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Week 16: Final Exam Week |
Discussion About Final Papers |