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The schedule for my University of Waterloo English course, 309A, uploaded solely so I can post it to the course Facebook page.
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English 309A Schedule
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13 Sept
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os Rhetoric “Because I Got High,” Afroman (iTunes, $1.29)
15 Sept Figuration The syllabus (read it carefully; ask questions) 20 Sept Homeric rhetoric Pernot, Introduction, chapter 1 22 Sept Sophists Pernot, chapter 2 27 Sept Plato’s response Walter Lantz (1941), Scrub me Mama with a Boogie Beat 29 Sept Dialectic “The Phaedrus,” Plato
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Aristotle’s response Pernot, chapter 3 6 Oct Genres (TVO?) Ontario Provincial leaders debate 11 Oct Enthymemes W. F. Buckley (& N. Chomsky), Firing Line (3 April 1969): COMPLETE EPISODE 13 Oct Topoi Pernot, chapter 4. 18 Oct Stases Barack Obama (2009), “A New Beginning” (video & transcript) 20 Oct Definition Take-‐home midterm distributed 25 Oct Division & Classification The Odyssey Bk 6 27 Oct Fallacies Essay / Project Proposal due 1 Nov
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Rhetoric in Rome Pernot, chapter 5 3 Nov Delivery “Dear Friends,” A letter from Jack Layton 8 Nov Orator Perfectus Cicero, de Oratore Bk 1 (Sutton translation) 10 Nov The Rise of Epideictic Pernot, chapter 6 15 Nov Rhetorical criticism Howard Hawks (1940), His Girl Friday 17 Nov Education Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Bk 2, chpts 9-‐21 (Watson translation) 22 Nov Life as Rhetoric de Doctrina Christiana, Bk 4 (Shaw translation) 24 Nov Rhetoric über alles Pernot, chapter 7 29 Nov Course wrap Essay / Project due