CI 569

Fall 2013

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Topics Discourse and Writing
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 584. See ENGL 584.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39529
Lecture-Discussion
T
3:00PM -4:50PM
R
307 English Building
Russell, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/26/13-12/11/13
Section Title:
Rhet, Gender, Disciplined Prac
Section Info:
Topic Section T: The Arror and the Loom: Rhetoric, Gender, and Disciplined Practices According to Robert Connors, rhetoric is ?the most purely male intellectual discipline that has existed in Western culture.? Shaped by ?male rituals, male contests, male ideals, and masculine agendas,? rhetoric began (circa 500BC) and persisted (at least through 1800) as ?the property of men, particularly men of property.? Connors is but one metronome to thusly mark the masculinity of the field: ?At the risk of seeming repetitive and hyperbolic,? he writes, ?I need to reiterate that the discipline of rhetoric, as it has evolved from the classical period through the eighteenth century, was almost absolutely male. It categorically refused entry to women? and women were ?not merely discouraged from learning it, but were actively and persistently denied access to it.? This course will examine the gendered and gendering history of rhetoric as a discipline and as a set of disciplined practices. It will consider the totalizing masculinity of rhetorical training in the classical period as well as the persistence of masculine metaphors in current rhetorical theory and practice. Of course, feminist scholars writing at the turn of this century have produced a small battery of books and articles to recover women?s historical rhetorical work and highlight its stylistic importance, its teleological distinctiveness, and its political significance. Therefore, this seminar will also consider the positions and practices of women within traditions of Western rhetoric from the classical period and into the present day. Key questions for the seminar will be: How is rhetorical education and performance differently gendered in different historical periods? What effects on rhetoric (how it?s conceived, taught, practiced, and researched) does a gendering of it produce? How does the status of rhetoric as a discipline produce or rely on gender categories and norms? What is gained and lost in the feminist project of claiming participation in an androcentric tradition? How can we understand rhetoric as related to masculinity and femininity in the present scholarly moment?
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Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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