ENGL 584

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Topics Discourse and Writing

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Credit: 4 hours.

Focuses on the modes of inquiry central to writing research. The course topic will vary each term and may address such issues as cognitive research and writing, ethnographic research and writing, and discourse analysis and writing.

Same as CI 569. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in writing studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 584 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39504	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:30PM -6:00PM	M	English Building	Russell, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: Rhetoric and the Body Section Info: Rhetoric and the Body The discipline of rhetoric has been around for an estimated twenty-six centuries, and, for the majority of that time, it has been described as an art of language. While the measured performance of writing, speaking, debating, arguing, and persuading in words has long been at the heart of rhetoric, so too have veins of rhetorical thinking long been concerned with bodies. Bodies have been variously read as conduits of, complements to, or liabilities in rhetorical performance; they are sometimes seen as objects to be trained or styled in the service of persuasion, sometimes as themselves arguments persuasive precisely because they bypass words. This seminar will explore theories of the body as it has emerged in rhetorical thinking, ancient to contemporary. Coursework will focus on key concepts from rhetoric (e.g., delivery, gesture, elocution, comportment, style, ethos, timing, spectacle), but it will also draw on ideas that animate thinking about bodies across disciplines (e.g., performativity, materiality, affect) and mobilize various matrices for complicating how we think of “able” and “ideal” bodies (e.g., disability, gender, race, class, sexuality). In addition to reading theories of rhetoric and the body, this course will invite you to engage in and reflect on embodied activity. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.