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February 07, 2005
Assignment for February 10
To prepare for class,
- Read Connors Ch. 1: Carolyn will summarize and lead class discussion
- Read White Ch. 3: See preliminary notes here and here. Chris will summarize and lead class discussion.
- Read White Ch. 4: Kelly will summarize and lead class discussion. (I've posted a note on some of White's terminology in this chapter.)
- In Ch. 4, White formalizes a principle for which the previous chapters have been laying the groundwork: "[A] given historian's style of representation can be characterized in terms either of his favoring one or another of [Burke's master] tropes, or of his efforts to mediate between them. . ." (116). Return to the text in composition history whose methods and methodology you surveyed for January 27: how would you now describe this text in terms of its emplotment? As you consider your answer, take into account not just the above quotation from White, but the entire conclusion to the chapter, especially on 116. Before class on 2/10, write your response (however tentative it may be) to this question as a separate blog entry. In the title to your entry, please include either the author's name or title of the book that you are analyzing. Please categorize your entry under your own name; under "methods and methodologies"; and under "texts."
- Post a proposal for your course project.
In class,
Discussion of assigned readings
Posted by senioritis at February 7, 2005 07:56 PM