Points of Praxis

My Blog Reflects on Visual Rhetorical Theory and Disability Rhetoric and their Connections to Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

Well, this is the beginning of a new semester, and I'm going to change the focus of this blog from electronic literature to visual rhetoric in order to continue my quest for "points of praxis" and to study for my comprehensive exams scheduled for this November.  My goal is to continue studying throughout the next four months and to use this space as a place to dialogue on visual rhetorical theory by posting several times a week.  I also plan on connecting my readings in visual rhetorical theory back to works on classical and contemporary rhetorical theory and discourse analysis.  And, finally, I plan to provide links and a working bibliography on visual rhetorical sources for myself and other scholars.

So, I welcome (rather, beg for) any feedback or comments from readers.  Any feedback will help me to become the knowledgable ABD that I wish to be...

posted by: rgregory at 18:42 | link | comments (3) |

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#1  30 August 2006 - 10:20

 

I think this will make for an interesting point of dialogue, Rochelle. I'm taking my time to go through both the "to works on classical and contemporary rhetorical theory and discourse analysis" myself, at last happy that, per Popken's prediction in his first lecture, I'm beginning to "get it." So, hopefully I won't be lost in the cascade of theory; I hope to learn a thing or two from this.

Mo'nonymous

#2  30 August 2006 - 10:22

 

By the way, that was Brandon (and so is this). And sorry about that syntactical problem. I know we aren't Nazis about it with our students, but I'm merciless when it comes to myself.

Mo'nonymous

#3  02 September 2006 - 18:05

 

I know what you mean about starting "to get it." I only wish I could actually take Discourse Analysis w/ Popken again after having read so much now. There was so much that went over my head, particularly in the Freedman and Medway book, Genre and the New Rhetoric. I was looking through some of my notes in that text and there are just huge passages with "???" in the margins. And, now I get what they're discussing--and I want to tell Popken that so much.

Another funny comment in found in my notes: on the third class day of Discourse Analysis (which was my very first introduction to Rhetoric ever), I wrote in the margin of my notes, "I will not be intimidated. I can do this." I was such a fish-out-of-water then. Popken was so overwhelming and brilliant and challenging and everything.

rgregory

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