Spring 2020: January 21st to May 8th
Week 8
Wednesday, March 11th
Complete:
59 Irony 60 Meiosis 61 Hyperbole 62 Simile Read Forsyth Chapters 27, 29
For Monday, March 30th:
Copy, unwrite, and compose types 63-67 63 Analogy 64 Metaphor 65 Catachresis 66 Metonymy 67 Synechdoche |
Spring Break (weeks 9 and 10)
Spring Break: Beginning March 14th and returning to online class Monday, March 30th.
The life of a mythology derives from the vitality of its symbols as metaphors delivering, not simply the idea, but a sense of actual participation in such a realization of transcendence, infinity, and abundance, as this of which the upanishadic authors tell. Indeed, the first and most essential service of a mythology is this one, of opening the mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being. And the second service, then, is cosmological: of representing the universe and whole spectacle of nature, both as known to the mind and as beheld by the eye, as an epiphany of such kind that when lightning flashes, or a setting sun ignites the sky, or a deer is seen standing alerted, the exclamation "Ah!" may be uttered as a recognition of divinity.
(Joseph Campbell The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion 18)
Week 11
Monday, March 30th
Complete:
63 Analogy
64 Metaphor
65 Catachresis
66 Metonymy
67 Synechdoche
63 Analogy
64 Metaphor
65 Catachresis
66 Metonymy
67 Synechdoche
Read from Stanley Fish's How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, chapters 1-7.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2a, 2b
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Chapter 7
Chapter 1
Chapter 2a, 2b
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Chapter 7
Workshopping the proposal
Wednesday, April 1st
Proposal due.
Workshop final project
Workshop final project
Week 12
Monday, April 6th
Workshop final project
Read from Stanley Fish's How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, chapters 8-10
Recommended Reading: from Tufte's Artful Sentences, chapters 12 and 14.
Wednesday, April 8th
Workshop final project
Recommended Reading: from Jeanne Fahnestock's Rhetorical Style, chapter 13--especially "Figures of Speaker/Audience Construction" (291-303)
Figures of thought as figures of speech act
Week 13
Monday, April 13th
Workshop final project
Recommended reading: Joseph Campbell's "Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art"
Wednesday, April 15th
Workshop final project
Week 14
Monday, April 20th
Workshop final project
Read from Jay Heinrich's book Thank You for Arguing, chapter 20: "Change Reality."
Read Holcomb and Killingsworth Chapter 6 "Tropes" and Chapter 7 "Schemes"
Read Holcomb and Killingsworth Chapter 6 "Tropes" and Chapter 7 "Schemes"
Wednesday, April 22nd
Workshop final project
Week 15
Monday, April 27th
Conferences
Wednesday, April 29th
Conferences
Finals Week
Monday, May 4th
Time: 2:45 - 4:45