CRT4930

Rhetoric

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2002

Walter Veit

12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton

Synopsis: The philosophical foundations of rhetoric as a theory of communication. Topics include theory and practice in Greek and Roman antiquity, the major forces during the Middle Ages, the decline of rhetoric from the Renaissance to the 19th century, and the reassessment of the function of rhetoric in the work of contemporary theoreticians and scholars like E R Curtius, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ernesto Grassi, Paul Ricoeur, Chaim Perelman, Jürgen Habermas, Hans Blumenberg and Hayden White, and in the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Assessment: Two seminar papers (1000-1500 words each): 20% each + Research essay (6000 words): 60%