m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Howell thought that Burke had missed the point when Burke ignored a large body of previous academic history all the way back to Aristotle when Burke said that the rhetorical utterance and the poetic utterance were both rhetorical. Howell thought that there was a big difference between rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric proceeds by [...]

I am preparing for a debate on Friday in my Rhetoric class. My debate team has been assigned to argue Howell’s take on rhetoric. Our opponents will take Burke’s perspective. More on this later.
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I have to turn in later this morning a short informal paper applying Burke’s Lexicon Rhetoricae to James Wright’s poem, Autumn Begins. There were 6 questions relating to Burke’s discussion of forms. I am mostly pleased with my analysis except for the last 2 questions. I am not sure that I have [...]

From Dr. Phil’s column in O, “the number one predictor of divorce is not whether you argue with your spouse but how you argue; specifically, how your arguments end. If your arguments deterioriate into character assassinations and name-calling, you’re living with a person who has no regard for your personal worth” (April 2004, p48).