Western Rhetorical Communication

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

- to gain knowledge about the history of Greek and Latin rhetoric
- to gain knowledge about the system of classical rhetoric and its contemporary reception
- to gain knowledge about the rules of rhetorical analysis
- to gain skills of rhetorical analysis of persuasive texts

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

none

Syllabus

Week 1 History of ancient rhetoric (1h)

 

Week 2 Main rhetorical categories.

 

Week 3 Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 4 Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 5Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 6 Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 7 Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 8 Canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery)

 

Week 9 Rhetorical analysis: general rules

 

Week 10 Rhetorical analysis: practical exercises (1) - inventio

 

Week 11 Rhetorical analysis: practical exercises (2) - dispositio

 

Week 12 Rhetorical analysis: practical exercises (3) - elocutio

 

Week 13 Writing the rhetorical analysis essayWeek 13 Writing the rhetorical analysis essay

 

Week 14 Writing the rhetorical analysis essay

 

Week 15 Writing the rhetorical analysis essay

Reading list

1. Gideon O. Burton, Silva Rhetoricae, Brigham Young University ( http://rhetoric.byu.edu )
2. Sharon Crowley, Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetoric for Contemporary Students, New York ...: Pearson - Longman 2004
3. Encyclopaedia of Rhetoric, ed. Thomas O. Sloane, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001
4. George A. Kennedy, A New History of Classical Rhetoric, Princeton: Princeton University Press 1994
5. Kathleen E. Welsh, The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990