M, 3:00 PM-5:30 PM, Location: TBA
Open to Graduates Only!

Instructor: Robert Ivie
E-Mail: rivie@indiana.edu
Office: Mottier Hall 203
Phone: 855-5467
Instructor’s Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~ivieweb

Purpose of the Course:  Rhetoric is conceptualized and practiced in
this course as an act of engaged cultural critique, focusing on the
problem of the scapegoat or demonized Other and the corresponding
challenge of articulating more inclusive democratic polities.  We
draw on Kenneth Burke’s dramatism as a framework for productive
rhetorical critique of tragic rituals of victimization and
redemptive violence.  Burke’s treatment of the comic corrective is
complemented by Lewis Hyde’s representation of the mythic trickster
and by Michel de Certeau’s treatment of the tactical tricks of
everyday life, and is extended by Frank Lentricchia into the realm
of political action in a version of what Michael Walzer
characterizes as connected criticism.