Monthly Archives: September 2009
Definitions of rhetoric
“’Rhetoric’ has come down to us today simply as high-flown, windy and empty talk. It had a completely different meaning to the Greeks. Rhetoric was a crucially important technical discovery of the way language actually works and can be manipulated: … Continue reading
Robert Hass on Edward Taylor
Two quotations from Hass’ “Edward Taylor: What Was He Up To?” in the March/April 2002 issue of The American Poetry Review: The term baroque was introduced into critical discourse about art by the German scholar Heinrich Wolfflin. He used it to … Continue reading
Becoming Puritan
Edmund S. Morgan’s Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea is one good place discover the process Puritans expected from each other as they started and joined congregations and took communion. This process has its own history, of course, … Continue reading
Changes to the MLA documentation system
The online writing lab at Purdue University summarizes the most important changes this way: No More Underlining! Underlining is no more. MLA now recommends italicizing titles of independently published works (books, periodicals, films, etc). No More URLs! While website entries … Continue reading
English 3510 readings . . .
will be posted in links to the right, by title. I may group them together as the semester continues. The first is “The Cultural Dynamics of American Puritanism” by David M. Robinson.
Contact zones and transculturation
English 3510 Contact zones and transculturation (from American Passages) Has Pablo Tac written an example of transculturation? What evidence from his text might defend that idea? Transculturation: A term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz that refers to a process … Continue reading
Metaphor by Metaphor 