COMM450: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL RHETORICAL THEORY

Syllabus, Fall 2010, MW 2:00-3:15, SQH 1119

Last Updated 10 August 2010

Instructor: Robert N. Gaines

Office: SKN 2106

Phone: 301.405.6526

Email: gaines@arsrhetorica.net (preferred form of contact)

Office Hours: MW 1:00-1:50pm

The official syllabus for COMM450, fall 2010, is online at http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/450sy0810.html; the official syllabus is subject to minor revision as the course proceeds. Any hard copy of the syllabus is unofficial.

Required, Recommended, and Suggested Readings

Most required and recommended readings for this course are available through Library Course Reserves (LCR--in ELMS [Instructions for Obtaining Readings]), through Course Electronic Readings (CER--at the course website: http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/comm450.html), or more generally at specified URLs on the internet. Additional required readings are accessible in the required book. Required readings may generally serve as subjects of questions in examinations.

Required Books

Kennedy, George A. 1999. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN-13: 978-0807847695

The Course

This course of study offers a preliminary inquiry into the rhetorical theory of the ancient and medieval historical periods. Special emphasis is placed on the nature of rhetoric per se and the intellectual and cultural forces that gave rise to its characteristic development within both periods. Authors treated include Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hermagoras, Cicero, Auctor ad Herennium, Quintilian, Hermogenes, Martianus Capella, Aurelius Augustine, Alberic of Monte Cassino, Anonymous of Bologna, Matthew of Vendôme, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Alain of Lille, Alexander of Ashby, Thomas of Salisbury, and Robert of Basevorn.

Expectations of Students

1. To complete the course of study successfully, each student is expected to attend class meetings regularly and promptly, to read and be prepared to discuss the required readings at each class meeting and as assigned, and to perform satisfactorily on the intraterm and final examinations.

2. Students should read and be familiar with the contents of the online course syllabus (http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/450sy0810.html). The course syllabus is designed to answer questions of an operational nature concerning the course. Students should scrutinize the course syllabus for answers to their questions concerning course assignments, location of course readings and course learning aids, scheduling and conditions of examinations and results returns, conditions of excused absence, means of requesting make-up examinations, examination assessment and grading, conditions for assignment of incompletes, accommodation of disabilities, and all other administrative matters related to the course. Students are discouraged from directing inquiries to the instructor that are answered in the course syllabus.

3. Regular examinations over course materials will be conducted using mark-sense answer sheets; therefore, students are expected to bring two sharpened number 2 graphite pencils (and an eraser) to every examination. Students are responsible for entering answers on examination answer sheets correctly and clearly. For correction of improperly entered answers on answer sheets it is recommended that students use a non-abrasive drafting eraser during examinations.

4. Students should have and frequently consult an email account the address for which is correctly entered in their directory information as maintained by the University. It is through directory information email accounts that the instructor will directly communicate with students (as a group and individually) outside of the classroom. Students should frequently check to ensure that their email inboxes are maintained and capable of receiving messages.

5. Students should be familiar with University of Maryland's Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS) as well as Testudo Interactive Web Services (Testudo) and MyUM. ELMS (http://elms.umd.edu) will be used to provide students with online access to class readings in Library Course Reserves as well as to their individual results for intraterm and final examinations (login at http://elms.umd.edu, select "Course Tools," then select "My Grades"). Students may consult ELMS to obtain notice of their examination raw scores and plus-or-minus letter grades at any time, and it is the responsibility of students to employ these forms of assessment information to interpret their progress in the course and to set goals for future performance in examinations. Testudo and MyUM may be used by students to check on early warning grades and final course grades once they have been submitted to the University Registrar. On Testudo go to http://www.testudo.umd.edu/Registrar.html, look under "24-Hour Access," and select "View Your Grades." On MyUM go to http://my.umd.edu, select "Academics & Testudo" from the main menu, and in "Academics & Testudo" view your grades in the "Grades" box.

6. Students should be familiar with the COMM450 website (http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/comm450.html). This site includes the online syllabus, electronic readings, electronic lecture notes, and course review questions. Before each class meeting, students are expected to consult the online syllabus for assignments and possible changes to the course schedule. Also before each class meeting students should spend at least two hours preparing course readings, reviewing electronic lecture notes, and consulting course review questions. Students may find the course review questions extremely valuable, because intraterm and final examination questions are generally designed to cover the same material as the review questions. Electronic lecture notes and course review questions are located web pages that are password-protected. The username and password that provide access to these pages will be shared with COMM450 students on the first day of class and on several subsequent class days. Students who need a reminder of the username and password should consult the instructor.

7. Students are expected to engage in several constructive behaviors during each class and discussion section meeting; specifically, students should always give full attention to ongoing activities, make a genuine effort to understand the matters treated in class lectures and discussion sections, take part in class discussions when called upon to do so, and cultivate personal thinking about the course materials. Additionally, it is expected that students in this class will comport themselves honorably, courteously, and decorously within all course related activities—in class and discussion section meetings and elsewhere.

8. Class etiquette related to the use of communication technology includes the following principles. Students are expected to turn telephone ringers off during class sessions. Students may not place or accept telephone calls or compose and send text messages during class sessions. If urgency requires that a student place or accept a telephone call or compose and send a text message during a class session, then the student must leave the classroom to transact the urgent communication. Having departed for this purpose, a student is expected not to return to class during that class session. Students may use computers (or other electronic devices) during class sessions for the purpose of taking class notes and conducting searches for information related to class proceedings (however, students are encouraged to consider that recent empirical studies have shown in-class use of computers significantly lowers the course grades of users; see, e.g., Carrie B. Fried, "In-Class Laptop Use and Its Effects on Student Learning," Computers & Education 50 [2008]: 906-914, and Josh Fishman, "Students Stop Surfing After Being Shown How In-Class Laptop Use Lowers Test Grades," Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 March 2009; http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Stop-Surfing-After/4576). Except in bona-fide emergencies, computers (or other electronic devices) should not be used for purposes other than note-taking or class-related searches; in particular the following in-class uses of computers (or other electronic devices) are expressly excluded (except in the process of legitimate note-taking or class-related searches): playing audio/visual files, playing computer games, web surfing, uploading or downloading digital files, reading/composing/sending email or other electronic texts, and creating/storing/disseminating visual images. In general, communication/information technology should never be used in a way that distracts the user or other students from course proceedings or violates the student Code of Academic Integrity, the Code of Student Conduct, UMCP policy, or local, state, or federal statutes and regulations. Any breach of class etiquette related to the use of communication/information technology will be considered a disruption of class.

9. Finally, students are expected to participate in the University of Maryland's campus-wide online course evaluation system, CourseEvalUM (https://www.courseevalum.umd.edu), for the purpose of evaluating this course.

Evaluation

Evaluation of students' comprehension of the course of study will be based on two intraterm examinations and a final examination. Each student performance will receive a letter grade using the UMCP plus/minus scheme: A+ = 4.3; A = 4.0; A– = 3.7; B+ = 3.3; B = 3.0; B– = 2.7; C+ = 2.3; C = 2.0, C– = 1.7; D+ = 1.3, D = 1.0; D– = 0.7; F = 0. In computing final course grades, student performances will be weighted as follows: Intraterm Examination One = 25%, Intraterm Examination Two = 25%, Final Examination = 50%. To calculate final course grades, numerical equivalents for individual student performances will be multiplied by assignment weights and added together to obtain a performance summary number for each student. Final plus/minus course grades will be assigned to summary performance numbers as follows: A+ = 4.200 and above; A = 3.800–4.199; A– = 3.500–3.799; B+ = 3.200–3.499; B = 2.800–3.199, B– = 2.500–2.799; C+ = 2.200–2.499; C = 1.800–2.199; C– = 1.500–1.799; D+ = 1.200–1.499; D = 0.800–1.199; D– = 0.500–0.799, F = 0.499 and below.

The instructor of this course will not disclose student educational records or other personally identifiable information of any student except in compliance with the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (known as the Buckley Amendment) as implemented in the University of Maryland Policy and Procedures on the Disclosure of Student Educational Records (III-6.30(A); http://www.president.umd.edu/policies/iii630a.html. The COMM450 instructor routinely complies with legitimate requests for student educational records received from school officials of UMCP who are in a position to use the information in furtherance of a legitimate educational objective. However, if students are participating in voluntary academic performance monitoring under the supervision of individuals or organizations outside the University, any request for release of educational records must be accompanied by written consent, signed by the student, and dated. Within the consent document, the student must specify the records to be disclosed, the identity of the recipient, the mailing address of the recipient, and the purpose of the disclosure. Further, the student must supply a stamped envelope that is addressed to the recipient. Any request that does not meet the foregoing standards will not be approved, and in no case will the instructor certify authenticity of records disclosed.

Attendance

Attendance in Normal Circumstances. Students are expected to attend class regularly and promptly. When a student does not attend class, the absence is excused only if the absence is caused by illness of the student, or illness of a dependent as defined by Board of Regents policy on family and medical leave; religious observance (where the nature of the observance prevents the student from being present during the class period); participation in university activities at the request of University authorities; or compelling circumstance beyond the student's control. (The interpretation of "compelling circumstance beyond the student's control" that is followed in this course requires that a qualifying circumstance be both "compelling" and actually "beyond the student's control." For example, because optional travel plans are within the power of students to make, a student's undertaking of optional travel that conflicts with an examination does not generally constitute a "compelling circumstance beyond the student's control.") Students claiming excused absence must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the instructor that their failure to attend was on account of one of these four causes. Such demonstration shall take the form of a document signed by a person in a position to make an authoritative determination as to the validity of the cause of absence claimed by the student. Within the document, the cause of absence must be specifically affirmed by the writer. (For example, where the cause of absence is illness, a document from a medical professional that affirms the student was "too ill to attend class" will satisfactorily demonstrate that the student did not attend class on account of illness.) Documents related to any absence must be presented to the instructor within five calendar days of the student's return to school from that absence. The instructor reserves the right to verify the content and authority of documents.

Attendance during Inclement Weather or Other Emergency Conditions. In the event of inclement weather or other emergency conditions, the University of Maryland will provide information and direction for University community members at the following address: http://www.umd.edu/emergencypreparedness. On any class day affected by inclement weather or other emergency conditions, this course will meet if the University is open during the regularly scheduled class time. If the University is closed during the regularly scheduled class time, the course will not meet. If a delayed opening or campus closure affects an examination, the examination will be rescheduled during a class meeting when the University is open. During circumstances of inclement weather or other emergency conditions, students are expected to exercise good judgment regarding their personal circumstances; if prudence recommends non-attendance in class, even when an examination is scheduled, students should claim excused absence based on circumstances beyond their control (and such claims will be assessed liberally by the instructor).

Examinations

The intraterm examinations will be offered on Wednesday, 13 October 2010, and Monday, 15 November 2010, during the regularly scheduled class periods. The final examination will be offered on Thursday, 16 December 2010, during the regularly scheduled final examination period (1:30-3:30 pm). The dates of examinations will not change except in emergency or extraordinary circumstances. Examination items will be drawn from all course materials--including lectures and required readings--that have been covered up to the time of each examination (this makes both intraterm examinations and the final examination cumulative). It is the responsibility of the student to be informed concerning the dates and times of all examinations. The examinations will be graded objectively; that is, for any examination item, responses will be awarded points to the degree that they correspond to a predetermined ideal or correct answer. Missed examinations may be made up only if the student demonstrates that absence from the examination was due to excused absence (as defined above under Attendance). Students who wish to request a make-up examination in this course must do so using the form entitled Request for Make-Up Examination or Assessment; this form is available at the following address: http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/mureqst.pdf (students should not attempt to bypass this procedural step through informal requests for make-up examinations). Requests for make-up examinations will be considered for approval only if they are completed--with accompanying documentation--and submitted before or within five calendar days of the student's return to school from the absence at stake in the request. Make-up examination request forms must be submitted in the mailbox of the instructor (across from the Communication Department Office, 2130 Skinner Building). Only in emergencies or extraordinary circumstances will a request for make-up examination be approved if the proposed date of a make-up examination precedes the scheduled date of the regular examination in class. The instructor reserves the right to verify the content and/or authority of request forms and any accompanying documentation. In the event that a student's request for a make-up examination is not approved, and the student wishes to appeal, then the student should immediately (within one week) consult the Chairperson of the Department of Communication to register the appeal (see http://www.testudo.umd.edu/soc/atedasse.html). Where student requests for make-up examinations are approved, the formats of make-up examinations may differ from those in regular examinations; however, the make-up examinations will cover only the material for which the students were originally responsible and will be at a comparable level of difficulty with the original examination.

Regarding examinations, the following rules will be observed in this course:

a) Students arriving late for an examination may not unreasonably disrupt the examination room.

b) Students must maintain control of all personal materials not authorized for use in the examination (e.g., books, notes, communication devices, computers, and the like) so that they do not assist or distract any person undertaking the examination. In the case of telephones and other devices for creating visual images, "maintaining control" means that the telephone or other device is not visible at any time in the classroom during the session in which an examination is being administered.

c) Where seating arrangements are established by the proctor, students must conform to these arrangements.

d) Students may not return to an examination room after leaving, unless permission to do so has been granted by the proctor prior to the student's departure.

e) Students must cease conversation prior to the passing out of examination papers and generally maintain silence during the entire examination period.

f) Students must place examination papers face down on the writing desk until the examination is officially started by the proctor.

g) Students must keep examination papers flat on the writing desk at all times--insofar as possible.

h) Students at an examination must be prepared to show current University identification.

i) By the conclusion of the examination, each student must submit both his or her question list and his or her answer sheet to the proctor. The student's name must be entered on both the question list and the answer sheet.

A breach of any of these rules may lead to an allegation of academic dishonesty and, in certain circumstances, to a determination that a disruption of class has occurred.

Raw scores and letter grades representing individual student performance on examinations will be posted on ELMS (for confidential consultation by students). Graded intraterm examinations will be returned and questions discussed on Wednesday, 20 October 2010, and Monday, 22 November 2010. These are the only dates on which students will generally have the opportunity to receive (1) feedback concerning their performance on individual items in the intraterm examinations and (2) commentary regarding right and wrong answers to items in the intraterm examinations. Students absent on a day of examination return and discussion may request a make-up. The procedure for requesting a make-up examination return and discussion is similar to the procedure for requesting a make-up examination. The student must demonstrate that his or her absence from examination return and discussion was due to excused absence (as defined above under attendance); the means for such demonstration will be submission of the form entitled Request for Make-Up Examination Return and Discussion; this form is available at the following address: http://www.arsrhetorica.net/gaines/retreqst.pdf. Requests for make-up examination return and discussion will be considered for approval only if they are completed (with accompanying documentation) and submitted within five calendar days in the mailbox of the instructor (across from the Communication Department Office, 2130 Skinner Building). Successful requests will result in a special intraterm examination return and discussion at a time convenient to the student and the instructor.

Academic Integrity

It is expected that each student will behave honorably throughout this course. Academic dishonesty, including cheating, fabrication, facilitating academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, will not be tolerated. Students who are uncertain as to what constitutes academic dishonesty should consult the Student Honor Council Code of Academic Integrity at the following address: http://www.studenthonorcouncil.umd.edu/code.html.

Regarding Examinations. Prior to examinations, students may prepare as they like. Students are particularly encouraged to form and participate in informal study groups for the purpose of reviewing and discussing course readings and materials. During examinations the use of external assistance of any sort, e.g., books, notes, and conversations, is strictly forbidden, unless students are informed otherwise in advance by the instructor. At examinations, students must be prepared to show current University identification. Submission of an examination is not complete until the student returns both the question list and the answer sheet.

Honor Pledge. The University of Maryland, College Park, has established the following Honor Pledge for use in all University classes: "I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this assignment/examination." Ordinarily, the Honor Pledge is handwritten and signed on the front page of all assignments submitted for evaluation at the University. However, in this course you will have the opportunity to assert your compliance with the Honor Pledge in an un-graded multiple-choice question at the end of each examination. The Honor Pledge is not compulsory; however, students who fail to assert their compliance with the Honor Pledge may be asked to confer with the instructor.

Incompletes

In this course, the grade of "I" will be granted only to a student who meets both of the following criteria: (1) the student has satisfactorily completed a major portion of the work of the course and (2) the student has been unable to complete some small portion of the work of the course because of illness or other circumstances beyond the student's control.

Proper Student Comportment

Within the classroom, students are especially reminded of their responsibility to omit behaviors that might prove disruptive, distractive, or discourteous to others. For example, students should, in general, never (1) move about the classroom without permission or instruction, (2) interfere with the person, property, or seat of another student, (3) talk or communicate with anyone in any medium without permission or instruction, (4) obstruct class with irrelevant questions, stale questions, or discussion of matters outside the purview of the course, (5) openly disregard class activities, or (6) arrive in class more than ten minutes late or depart early without permission or instruction. Any student behavior, which—in the judgment of the instructor—requires correction or intervention during the class session will be considered a disruption of class. Student disruption of classes is a disciplinary offense, prohibited by Part 9(m) the Code of Student Conduct (http://www.president.umd.edu/policies/docs/v100b.pdf). Exhibition of behavior that disrupts class may result in removal from the classroom, exclusion from the course, or even expulsion from the University.

Recording, Transmission, and Reproduction of Lectures and Course Materials

Unauthorized recording, transmission, or reproduction of class lectures and course materials (including class notes, power point presentations, outlines, review questions, examination items, and similar materials) through any means or medium is an infringement of federal copyright law. Students are permitted to take notes of lectures and to employ course materials for their personal academic use in this course. However students not authorized to record, transmit, or reproduce class lectures or course materials or make any commercial use of them without prior and express written consent from the instructor.

Academic Assignments and Religious Observances

Within this course, students will not be penalized in any way for participation in religious observances. Students will be allowed to make up academic assignments that are missed due to such absences. It is the student's responsibility to make arrangements with the instructor regarding make-up examinations (for the procedure to follow, see Examinations above). It is the student's responsibility to make arrangements with the instructor regarding make-up examinations.

Documented Disabilities

Students who have documented disabilities and who wish to discuss academic accommodations within this course should contact the instructor before or as soon as possible after the beginning of the course. Students seeking testing accommodations to be supervised by the Disability Support Services Testing Office must submit a DSS Test Authorization Form to the instructor at least five business in advance of the examination for which accommodations are requested.

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment of any sort will not be tolerated during or in association with the activities of this class. The University Campus Policy and Procedures on Sexual Harassment defines sexual harassment as "(1) unwelcome sexual advances; or (2) unwelcome requests for sexual favors; and (3) other behavior of a sexual nature where:

a. Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment or participation in a University-sponsored educational program or activity; or

b. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for academic or employment decisions affecting that individual; or

c. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's academic or work performance, or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational or working environment."

Conduct which might constitute sexual harassment is characterized by the Campus Policy in this way:

Sexual harassment may, for example be as undisguised as a direct solicitation of sexual favors, or solicitation accompanied by overt threats. Harassment may also be implied, arising from the relative situation of the parties. In this regard, the following types of acts are more likely-than-not to result in allegations of sexual harassment: unwelcome physical contact, sexual remarks about a person's clothing, body, or sexual relations, conversation of a sexual nature or similar jokes and stories, and the display of sexually explicit materials in the workplace or used in the classroom which are without defensible educational purpose.

Students who wish to obtain further information regarding the campus sexual harassment policy and its procedures should consult the University Of Maryland Policy and Procedures On Sexual Harassment at the following address: http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/PRES/legal/policies/pol.html

Continuation/Completion of Course in Case of an Emergency that will Close the University for an Extended Period

In the event that (a) the University closes for an extended period due to an emergency, (b) the University does not cancel courses for the academic term affected, and (c) the University's internet and other electronic services are not significantly disrupted, then students will have the opportunity to continue/complete their academic work in this course consistent with the following plan. Students should continue work on course assignments using all available learning aids (including electronic lecture notes‚ and prepare for any affected intraterm examination or final examination according to the schedule set out in the syllabus. The instructor will be available for consultation through email. Students will be provided access to examination questions and be allowed to submit their answers through internet technology. In emergency circumstances, the instructor's only means of communicating with students directly will be through email; accordingly, it is crucial that students ensure that their correct email addresses are part of their directory information as maintained by the University. It is also crucial that students ensure that their email accounts are in good order and accepting messages. In the event that the instructor is incapacitated by illness for an extended period, the foregoing plan may be deployed, though with revisions adapted to the circumstances.

CALENDAR OF CLASS ACTIVITIES

INTRODUCTION

August 30 M Topic: Course Overview; What is a rhetorical theory?; Kennedy 1999, 1-19.

ANCIENT RHETORIC

September 1 W Topic: Advent of Rhetoric: Corax & Tisias?, required reading: D. A. G. Hinks, "Corax and Tisias and the Invention of Rhetoric," Classical Quarterly 34 (1940): 61-69 (LCR); George A. Kennedy, "The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks," in Aristotle On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, trans. George A Kennedy, 293-306, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) (LCR); Thomas Cole, "Who Was Corax?" in Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators, ed. Edwin Carawan, 38-59 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) (LCR); Kennedy 1999, 18-28.

September 6 M Labor Day Holiday

September 8 W Topic: Sophists, required reading: Larue Van Hook, "The Encomium on Helen, by Gorgias," Classical Weekly 6.16 (15 February 1913): 122-123 (LCR); Kennedy 1999, 29-38.

September 13 M Topic: Sophists, required reading: Rosamond Kent Sprague, "Dissoi Logoi or Dialexis," Mind 77 (1968): 155-167 (LCR).

September 15 W Topic: Isocrates, required reading: Against the Sophists (CER); Kennedy 1999, 38-45.

September 20 M Topic: Isocrates; Alcidamas, required reading: Larue Van Hook, "Alcidamas versus Isocrates; The Spoken versus the Written Word," Classical Weekly 12.12 (20 January 1919): 89-94 (LCR).

September 22 W Topic: Plato, required reading: Gorgias 447-66 (CER); Kennedy 1999, 53-65.

September 27 M Topic: Plato, required reading: Phaedrus (CER); Kennedy 1999, 65-74.

September 29 W Topic: Plato, required reading: Phaedrus (CER).

October 4 M Topic: Aristotle, required reading: Rhetoric (CER); Kennedy 1999, 74-93.

October 6 W Topic: Aristotle, required reading: Rhetoric (CER).

October 11 M Topic: Aristotle, required reading: Rhetoric (CER).

October 13 W First Intraterm Examination (25%)

October 18 M Topic: Hermagoras, required reading: Ray Nadeau, "Classical Systems of Stases in Greek: Hermagoras to Hermogenes," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 2 (1959): 51-71 (LCR); Kennedy 1999, 99-100.

October 20 W Topic: Cicero's Earliest Rhetoric Book, required reading: On Invention (De inventione), books 1-2 (http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/cicero/dnv1-1.htm); Kennedy 1999, 100-108. Graded first intraterm examination returned.

October 25 M Topic: Author to Herennius, required reading: Rhetorica ad Herennium, trans. Harry Caplan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954)(CER); Kennedy 1999, 108-113.

October 27 W Topic: Cicero; required reading: On the Orator (De oratore; CER); Kennedy 113-115.

November 1 M Topic: Cicero; required reading: On the Orator (De oratore; CER).

November 3 W Topic: Cicero; required reading: On the Orator (De oratore; CER).

November 8 M Topic: Rhetorical Education, required reading, Quintilian, Education of the Orator (Institutio oratoria), books 1-2 (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/home.html); Kennedy 1999, 115-118.

November 10 W Topic: Second Sophistic, required reading: Eunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, 488-490 (CER); Kennedy 1999, 47-52.

November 15 M Second Intraterm Examination (25%)

November 17 W Topic: Hermogenes, required reading: Andrew F. Stone, "On Hermogenes's Features of Style and Other Factors Affecting Style in the Panegyricus of Eustathios of Thessaloniki," Rhetorica 19.3 (2001): 307-339 (LCR); Kennedy 1999, 121-123.

MEDIEVAL RHETORIC

November 22 M Topic: Encylcopedists--Martianus Capella, required reading: "Rhetoric," trans. William Harris Stahl and Richard Johnson with E. L. Burge, in Marriage of Philology and Mercury, vol 2., Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 155-214 (LCR); Kennedy 1999, 196-206; James J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 228 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,1974/2002), 43-47, 64-67, 72-76 (CER). Graded second intraterm examination returned.

November 24 W Topic: Application to Religion—Aurelius Augustine, required reading: On Christian Doctrine 4 (CER); Kennedy 1999, 170-182; Murphy 1974/2001, 56-64 (CER).

November 29 M Ars dictaminis—Alberic of Monte Cassino, required reading: Flowers of Rhetoric [Flores rhetorici vel Dictaminum radii], trans. Joseph M. Miller, in Readings in Medieval Rhetoric, ed. Joseph M. Miller, Michael H. Prosser, Thomas W. Benson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973), 131-161 (LCR); Anonymous of Bologna, required reading: Principles of Letter Writing, in Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, ed. James J. Murphy, 3-31, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 228 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1971/2001) (CER); Kennedy 1999, 212-216; Murphy 1974/2001, 202-211; 224-228 (CER).

December 1 W Topic: Ars poetriae—Matthew of Vendôme, Versificator’s Art, required reading: Ernest Gallo, “Matthew of Vendôme: Introductory Treatise on the Art of Poetry,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118.1 (Feb. 28, 1974): 51-92 (LCR), Geoffrey of Vinsauf, required reading: New Poetry in Murphy 1971/2001, 32-108 (CER); Kennedy 1999, 220-221; Murphy 1974/2001, 163-173 (CER).

December 6 M Topic: Ars praedicandi—required reading: Alain of Lille, "On Preaching," The Art of Preaching, trans. Gillian R. Evans, 16-22 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981); Thomas of Salisbury, Principles of the Art of Preaching-- “Thomas of Chobham, Summa de arte praedicandi, ca. 1220,” in Medieval Grammar & Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475, comp., trans., and comm. Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter, 614-638 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Kennedy 1999, 221-225; Murphy 1974/2001, 303-355 (CER).

December 8 W Topic: Ars praedicandi—Robert of Basevorn, required reading: Form of Preaching in Murphy 1971/2001, 114-215 (CER).

December 16 Th 1:30-3:30 pm, Final Examination (50%)