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January 26, 2006
Back From the Dead
No, reports of my demise have been sadly exaggerated.
I'm back, and will begin posting again tomorrow. (Hooray!)
In the meantime, why not check out the new course blog for the Super-Cool, Super-Sexy new class I'm teaching: Writing Bodies: Rhetorics of the Flesh.
Granted, we're still in the intro stage, reading Aristotle's Rhetoric, mostly. But check Writing Bodies often -- we're going to be pushing all kinds of boundaries as we explore the concept and experience of embodiment and the ways rhetoric draws upon and draws forth the corporeality of rhetor and audience. It promises to be steamy stuff. About rhetoric.
You'll see.
Posted by reparent at January 26, 2006 4:27 PM
Comments
I absolutely love the course syllabus Richard! I mean really- The Pillow Book AND The Power Book-!!!! I will follow along with rapture when I can (this is exam semester!).
Posted by: jmj at January 27, 2006 11:42 AM
Woo-hoo! Glad to have you along for the Writing Bodies ride, JMJ.
Feel free to comment anytime the spirit moves you. I'm hoping to get my students to become active commenters as well. Having thoughtful examples for them to emulate would be great.
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at January 27, 2006 5:06 PM
By the way: one thing to mull over in terms of The PowerBook is the possible "translation" or re-presentation of gender/bodies as it relates to Virginia Woolf's Orlando (there is a chapter in the Winterson when the characters name is Orlando and tied up with the ambiguity of the gender of the narrator is an interesting intersection of texts. Whereas in Woolf, the text is in novel form, Winterson's is in novel form under the pretense of being a cybertext, which we all know that gender can be switched, changed, morphed and so forth on the internet).
Posted by: jackie at January 28, 2006 11:05 AM
Too true! You have convinced me to bring in clips from Sally Potter's film version of Orlando when we get to PowerBook.
You have quite the knack for pedagogy!
Posted by: Richard at January 30, 2006 8:50 PM