... . Here it is:I. Introduction: Why dystopian fiction? Cataloguing use in high schools,current studies and what they're missing. II. The "Topic" tradition--Dystopia, Utopia, and classical rhetoric. Deliberative rhetoric through Pamela. III. Genre as social action: Dystopia as diff from Utopia--against Rabkin and Jameson, vis a vis pomo, connections to the history of the novelIV. Burke's Lexicon ...

... to the archive and practice of contemporary critical theory which is so central to rhetoric as it is taught in the Department at Berkeley at any rate (another, possibly better, way of making ... the indebtedness of critical theory to the rhetorical tradition, and then to propose that the Department of Rhetoric at Berkeley is one of the places that properly registers that debt). Whatever its limits, ...

... and a bag of potato chips. The speakers at the DNC unloaded some of the finest rhetoric I've heard all year. Pomp and fury. Very serious profundities. Hilarious one-liners. Sound bites galore.Now the Republicans will have their turn. I'm not going to watch, because I've been hearing their rhetoric for years. They will rail against tax-and-spend liberals. (They prefer no taxes, ...

... culture has learned from the Greeks, such as "how to fight" and "how to think." I was surprised not to find "rhetoric" in the index, but I figured that the chapter on philosphy and Aristotle would surely ... among the cognitive advances made by the Greeks. However, rhetoric is not there - neither with philosophy nor with politics and how to rule. It's an astonishing oversight on Cahill's part. I ...

... the start, because I'd probably want to vote for him anyway.Obama's critics refer to his use of rhetoric with sarcasm, sneering that he's "all talk." To hear them tell it, you'd think previous ... good intentions, but that her speech last night was an example of very poor rhetoric.Having said that, it probably did what it was supposed to do. At this point, I think we can all agree that Sarah Palin ...

... souls. I wrote yesterday about the "lipstick on a pig" furor, and about the two kinds of rhetoric it involved. But the relationship between those two rhetorics and the ways they can be used isn't just a matter of politics. ... to the whole question of how we go about being human. As you'll recall, I contrasted scientific rhetoric???rhetoric aimed at promoting truth and understanding???with political ...