Author Archive for MaryAnn Macedo

MaryAnn’s Proposal

MaryAnn Macedo DeVries ENGL 5001 4/22/2010 Paper Proposal For my term paper this semester, I’d like to explore the rhetoric of video game heroines.  Women have long gotten the short end of the stick in the video game and comic…

Decolonization Dilemma

bell hook’s “Rebel’s Dilemma” at first confused me.  I didn’t know what decolonization really was, and she kept repeating the term as if repeating it would actually make such a thing possible.  Now, finally knowing what it is, I’ve come…

Mind-boggling Biblical Burke

 Burke’s readings were particularly interesting to me, both because he examined things like “the rhetoric of witchcraft” and Darwinism and Biblical rhetoric and because of his concept of terministic screens.  While I’m still not entirely sure that I got…

Aristotle’s Lying for Dummies

The readings this week reminded me heavily of the discussions we’ve been having in class thus far.  While many of the issues we’ve been talking about were very relevant in the Aristotle reading in particular, the one that really interested…

Exhibit A: Irony.

In Plato’s “Gorgias,” the rhetorician Gorgias is answering questions freely about his profession, and the philosopher Socrates approaches with plenty of questions to ask, ones about what the art of rhetoric is, whether it is in fact an art, and…