Tina Bell 5001 Commentary Week 5 19 March 2009 Vico’s Influence I continually find it interesting in our study of the history of rhetoric, how long the discussions and debates concerning the proper way to educate our youth have endured.…
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Musings on Terministic Screens and the Queen of Domesticity, Commentary
by lmarik • • 2 Comments
Burke’s concept of terministic screens or the “reality” that “has been built up for us through nothing but our symbol systems” (48) is a useful construct. It’s sort of a more elaborate, more far-reaching conception of looking at the world…
The Visual Learner
by dhamilton3 • • 1 Comment
I am a visual learner. In order to truly grasp the meaning of any piece of writing, I must be able to image it. If my I am unable to produce a conceptual image, I’m lost. This fact has led…
Rhetorical effects of music in education
by aarias1 • • 1 Comment
Last year I was chastised for teaching English with musical and theatrical methods in the classroom. I was able to keep my students engaged and interested in the material that we were going through; consequently, my students internalized the learning…
Commentary: On the Study Methods of Our Time, Giambattista Vico
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Vico made me laugh at first with his ethnocentric insistence that his Italian culture had in fact surpassed the “Ancients” in many ways, most notably in scientific tools and patterns of thinking. His need to place his culture as superior,…
The Roots of Modern Composition?
by Kristen Phipps • • 1 Comment
Alexander Bain’s excerpt from “English Composition and Rhetoric” fascinated me as I saw in it the roots of contemporary composition and grammar that was taught to me in grade school. In this excerpt, Bain breaks out principles and rules of…
Bain and Rhetoric
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In Bain’s English Composition and Rhetoric we are presented with a complete break down of the parts involved in rhetoric. He divides these based on what each is intended to influence. For, instance poetics is a form of rhetoric intended…
Commentary 4: Vico
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Mistakes and Trying on Discourse The part of this essay that struck a chord with me comes from page 19 where he says. “They would not feel the impulse to step rashly into discussions while they are still in the…
What can ambition give?
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Francis bacon wanted to reconstruct the sciences of man in order to make them more accessible and up to date. He knew that man as a species is limited in how much capacity he has to adjust to new systems,…
The three heads of persuasion
by dhamilton3 • • 3 Comments
In On the Study Methods of Our Time, G. Vico intrigued me with his idea of eloquence. This was echoed by Alexander Bain in his English Composition and Rhetoric. I’d like to use this journal entry to analyze their mutual…