Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries 24 March 2009 This particular reading, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, didn’t sink in as well as some of the other readings we’re been assigned. However, one aspect I…
English 5870
Goffman Commentary #5
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“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman In our society we learn in our early years that first impressions are the most important. They are the standard by which all, or at least most, of our relationships…
English 5870
Commentary Five
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Mike Calou Commentary Five All the World’s A Communicative Stage There is a lot to discuss about this week’s reading: communication viewed as a theatrical production, the actor-witness as participant-observer, who controls the communication process, projecting a definition of…
English 5001
Rhetorical effects of music in education
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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…
English 5001
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,…
English 5001
The Roots of Modern Composition?
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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…