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We then study words, and the processes of word formation and word classification in English . Finally, we consider word meaning and look at a variety of approaches to appreciating the nuances of meaning in English words . Our focus will be on developing skills for analysing these three components of language, with an eye toward understanding how they belong to one communication system. How you can persuade your friends, family, colleagues, and strangers? Some of the most infamous historical intellectuals vehemently disagree about the answers to these questions, but taken together, their answers provide a blueprint for rhetorical theory. From the eerie, ghostly Dakar of Mati Diop’s 2019 film Atlantics, to the decaying sprawl of Ivan Vladislavic’s Johannesburg in 2011’s Double Negative, we’ll interrogate what defines and defies the “global” African city through questions of labour, gender, and race.
This course is an introduction to the transnational politics of information. We pursue a long historical view, a global political perspective, and a cultural analysis. This graduate course will think through questions about settler colonial capitalism, resource extraction, and Indigenous communities' resistance to these efforts. The course will focus primarily on state structures in what is currently a Canadian and U.S. context, and how these Western political formations come into conflict/contention with Indigenous assertions of self-determination, stewardship, and anti-capitalist modes of being. In particular, we will examine some of the diverse ways in which creative and critical Indigenous theory texts and other modes of cultural production, as well as direct action or activism, contest the dominant forms of accumulation and extractivism present throughout what is currently called North America.
Literature of the First World War: Comparative Approaches - Marlene Briggs
In a Renaissance play, conventions of scientific writing in the Early Modern period, newspaper writing in the eighteenth century, or speech acts in a Jane Austen novel. Poetry organized by thematic approach, cultural movements, critical issues, and/or geopolitical regions. Children’s/YA literature so often focuses on successful negotiation of threats and learning opportunities in the intimate and public worlds around the child that “children’s” tales are often scarier than adult fiction.
How do literary texts inspire or impede compassion in readers and audiences? What literary and cultural resources do authors draw from in the hopes of inspiring or impeding compassion? These questions will guide our exploration of literary texts written in Renaissance England. We will read plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, tales of martyrs, religious poetry, and love poetry alongside recent literature from the social sciences and cultural theory on emotions. In an enormously popular and influential work that became something of a handbook for parents and educators, the philosopher John Locke presents an idealized view of the path from childhood to maturity. Some Thoughts Concerning Education was published just as a distinct body of writing for the young was beginning to emerge in England, and Locke argued that the books children read play an important role in their development.
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From carceral logics, to medical models, to the AIDS epidemic, queer people have long wrestled with existing crisis discourses to understand themselves. And in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are reminded that among the chief aims of queer rhetorics is to unpack how these crisis discourses simultaneously oppress queer people, even as they make possible new forms of intimacy and kinship. It is this tension between oppression and possibility that will drive our class discussions and, perhaps, help us to imagine new modes of survival for our own individual and collective crises. Novels and short stories organized by thematic approach, cultural movements, critical issues, and/or geopolitical regions. A variety of genres organized by cultural movements, critical issues, theoretical approaches, and/or geopolitical regions. Century to the present, and ranging from the Pacific coast to the Arctic—that invite us to consider how land and literature intersect with the politics of place, colonialism and decolonial resurgence, migration, race, gender, urban space, ecocriticism, and environmental activism.
Recurrent themes in the works we consider will include race relations and Civil Rights; the status of women; same-sex desire; relations between literature and music and the visual arts; changes in technology and material culture. We will read poetry by Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O’Hara, Robert Hayden, and others; fiction by James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, and others; and the drama of Tennessee Williams. Despite the stereotypes about “Fifties America,” this was a period of great cultural diversity, innovation, and accomplishment. How does the ‘I’ in speech and writing relate to the living person?
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All in all, a bit likeA Game of Thronesbut with more difficult grammar. D.F. McKenzie famously described bibliography as the sociology of texts. As we move through important moments in the history of book production, we will explore how materiality and meaning interact, in a range of historical and cultural contexts. Along the way, we will learn about the many forms texts have taken over the centuries, from oral recitations to ebooks, and everything in between.
Given the prominence of health topics in public discourse, the course will pay special attention to the rhetoric of health and medicine. Examines the rhetorical genre of professional and technical communication, especially online, through analysis and application of its principles and practices. You will produce a formal report, investigating resources and/or concerns in a real-life community, as a major project involving a series of linked assignments.
In addition to this media history and its unique focus on the plays, the course also provides students with an introduction to media theory. Relationship between texts and images, or the aspect of text as image, in literary and non-literary works and of various genres, periods, and media. This course explores and examines contemporary English phonology, morphology and lexical semantics. We apply methods for phonetic transcription and study distinct sounds and possible sound combinations in English .
Advanced seminar on arts and humanities research related to ecology and environmentalism. Student evaluation is based on seminar participation (20%), presentation (20%), research abstract and bibliography (20%), and conference paper (40%). Students will familiarize themselves with the methodologies, to then apply the concepts in the area of communication of their choice.
