Preface for Instructors.
Preface for Students.
Acknowledgements.
Credits.
I. Dramatism and Rhetoric.
Representative Words.Gary Larson, The Far Side. All the Words, a
Stage.Dramatism, Rhetoric, and the Pentad.On Interpretation.Kenneth
Burke, "All Living Things Are Critics".Tracking Down
Implications.Identification and Consubstantiality.Identification
and Transformation.Logomachy: Wars of Words and Nerves.Cooperation
and Competition."Road to Victory": The Basis for Dramatism.The
Resources of Ambiguity.Kenneth Burke, "Introduction: The Five Key
Terms of Dramatism".The Pentad.The Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Act.The
Scene-Act Ratio: School Violence.Summary.Research and Writing
Activities.Preview of the Following Chapters.
2. The Dramatistic Analysis of Form.
The Writer's Situation.Burke's Parlor.Tracking Down
Implications.Piety and Form.Types of Form.Syllogistic
Progression.Qualitative Progression.Repetitive Form.Conventional
Form.Dramatism on the World's Stage.Hitler's Polemic.Kenneth Burke,
"The Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle'".Tracking Down Implications.The
Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Agent.The Scene-Agent Ratio: The Writer as
Propagandist.Summary.Research and Writing Activities.
3. Terministic Screens.
Representative Anecdotes.Scope and Circumference.Cluster
Analysis.Cluster Analysis: William Carlos Williams's, "The Red
Wheelbarrow".The Image and the Word.Bryan Singer's The Usual
Suspects. The Pentadic Ratios: Act-Agency."Hacktivism".The
Act-Agency Ratios of "Hacktivism".Civil and Electronic
Disobedience.Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
(Civil Disobedience).Tracking Down Implications.Summary.Research
and Writing Activities.
4. The Resources of Terminology.
Signs, Signifiers, and Signifieds."What Are the Signs of
What?"Entelechy and "Jumping to Conclusions".The Five Dogs of
Meaning.The Strategies of Dialectic: Merger and Division.Plato's
Gorgias Tracking Down Implications.Dialogue and Dialetic.Plato's
Phaedrus. The Pentadic Ratios: Agent-Purpose."Serial
Narratives/Serial Murderers": Thomas Harris's Hannibal.The Rhetoric
of Desire.Thomas Harris, from Hannibal.Summary.Research and Writing
Activities.
5. The Public Memory, Spectacle, and Rhetoric.
The Dissociative Memory and "Purposive Forgetting".Repression,
Memory, and Aphasia.Dramatism and Rhetoric as Ideological
Inquiry.Hegemony."To Infinity . . . and Beyond!": The Case of Toy
Story 2.The Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Purpose.Scene-Purpose in Don
DeLillo's White House.Don DeLillo, from White Noise.Tracking Down
Implications.The Rhetoric of Substance.Kenneth Burke, "Paradox of
Substance".Tracking Down Implications.Summary.Research and Writing
Activities.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
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