As part of your intellectual participation, I will ask each of you to "master" a term and come to class prepared to discuss how it relates to our topic throughout the session. While I am not asking you to hand anything in other than a list of sources that you use, I am asking you to deliver some substantive comments on how your term illuminates, complicates, works with, or perhaps works against our readings. This may require sharing notes on the board or giving a small impromptu demonstration. I am also expecting you to be able to contribute actively throughout that day's discussion. In this way, you are "leading" our discussion.
We are not relying on you to provide us with a reductive or generic definition of your term. We are relying on you to help us understand how the nuances of your term can both complicate and intensify our reading of the text. Please note that this discussion leading will take time to prepare. It is not as simple as looking up a single definition. Instead, you will need to consult several sources for that term, and you will need to research related terms. In some cases, the connection of your term to our readings may seem inferential and implicit, so you may have to put several related concepts together in order to arrive at a useful definition. In any case, how you present your term should reveal something useful about the social, historical, and linguistic contexts of what we read. You should be prepared to give us some concrete facts and details from more than one source.
Your Terms
I have randomly assigned the following terms and scheduled them for particular dates in our syllabus. You must notify me in class on 1/16 if you foresee any conflicts with your date. Otherwise, please note that if you miss your date, you will not be assigned another (barring illness or emergency):
alterity (4/12 with Gates and Cooper) - Isabella Whaley
class (2/20 with Mitchell and McCloud) - India Alfonso
classicism and neo-classicism (3/27 with Sheridan, et al and Buskirk) - Taylor Welniak
deconstruction (1/18 with Barthes) - Dr. Graban
dialectic and/or dialectical criticism (3/29 with de Certeau and Favro) - Tam Barrant
dialogic criticism (2/13 with Bakhtin) - Logan Uranick
dialectical materialism (3/29 with de Certeau and Favro) - Kali Bosworth
diaspora (4/12 with Gates and Cooper) - Paola Torras / Alexandra Markovitch
écriture féminine (4/5 with Butler) - Mikayla Calabrese / Kinsley Campbell
episteme and/or epistemology (1/18 with Foucault) - Dr. Graban
erasure (4/19 with Barton) - Courtney Taylor
feminist criticism (1/25 with Campbell and Heilbrun) - Breanna Cummings
gynocriticism (4/5 with Butler) - Leia Speziale
hegemony (4/10 with Hum and Mitchell) - Shane Carpenter
heteroglossia (2/13 with Bakhtin) - Claire Snell
hybridity (4/10 with Hum and Mitchell) - Ruth Carrion
identification (2/15 with Burke) - James Simpson
implied author and reader (1/23 with Ong) - Breanna Cummings
kairos (3/27 with Sheridan, et al and Buskirk) - Kevin Shealy
langue vs. parole (2/13 with Bakhtin) - Felipe De La Rotta
logocentrism and/or phallogocentrism (2/15 with Burke) - Danielle Shafran
Marxism and/or Marxist criticism (2/20 with Mitchell and McCloud) - Autumnn Douglas
New Criticism (3/8 with Bawarshi and Devitt) - Jennifer Santana
New Media (3/8 with Hayles) - Lucas Dykes
phenomenology (3/6 with Longinus) - Julio Mata
postcolonialism (4/12 with Cooper and Gates) - Dillon Galloway / Debbie Sanon
race or critical race theory (4/10 with Hum and Mitchell) - Alexis Saltrese / Matthew Luzzi
reader-response criticism (1/23 with Ong) - Joshua Gundal / Paul McFadden
sign and/or signification (2/6 with Locke) - Isabel Russo
socialist realism (3/20 with Landow and Jackson) - Christopher Joseph / Darius McGrew
speech act theory (2/8 with Lakoff and Johnson) - Samantha Roth
structuralism (3/20 with Landow and Jackson) - Victoria Koutsoubos / James McKenney
stylistics (3/6 with Longinus and Burroughs) - Jack Quinn
symbol and/or symbolic action (2/15 with Burke) - Michael Pettit
Your Sources
Here are the texts I expect you to consult:
- The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms (our required textbook)
- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (online access with FSU login)
- Critical Terms for New Media
- Glossary of Terms for Rhetorical Argument. From Ramage, et al, eds. Argument in Composition, 2009 WAC Clearinghouse.
- Introductory Glossary of Literary Theory (browse, and you'll find what you need.)
- Silva Rhetoricae. Gideon Burton’s “Forest of Rhetoric” (BYU)
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- our background readings ("skimmers") in Canvas Course Library (CL) -- you'll find these to be quite useful!
and any of the following texts at Strozier Library (which means you must go there):
- A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th Edition (eds. M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham), in Strozier reference
- The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (eds. Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi), in Strozier reference
- Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age (ed. Theresa Enos), in Strozier reference
- Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries (William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe), Strozier 4th floor
If you want to use an additional source, please clear it with me ahead of time. While they have great merit on their own, I will not accept general dictionaries, encyclopedias, other wiki-based sources, or search engines as sufficient by themselves for this task.
Preparation
The most successful discussion leaders have consulted between 5-6 sources, prepared at least one week in advance, and conducted several hours of reading and research for their term. I am more than happy to be a sounding board for your ideas, so long as you start early.
Please remember to submit a list of your sources on your "discussion leading" day [you can submit them to the "Participation" slot in Canvas].
-Prof. Graban
