5
May

 No readings Meet n greet

12
May

Burke, Kenneth. (1925.) Psychology and Form. The Dial 79 (July), 34-46. ProQuest

Gregg, Richard B. (1984.) "Perception, Knowing, and Symbolic Inducement: The Beginnings." Symbolic Inducement and Knowing: A Study in the Foundations of Rhetoric. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 25-51. Reader

Fahnestock, Jeanne. (2005.) Rhetoric in the Age of Cognitive Science. In Richard Graff, ed. The Viability of Rhetoric. New York: State University of New York Press, 159-180. Reader

Cognition and rhetoric

19
May

  No readings Victoria Day Holiday; no class

26
May

Bain, Alexander. (1996 [1866].)  Figures of Speech. From English Composition and Rhetoric, 20-65. Reader

Bredin, Hugh. (1992.) The Literal and the Figurative. Philosophy 67.259, 69-80. JSTOR

Turner, Mark. (1997.) Figure. From Cacciari, Gibbs, Katz, and Mark Turner, eds. Figurative Language and Thought (New York: Oxford University Press), online.

Figuration

2
June

Nuckolls, Janis B. (1999.) The Case for Sound Symbolism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 28, 225-252. JSTOR

Bredin, Hugh. (1996.) Onomatopoeia as a Figure and a Linguistic Principle. New Literary History 27.3, 555-569. JSTOR

Reboul, Olivier. (1989). The Figure and the Argument. In Michel Myer, ed. From Metaphysics to Rhetoric. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 169-181. Reader

Sound and thought

9
June

Fahnestock, Jeanne. From (1999.) Incrementum and Gradatio. From Rhetorical Figures in Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 86-121. Reader

Shen, Yeshayahu (1998.) Zeugma: Prototypes, Categories, and Metaphors, Metaphor and Symbol 13:1, 31-47. JSTOR

Order and reason

We meet in HH232 today, the Thomas library

16
June

Burke, Kenneth. (1969 [1941].) Four Master Tropes. Grammar of Motives, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 503–517. Reader

Jakobson, Roman. (1971 [1956].) Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances. In Jakobson, Roman, and Morris Halle, eds.  Fundamentals of Language. The Hague: Mouton, 67-96. Reader

The big ones

23
June

Fludernik, Monika, Donald C. Freeman, and Margaret H. Freeman. (1999.) Metaphor and Beyond: An Introduction. Poetics Today 20.3, 383-396. JSTOR

Booth, Wayne C. (1978.) Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation. Critical Inquiry 5.1, 49-72 JSTOR

Metaphor

30
June

  No readings Canada Day Holiday; no class

7
July

Bredin, Hugh. (1984.) Metonymy. Poetics Today 5.1, 45-58. JSTOR

Sullivan, Karen (2008.) Genre-dependent Metonymy in Norse Skaldic Poetry. Language and Literature 17.1, 21–36. JSTOR

Metonymy and Synecdoche

14
July

Booth, Wayne C. (2006 [1983].) Empire of Irony. From The Essential Wayne Booth, edited by Walter Jost. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 100-118. Reader

Holdcroft, David (1983.) Irony as a Trope, and Irony as Discourse. Poetics Today 4.3, 493-511. JSTOR

Irony

21 & 28
July

  No readings Presentations and commentaries