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Nov 21, 2024
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EN 241 - Poetics, Rhetoric & Performance
Credit(s): 3
Focusing on the primitive cusp of orality and literacy, this course examines the tension between oral traditions and the emergence of a radical new technology, or techne, called writing. The examination occurs through close readings and analysis of primary texts such as Homer’s hymns and The Odyssey, Sappho’s fragments, Greek drama, Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics, and Plato’s Phaedrus & Ion. In particular, this course focuses on the poetic and rhetorical implications of the primary texts, the power of written and oral language, the evolution of performance composition, and the oral traditions from which arose the written word.
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