Points of Praxis

My Blog Reflects on Visual Rhetorical Theory and Disability Rhetoric and their Connections to Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

Some ways to start our responses...

"A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be."  Aristotle, Poetics

"My way is to begin with the beginning." Lord Byron, Don Juan

"The speaker is not the biblical Adam, dealing only with virgin and still unnamed objects, giving them names for the first time." Bakhtin, Speech Genres

[The speaker] is not "after all, the first speaker, the one who disturbs the eternal silence of the universe." Bakhtin, Speech Genres

"Every beginning is a response to a prior beginning." Bakhtin

posted by: rgregory at 01:23 | link | comments (1) |

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#1  02 January 2007 - 18:18

 

I like the Bakhtin quote about the "eternal silence of the universe." I hope mine disturbing the universe doesn't sound like nails on a chalkboard!

I woke up this morning to the image of Dr. T. yelling at me for not knowing the title of Vico's work. I went to sleep wondering about how I am going to separate dialectic and rhetoric or even if they should be split....welcome to my sleep.

AlisonR

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