The Elements of Dramatism

Abstract

Preface for Instructors. Preface for Students. Acknowledgements. Credits. I. Dramatism and Rhetoric. Representative Words. Gary Larson, Far Side. 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: Basis for Resources of Ambiguity. Kenneth Burke, Introduction: Five Key Terms of Dramatism. Pentad. Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Act. Scene-Act Ratio: School Violence. Summary. Research and Writing Activities. Preview of the Following Chapters. 2. Dramatistic Analysis of Form. 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. Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Agent. Scene-Agent Ratio: 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. Image and the Word. Bryan Singer's Usual Suspects. Pentadic Ratios: Act-Agency. Hacktivism. 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. Resources of Terminology. Signs, Signifiers, and Signifieds. What Are the Signs of What? Entelechy and Jumping to Conclusions. Five Dogs of Meaning. Strategies of Dialectic: Merger and Division. Plato's Gorgias Tracking Down Implications. Dialogue and Dialetic. Plato's Phaedrus. Pentadic Ratios: Agent-Purpose. Serial Narratives/Serial Murderers: Thomas Harris's Hannibal. Rhetoric of Desire. Thomas Harris, from Hannibal. Summary. Research and Writing Activities. 5. Public Memory, Spectacle, and Rhetoric. Dissociative Memory and Purposive Forgetting. Repression, Memory, and Aphasia. Dramatism and Rhetoric as Ideological Inquiry. Hegemony. To Infinity ... and Beyond!: Case of Toy Story 2. Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Purpose. Scene-Purpose in Don DeLillo's White House. Don DeLillo, from White Noise. Tracking Down Implications. Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke, Paradox of Substance. Tracking Down Implications. Summary. Research and Writing Activities. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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