Instr: Gillam, Alice
Office: CRT 493; 229-5454
e-mail: agillam@uwm.edu
Office hours: M 1:00pm - 3:00pm, R 12:00pm - 2:00pm, or by appt.
Course Information: W; 3:30pm - 6:10pm; SAB G25
"Classical scholarship, precisely because it is, as Nietzsche says, 'unseasonable,' can trouble and disorient our dominant modes of seeing, of theory, in the name of transforming our world." Page DuBois Sowing the Body
"The task of the [historian], however, is no longer to 'search for the truth,' ... or 'to systematize observations,' or 'to improve predictions.' These are but side effects to which his [her] attention is now mainly directed and which is 'to make the weaker case the stronger' as the sophists said, and thereby to sustain the motion of the whole." Victor Vitanza Notes Toward Historiographies of Rhetoric
This course introduces you to Greco-Roman rhetorical traditions and contemporary debates regarding these traditions. Accordingly, the course objectives are three:
