Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
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Model Compositions and Modern Literature: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Writing Process. Kristin Brunnemer, Pierce College
This paper examines the way Tim O’Brien’s novel models the modes of writing, drafting and revising. With its argued positions, profiled persons, and explained concepts, O’Brien’s vignette novel offers students a literary example of the composition process in action.
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A Rhetorical Analysis: Violence/Victimhood in Las Hjias de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Joelle Guzman, University of California, Riverside
In her text Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, Joise Mendez-Negrete critically frames her autobiographical story. I will examine how Negrete constructs Chicana/o rhetoric as epistemological rather than representational, as a site of singularity rather than one of pathologized difference.
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Mary Rowlandson's Rhetoric of Dissociation in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682). Ji Nang Kim, Texas A & M University
Drawing on Chaim Perelman’s rhetoric of dissociation, this paper examines the ways in which Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, constructs Puritan separatist paradigm by controlling the author's cultural hybridization and by redefining Indian hybridity.
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