ENG 4020 Rhetorical Theory and Practice: Equipment for Living

Folks, do well and prosper next week! Thanks for your engagement this semester, Officially closing down the blog, -Prof. Graban

As this is our last blog, I have been thinking about the critical dilemmas we explored this semester. For me it all comes down to agency, es...

I'm beginning to understand that representation is, basically, "...the use of one thing to stand for another through some signifyin...

From Dr. Nerdlove Gross, right? Whether or not we think this man is a real agent, his profile shows he is operating on a paradigm th...

       Last Summer when on a cruise in the Bahamas, my boyfriend of the time struck up conversation with out housekeeper. As selfish as it ...

How do you look to other people? Do you think you are fairly represented for the unique individual that you are? Or are you th...

The task of trying to represent another person in any form and any medium will always fail.

The paradox I thought of the most while reading "Terministic Screens" is the chicken-egg question. Is our reality constructed by o...

We represent others based on looks and abilities--how they present themselves to others. You are representative of a type of person. For exa...

“Up The Yangtze” offers stark documentation of tough times and new hurdles for families in ‘modernizing’ China during the construction of t...

I liked when we were discussing Up the Yangtze in class the other day and we arrived at the concept of privilege.  We spoke earlier in the y...

     After reading George's article on Helen Keller and Burke, and after watching the film  Up The Yangtze , I realized that there will ...

I have to admit, at first I was a bit skeptical about Yung Chang's documentary Up The Yangtze only because I had no idea how on earth he...

I’m continuously fascinated by the texts that we are assigned to read for each unit. It’s interesting for me to see how these texts can be ...

Though I've compared Burke's overarching philosophies to Butler's,  his terministic screens seem to parallel with her theories m...

As Chang is of Chinese heritage but a Canadian citizen, relevant intertextuality can be considered. Chang mentions his Grandfather, thus e...

The film Up the Yangtze attempts to show representation for the culture and country of China. In an attempt to show how tourism, development...

It is the dawning of the Millennial’s and the old heads couldn’t be more terrified. 

From a purely architectural standpoint, the Three Gorges Dam is an impressive feat of human engineering. The dam spans almost 8,000 feet in ...

The juxtaposition in Up the Yangtze is very evident in many places in the film as discussed on Tuesday. People, places, lifestyles, images;...

Analogies were always one of my strong suits in elementary school, so here’s one for you. Helen’s language barrier is to Cindy’s past and l...

Perhaps all representation is doomed to fail. It is a troubling idea, but seems possible, and even inevitable. Perhaps the hegemonic underp...

Yung Chang's Up the Yangtze documents the changing dynamic of communities that are to be affected by the renovation of the Three Gorges ...

What is made so clear about Up the Yangtze  is the clear class distinction there is in China and what the Western perception is of China. Fo...

From looking at the film Up The Yangtze , I realized that I could not have been able to be in that situation and survive happily. It seemed...