Nov 6, 2014
It was 1985. As Bowling for Soup would later describe the year, “there was U2 and Blondie, and Music still on MTV” And in the pages of College English a debate was raging. Two scholars, careful and smart, battling over a question that still haunts beginning composition instructors: should we teach punctuation to...
Nov 1, 2014
Today, in honor of Halloween, we're trying something a little different. A little spookier.
Welcome to Mere Rhetoric the podcast for beginners and insisters about the ideas, people and movement who have shaped rhetorical history. Well, I’ve been thinking about what to do for this week’s episode of Mere Rhetoric,...
Oct 27, 2014
Courtly political rhetoric
Today we continue our month-long celebration of deliberative rhetoric by looking back half a millennium to the European Renaissance.
Back in the European Renaissance, politics looked different. There were no brightly colored billboards along the side of the freeway on-ramp, no...
Oct 18, 2014
Welcome to Mere Rhetoric a podcast for beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. I’m Mary Hedengren.
Last week we continued our conversation of deliberative rhetoric by talking about Saving Persuasion, a contemporary book about how rhetoric...
Oct 10, 2014
Today we continue our month-long festival of all things
deliberative rhetoric with a discussion of Saving Persuasion
by Bryan Garston.
One thing exciting about his book is that it isn’t written by a
rhetorician. Nope, not really. It’s written by a political
scientist, which makes rhetoricians excited for two...