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Preface for Instructors | |
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Preface for Students | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Dramatism and Rhetoric | |
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Representative Words | |
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All the Words, a Stage | |
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Dramatism, Rhetoric, and the Pentad | |
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On Interpretation | |
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Kenneth Burke, "All Living Things Are Critics" | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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Identification and Consubstantiality | |
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Identification and Transformation | |
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Logomachy: Wars of Words and Nerves | |
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Cooperation and Competition | |
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"Road to Victory": The Basis for Dramatism | |
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The Resources of Ambiguity | |
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Kenneth Burke, "Introduction: The Five Key Terms of Dramatism" | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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The Pentad | |
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The Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Act | |
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The Scene-Act Ratio: School Violence | |
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Summary | |
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Research and Writing Activities | |
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Preview of the Following Chapters | |
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The Dramatistic Analysis of Form | |
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The Writer's Situation | |
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Burke's Parlor | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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Piety and Form | |
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Types of Form | |
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Syllogistic Progression | |
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Qualitative Progression | |
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Repetitive Form | |
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Conventional Form | |
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Dramatism on the World's Stage | |
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Hitler's Polemic | |
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Kenneth Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle'" | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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The Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Agent | |
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The Scene-Agent Ratio: The Writer as Propagandist | |
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Summary | |
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Research and Writing Activities | |
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Terministic Screens | |
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Representative Anecdotes | |
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Scope and Circumference | |
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Cluster Analysis | |
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Cluster Analysis: William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" | |
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The Image and the Word | |
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Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects | |
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The Pentadic Ratios: Act-Agency | |
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Hacktivism | |
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The Act-Agency Ratios of Hacktivism | |
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Civil and Electronic Disobedience | |
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Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" (Civil Disobedience) | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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Summary | |
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Research and Writing Activities | |
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The Resources of Terminology | |
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Signs, Signifiers, and Signifieds | |
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"What Are the Signs of What?" | |
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Entelechy and "Jumping to Conclusions" | |
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The Five Dogs of Meaning | |
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The Strategies of Dialectic: Merger and Division | |
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Plato's Gorgias | |
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Plato, Gorgias (380 BCE) | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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Dialogue and Dialectic | |
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Plato's Phaedrus | |
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The Pentadic Ratios: Agent-Purpose | |
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Serial Narratives/Serial Murderers: Thomas Harris's Hannibal | |
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The Rhetoric of Desire | |
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Thomas Harris, From Hannibal | |
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Summary | |
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Research and Writing Activities | |
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The Public Memory, Rhetoric, and Ideology | |
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The Dissociative Memory and "Purposive Forgetting" | |
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Repression, Memory, and Aphasia | |
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Dramatism and Rhetoric as Ideological Inquiry | |
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Hegemony | |
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"To Infinity ... and Beyond!": The Case of Toy Story 2 | |
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The Pentadic Ratios: Scene-Purpose | |
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Scene-Purpose in Don DeLillo's White Noise | |
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Don DeLillo, White Noise, Chapter 15 | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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The Rhetoric of Substance | |
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Kenneth Burke, Paradox of Substance | |
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Tracking Down Implications | |
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Summary | |
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Research and Writing Activities | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |