Reading List (In the order assigned)

WR 430 Historical Issues in Composition WOU Fall 2010 (abbreviated citations)

Brummet, Barry. “Some Implications of ‘Process’ or ‘Intersubjectivity’: Postmodern

Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. 9.1 (1976).

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition. Tr. Geoff Bennington and Brian

Massumi. U. of Minn. P. 1984. (Available electronically via Hamersly Library)

Jameson, Fredric. (Selection of ) Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Available at:

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm

Derrida, Jacques. “Signature Event Context.” pp. 1-21 of Limited Inc. Available at:

www.mcgill.ca/files/crclaw-discourse/Signature_Event_Context.pdf

Bitzer, Lloyd.  “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1.1 (1968).

Vatz, Richard.  “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric

6.3 (1973).

Biesecker, Barbara. "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation From Within the Thematics

of Difference." Philosophy and Rhetoric. 22.2 (1989).

Zappen, James P. “"Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence."

Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009).

Personal author, compiler, or editor name(s); click on any author to run a new search on that name.McGee, Michael Calvin. “Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary

Culture.” Western Journal of Speech Communication. 54.3 (1990).

Barthes, Roland. “The Death of The Author.” Available at: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/index.html

Foucault, Michel. “What is an Author.” Available at:

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19864

Baudrillard, Jean. “Simulacra and Simulations.” Available at:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html