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Ramus

  • Occasionally uses a didactic, condescending tone (uses ad hominem attacks)
  • Clearly has a definite perspective: doesn't so much provide evidence as speak in presumed certainties
  • Liked parsing knowledge into binary trees
  • Allows for non-virtuous orators because he severs rhetoric from virtue
  • Breaks with Cicero's five canons of rhetoric: gives invention, arrangement, and memory to dialectic and style and delivery to rhetoric
  • Was anti-scholasticist

Course Information

Rhetoric and Culture
ENG 552-001
MO 204
T 6:30–9:15

Instructor Information

Dr. Jeremy Tirrell
tirrellj@uncw.edu
Office: MO 161
Office Hours: TR 12:00-2:00 (and by appointment)