Musings

What is form? what is its relationship to technique? How might Bitzer's definition of rhetorical situation develop our understanding of form? How is it related to eloquence?

Burke poses an interesting critique of technological and scientific development in connection with class. What is his critique and how does/should it influence Digital humanities work?

Burke seems to be lamenting the emotional attribution to art you noted last week. How does he clarify art?

Burke provides a heavy critique of watching theatre for emotional catharsis. I wonder if the same is true for video games and sport? What is the value in these forms? What does it offer humanity?

What are the psychology of information and psychology of form? How are they similar and different?

How does Bukre define music? If some this is pure form, how does that influence it as rhetoric?

I wonder if his grandson carried out his theory of form: http://www.harrychapinmusic.com/

How does ... Clarify the rhetoric of music for Bukre? What does that mean for how we define and apply a rhetoric of music? How does Bukre define music? If some this is pure form, how does that influence it as rhetoric?

I wonder if the same is true for video games and sport? What is the value in these forms? What does it offer humanity?

How does Carroll Clarify the rhetoric of music for Burke? What does that mean for how we define and apply a rhetoric of music?

How is la technique different from techne?