Kenneth D. Johnson’s Rhetoric Weblog

TO A WAVERER, Bertolt Brecht You tell us It looks bad for our cause. The darkness gets deeper. The powers get less. Now, after we worked for so many years We are in a more difficult position than at the start. But the enemy stands there, stronger than ever before. His powers appear to have grown. He has taken on an aspect of invincibility. We however have ma […]

My reading notes on Fletcher's Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode are attached as a word file, in case they might be of use to anyone. The section on psychoanalysis may be of use to some folks down the road in Austin. AttachmentSize Angus Fletcher.doc41 KB

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"[W]e are prone to fall under the spell of our own intellectual heritage. . .[for] it is easy to become bewitched into believing that the ways of thinking . . . bequeathed to us by the mainstream of our intellectual traditions must be *the* ways of thinking about them. Given this situation, one of the contributions that historians can make is to offer u […]

Oh, dear. I got: "The epistemology of post-capitalist hegemony opens a space for the discourse of linguistic transparency." Some recent articles I've reviewed for QJS seem to have been written using this machine.