QQC 2

Quote: "Let grammar know its own boundaries, especially as it is so far advanced beyond the humility indicated by its name, to which humility the early grammarians restricted themselves; for, though but weak at its source, yet, having gained strength from the poets and historians, it now flows on in a full channel."

Question: How do you think grammar has gained its strength?

QQC #2 - 5.22.17

Quote: "We all seem to agree that our new maps are "doing" differently why maps do: they are taking us more places, introducing us to more people, complicating our understanding in more ways than did the previous map."

Question: Throughout her essay, Glenn explains the new mapping she is attempting and learning about previously neglected women within rhetoric; do you believe there is a certain subject/group of individuals that needs to be regarded in the mapping of rhetoric? What is it and why?

QQC #2

"Those of us charting historical maps know that we cannot tell the "truth," that no one map can ever tell the truth, that our traditional foundations are shaky, that maps are neither stable nor coherent, and that the notion of capturing any "reality" rings of empiricism, positivism, and naivete. Yet we cannot completely separate ourselves from writing or from reading these histories, these stories." Assuming that truth can't be absolute, does the impossibility of finalizing that truth make the search for it obsolete? Are there benefits to pursuing something that can't be manifested?

QQC 2

 "Those of us charting historical maps know that we cannot tell the 'truth,' that no one map can ever tell the truth, that our traditional foundations are shaky, that maps are neither stable nor coherent, and that the notion of capturing any 'reality' rings of empiricism, positivism, and naivete. Yet we cannot completely separate ourselves from writing or from reading these histories, these stories."

In your opinion, how effective is this "mapping" process for our understanding of rhetorical history?  Is the risk of unintentionally bending history's story too great, or is it worth trying to piece together the fragments despite this possibility?  Does the ancient, less mapped narrative of upper middle class white men serve as more of a tool or a hindrance to this process?

Quote: "The text of history writing, then, initiates a play between the object under study and the discourse performing the analysis."

Question: The text of history always has a lesson to offer for those reading in the present, is that the play that this quote is referring to?

QQC 2

Quote: "In short, we need to see what is familiar in a different way, in many different ways, as well as to see beyond the familiar to the unfamiliar, to the unseen"

Question: How does reading pieces written by peoples from different backgrounds help/challenge you as a reader? Is it more enjoyable to read something by someone like you or far different from you?

Quote: "Postmodernism forces us to admit that we each have an 'angle', and it has made us skeptical about the procedures that legitimized and mapped out 'the' history of rhetoric in the first place."

Question: Has the 'angle' to which history has been taught to us made us skeptical or close minded?