The
Problem of Experience
Daniel Gross, Rhetoric Department, The University of Iowa
and
My
Way: Rock Autiobiographies
Thomas Swiss, English Department and PORI, The University of
Iowa
Daniel
Gross joined the Iowa Rhetoric Department Fall 2000
after a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA
Humanities Consortium, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century
Studies. Recently he has taught seminars on the rhetoric of
passions and the problem of experience in the eighteenth century
(typically cross-listed in departments of English and
Communication Studies) and an introduction to the rhetoric and
theory of popular culture.
Daniel is currently
completing a pair of book projects: one a monograph The Politics
of Emotion, the other an edited volume Heidegger and Rhetoric.
His articles have appeared among other places in Rhetorica,
Clio, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and History of the Human
Sciences.
Thomas
Swiss is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry.
His teaching focuses on new media, poetry, and popular music.
His most recent books include Unspun (NYU Press), an edited
volume that explores concepts that help shape our understanding
of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging influence on
contemporary culture; a collection of poems, Rough Cut (U.
Illinois); and a co-edited collection of essays on the topic of
popular music, Mapping the Beat (Blackwell).
Current projects
include co-editing a book, with Professor Dee Morris, on the
topic of New Media Poetry.
Daniel and
Thom are interested in your responses to these draft
essays, individually, but also as the drafts speak to each other
-- or don't. But should.
Following are some
terms and phrases that interest them as they relate to the
subject of autiobiographies and, more generally, the 'problem of
experience.' Perhaps some of these terms might be useful to your
own ways of thinking about the pieces and comments/critiques you
might care to make that night...
|
Whose
experience matters? |
-
authority
-
audience
-
conventions
-
autobiographies vs. memoirs
-
divided subjectivities
-
character
- the
role of critics
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