Kenneth Burke’s Cluster-Agon Reading Strategy
What’s a “Reading Strategy?” Reading strategies are to qualitative research (looking at qualities or characteristics) what methods are to quan...
Month: July 2020
Joseph Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
One guy remarks that this book is required reading for Air Force officers. As the son of a Master Sargent, I find that hilarious. Heinlein posits that several c...
Kenneth Burke on Literature
Perhaps the most quoted line from Kenneth Burke is that Literature is “Equipment for Living” (Counter Statement), so I decided I needed to dedicate ...
Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle
[Spoilers!] After watching the TV show I really didn’t like this book. Parts of it were interesting. I liked the discussion of Wu (negative) in art, and t...
Dr. Who, Series 2: Best Alien(s) (pt. 2)
[Spoilers!] In part 1, I laid out the challengers for the season. Now I’ll rank them, with some commentary. Disagree? Comment! 12. The Santa robots, from ...
Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism
Kenneth Burke was a literary theorist and philosopher perhaps best known for his Pentad. However, I–following in the tradition of Elizabeth Mechling, Ph.D...
Dr. Who, Series 2: Most Disturbing Premise (pt. 1)
[Spoilers] Once you really start getting into the premises and logical extensions of the episodes (i.e. doing criticism), sometimes things break down. Premises ...
Race & Racism in Dungeons & Dragons (pt. 4) [Updated]
[Eugene Marshall’s system] does everything that Wizards of the Coast swore they were going to do in their recent press release and more…. [So] the b...
Pagan Rhetoric
More information on Lyotard's pagans and what they can tell us about comics and audiences.
Dr. Who, Series 2: Best Quotes/Exchanges (pt. 1)
[Spoilers!] I LOVE a good quote, and there are some truly great lines in this show. I tried to get it down to my top three contenders from each episode (courtes...