BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6430-81e6e0421238659c735f42fa17234aad@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T061827Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T173000 SUMMARY:\"The Rhetoric of Hitler\'s \'Battle\' and Hitler\'s Rhetoric in Battle\ " DESCRIPTION:\nThe 2019 Kenneth Burke Memorial Lecture\n\nSponsored by th e Center for Democratic Deliberation\n\n80 years have passed since Kenne th Burke wrote &ldquo\;The Rhetoric of Hitler&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;Battle.&r squo\;&rdquo\; In 1939 &mdash\; while people continued to say that Hitle r had been matured by power\, and that he shouldn&rsquo\;t be held to hi s previous words in Mein Kampf--Burke read Mein Kampf as an epitome of H itler&rsquo\;s rhetoric. Hitler\, Burke said\, had &ldquo\;swung a great people into his wake&rdquo\; through certain recurrent rhetorical strat egies. More recent scholarship on Hitler has shown Burke'\;s argument to be both very wrong and very right. This lecture explores the strengt hs and weaknesses of Burke&rsquo\;s analysis by emphasizing Hitler&rsquo \;s deliberations with his generals&mdash\; a context in which a cunning rhetor would have adopted a completely different set of rhetorical stra tegies from those used in beer halls or massive rallies.\n\nDr. Patricia Roberts-Miller is a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas-Austin. Her work focuses on the history\, th eory\, and pedagogy of public argumentation. She is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere (University of Alabama Press\, 1999)\, Deliberate Conflict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2004)\, Fanatica l Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (University of Alabama Press\, 2009)\, and Rhetoric and Demagoguery (The Experiment\ , 2017)\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the_rhetori c_of_hitlers_battle_and_hitlers_rhetoric_in_battle/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The 2019 Kennet h Burke Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by the Center for Democratic Del iberation

80 years have passed since Kenneth Burke wrote “Th e Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle.’” In 1939 &mdash ; while people continued to say that Hitler had been matured by power, a nd that he shouldn’t be held to his previous words in Mein Kampf-- Burke read Mein Kampf as an epitome of Hitler’s rhetoric. Hitler, Burke said, had “swung a great people into his wake” through certain recurrent rhetorical strategies. More recent scholarship on Hit ler has shown Burke's argument to be both very wrong and very right. This lecture explores the strengths and weaknesses of Burke’s ana lysis by emphasizing Hitler’s deliberations with his generals&mdas h; a context in which a cunning rhetor would have adopted a completely d ifferent set of rhetorical strategies from those used in beer halls or m assive rallies.

Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller is a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas-Austin. He r work focuses on the history, theory, and pedagogy of public argumentat ion. She is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the P uritan Public Sphere (University of Alabama Press, 1999), Deliberate Con flict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces (Southern Illinois Unive rsity Press, 2004), Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Trage dy of Consensus (University of Alabama Press, 2009), and Rhetoric and De magoguery (The Experiment, 2017)

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the_rhetoric_of_hitler s_battle_and_hitlers_rhetoric_in_battle/

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