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Commonplaces:
Shorthand visual, linguistic
cues for communities
Commonplaces:
Shorthand visual, linguistic
cues for communities
ENG 582: Gender and Popular Culture
ENG 582: Gender and Popular Culture
Commonplaces provide
window to rhetorical situation
Commonplaces provide
window to rhetorical situation History
Must understand what has happened before in the given discourse community
Audience Simple (similar, shared interests and goals -- discourse
community) Multiple (people with different backgrounds and goals)
Ethos Must be built through
Knowledge of the subject Have audience’s needs in mind
Counterargument Easier when you understand the discourse community you are
addressing
History Must understand what has happened before in the given
discourse community
Audience Simple (similar, shared interests and goals -- discourse
community) Multiple (people with different backgrounds and goals)
Ethos Must be built through
Knowledge of the subject Have audience’s needs in mind
Counterargument Easier when you understand the discourse community you are
addressing
EvolutionsEvolutionsBegan with Aristotle’s topoi Milcah Martha Moore’s book is like traditional male versions - storehouse modelIn 17th century focus shifted with humanists to emphasis on morality, social mores (no images)18th and 19th century shift was for “genteel” class, mainly women (few words of one’s own)Modern Examples: commonplace books, scrapbooks, blogsAll inform about the kinds of discourse communities people join or wish to join (for our class, the community of “girl” and “women”)
Began with Aristotle’s topoi Milcah Martha Moore’s book is like traditional male versions - storehouse modelIn 17th century focus shifted with humanists to emphasis on morality, social mores (no images)18th and 19th century shift was for “genteel” class, mainly women (few words of one’s own)Modern Examples: commonplace books, scrapbooks, blogsAll inform about the kinds of discourse communities people join or wish to join (for our class, the community of “girl” and “women”)
Communities and CommonplacesCommunities and Commonplaces Modern commonplaces help us
analyze, gain access to Discourse Communities
Can be phrases (In God We Trust), concepts (freedom), icons (Statue of Liberty), images
Modern commonplaces help us analyze, gain access to Discourse Communities
Can be phrases (In God We Trust), concepts (freedom), icons (Statue of Liberty), images
Provides entry into
Discourse Communities
Provides entry into
Discourse Communities
Gender roles - women as caregivers (pet owners, moms)
Gender roles - women as caregivers (pet owners, moms)
Models for
motherhood
Models for
motherhoodThis historic commonplace book offers images of infants and children
Was way for women to record societal views of womanhood
Perpetuates “womanly” roles
Instructs “rules” and “societal norms” for communities
Can be questioned, reshaped
This historic commonplace book offers images of infants and children
Was way for women to record societal views of womanhood
Perpetuates “womanly” roles
Instructs “rules” and “societal norms” for communities
Can be questioned, reshaped
Site for resisting
societal norms
Site for resisting
societal normsChallenges social rulesExhibits “unladylike” characteristics of anger, dissatisfactionPerfectly combines images from popular culture with author’s wordsModern commonplace book not only describes commonplace, but also comments on it
Challenges social rulesExhibits “unladylike” characteristics of anger, dissatisfactionPerfectly combines images from popular culture with author’s wordsModern commonplace book not only describes commonplace, but also comments on it
Agents of changeAgents of change
For 18th- and 19th-century women were sites of identity constructionPotential is seen in Helton’s work hereBuilds image of self as mother - futureIncludes current image of self as wifeAll tied to past (self as grad, daughter, poet)
For 18th- and 19th-century women were sites of identity constructionPotential is seen in Helton’s work hereBuilds image of self as mother - futureIncludes current image of self as wifeAll tied to past (self as grad, daughter, poet)
Other sample commonplacesOther sample commonplaces