“Why Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric”

Read this later: Why Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric by Jay Heinrichs. http://www.figarospeech.com/harvard/

bibliography on Thoreau’s composition and rhetoric education

Adams, Raymond. “Thoreau at Harvard: Some Unpublished Records.” New England Quarterly. 13 (March 1940): 24-33.
Anderson, Dorothy. “Edward T. Channing’s Teaching of Rhetoric.” Speech Monographs 16 (1949): 69-81. Available in Valley. PN4077 .S6
Bode, Carl. “A New College Manuscript of Thoreau’s” American Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Nov., 1949), pp. 311-320 (printed out copy via [...]

more for Thoreau bibliography

Thoreau, Henry David. Early Essays and Miscellanies. Princeton UP, 1975. PS3042 .M58 1975  “About 53 pieces, some long, most short, written ca. 1834-1852.”
Glick. Wendell. “Three New Early Manuscripts by Thoreau.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 15 (1951-52): 59-71. Available in Valley! Z733.S24 A3
Woodlief, Annette. “The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau.” Thoreau Journal Quarterly [...]

more Thoreau sources

“A New College Manuscript of Thoreau’s” Carl Bode American Literature, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Nov., 1949), pp. 311-320 (printed out copy via jstor.net)
“Thoreau as Writer and Teacher of Writing” Mildred P. Hughes The English Journal, Vol. 67, No. 5 (May, 1978), pp. 33-35
“Henry Thoreau, Bachelor of Arts” Clarence Gohdes The Classical Journal, Vol. 23, No. [...]

a couple more articles for Thoreau thesis idea

During our MAWG* this afternoon, Adam, Lauren, and Peter gave us their preliminary thesis ideas, and the discussion made me want to see what else I could find on Thoreau’s writing education at Harvard (since that’s one of my thesis ideas). Found these two.
Adams, Raymond. “Thoreau at Harvard: Some Unpublished Records.” New England Quarterly. 13 [...]

First day of the second week… some help from Thoreau

Based on my blog stats, I don’t have too many readers lately. But for those of you who do check in or happen upon my blog, I apologize for being so rare a blogger. I haven’t found my rhythm yet as a graduate student, the rhythm that will allow me to do other [...]

guard your privacy: be careful when opening books!

Watch out for your books.
Monday I was feeling pretty depressed about something. I was feeling — I don’t know — embarrassed, rejected, naive, very naive. Not suprisingly, when I’m feeling like that without the distraction of work in the writing center (or some other external work) — it’s spring break — I didn’t get much [...]

“Thoreau kindles awareness” (Thoreau does it again!)

It’s refreshing to read high-schoolers getting excited about writing, thinking, even about “being awake” in the philosophical sense. It’s even better when it’s Thoreau who turns them on — or who wakes up their minds and souls, rather. It was Thoreau who did it for me, too — a quarter century ago.
Haley Henderson, a local [...]