Writings - rants, essays, novels and handbills - have been crucial to the creative rebellions that have transformed the earth into a post-modern planet.  In this class we will examine and practice the tactics of persuasion deployed by several writers of rebellion, tactics that will be ingeniously stolen, jammed, ignored, altered and re-made in student argumentative essays.

Texts:
Frederick Douglas.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Henry David Thoreau, .  Civil Disobedience
Anthony Weston.  A Rulebook for Argument

Films:
Cronenberg, David. The Fly

Students will complete five short (4-6 page) writing assignments and one final revision. Class Attendance is mandatory - more than three absences will result in the loss of a full letter grade from the final grade.

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