Blog Post #2 Prompt -- Glenn and Fleckenstein
Glenn offers
an interesting metaphor of remapping in her article this week. Now, after
having read Fleckenstein’s article on St. Catherine, as well as multiple
theorists from classical antiquity, evaluate the need or importance of
this metaphor for rhetoric history, as we study and practice it today? Is remapping a
useful concept for us? If so, what does it add to our study?
OR
Fleckenstein forwards many concepts related to visual epistemology in her
article on St. Catherine (paradox
of flesh, scopic regime, image event, body as text, to name a few). Pick
one concept from her article and briefly define it. Then evaluate its
effectiveness for the study and practice of rhetoric in our current
society. Are there parallels you can draw between how the concept
circulated then and now?
After reading Catherine in Siena by Glenn, you can sympathize and understand the struggles that occurred during this time period and is still seen today. Women, inferior to men, who most commonly did not have any power, physically and verbally, wanted to be heard. Catherine explains the need she has to be connected to God and wants to preach and spread awareness of the what she believes. Since women during this time were not listened to she used her letters to give her a voice. As seen in her letters, Catherine uses visual discourse and rhetorical authority to not only strengthen her voice but caught attention in order to reach more people. Catherine used her love for God and her mother to tell her that she was leaving. Instead of making comparisons, Catherine speaks with certainty and passion, constantly referring to Christ's body and blood, and the connection she has with such.
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