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0000007920 00000 n “Metis, Mêtis, Mestiza, Medusa: Rhetorical Bodies Across Rhetorical Traditions.” Rhetoric Review 28.1 (2009): 1-28. 0000002039 00000 n We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. 16 Techne was similarly made practical. 0000001158 00000 n
The body then becomes “what is not mind … implicitly defined as unruly, disruptive, in need of direction or judgment, merely incidental … a brute givenness which requires overcoming” (Volatile 3–4). 119 0 obj<>stream :]B�G:� .�# ��H$bJ��,Ih�{':hD��oj�Wr��9l:��&�=tp�-��'��p�G��?�X�P��*)�*_!أ*�ѱ�p,��){��`��Ձ~˓c��b��I݇��^Q;{�T-��uތ�d�fq��6�$Nʟ��@u��3m� �ێg�s�ab��bcӺ�y�URt� �7�@)��OU��"ޅ��-��Ky�}��$�{��J�6J�U3��Ee��E'��o��,�)�BY��v��ض��"�?M�Q��\1ylδb̼��0�Im��)j�l7[[ys�.��M��5h�um�G�sxJ��a�2� ��B�C�]l��N��)�Ok8�e�G2��p'u�u,��i|$4:.�\�%�ː��I�e>d�q�� H��W��?�"`��[�D��H��M��W�h>��ѧKl� *tc��X��l��:�Kz�%�; ,D�!�yFS,U>�!��=Q� Such approaches historically characterize rhetoric as disembodied and ask students to compose straight, linear, alphabetic texts which privilege meaning-making through written discourse and remain inaccessible to diverse users and audiences. 0000006954 00000 n 29Carrie McMaster also suggests that we might learn from Anzaldúa's writing about her own bodily difference—having experienced congenital disease, chronic illness, disability—to “draw non-homogenizing parallels between various embodied identities” (“Negotiating” 103).

��pEW��Aޡ�2��h]^?��Aѥ�� :��e�d� ��7O��g��8_��?. She also argues that Medusa's “stoning” be seen as a rhetorical power, an ability to change the audience's state of mind, accompanied by a somatic effect. <]>> >��fQ�C��OC�:�,P�/��o�o`3�7˵Ѱ��%Y��l�hy�J��C�F24�R}�y)�T�ǿ�/�m��-V:�i��%��YL��ih��n��^��Q� W�8��@,K��]��4xA��i�,3��o��s�" T\$�d�� 扮J��<8M7��3�E81��*EV�]�M�.Nὀ�y�߾}�Ñ8�q)�gq��$��s�1�L��(�b��j� 8-�XG��Q�J�F�$*��v��JM0�OEaʬT��I� ��YU��/��k��_|�@�H�RIQE�J��xh:\�}�#p�� yT�(��;��q��? Despite the idea, advanced by Eric Havelock in particular, that myth was rote and didactic, we might see myth as being connected to the body, as being highly rhetorical, as being an arena for mêtis—thus my retellings hopefully honor this spirit (see also Slatkin).

The author argues that we have chosen a rhetorical history that normalizes and silences rhetorical bodies. Wie die Göttin Nemesis verstand es auch Metis, sich in vielerlei Gestalten zu verwandeln und so Zeus lange Zeit zu widerstehen, als dieser sie zur Geliebten wollte. 0000000636 00000 n Newsworld, Riel, and the Métis: Recognition and the Limits to Reconciliation. Killing him was one of Heracles's twelve labors (Graves, The Greek Myths 158). H��W͒��)pJ�.�K��{��]�kŮ�+��H��fV�>8ϐ7K�9��@I3v��Z`w��Ƴ7�k�_��^k��v�GU�b�G�~�8*S��/b�]�Q'�Z׋��/~ Dolmage, Jay. ��Eժ�)8E��)x�N ��V�Ӡ2Y-U�`q��d```@i`R U�]�800B��0Aj� �A1�)/S��.�3�a��7{+�N�f>r-�0 !�Z�

The “abnormal” body is not something given to women symbolically as a form of derogation; it is an engine for understanding and thus has serious rhetorical power. 21Of course it matters very much whether Medusa was raped or not. %PDF-1.6 %��

Their child, Cacus, was said to be a fire-breathing giant. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. Metis as Embodied, Technofeminist Intervention: Rhetorically Listening to Periods for Pence.

1, pp. V�~i=�p�oI��/@C�`��k��%!8��5p��X0F��1�Y��qa��DHK c�@�N1��ZC�H4�s4��31&�pR��l�E�)�(��ه�T Aus dem gespaltenen Kopf sprang Athene mit weit hallendem Schlachtruf, in voller Rüstung und mit ihrem spitzen Wurfspeer bewaffnet hervor. 14The myth of Metis can be traced as far back as Hesiod (Theogony lines 886–900). Many of Plato's attacks on the flexibility, malleability, and the bodily materiality of rhetoric are aimed at the Sophists, metic non-Athenians, and are part and parcel with a larger ideological agenda. and Jisc. endstream endobj 104 0 obj<> endobj 105 0 obj<> endobj 106 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 107 0 obj<> endobj 108 0 obj<> endobj 109 0 obj<> endobj 110 0 obj<> endobj 111 0 obj<> endobj 112 0 obj<>stream Print. Metis, Mêtis, Mestiza, Medusa: Rhetorical Bodies across Rhetorical Traditions.

The author then connects these myths to other rhetorical traditions invoked by Hélène Cixous and Gloria Anzaldúa, connecting Metis to Medusa and to mestiza consciousness. Bei Michael Köhlmeier ist eine Variante nachzulesen, in der Metis sich in alle möglichen pflanzlichen und tierischen Formen verwandelte, um dem ihr nachstellenden Zeus zu entkommen.

xref In response, the author exhumes an embodied history of rhetoric, reexamining the myths of the Greek goddess Metis as a means of enlivening Yet Aristotle had more than one concept of ideality—he expounded on the idea of the mean, for instance. 0 ��Eժ�)8E��)x�N ��V�Ӡ2Y-U�`q��d```@i`R U�]�800B��0Aj� �A1�)/S��.�3�a��7{+�N�f>r-�0 !�Z� Metissage, obviously etymologically linked to mêtis and meaning mixture or miscegenation, has been used as a critical lens through which one might observe issues of identity, resistance, exclusion, and intersectionality. 0000007920 00000 n 0000003181 00000 n 24The myth may also express a male fear of Medusa's creative power—she is so “procreative” that her children Chrysaor and Pegasus spring from her dead body (Graves, Greek Myths 127). Métis is also a performative rhetoric, offering up "double and divergent" stories that celebrate the disabled body (Disability Rhetoric 8). I would argue that the commingling of these imperatives results in a normative culture or society—both the upheld fiction of perfection and the systematic self- and Other-surveillance and bodily discipline of normative processes. ��T�0�� X�O�@�u��.4�x��S咖��42E`ǀ*��$%FB)��n��Ͱm�ƪ�t͝�f:�f Registered in England & Wales No. Print. Philosophisch steht Metis für den Scharfsinn, der als „praktisches, komplexes, implizites Wissen“ von den drei anderen Wissensformen episteme, techne und phronesis unterschieden wird.[1]. Maurice Charland Concordia University. eISBN: 978-0-7735-9046-5. For instance, Demosthenes was said to have been soft and lame because he spoke with a stutter and had an overly feminine demeanor. By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. Concepts. ��pEW��Aޡ�2��h]^?��Aѥ�� :��e�d� ��7O��g��8_��?.

0000000962 00000 n I think such differences reveal quite marked transitions in and contestations of signification. The way I identify myself subjectively as well as the way I act out there in the world was shaped by my responses to physical and emotional pain” (“Last Words?” 289). 28, No. 20As an example of the ways that myths crucially disagree with one another, we can see that in Homer's version of the story, Medusa comes into the world with her head of snakes. 0000001026 00000 n As Patricia Klindienst Joplin has argued, this rape has often been elided, and responsibility for it shifted away from Poseiden to Athena. Zeus bekam Schmerzen, denn die Leibesfrucht drückte gegen seinen Schädel. (See Steinberg and Kincheloe; Hardt and Negri; Gruzinski; Glissant.). Dolmage; Price; Vidali) have long called for the denormalization of traditional approaches to the teaching of rhetoric and composition. 19Often, Medusa wasseen to symbolize “artful eloquence.” For instance, Coluccio Salutati in the fourteenth century and Nancy Vickers in the twenty-first both argue for this reading. 0000002039 00000 n [3] Sie ist Tochter des Okeanos und der Tethys und damit eine der 3000 Okeaniden. � 9õ��c-��q� �a�/�B�yj!+@R�,~��؉М�Ǟ��@& 0000012648 00000 n 0000002812 00000 n But as Lennard Davis writes, although the word normal appeared in English only in the mid-nineteenth century, “before the rise of the concept of normalcy … there appears not to have been a concept of the normal, but instead the regnant paradigm was one revolving around the word ideal. 18There also may have been a familial connection between Hephaestus and Medusa—in some myths the two are sexual partners. endstream endobj 104 0 obj<> endobj 105 0 obj<> endobj 106 0 obj<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB]/ExtGState<>>> endobj 107 0 obj<> endobj 108 0 obj<> endobj 109 0 obj<> endobj 110 0 obj<> endobj 111 0 obj<> endobj 112 0 obj<>stream Applied to the practices of academia and higher education, métis once again draws attention to the body in all its variations, resisting the abstraction of academic life into concepts and values rather than embodied interaction. Mêtis cannot be contextualized or schematized because each time it occurs in a context, it shifts that context, and each sequence it is inserted into is distorted (de Certeau 83–84).

Yet we now refer to technai, handbooks full of sets of rules and examples, when we think of techne. Metis, Mêtis, Mestiza, Medusa 5 rhetoric can reclaim the body.

Scholars in the field of disability rhetoric (e.g. 0000000016 00000 n

0000006554 00000 n Physical disability is mingled with femininity to discredit him—see his exchanges with Meidias in particular and Cicero's investigation of Demosthenes' self-education in De Oratore.

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He suggests that to have prudence one must understand particulars as well as universals. Summary: Jay Dolmage argues that we have historicized a version of rhetoric that is not only disassociated from the body, but that denigrates the body. The “leap” that should be encouraged, then, is to see such situated knowledge as vital and perhaps even central to human experience.

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Die schwangere Metis kroch in seinen Kopf. I argue that to place them in conversation with one another is to illuminate connections between bodies, cultures, and rhetorical resources—connections especially useful when examining protests in digital spaces. Disability Rhetoric. Es wird gesagt, dass Metis die Meistwissende unter Göttern und Menschen gewesen sei. More specifically, this article explores the connection between my own metis-work as a teacher …

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We use cookies to improve your website experience. The word normative also converts the idea of normalcy into an active process—norms “are” but they also “act”—we live in a culture in which norms are enforced, a normative society. "A metis rhetoric, is also to layer a rich variety of meanings, array the stories that are most contested, and offer double and divergent means of engaging these stories so that readers might find their own rhythm at their own pace." As a response, this article recounts how I applied the concept of metis—double, divergent, crooked—as a theoretical framework for a special topics course "Disability, Rhetoric, and the Body," and as an alternative pedagogical approach to the teaching of rhetoric and composition. The author argues that we have chosen a rhetorical history that normalizes and silences rhetorical bodies. 0000012648 00000 n

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