Skip to content

Thomas Allbaugh

Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literacy

  • Home
  • About The Author
    • My Work
      • Apocalypse TV
      • The View from January — Poetry, 2020
      • Pretexts For Writing
        • Chapter Explanations
      • Subtle Man Loses His Day Job and Other Stories
  • Subtle Man Loses His Day Job and Other Stories
  • Blog
  • Links
  • Credits

Month: February 2017

Parables for Our Time: Of Burke’s Parlor and the Braindead Megaphone

Posted on February 18, 2017March 21, 2019 by Tom

Students of rhetoric are familiar with a Kenneth Burke passage that describes a parlor in which people have gathered, where the give and take of conversation has been happening freely […]

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
Categories: Uncategorized
Read More - Parables for Our Time: Of Burke’s Parlor and the Braindead Megaphone

Subscribe to my mailing list

* indicates required
Email Format
February 2017
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jan   Mar »

Recent Posts

  • For My Latest Blog
  • On Being a Featured Writer: Understanding Grief and Hope
  • Living through the Gaps in Our Reading
  • Revision: The New Vegetable
  • Story Telos and Community Building among the Damned in Two Recent Grief Narratives*

Categories

  • certainty
  • character development
  • Composition
  • confidence
  • conversation and writing
  • creativity
  • development
  • Donald Murray
  • doubt
  • evidence
  • faith
  • five paragraph theme
  • genres
  • grief
  • Invention
  • Loss
  • mortality
  • nihilism
  • opinion
  • playwriting
  • point of view
  • process
  • progymnasmata
  • repentance.
  • Revision
  • rules for writing
  • self-esteem
  • stages of writing
  • Strunk and White
  • style advice
  • Uncategorized
  • writing across the curriculum
  • writing groups

Archives

  • July 2024
  • November 2023
  • May 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • December 2013
  • October 2013
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012

Subscribe

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Back to Top
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
rifle scope