![]() ![]() In those two minutes, Lincoln summarized all the pain and suffering that had been brought by the Civil War and looked forward to the good that might someday come from a Union victory. Though the speech took less than two minutes to deliver, the country was deeply moved by it. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.Ībraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is widely praised as one of history’s greatest speeches. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Calhoun was an extremely talented rhetorician who used his skills to argue in defense of slavery!Īlthough rhetoric is often connected with making speeches, it applies just as well to writing. This is an important point – a person can be good at rhetoric without actually having good ideas! To use an extreme example, John C. For example, they might say that a politician is “all rhetoric and no substance,” meaning the politician makes good speeches but doesn’t have good ideas. Today, people sometimes use the word “rhetoric” in a negative light. That’s why the politicians of, say, the 19 th century were so eloquent and well-spoken in comparison with modern politicians. In the classical world, rhetoric was considered one of the most important school subjects, and no gentleman was raised without extensive formal training in the skill. It’s a way of presenting and making your views convincing and attractive to your readers or audience. Additionally we have partnerships with Washington State University Vancouver, which serves as our host institution Digital Humanities Summer Institute the New Media Consortium and Compute Canada.Rhetoric is the ancient art of persuasion. While most of our funding is derived from memberships, support has also come from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We partner with Bloomsbury Press on a book series, entitled Electronic Literature and publish open source anthologies of electronic literature called the Electronic Literature Collection, an open source knowledge base called the Electronic Literature Directory, and books and reports, including State of the Arts (2003), Acid-Free Bits (2004), Born-Again Bits (2005), Toward a Semantic Literary Web (2007), and Electronic Literature: What Is It? (2007). We oversee digital archives of prominent digital communities, (US) and the trAce Online Writing Centre (UK) through the ELO’s Electronic Literature Archives project. An international organization dedicated to the investigation of literature produced for the digital medium.įounded in Chicago, Illinois in 1999, the ELO now has a presence across North America and in South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Our members hail from a wide array of disciplines and areas of study, including Art, Literature, Communication, Computer Science, Humanities, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Women Studies, and Comparative Media.Įach year we host a conference and media art festival as well as readings and performances of our work. ![]()
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