This is the home page for Jonah Willihnganz. I am a writer and a Lecturer in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. I am also director of a new initiative at Stanford, The Stanford Storytelling Project and a former Fellow of the Stanford Humanties Center. From this page you can navigate to some of the courses I teach. If a link is not active, the course is under construction or off-line at the moment. For a little more about me you can look at my Bio Page at PWR. |
| Conspiracy Theory |
Reading as a Writer |
The Rhetoric of Modernism |
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The Rhetoric of Oral Narrative |
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
—Franz Kafka
