Just Rhetoric

A Modest Sampling...

These lists provide but a modest sampling of a vast academic literature and will be expanded in the future. No doubt, some will notice egregious omissions. Feel free to make suggestions.

Best Known Journals

Other Prominent Journals

A Few Highly Influential Books

General Reference and Thematic Collections

Classical Greek and Roman

Biblical

Medieval

Presidential Rhetoric

Other Contemporary Works

Academic Journals

Best Known Journals:

College Composition and Communication

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Other Prominent Journals:

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

Argumentation and Advocacy

Augmentative & Alternative Communication

Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies

Communication Monographs

Communication Quarterly

Communication Yearbook

Homiletic

International Rhetoric Culture Project

Journal for the Study of Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament

Philosophy & Rhetoric

Political Communication

Rhetor

Rhetorica

Rhetoric & Public Affairs

Rhetoric Review

Southern Communication Journal

Western Journal of Communication

For a more comprehensive listing of rhetoric related journals, see the list of communication journals at AmericanRhetoric.com.

Books

A Few Highly Influential Books:

Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Translated by George A. Kennedy.New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Black, Edwin. Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

Perelman, Chaim, and Lucy Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969.

Plato. Gorgias. Translated by Robin Waterfield. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

General Reference and Thematic Collections:

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. Eds.Sonja K. Foss, Karen A. Foss and Robert Trapp. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2001.

Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. Eds. John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, and Sally Caudill. New York: Guilford Press, 1998.

Corbett, Edward P. J. and Connors, Robert J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Thomas O. Sloane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

History and Criticism of American Public Address. New York: Russell and Russell, 1960.

Jasinski, James.  Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2001.

Kennedy, George A. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

———. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill, NC :The University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric. Eds.Sonja K. Foss, Karen A. Foss and Robert Trapp. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2001.

Readings in Rhetorical Criticism. Ed. Carl R. Burgchardt. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2005.

Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. Eds. Charles E. Morris III and Stephen Howard Browne. State College, PA : Strata Publishing, 2006.

The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Eds. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: St. Martin ’s Press, 1990.

Classical Greek and Roman:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.  Selected Works. Trans. Michael. New York: Penguin, 1960.

Guthrie, W.K.C. The Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Isocrates. "Antidosis."  I. Eds. David Mirhady and Yun Lee Too. Austin, Texas: University of Texas press, 2000.

Plato. "Apology."  Trans. Hugh Tredennick. The Last Days of Socrates. Ed. Harold Tarrant. New York : Penguin, 2003. 31-70.

———. Phaedrus. Translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis : Hackett, 1995.

———. The Republic. Trans. Desmond Lee. New York : Penguin, 2003.

Quintilianus (Quintilian), Marcus Fabius. Institutio Oratoria: Book 2 [nature and rudiments of rhetoric]. Eds. Tobias Reinhardt and Michael Winterbottom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Biblical:

Kennedy, George A. New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Patrick, Dale. The Rhetoric of Revelation in the Hebrew Bible: Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1999.

Medieval:

Ong, Walter J. Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Ramus, Peter. Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones. Eds. James J. Murphy and Carole Newlands. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Presidential Rhetoric:

Beasley, Vanessa B. You, The People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency. Eds. James Arnt Aune and Enrique D. Rigsby. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.

Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. Eds. Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and The Genres of Governance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Medhurst, Martin J. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric. Eds. James Arnt Aune and Martin J. Medhurst. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Stuckey, Mary E. Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan's Challenger Address. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006.

Zarefsky, David. Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Other Contemporary Works:

Asante, Molefi Kete. The Afrocentric Idea. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

———. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983.

———. The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication. London : Blackwell, 2004.

Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. New York : Prentice Hall, 1945.

———. Attitudes Toward History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

———. Counter-Statement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

———. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 1968.

———. The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology. Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 1970.

Darsey, James. The Prophetic Tradition in American Rhetoric. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Fisher, Walter R. Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value and Action. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Grassi, Ernesto. Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science. Eds. Alan G. Gross and William M. Keith. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997.

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