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"Let me ask you, with what is rhetoric concerned?" - Socrates
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Speech is a powerful lord, which by means of the finest and most invisible body effects the divinest works: it can stop fear and banish grief and create joy and nurture pity.
Gorgias (Encomium of Helen)
Rhetoric Journals and Books:
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
Other Prominent Journals:
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Augmentative & Alternative Communication
Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies
International Rhetoric Culture Project
Journal for the Study of Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament
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.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
Foss, Sonja K. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008.
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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Christine de Pisan
Wayne Booth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
President Abraham Lincoln
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Isocrates
St. Augustine
Peter Ramus
The E at Delphi
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