Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present
The Rhetorical Tradition — the first comprehensive anthology of primary texts covering the history of rhetoric — examines rhetorical theory from classical antiquity through the modern period. Extensive editorial material makes it an essential text for the beginning student as well as the professional scholar.
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The Rhetorical Tradition — the first comprehensive anthology of primary texts covering the history of rhetoric — examines rhetorical theory from classical antiquity through the modern period. Extensive editorial material makes it an essential text for the beginning student as well as the professional scholar.
General Introduction The Origins of Rhetoric Classical Rhetoric Medieval Rhetoric The Renaissance The Enlightenment Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric Modern and Postmodern RhetoricPART I: CLASSICAL RHETORIC Introduction The Sophistic Movement Isocrates and Education in Rhetoric Aspasia and Opportunities for Women Plato: True and False Rhetoric Aristotle: Systematic Rhetoric The Rise of Rome and the Rhetoric of Cicero Imperial Rome and the Rhetoric of Quintilian Gorgias Encomium of Helen *Anonymous Dissoi Logoi *Aspasia Plato, From Menexenus Cicero, From De Inventione Athenaeus, From Deipnosophistae Plutarch, From Lives Isocrates Against the Sophists From Antidosis Plato Gorgias Phaedrus Aristotle *From Rhetoric Anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV Cicero From De Oratore *From Orator *Longinus From On the Sublime Quintilian From Institutes of Oratory PART II: MEDIEVAL RHETORIC Introduction Christian Treatments of Rhetoric to Augustine Rhetoric Under Siege in Europe to 1000 C.E. The "Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" The Rise of the University The Arts of Letter Writing and Preaching Augustine On Christian Doctrine, Book IV Boethius An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric Anonymous From The Principles of Letter Writing *Geoffrey of Vinsauf From Poetria Nova Robert of Basevorn From The Form of Preaching Christine de Pizan *From The Book of the City of Ladies From The Treasure of the City of Ladies PART III: RENAISSANCE RHETORIC Introduction Rhetoric and Italian Humanism Italian Women Humanists Humanism in Northern Europe: Agricola, Erasmus, and Ramus Humanism and Rhetoric in England: Ramus Versus Cicero Desiderius Erasmus From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style *From Ecclesiasties *Baldesar Castiglione From The Book of the Courtier Peter Ramus From Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian Thomas Wilson From The Art of Rhetorique Francis Bacon From The Advancement of Learning From Novum Organum Margaret Fell Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures *Madeleine de Scudéry Of Conversation Of Speaking Too Much or Too Little. And How We Ought to Speak. *Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz From The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz PART IV: ENLIGHTENMENT RHETORIC Introduction Rhetoric in the Enlightenment: An Overview Seventeenth-Century Rhetoric Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric John Locke From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding *David Hume Of the Standard of Taste *Mary Astell From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Giambattista Vico From On the Study Methods of Our Time Thomas Sheridan A Course of Lectures on Elocution, Lecture IV Gilbert Austin From Chironomia George Campbell From The Philosophy of Rhetoric Hugh Blair From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY RHETORIC Introduction Richard Whately's Rhetoric The Development of Women's Rhetorics The Rhetorics of Men of Color The Rhetoric of Composition Romanticism and Rhetoric Language, Rhetoric, and Knowledge Richard Whateley From Elements of Rhetoric *Maria W. Stewart Lecture Delivered At The Franklin Hall Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston Sarah Grimké Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, Letters III, IV, and XIV *Frederick Douglass From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass From My Bondage and My Freedom From The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass *Phoebe Palmer The Promise of the Father, Chapter I Tongue of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord *Frances Willard From Women in the Pulpit From Women and Temperance Alexander Bain and Adams Sherman Hill Alexander Bain, From English Composition and Rhetoric Adams Sherman Hill, From The Principles of Rhetoric *Herbert Spencer From The Philosophy of Style Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense PART VI: MODERN AND POSTMODERN RHETORIC Introduction Rhetoric and Composition Speech Communication Academic Rhetoric in Europe Philosophy of Language versus Rhetoric Semantics and Semiotics The Meaning of Meaning in Philosophy and Literature Meaning and Dialogism Literature, Logic, Rhetoric, and Ethics Rhetoric versus Logic Discourse, Knowledge, and Ideology Rhetorics of Gender, Race, and Culture in the Twentieth Century The Reach of Rhetoric Mikhail Bakhtin From Marxism and the Philosophy of Language From The Problem of Speech Genres *Virginia Woolf Professions for Women Women and Fiction Dorothy Richardson From A Room of One's Own I. A. Richards I.A. Richards and C. K. Ogden, From The Meaning of Meaning I. A. Richards, From The Philosophy of Rhetoric Kenneth Burke From A Grammar of Motives From A Rhetoric of Motives From Language as Symbolic Action Richard Weaver Language is Sermonic The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric Chaim Perelman Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, From The New Rhetoric Chaim Perelman, From The Realm of Rhetoric Chaim Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning Stephen Toulmin From The Uses of Argument From Logic and the Criticism of Arguments Michel Foucault From The Archaeology of Knowledge From The Order of Discourse Jacques Derrida Signature Event Context *Wayne C. Booth From Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent Hélène Cixous The Laugh of the Medusa Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, A Woman Mistress *Adrienne Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision The Distance Between Language and Violence Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning *Gloria Anzaldúa From Borderlands/La Frontera *Stanley Fish Rhetoric
