The Rhetorical Tradition Readings from Classical Times to the Present

New selections and/or translations are marked with an asterisk

Preface
General Introduction

PART ONE: ANCIENT RHETORIC

Introduction
*Heraclitus, Selected Fragments. Trans. Charles H. Kahn
Gorgias, Encomium of Helen. Trans. George A. Kennedy
*Aspasia, Plato, Menexenus. Trans. Tom Griffith
Anonymous, Dissoi logoi. Trans. Thomas M. Robinson
*Alcidamas, On Those Who Write Written Speeches. Trans. J. V. Muir
*Isocrates, Against the Sophists. Trans. David C. Mirhady
*Isocrates, From Antidosis. Trans. Yun Lee Too
Plato, Gorgias Trans. W. R. M. Lamb
*Plato, Phaedrus. Trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff
Aristotle, From Rhetoric. Trans. W. Rhys Roberts
Anonymous, From Rhetorica ad Herennium. Trans. Harry Caplan
*Cicero, From De inventione. Trans. H. M. Hubbell
*Cicero, From De oratore. Trans. James M. May and Jakob Wisse
Cicero, From Orator. Trans. H. M. Hubbell
Longinus, From On the Sublime. Trans. D. A. Russell
Quintilian, From Institutes of Oratory. Trans.? Rev. John Selby Watson
*Hermogenes, From On Stases. Trans. Malcolm Heath
*Philostratus, From Lives of the Sophists. Trans. Wilmer C. Wright
*Philostratus, Letter to Julia Domna. Trans. Robert J. Penella
*Nagarjuna. From The Dispeller of Disputes. Trans. Jan Westerhoff

PART TWO: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE RHETORIC
Introduction
*Augustine, De magistro, or Concerning the Teacher. Trans. T. Brian Mooney and Mark Nowacki
*Augustine, From On Christian Doctrine, Trans. J. F. Shaw
*Boethius, From An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric. Trans. Eleonore Stump
*Bede, On Schemes and Tropes. Trans. G. H. Tanenhaus
* Abu Nasr al-Farabi, From Book of Rhetoric. Trans. Lahcen E. Ezzaher
*Peter Abelard and Héloïse, Selected Letters. Trans. William Levitan; Neville Chiavoroli and Constant J. Mews
*Anna Comnena, From The Alexiad. Trans. Elizabeth A.S. Dawes
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, From Poetria nova. Trans. Jane Baltzell Kopp
*Thomas of Chobham, From Summa de arte praedicandi. Trans. Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter
*Anonymous, From Tria sunt. Trans. Martin Camargo
Christine de Pizan, From The Book of the City of Ladies. Trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards
Christine de Pizan, From The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Trans. Sarah Lawson
*Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, From The Book of the Honeycombs Flow. Trans. Isaac Rabinowitz
*Rudolph Agricola, From De inventione dialectica. Trans. Wayne A. Rebhorn
Desiderius Erasmus, From On Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style. Trans. Betty I. Knott
*Desiderius Erasmus, From De conscribendis epsitolis. Trans. Charles Fantazzi
*Philipp Melanchthon, The Praise of Eloquence. Trans. Christine Salazar
Baldesar Castiglione, From The Book of the Courtier. Trans. Charles S. Singleton
Peter Ramus, From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian. Trans. Carole Newlands
*Thomas Wilson, From The Art of Rhetoric. Ed. Peter E. Medine
*Cyprian Soarez, S. J., From De arte rhetorica libri tres. Trans. Lawrence J. Flynn
Francis Bacon, From The Advancement of Learning. Ed. Hugh G. Dick
Francis Bacon, From Novum organum. Ed. Hugh G. Dick

PART THREE: MODERN RHETORIC
Introduction
Margaret Fell, Womens Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures
*Madeleine de Scudéry, On Speaking Too Much or Too Little. Trans. Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson
*Madeleine de Scudéry, Conversation on the Manner of Writing Letters. Trans. Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson
John Locke, From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Mary Astell, From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Ed. Patricia Springborg
Giambattista Vico, From On the Study Methods of Our Time. Trans. Elio Gianturco
*Giambattista Vico, From The Art of Rhetoric. Trans. Giorgio A. Pinton and Arthur W. Shippee
*David Hume, Of Eloquence
*Adam Smith, From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Ed. J.C. Bryce
Thomas Sheridan, From A Course of Lectures on Elocution
*John Witherspoon, From Lectures on Eloquence. Ed. Thomas Miller
George Campbell, From The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Hugh Blair, From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Ed. Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran
*Molly Wallace, From The Valedictory Oration of Molly Wallace
*Priscilla Mason, The Salutatory Oration of Priscilla Mason
Gilbert Austin, From Chronomia
Richard Whately, From Elements of Rhetoric
Maria W. Stewart, Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall. Ed. Marilyn Richardson
Maria W. Stewart, Mrs. Stewarts Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston. Ed. Marilyn Richardson
Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass, From My Bondage and My Freedom
Herbert Spencer, From The Philosophy of Style. Ed. Fred Newton Scott
Alexander Bain, From English Composition and Rhetoric

PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC
Introduction
Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. Trans. Daniel Breazeale
*Gertrude Buck, The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory
I.A. Richards, From The Philosophy of Rhetoric
*Martin Heidegger, The Way to Language. Trans. Peter D. Hertz
Mikhail Bakhtin, From The Problem of Speech Genres. Trans. Vern W. McGee
Kenneth Burke, From A Grammar of Motives
Kenneth Burke, From A Rhetoric of Motives
Kenneth Burke, From Language as Symbolic Action
*J.L. Austin, From How to Do Things with Words
*Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, From The New Rhetoric. Trans. John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver
Stephen Toulmin, From The Uses of Argument
*Hannah Arendt, From The Human Condition
Richard Weaver, Language is Sermonic
*Jürgen Habermas, From Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence
Michel Foucault, From The Order of Discourse. Trans. Ian McLeod
*Michel Foucault, From Discourse and Truth. Ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini; Trans. Nancy Luxon
*Jacques Derrida, From Dissemination. Trans. Barbara Johnson
Wayne C. Booth, From Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent
Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa, Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen
*George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, From Metaphors We Live By
*Walter Ong, From Orality and Literacy
Gloria Anzaldúa, From Borderlands/La frontera
Henry Louis Gates Jr., From The Signifying Monkey

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