Selected Class Notes:

 

Donald C. Bryant, "Rhetoric: Its Function and its Scope."

Douglas W Ehninger, "On Systems of Rhetoric."

Robert Scott, "On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic."

The Pre-Moderns
Gorgias, "Encomium on Helen"

Plato's Protagoras, Gorgias & Phaedrus

Isocrates, "Against The Sophists"

Aristotle, Rhetoric (Book I) & (Book II)

Cicero, De Oratore

Contemporary Rhetoric: Problems & Issues

The Rhetorical Situation:
Lloyd Bitzer, "The Rhetorical Situation"

Richard Vatz, "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation"
Barbara Biesecker, "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation From Within the Thematic of Differance"

Social Movement Theories & Problems:
Leland Griffin, "The Rhetoric of Historical Movements"
Herbert Simons, "Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements"

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, "The Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron"
Barbara Biesecker,"Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric"

Towards Consideration of a Critical Rhetoric:
James Klump & Thomas Hollihan, "Rhetorical Criticism as Moral Action"
Celeste Condit, "Crafting Virtue: The Rhetorical Construction of Public Morality"

 

 

 

 

 

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