English 472: Rhetorical Studies
Spring 2008

(Available on course Blackboard)

What is Rhetoric?

• Booth, Wayne C. “How Many ‘Rhetorics’“ The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004: 3-22.
• Crowley, Sharon. “Speaking of Rhetoric.” Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism. Pittsburg, PA: U of Pittsburg 2006: 24-57
• Wander, Philip C. "The Ideological Turn in Modern Criticism." Central States Speech Journal 34 (Spring 1983): 1-18
• Crowley, Sharon. "Reflections on an Argument That Won't Go Away: Or, a Turn of the Ideological Screw." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (November 1992): 450-65.
  

• Gorgias’ “Encomium on Helen"
  
• Crowley, “A Plea for the Revival of Sophistry.” Rhetoric Review, 7.2 (Spring 1989): 318-34.
  
• Jarratt, Susan C. “The First Sophistics and the Uses of History.” Rhetoric Review 6.1 (Autumn 1997): 67-78
• Scenters-Zapico, John. “The Case for the Sophists.” Rhetoric Review, 11.2 (Spring, 1993): 352-367
  

• Plato's Gorgias (any edition)
  
• McComiskey, Bruce. “Plato’s Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias.” Rhetoric Review 10.2 (Spring 1992): 205-216

• Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron." Quarterly Journal of Speech. 59 (1973) 74-86.
  
• Biesecker, Barbara. "Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric. 25.2 (1992): 140-161.
  
• Glenn, Cheryl. “Sex, Lies, and Manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric.” CCC 45.2 (May 1994): 180-99.
• Mattingly, Carol. “Telling Evidence : Rethinking What Counts In Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32.1 (Winter 2002): 99-108.
  

• Wilson, Kirt H. “The Contested Space of Prudence in the 1874-1875 Civil Rights Debate.” QJS 84.2 (May 1998): 131-49.
• Conway, Glenda. “Inevitable Reconstructions: Voice and ideology In Two Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Opinions.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 6.3 (2003): 487-508.
  

Rhetorical Criticism, Analysis and Theory

• Jensen, Richard J. “Evolving Protest Rhetoric: From the 1960s to the 1990s.” Rhetoric Review 20.1/2 (2001): 28-32
  
• Heifferon, Barbara A. “The New Smallpox: An Epidemic of Words?” Rhetoric Review 25.1(2006): 76–93.

Visual Rhetoric

• Gallagher, Victoria J. and Kenneth S. Zagacki. “Visibility and Rhetoric: Epiphanies and Transformations in the Life Photographs of the Selma Marches of 1965.” RSQ 37.2 (Spring 2007): 113-35
• Kimble, James J. And Lester C. Olson ”Visual Rhetoric Representing Rosie the Riveter: Myth and Misconception in J. Howard Miller’s “We can do it!” Poster.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.4 (2006): 533-70.

The Rhetorical Situation

• Bitzer, Lloyd “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (1968): 1-14.
  
• Vatz, Richard E. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 6 (1973): 154- 171.
  
• Biesecker, Barbara. "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Differance." Philosophy and Rhetoric 22 (1989): 110-30.

• Foucault, Michel. "The Discourse on Language." The Archaeology of Knowledge. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. NY: Pantheon, 1972: 215-37.
  

• Berlin, James. "Revisionary History: The Dialectical Method." Rethinking the History of Rhetoric. Ed. Takis Poulakos. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993: 135-51.
  
• Glenn, Cheryl. “Remapping Rhetorical Territory.”Rhetoric Review 13.2 (Spring 1995): 287-303.
  
• Royster, Jacqueline Jones. “Disciplinary Landscaping, or Contemporary Challenges in the History of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 36.2 (2003): 148-67.