English 472: Rhetorical Studies
Spring 2010

(Available on course Blackboard or online)

• Aristotle, Rhetoric Book I and from Book II, Parts 1-10
  
  
• Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
  
  
• Berlin, James. "Revisionary History: The Dialectical Method." Rethinking the History ofRhetoric. Ed. Takis Poulakos. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993: 135-51.
  
  
• Biesecker, Barbara. "Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric. 25.2 (1992): 140-161.
  
  
• Bitzer, Lloyd “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (1968): 1-14.
  
  
• Booth, Wayne C. “How Many ‘Rhetorics’“ The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004: 3-22.
  
  
• Burke, Kenneth. from A Rhetoric of Motives and from Language as Symbolic Action
  
  
• Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. "Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron." Quarterly Journal of Speech. 59 (1973) 74-86.
  
  
• Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. “Stanton’s ‘The Solitude of Self’: A Rationale for Feminism.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 66: 3 (1980): 304-12.
  
  
• Cicero. De Oratore, Book II-III
  
  
• Clinton, William Jefferson. Second Inaugural Address, 20 January 1997
  
  
• Crowley, “A Plea for the Revival of Sophistry.” Rhetoric Review, 7.2 (Spring 1989): 318-34.
  
  
• Douglass, Frederick. What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July? Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1852
  
  
• Foucault, Michel. "The Discourse on Language." The Archaeology of Knowledge. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. NY: Pantheon, 1972: 215-37.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Glenn, Cheryl. “Remapping Rhetorical Territory.”Rhetoric Review 13.2 (Spring 1995): 287-303.

• Gorgias’ “Encomium on Helen"
  
  
• Griffin, Leland M. “The Rhetoric of Historical Movements.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 38:2 (1952): 184-88.
  
  
• Grimke, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes III, IV, VII, and X
  
  
• Heifferon, Barbara A. “The New Smallpox: An Epidemic of Words?” Rhetoric Review 25.1(2006): 76–93.
  
  
• Jarratt, Susan C. “The First Sophistics and the Uses of History.” Rhetoric Review 6.1 (Autumn 1997): 67-78
  
  
• Kennedy, John F. Inaugural Address 20 January 1961
  
  
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail and "I Have a Dream” Address at March on Washington, 28 August 1963
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address” 19 November 1863
  
  
• Locke, John. Essay on Human Understanding Book III — Chapter IX — Of the Imperfection of Words and Chapter X — Of the Abuse of Words
  
  
• McComiskey, Bruce. “Plato’s Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias.” Rhetoric Review 10.2 (Spring 1992): 205-216
  
  
• Mattingly, Carol. “Telling Evidence : Rethinking What Counts In Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32.1 (Winter 2002): 99-108.
  
  
• Morrison, Toni. Noble Lecture, December 7, 1993.
  
  
• Obama, Barack. Inaugural Address, 20 January 2009, Nobel Lecture, 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway and "A More Perfect Union," 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA
  
  
• Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus (any edition)
  
  
• Simons, Herbert W. “Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 56:1 (1970): 1-1
  
  
• Stewart, Maria. "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall" (21 September 1832)

• Vatz, Richard E. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 6 (1973): 154- 171.
  
  
• Vico, Giambattista. On the Study Methods of Our Time

• Wilson, Kirt H. “The Contested Space of Prudence in the 1874-1875 Civil Rights Debate.” QJS 84.2 (May 1998): 131-49.