BACK | RHETORIC | DELIVERY | TECH

  Selected Works on the 

History/Historiography/Theory of Rhetoric


Aristotle.  On Rhetoric.  Trans. George Kennedy.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
 
Augustine.  On Christian Doctrine, Book IV.  The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  386 - 423.
 
Bain, Alexander.  English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual.  London: Longmans, Green, 1866.
 
Bakhtin, Mikhail.  "From Marxism and the Philosophy of Language," "From The Problem of Speech Genres." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  924 – 963.
 
Berlin, James.  "Revisionary History: The Dialectical Method."  Pre/Text 8.1-2 (1987): 47 – 61.
 
Boethius.  "From An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  423 – 429.
 
Burke, Kenneth.  "From A Grammar of Motives," "From A Rhetoric of Motives," "From Language as Symbolic Action." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  989 - 1041.
 
Blair, Carole.  "Refiguring Systems of Rhetoric."  Pre/Text 12.3 – 4 (1991): 179 – 193.
 
Blair, Carole and Mary L. Kahl.  "Introduction: Revising the History of Rhetorical Theory."  Western Journal of Speech Communication 54 (1990); 148 – 59.
 
Blair, Hugh.  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963.
 
Booth, Wayne.  Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1974.
 
Campbell, George.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963.
 
Caplan, Harry.  "The Classical Tradition: Rhetoric and Oratory" (1968).  Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27.2 (1997) 7 – 38.
 
Cereta, Laura and Christine de Pisan.  "From The Treasure of the City of Ladies," "Letter to Augustinius Aemilius, Curse against the
Ornamentation of Women," "Letter to Biblius Sempronius, Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  483 – 498.
 
Cicero.  "From Of Oratory." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  200 – 250.
 
Conley, Thomas.  Rhetoric in the European Tradition.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
 
Connors, Robert J. "Writing the History of Our Discipline."  An Introduction to Composition Studies.  Eds. Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
 
Connors, Robert, Lisa Ede, and Andrea Lunsford.  "The Revival of Rhetoric in America."  Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern
Discourse.  Eds. Connors, Ede, and Lunsford.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984. 
 
Corbett, Edward P.J.  Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student.  4 ed.  Ed. Robert Connors.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
 
Day, Henry.  Elements in the Art of Rhetoric.  New York: Barnes and Burr, 1866.
 
Ehninger, Douglas.  "On Systems of Rhetoric."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 1.1 (1968): 131 – 44.
 
Enos, Richard.  Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle.  Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland P, 1993.
 
---.  "The History of Rhetoric: The Reconstruction of Progress."  Speech Communication in the Twentieth Century.  Ed. Thomas Benson.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 1985.  28 – 40.
 
---.  "Recovering the Lost Art of Researching the History of Rhetoric."  Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29.4 (1999): 7 – 20.
 
Erasmus, Desiderius.  "From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  499 – 556.
 
Foucault, Michel.  The Archaeology of Knowledge.  New York: Pantheon, 1982.
 
---.  "From The Order of Discourse." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  1154 – 1164.
 
Genung, John Franklin.  Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis: Studies in Style and Invention.  Boston: Ginn, 1888.
 
Glenn, Cheryl.  Rhetoric Retold.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.
 
Golden, James L. and Edward P.J. Corbett.  The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately.  New York: Holt, 1968.
 
Gorgias.  "Encomium of Helen." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  40 – 42.
 
Halloran, Michael.  "On the End of Rhetoric, Classical and Modern."  College English 36 (1975): 621 – 31.
 
---.  "Tradition and Theory in Rhetoric."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 62 (1976): 234 – 42.
 
Hill, Adams Sherman.  The Principals of Rhetoric.  New York: American Book, 1895.
 
Hill, David J.  The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective Discourse.  New York: Sheldon, 1877.
 
Hoyt, Hudson H.  "The Field of Rhetoric."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 9 (1932): 167 – 180.
 
Isocrates.  "Against the Sophists." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  46 – 49.
 
---.  "From Antidosis." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  49 – 54.
 
Jarratt, Susan.  Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
 
---.  "Towards a Sophistic Historiography."  Pre/Text 8.1-2 (1987): 9 – 27.
 
Johnson, Nan.  Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
 
---.  Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life: 1866 – 1910.  2002.
 
Kennedy, George A.  Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Traditions from Ancient to Modern Times.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1980.
 
---.  "A Hoot in the Dark."  Philosophy and Rhetoric  25.1 (1992): 1 – 21.
 
LaCapra, Dominick.  "Rhetoric and History."  History and Criticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.
 
Locke, John.  "From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990. 699 – 710.
 
Lunsford, Andrea and Lisa Ede.  "On Distinctions Between Classical and Modern Rhetoric." Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse.  Eds. Robert Connors, Lisa Ede, and Andrea Lunsford.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.  37 – 49.
 
---. Reclaiming Rhetorica : Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
 
Miller, Thomas.  "Teaching the Histories of Rhetoric as a Social Praxis."  Rhetoric Review 12.1 (Fall 1993): 70 – 82.
 
Murphy, James.  "The Historiographies of Rhetoric: Challenges and Opportunities."  Rhetorica 1.1 (1983): 1 – 8.
 
---.  "Rhetorical History as a Guide to the Salvation of American Reading and Writing: A Plea for Curriculur Change."  The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing.  Ed. Murphy.  New York: MLA Press, 1982.  3 – 12.
 
---, ed.  A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America.  Hemagoras, 1990.
 
Neitzsche, Friedrich.  "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  888 – 896.
 
Octalog.  "The Politics of Historiography."  Rhetoric Review  7.1 (1988): 5 – 49.
 
Octalog II.  "The (Continuing) Politics of Historiography."  Rhetoric Review  16.1 (1997): 22 – 44.
 
Parrish, W.M.  "The Tradition of Rhetoric."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 33 (1947): 464 – 47.
 
Perelman, Chaim.  "From The Realm of Rhetoric," The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning.  1072 – 1103.
 
Perelman, Chaim and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca.  "From The New Rhetoric." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  1066 – 1072.
 
Plato.  "Gorgias." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  61 – 112.
 
---.  "Phaedrus." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  113 – 143.
 
Quintilian.  "From Institutes of Oratory."  The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  297 – 364.
 
Ramus, Peter.  "From Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  557 – 583.
 
Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV. The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  252 – 292.
 
Schilb, John.  Differences, Displacements, and Disruptions: Toward Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric."  Pre/Text  8.1-2 (1987): 29 – 45.
 
---.  "Future Historiographies of Rhetoric and the Present Age of Anxiety."  Writing Histories of Rhetoric.  Ed.  Victor Vitanza.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994.  128 – 138.
 
---.  "The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History."  Pre/Text: The First Decade.  Ed. Victor Vitanza.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 237 – 262.
 
Swearingen, C. Jan.  Rhetoric and Irony.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
 
Vico, Gambattista.  "From On the Study Methods of Our Time." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  714 – 727.
 
Vitanza, Victor.  "Some Rudiments of Histories of Rhetorics and Rhetorics of Histories."  Rethinking the History of Rhetoric: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Takis Poulakos.  San Francisco: Westview P, 1993.  193 – 239. 
 
Weaver, Richard.  "Language is Sermonic," "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  1042 – 1065.
 
Welch, Kathleen E.  The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse.  Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.
 
Whately, Richard.  Elements of Rhetoric.  Delmar, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1991.
 
Wilson, Thomas.  "From The Arte of Rhetorique." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  584 – 621.
 
 

Selected Works on 

The Rhetorical Canon of Delivery


 
Austin, Gilbert.  "From Chironomia." The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  739 - 754.
 
Bolter, Jay David.  "Hypertext and the Rhetorical Canons." Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.  97 – 112.
 
---.  Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1991.
 
Bremmer, Jan and Herman Roodenburg, eds.  A Cultural History of Gesture. Cambridge: Polity, 1991.
 
Connors, Robert.  "Actio: A Rhetoric of Manuscripts."  Rhetoric Review 2 (1983).
 
---.  "Actio: A Rhetoric of Written Delivery (Iteration Two)." Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary
 
Composition and Communication.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.  65 – 78.
 
Cook, Linda Ann McFerrin.  "A Rhetoric of Delivery."  Dissertation Abstracts International 52.8 (1992 Feb): 2903A.
 
Dragga, Sam.  "The Ethics of Delivery." Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.  79 – 96.
 
Ezell, Jeanne R.  The Concept of Delivery Applied to Modern Rhetoric.  Microform. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1990.
 
Fredal, James.  "Beyond the Fifth Canon: Body Rhetoric in Ancient Greece."  Diss.  Columbus: The Ohio State University, 1998.
 
Fortenbaugh, William W.  "Aristotle's Platonic Attitude toward Delivery."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 19.4 (1986): 242 - 254.
 
Goodden, Angelica.  Actio and Persuasion: Dramatic Performance in Eighteenth-Century France.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
 
Gronbeck, Bruce E.  "The Spoken and the Seen: The Phonocentric and Ocularcentric Dimensions of Rhetorical Discourse." Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.  139 – 156.
 
Haberman, Frederick W.  "English Sources of American Elocution."  A History of Speech Education in America.  Ed. Karl Wallace.  New York: ?????, 1956.
 
Hochmuth, Marie and Richard Murphy.  "Rhetorical and Elocutionary Training in Nineteenth Century Colleges."  A History of Speech Education in America.  Ed. Karl Wallace.  New York: ?????, 1956.
 
Horner, Winifred Bryan.  "Reinventing Memory and Delivery."  Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young.  Eds. Richard Enos and Maureen D. Goggin.  Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 2000.  173-84.
 
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall.  Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking.  New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
 
Jousse, Marcel.  The Oral Style. Trans. Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker.  New York: Garland Pub., 1990.
 
Mohrmann, G.P.  "The Language of Nature and Elocutionary Theory."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 52 (April 1966): 116 – 24.
 
---.  "The Real Chironomia."  Southern Speech Journal 34 (Fall 1968): 17 – 27.
 
---.   "Oratorical Delivery and Other Problems in Current Scholarship on English Renaissance Rhetoric." Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric.  Ed. James Murphy.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.  56-83.
 
Olbricht, Thomas H.  "Delivery and Memory." Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400.  Ed. Stanley E. Porter.  New York: Brill, 1997.
 
Reynolds, John Frederick.  "Classical Rhetoric and Computer-Assisted Composition: Extra-textual Features as ‘Delivery.’"  Computer-Assisted Composition Journal 3 (1989): 101 – 07.
 
Ripley, Henry J.  Sacred Rhetoric; Or, Composition and Delivery of Sermons. To Which Are Added Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching, by Henry Ware, Jr. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1849.
 
Sheridan, Thomas.  A Course of Lectures on Elocution, Lecture VI. The Rhetorical Tradition.  Eds. P. Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  Boston: Bedford, 1990.  730 – 737.
 
Skinner-Linnenberg, Virginia.  Dramatizing Writing: Reincorporating Delivery in the Classroom.  Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
 
Skopec, Eric W.  "Formality in Rhetorical Delivery."  Rhetoric 78: Proceedings of Theory of Rhetoric: An Interdisciplinary Conference.  Eds. Robert L. Brown, Jr. and Martin Steinmann, Jr.  Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Lang., Style, & Lit. Theory, 1979.  361-374.
 
Spoel, Philippa M.  "The Science of Bodily Rhetoric in Gilbert Austin's Chironomia."  Rhetoric Society Quarterly 28.4 (Fall 1998): 5-27.
 
Tanner, William E.  "delivery, Delivery, DELIVERY."  Retrospectives and Perspectives: A Symposium in Rhetoric.  Eds. Turner S. Kobler, et al.  Denton, Texas: Texas Woman's UP, 1978.  23-29.
 
Welch, Kathleen.  Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
 
---.  "Reconfiguring Writing and Delivery in Secondary Orality." Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.  17 – 30.
 
 

Selected Works on 

Aesthetics/Media/Technology Theory



Benjamin, Walter.  "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations.  New York: Schocken Books, 1955.  217 – 52.
 
Bolter, Jay David.  Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991.
 
Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin.  Remediation: Understanding New Media.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
 
Deibert, Ronald J.  Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation.  New York: Columbia U P, 1997.
 
Gurak, Laura.  Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
 
Haas, Christina. Writing Technology : Studies on the Materiality of Literacy.  Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 
 
Haraway, Donna.   "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." The Cybercultures Reader.  Eds. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy.  London : Routledge, 2000.  291 – 324.
  
Hawisher, Gail and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds.  Passions, Pedagogies, and Twenty-first Century Technologies.  Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1999.
 
Heidegger, Martin.  "A Question Concerning Technology" and Other Essays.  Trans. William Lovitt.  New York : Garland Pub., 1977.
Joyce, Michael.  Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy, and Poetics.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
  
Johnson, Steven.  Interface Culture.  New York: Scribner, 1998.
 
---.  Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.  New York: Scribner, 2001.
 
Mitchell, W.J.T.  "The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction."
 
Postman, Neil.  Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.  New York: Knopf, 1992.
 
Selfe, Cindy.  Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.