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Navigate home Schedule week 1 Texts Brummett, Barry. Rhetoric in Popular Culture. 2d ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006 . Ball, Cheryl E. and Kristin L. Arola. ix Visual Exercises. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. Class handouts and online resources as assigned Resources
Rhetorical figures |
Primary Texts > Classical and Medieval Rhetoric |
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| Author/Rhetor | Title | Format |
| Aristotle | On Rhetoric, c.350 BCE (trans. Rhys Roberts) | text |
| Aspasia | ||
| Augustine | On Christian Doctrine, 397, 426 CE | text |
| Cicero | De Inventione |
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| Gorgias | Encomium of Helen, c.414 BCE (trans. Kennedy) | text |
| Isocrates | "Antidosis," 353 BCE (trans. Norlin) "Against the Sophists," c.390 BCE |
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| Plato | "Phaedrus," 370 BCE (trans. Jowett) "Gorgias," c.386 CBE (trans. Jowett) |
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| Quintilian | Institutes of Oratory, Bk.2, Ch.1-10 (trans. Butler) | text |
Primary Texts > Renaissance and Enlightenment Rhetoric |
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| Author/Rhetor | Title | Format |
| Gilbert Austin | from Chironomia | visual |
| Francis Bacon | The Advancement of Learning Novum Organum |
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| George Campbell | The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776) | text |
| Christine de Pizan | from The Book of the City of Ladies | text |
| Frederick Douglass | The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave | text |
| Erasmus | The Praise of Folly (1688) | text |
| Margaret Fell | "Women's Speaking" | text |
| David Hume | ||
Primary Texts > 19th-Century and Modern Rhetoric |
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| Author/Rhetor | Title | Format |
| Wayne Booth | Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent | |
| Kenneth Burke | ||
| Angelina Grimke | "The Sphere of Woman and Man as Moral Beings the Same" | text |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | "I Have a Dream," 8.28.1963 | text, mp3 |
| Abraham Lincoln | "Gettysburg Address" (audio by Jeff Daniels) | text, mp3 |
| Stephen Toulmin | The Uses of Argument | |