Rhetoric Reading List (focus on decorum)
Patricia Ericsson
Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. New
Augustine. On Christine Doctrine (Book IV). From The Rhetorical Tradition. ed.
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Baumlin, James S. "Decorum, Kairos and the ‘New’ Rhetoric." Pre/Text, 5.3-4 (1984).
Bitzer, Lloyd, "The Rhetorical Situation" From Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions,
Bacon, 1995.
Blair, Hugh "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres." From The Rhetorical Tradition.
ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Brummett, Barry. "Rhetorical Theory as Heuristic and Moral: A Pedagogical
Justification." From Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. eds. William A Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, from Man Cannot Speak for Her: A critical Study of Early
Feminist Rhetoric. From Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. eds. William A Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
---. "The Discursive Performance of Femininity: Hating Hillary." Rhetoric and Public
Affairs. 1.1 (1998): 1-19.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Oratore. From The Rhetorical Tradition. eds. Patricia
Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Crowley, Sharon, "The Bourgeois Subject." From . Composition in the University.
D’Alton, J. F., Roman Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Russell & Russell,
1962. 114-131.
DeChaine, D. Robert. " ‘Transgressing the Boundaries’ of Ethical Discourse:
Speculations on the Rhetoric of Decorum." Cal Poly Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 11 (Fall 1998): 119-126. Online at http://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/1998/dechaine.pdf
Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method. Trans. Laurence J. Lafleur. Saddle River, NJ:
Dobrin, Sid. "Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric
Dyson." From Race, Rhetoric and the Postcolonial. eds. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press, 1999.
Fleming, David. "Rhetoric as a Course of Study." College English. 61.2 (Nov. 1999):
Grassi, Ernesto. Rhetorics as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition. Carbondale, IL:
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. ""Eloquence in an Electronic Age." From Rhetoric: Concepts,
Definitions, Boundaries. eds. William A Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Kahn, Victoria. "Humanist Rhetoric." From Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions,
Boundaries. eds. William A Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Kennedy, George A. Comparative Rhetoric. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
Lanham, Richard A. "Decorum." A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. U. of California
---."Digitizing Some Keywords." Computers and Composition. 6.3 (August 1989):
---. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: U. of
Leff, Michael. "The Habitation of Rhetoric" Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. ed. John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill. New
O’Donnell, James J. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace." Cambridge,
Pereleman, Chiam, and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca.. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on
Argumentation. Trans John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver. Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame Press, 1969.
Plato. Gorgias. Trans. Walter Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 1960.
---, Phaedrus. Trans. Walter Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 1973.
Porter, James, E. Audience and Rhetoric. Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Ratcliff, Krista. "Rhetorical Listening: A trope for Interpretive Invention and a ‘Code of
Cross-Cultural Conduct’" CCC 51.2 (December 1999): 195-224.
Swales, John. "Research Articles in English" From Genre Analysis: English in
Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 110-176.
Quintilian, Marcus Fabius. Instituio Oratoria. From The Rhetorical Tradition. eds.
Press, 1990.
Vatz, Richard E. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation." From Rhetoric: Concepts,
Definitions, Boundaries. eds. William A Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Worsham, Lynn. "Eating History, Purging Memory, Killing Rhetoric." From Writing
Young, Iris Marion. "Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy."
From Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy. Princeton: Princeton UP:1997, 60-73.