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Aristotle, Rhetoric
Augustine, Of Christian Doctrine, Book IV
Mikhail Bahktin, “Discourse in the Novel” and “The Problem with Speech Genres”
Charles Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge
James Berlin, Rhetoric and Reality (See Composition Studies)
Lloyd Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation”
Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Wayne Booth, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent
Jay David Bolter, Writing Space
Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives
Judith Butler, Excitable Speech
George Campbell, Philosophy of Rhetoric
Cicero, De Oratore
E.P.J. Corbett and Golden, Blair, Campbell, Whately
William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe (eds), Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries
James Crosswhite, The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attraction of Argument
George L. Dillon, Contending Rhetorics: Writing in Academic Disciplines
Henry L. Gates, “Signifyin’ Monkey”
Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
George Kennedy, Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross Cultural Examination
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
Carolyn R. Miller, “Genre As Social Action”
James J. Murphy (ed), A Short History of Writing Instruction
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy
Chaim Perelman, The Realm of Rhetoric
Plato, the Phaedrus and the Gorgias
Mary Louise Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone”
Paul Prior, Writing, Disciplinarity
Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, II, X, and XII
I. A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Giambattista Vico, On the Study Methods of Our Time
Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric
Victor Vitanza, Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric
Richard Weaver, Ethics of Rhetoric
Ross Winterowed (ed), Contemporary Rhetoric: A Conceptual Background with Readings
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