Traditional Rhetorical Theory
James P. Zappen
Selected Bibliography
The Sophists
Consigny, Scott. Gorgias: Sophist and Artist. Studies in
Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
2001.
Havelock, Eric A. The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics. New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1957.
Kerferd, G. B. The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1981.
McComiskey, Bruce. Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric.
Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 2002.
The Older Sophists. Ed. Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 1972.
Schiappa, Edward. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical
Greece. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999.
---. "Did Plato Coin Rhêtorikê?" American Journal of
Philology 111 (1990): 457-70.
---. Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and
Rhetoric. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University
of South Carolina Press, 1991.
---. "Rhêtorikê: What's in a Name? Toward a Revised History
of Early Greek Rhetorical Theory." Quarterly Journal of Speech
78 (1992): 1-15.
Socrates/Plato
Adkins, Arthur W. H. Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek
Values. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
Benardete, Seth. The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy:
Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1991.
Benitez, Eugenio. "Argument, Rhetoric, and Philosophic Method: Plato's
Protagoras." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 222-52.
Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith. Plato's Socrates.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Derrida, Jacques. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and
Beyond. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1987.
Irwin, Terence. Classical Thought. Vol. 1 of A History of
Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, OPUS Book,
1989.
---. Plato's Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kahn, Charles H. "Did Plato Write Socratic Dialogues?" In Essays on
the Philosophy of Socrates, ed. Hugh H. Benson, 35-52. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992.
---. "Drama and Dialectic in Plato's Gorgias." Oxford Studies
in Ancient Philosophy 1 (1983): 75-121.
---. "On the Relative Date of the Gorgias and the
Protagoras." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 6
(1988): 69-102.
---. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a
Literary Form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Kastely, James L. Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to
Postmodernism. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
Nightingale, Andrea Wilson. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the
Construct of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Penner, Terry. "Socrates and the Early Dialogues." In The Cambridge
Companion to Plato, ed. Richard Kraut, 121-69. Cambridge
Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Plato. Gorgias. In Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias, trans. W.
R. M. Lamb, 247-533. Vol. 3 of Plato. Loeb Classical Library,
vol. 166. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1925.
---. Phaedrus. In Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo,
Phaedrus, trans. Harold North Fowler, 405-579. Vol. 1 of
Plato. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 36. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1914.
---. Protagoras. In Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus,
trans. W. R. M. Lamb, 85-257. Vol. 2 of Plato. Loeb Classical
Library, vol. 165. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
1924.
Neel, Jasper. Plato, Derrida, and Writing. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1988.
Robinson, Richard. Plato's Earlier Dialectic. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1953.
Rossetti, Livio. "The Rhetoric of Socrates." Philosophy and
Rhetoric 22 (1989): 225-38.
Vlastos, Gregory. Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher.
Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1991.
Wardy, Robert. The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and Their
Successors. Issues in Ancient Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1996.
Yunis, Harvey. Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in
Classical Athens. Rhetoric and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1996.
Zappen, James P. The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the
Rhetorical Tradition. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2004.
Aristotle
Aristotle. The "Art" of Rhetoric. Trans. John Henry Freese. Loeb
Classical Library, vol. 193. London: William Heinemann, 1926.
---. The Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. H. Rackham. Rev. ed. Loeb
Classical Library, vol. 73. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
---. On Interpretation. In The Categories, On
Interpretation, trans. Harold P. Cooke; Prior Analytics,
trans. Hugh Tredennick, 111-79. Loeb Classical Library,
vol. 325. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.
---. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A.
Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
---. Posterior Analytics. In Posterior Analytics,
trans. Hugh Tredennick; Topica, trans. E. S. Forster, 1-261.
Loeb Classical Library, vol. 391. London: William Heinemann, 1960.
---. Prior Analytics. In The Categories, On
Interpretation, trans. Harold P. Cooke; Prior Analytics,
trans. Hugh Tredennick, 181-551. Loeb Classical Library,
vol. 325. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.
Evans, J. D. G. Aristotle's Concept of Dialectic. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1993.
Gage, John T. "An Adequate Epistemology for Composition: Classical and
Modern Perspectives." In Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern
Discourse, ed. Robert J. Connors, Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A.
Lunsford, 152-69, 281-84. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1984.
Halloran, S. Michael. "Aristotle's Concept of Ethos, or If Not His
Somebody Else's." Rhetoric Review 1 (1982): 58-63.
Haskins, Ekaterina V. Logos and Power in Isocrates and
Aristotle. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University
of South Carolina Press, 2004.
McKeon, Richard. Introduction to Aristotle. 2nd ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1973.
---. "The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic
Productive Arts." In The Prosepct of Rhetoric: Report of the
National Developmental Project, ed. Lloyd F. Bitzer and Edwin
Black, 44-63. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Miller, Carolyn R. "The Aristotelian Topos: Hunting for
Novelty." In Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric, ed. Alan G. Gross
and Arthur E. Walzer, 130-46. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 2000.
---. "Aristotle's 'Special Topics' in Rhetorical Practice and
Pedagogy." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 17 (1987): 61-70.
Raymond, James C. "Enthymemes, Examples, and Rhetorical Method." In
Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, ed. Robert J.
Connors, Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford, 140-51, 280-81.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Reynolds, Nedra. "Ethos as Location: New Sites for Understanding
Discursive Authority." Rhetoric Review: 11 (1993): 325-38.
Cicero
Cicero on Oratory and Orators, trans. or ed. J. S. Watson, with
a new preface by Richard Leo Enos. Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public
Address. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970, 1986.
Quintilian
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and
Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the
Institutio Oratoria, ed. James J. Murphy. Landmarks in Rhetoric and
Public Address. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Selected Readings and Surveys
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition:
Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: St. Martin's
Press, Bedford Books, 1990.
Conley, Thomas M. Rhetoric in the European Tradition. New York:
Longman, 1990.
Enos, Richard Leo. Greek Rhetoric before Aristotle. Prospect
Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1993.
Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular
Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
---. Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural
Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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