Course-Related Guide: Classical Rhetorical
Theory
These links provide
information, texts, and other resources to serve as starting
points in your research on topics in classical rhetoric. Suggestions for
additions to this list that might be particularly helpful for
classes or activities at Trinity may be sent to
Benjamin Harris, the
library's liaison for the Speech and Drama Dept.
Reference Resources
Use reference resources to help focus on a topic, develop keywords
for searching, and to locate subject-specific bibliographies.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. REF PN
172 E52 2001
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication
From Ancient Times to the Information Age. REF PN
172 E53 1996
Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory.
(Stacks) P 90 H296 1984
Bibliography of Rhetorical Criticism
An exemplary example of online bibliography for any study, this
site includes bibliographies of journal articles, books, and
book chapters organized by topic. Researchers and writers
will save a great deal of time by an initial review of these
resources.
Databases
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, and
newspaper articles on your topic. The following databases may be
particularly helpful for this course. When you find useful
keywords in your search, make note of these and use the same
words and combinations of words in other search situations.
Academic Search Complete
Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is the
world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly,
multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300
full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed
journals. In addition to full text, this database offers
indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a
total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports,
conference proceedings, etc.
Communication Abstracts
Articles, reports, papers and books in communication and
related fields. This is a subject specific database for
communication studies and is a good source for scholarly
articles and books. Use the TOUR link to find the full-text of
items listed in this resource.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Index to over 400 journals related to communications and mass media,
with full text for over 200 journals.
MLA International Bibliography
Major citation index to critical scholarship
in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Some full-text articles.
Perseus
Digital Library
Digital library offering access to primary
texts, secondary sources, site plans, digital images, and maps. Also includes word
study tools linked to Greek and Latin lexica, as well as extensive art and archaeology catalogs.
Books: Primary Sources
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.
Your instructor or the assignment may require that you find
primary texts (which can include literary works, diaries,
speeches, letters, historical articles or essays,
autobiographies, transcribed interviews, brochures, pamphlets,
etc.). The following titles are examples of primary
sources located in the library:
Aristotle. On Rhetoric. PN 173
A7 K46
Augustine. City of God Against the
Pagans. BR 65 A64 E5
Augustine. Confessions of St.
Augustine. BR 65 A6 E5
Boethius. In Ciceronis Topica.
B 659 I52 E6
* Boethius. Consolation of
Philosophy. B 659 D472 E5
Cicero. De Oratore. PA 6156 C6
D6
Cicero. Ad C. Herennium de ratione
dicendi : (Rhetorica ad Herennium). PA 6304 R7
Freeman, Kathleen. Ancilla to the
Pre-Socratic Philosophers. B 165 D43 F72
Plato. Gorgias. B 371 A5 H3
Plato. Phaedrus. B 380 P5813
Plato. Symposium. B 385 A5
J672
Quintillian. Institutio Oratoria.
PA 6156 Q5
* Ramus, Petrus. Peter Ramus's
Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's Brutinae
Quaestiones. B 785 L23 B78
Sprague, Rosamunde. The Older
Sophists; a complete translation by several hands of the
fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, edited by
Diels-Kranz. B 165 D4213
* A large collection of Latin and
other translated texts by this author are available in the
Coates Library's Early Electronic Books Online (EEBO)
collection.
Books: Secondary Sources
Use Quest to find books that discuss, analyze, critique, or
interpret primary texts. Secondary sources are often
written by scholars and subject experts who elucidate or
complicate the reading of a primary text and challenge the
interpretations of other writers. The following titles are
examples of secondary sources located in the library:
Atwill, Janet.
Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition.
LC 1011 A89
Conley, Thomas. Rhetoric in the
European Tradition. PN 175 C55
Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical
Rhetoric for the Modern Student. PN 175 C57
Glenn, Cheryl. Rhetoric Retold:
Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the
Renaissance.
PN 183 G54
Jarratt, Susan C. Rereading the
Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. PA 3265 J37
Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric
and Its Christian and Secular Traditions From Ancient to
Modern Times. PN 183 K4
Murphy, James J. Synoptic History of
Classical Rhetoric. PA 3265 M8
Ong, Walter J. Method, and the Decay
of Dialogue, From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason.
B 785 L24 O5
Schiappa, Edward. Beginnings of
Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. PA 401 S24
Swearengin, C. Jan. Rhetoric and
Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies. PA 181 S9
Troup, Calvin L. Temporality,
Eternity, and Wisdom: The Rhetoric of Augustine's Confessions.
BR 65 A62 T78
Vickers, Brian. In Defense of Rhetoric.
PN 175 V53
Welch, Kathleen E. Contemporary
Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient
Discourse. PN 175 W38
Journals
While researchers will use databases to search the contents of
journals such as these listed below, reviewing journals the
current contents of a journal related to a particular topic during
the writing and research process may assist a writer's
invention, arrangement, style, or delivery. The following
journals can be accessed by clicking on the
Journals link at the
library's homepage:
Classical Antiquity. DE 1
C64 (Available full-text online: current year only)
Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. (open
access electronic journal)
Philosophy and Rhetoric. B1
P572 (Available full-text online: 2000-current)
Rhetoric Review. PN 171.4 R44
(Available full-text online: 2001-2004)
Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
(Available full-text online: 2004-current)
Rhetorica. PN 80 R43
(Available full-text online: 2001-2005)
Internet Resources
Internet resources should be evaluated before
they are included in a scholarly project. Web resources are not always
helpful to students and scholars because
(1) website addresses and contents change, making it difficult for a
reader to verify or refer to the source;
(2) websites are difficult to evaluate, often due to missing
information related to authority, currency, and accuracy;
(3) and website authors do not always use materials with
consideration to copyright law.
The following sites have been evaluated and selected for use by your
Trinity librarian, but you should consult with your instructor
before using web resources in your projects or essays.
Ancient Rhetoric: An Introduction
Site is particularly notable for online full-text offerings of
classical texts by Hermogenes, Apthonius, and Libanius.
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Extensive online bibliography of works related to Aristotle's
theories related to rhetoric.
Bryn Mawr
Classical Review
Online journal features peer reviewed book and journal reviews in
all areas of classical studies, including the study of classical
rhetoric.
Cicero Homepage
Site includes full-text translations of Cicero's work, as well as
timelines, biography, bibliography, and images.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the
Ancient World
"Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone
interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean
and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach
courses about the ancient world. This site includes course
materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable
bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including
articles, book reviews, databases, and images."
Erratic
Impact: Philosophy Research Base
Categorized by history, subject and author, this meta-index
integrates text resources with the best online resources. Based
upon visitor participation, the Philosophy Research Base serves as
both a study guide and a platform for a wide variety of community
services for students and teachers in philosophy and related
subjects. A number of the subjects in this course are covered at
this site.
Glossary of Rhetoric Terms with Examples
From the University of Kentucky Classics Department, this long
lasting site offers brief definitions of rhetorical strategies and
a number of examples to illustrate the concept.
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Similar to the "Glossary," explanations of these terms are a
little more involved, making it useful for those studying these
concepts for the first time.
Short Handbook on Rhetorical Analysis
From the site description by William P. Banks: "My purpose here is
to offer a short handbook for those who seek to analyze the
rhetorical strategies of published writers. This particular
handbook works with one basic premise: regardless of how
"literate" you might think yourself, there are always ways to
re-think and re-consider the careful work of the writer so as to
become better acquainted with the particular rhetorical strategies
and appeals the writer employs in his/her text."
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
One of the first and one of the best sites offering
online definitions and guidelines for the study of rhetorical
concepts and theories (both classical and contemporary).
Sponsored by Brigham Young University, this site extends the tree
as a metaphor for learning and thinking about rhetorical activity.
Cite Your Sources
Refer to the
library's pages for citing sources.
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