The Rhetorical tradition: readings from classical times to the present

Part One : Classical rhetoric.

Part Two : Medieval rhetoric.

Part Three : Renaissance rhetoric.

Part Four : Enlightenment rhetoric.

Part Five : Nineteenth-century rhetoric.

Part Six : Modern and postmodern rhetoric.

Encomium of Helen / Gorgias

Against the Sophists ; From Antidosis / Isocrates

Gorgias ; Phaedrus / Plato

From Rhetoric / Aristotle

From Of Oratory / Cicero

Rhetorica ad Herennium Book IV / Anonymous

From Institutes of Oratory / Quintilian

On Christian doctrine IV / Augustine

An overview of the structure of rhetoric / Boethius

From the principles of letter writing / Anonymous

From The form of preaching / Robert of Basevorn

From The treasure of the city of ladies / Christine de Pisan

Letter to Augustinus Aemilius, curse against the ornamentation of women ; Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, defense of the liberal instruction of women / Laura Cereta

From Copia : foundations of the abundant style / Desiderius Erasmus

From Arguments in rhetoric against Quintilian / Peter Ramus.

From The arte of rhetorique / Thomas Wilson

From The advancement of learning ; From Novum organum / Francis Bacon

Women's speaking justified, proved, and allowed by the scriptures / Margaret Fell

Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman, Letters III, IV, and XIV / Sarah Grimké

From An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke

From On the study methods of our time / Giambattista Vico

A course of lectures on elocution, lecture VI / Thomas Sheridan

From Chironomia / Gilbert Austin

From The philosophy of rhetoric / George Campbell

From Lectures on rhetoric and Belles Lettres / Hugh Blair

From elements of rhetoric / Richard Whately

From The art of discourse / Henry N. Day

From English composition and rhetoric / Alexander Bain.

From The science of rhetoric / David J. Hill

From The principles of rhetoric / Adams Sherman Hill

On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense / Friedrich Nietzsche

From Marxism and the philosophy of language ; From The problem of speech genres / Mikhail Bakhtin

From the meaning of meaning / I.A. Richards and C.K. Ogden

From The philosophy of rhetoric / I.A. Richards

From A grammar of motives ; From A rhetoric of motives ; From Language as symbolic action / Kenneth Burke

Language is sermonic ; The Phaedrus and the nature of rhetoric / Richard Weaver

From The new rhetoric / Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca

From The realm of rhetoric ; The new rhetoric : a theory of practical reasoning / Chaim Perelman

From The uses of argument ; From Logic and the criticism of arguments / Stephen Toulmin.

From The archaeology of knowledge ; From The order of discourse / Michel Foucault

Signature eventcontext / Jacques Derrida

The signifying monkey and the language of signifyin(g) : rhetoricaldifference and the orders of meaning / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous

A woman mistress / Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement

Women's time / Julia Kristeva.