Day One: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

Introduction to Pre-Socratic Sophists

Sophists and Rhetoric, pt. 2

Isocrates and Rhetoric, pt.1

Isocrates and Rhetoric, pt. 2

Plato

Aristotle

Rhetoric in Rome

Cicero

Quintilian

Introduction to St. Augustine: Christianization of Rhetoric

St. Augustine: Most significant passages

Brief survey of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Notes from Donald L. Clark's RHETORIC IN GRECO-ROMAN EDUCATION [a summary of some of his treatment of the classical conception of rhetoric]

Clark on the Precepts of Rhetoric

Clark on rhetorical invention

Clark on arrangement

Clark on word choice/style

Clark on delivery

Clark on memory

Summary: The Classical Conception of Rhetoric

Renaissance Rhetoric

Vico

"New Science" and Rhetoric

Belletristic Rhetoricians

George Campbell

Trends in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

I.A. Richards

Richard Weaver

Kenneth Burke

Burke, pt. 2

Steven Toulmin

Chaim Perelman

Foucault

Grassi

Habermas

Walter Fisher

Ernest Bormann

Lloyd Bitzer, pt. 1

Bitzer, pt. 2

Introduction to Feminist Rhetoric

Introduction to African, African American, and Asian Rhetoric

Introduction to Michael Calvin McGee on Rhetoric