Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
James P. Zappen
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Kenneth Burke
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Burke, Kenneth. Attitudes Toward History. 3rd ed. Berkeley:
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Action. 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
—. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1969.
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Durham, Weldon B. "Kenneth Burke's Concept of Substance." Quarterly
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George, Ann, and Jack Selzer. Kenneth Burke in the 1930s. Studies
in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
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Gregg, Richard B. Symbolic Inducement and Knowing: A Study in the
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Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984. Chapter 4.
Henderson, Greig E. Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as
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—. "A Rhetoric of Form: The Early Burke and Reader-Response
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Lyon, Arabella. Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored.
Literature and Philosophy. University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1998. Chapter 3.
Oravec, Christine. "Kenneth Burke's Concept of Associations and the
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Herbert W. Simons and Trevor Melia, 174-95. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Rueckert, William H. Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human
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Simons, Herbert W., and Trevor Melia, ed. The Legacy of Kenneth
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Weiser, M. Elizabeth. Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing
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Wolin, Ross. The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke. Studies
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2001.
Zappen, James P. "Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical
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James P. Zappen, S. Michael Halloran, and Scott A. Wible. "Some Notes
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Stephen Toulmin
Jensen, J. Vernon. Argumentation: Reasoning in Communication.
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Toulmin, Stephen. The Uses of Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Toulmin, Stephen, Richard Rieke, and Allan Janik. An Introduction to
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Michel Foucault
Davidson, Arnold I. "Ethics as Ascetics: Foucault, the History of
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Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge and The
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—. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human
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Foucault, Michel, ed. I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered
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Jacques Derrida
Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy. Trans. Alan Bass.
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—. Of Grammatology. Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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—. "Plato's Pharmacy." In Dissemination, trans. Barbara
Johnson, 61-171. Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press, 1981.
—. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond.
Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
—. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Leitch, Vincent B. Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced
Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Neel, Jasper. Plato, Derrida, and Writing. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1988.
Norris, Christopher. Derrida. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1987.
Mikhail M. Bakhtin
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—. "From Notes Made in 1970-71." In Speech Genres and Other
Late Essays, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. Vern W.
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—. "The Problem of Speech Genres." In Speech Genres and Other
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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
—. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. Ed. and trans. Caryl
Emerson. Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 8. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
—. Rabelais and His World, trans. Hélène
Iswolsky. 1968. Reprint, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Midland
Book, 1984.
—. "Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial
Staff." In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, ed. Caryl
Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. Vern W. McGee, 1-7. University of
Texas Press Slavic Series, No. 8. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1986.
Bialostosky, Don [H]. "Bakhtin's 'Rough Draft': Toward a Philosophy of
the Act, Ethics, and Composition Studies." Rhetoric Review 18
(1999): 6-25.
—. "Dialogics as an Art of Discourse in Literary Criticism."
Publications of the Modern Language Association 101 (1986):
788-97.
Baxter, Leslie A. "Dialogues of Relating." In Dialogue: Theorizing
Differences in Communication Studies, ed. Rob Anderson, Leslie A.
Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna, 107-24. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage
Publications, 2004.
Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture
from Revolution to Cold War. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2000.
Clark, Katerina, and Michael Holquist. Mikhail Bakhtin.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1984.
Dentith, Simon. "Bakhtin and Contemporary Criticism." In Bakhtinian
Thought: An Introductory Reader, 88-102, 104. Critical Readers in
Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 1995.
—. "Bakhtin versus Rhetoric?" In Face to Face: Bakhtin in
Russia and the West, ed. Carol Adlam, Rachel Falconer, Vitalii
Makhlin, and Alastair Renfrew, 311-25. Sheffield, England: Academic
Press, 1997.
—. "Bakhtin's Carnival." In Bakhtinian Thought: An
Introductory Reader, 65-87, 103-4. Critical Readers in Theory and
Practice. London: Routledge, 1995.
Emerson, Caryl. The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
—. "The Next Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (The View from the
Classroom)." Rhetoric Review 19 (2000): 12-27.
Epstein, Mikhail N. After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism
and Contemporary Russian Culture. Trans. Anesa Miller-Pogacar.
Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1995.
Farmer, Frank. Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with
Bakhtin. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001.
Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1993.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Signifiying Monkey: A Theory of
African-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Halasek, Kay. A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on
Composition Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1999.
Harpold, Terence. "The Grotesque Corpus: Hypertext as Carnival."
Perforations 1 (1992): 1-8.
Harris, R. Allen. "Bakhtin, Phaedrus, and the Geometry of Rhetoric." In
Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing, ed. Frank
Farmer, 15-22. Landmark Essays, vol. 13. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Hermagoras Press, 1998.
Hoffmann, David L. Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow,
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University Press, 1994.
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the End. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Kent, Thomas. "Hermeneutics and Genre: Bakhtin and the Problem of
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Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hermagoras Press,
1998.
Mihailovic, Alexandar. Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology
of Discourse. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 1997.
Morson, Gary Saul. "Parody, History, and Metaparody." In Rethinking
Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges, ed. Gary Saul Morson and Caryl
Emerson, 63-86, 271-74. Northwestern University Press Series in Russian
Literature and Theory. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University
Press, 1989.
Morson, Gary Saul, and Caryl Emerson. Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a
Prosaics. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Murphy, John M. "Mikhail Bakhtin and the Rhetorical Tradition."
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Ryklin, Mikhail K. "Bodies of Terror: Theses toward a Logic of
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Farmer, 1-14. Landmark Essays, vol. 13. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence
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Stallybrass, Peter, and Allon White. The Politics and Poetics of
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Communication Studies, ed. Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and
Kenneth N. Cissna, 125-40. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage
Publications, 2004.
Zappen, James P. "Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)." In Twentieth-Century
Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources, ed.
Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif, 7-22. Westport: Greenwood
Publishing Group, 2000.
—. The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the
Rhetorical Tradition. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2004.
Activity Theory
Cole, Michael, and Yrjö Engeström. "A Cultural-Historical
Approach to Distributed Cognition." In Distributed Cognitions:
Psychological and Educational Considerations, ed. Gavriel Salomon,
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Orienta-Konsultit, 1987.
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Theory: Illuminating the Development of Conflict-Monitoring Network."
Communication Theory 11 (2001): 56-83.
—. "Pursuing an Evolving Object: A Case Study in Object Formation
and Identification." Mind, Culture, and Activity 9 (2002):
132-49.
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Sylvia Scribner, and Ellen Souberman. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1978.
Zappen, James P., and Teresa M. Harrison. "Intention and Motive in
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Cultural Rhetoric, Feminist Rhetoric
Foss, Sonja K., and Cindy L. Griffin. "Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal
for an Invitational Rhetoric." Communication Monographs 62
(1995): 2-18.
Mailloux, Steven. Rhetorical Power. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1989.
—. Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American
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Rosteck, Thomas. "Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies."
Quarterly Journal of Speech 81 (1995): 386-403.
—. "A Cultural Tradition in Rhetorical Studies." In At the
Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies, ed. Thomas
Rosteck, 226-47. Revisioning Rhetoric. New York: Guilford Press, 1999.
Genre Theory
Bazerman, Charles. "Genre and Identity: Citizenship in the Age of the
Internet and the Age of Global Capitalism." In The Rhetoric and
Ideology of Genre: Strategies for Stability and Change,, ed.
Richard Coe, Lorelei Lingard, and Tatiana Teslenko, 13-37. Research and
Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton
Press, 2002.
—. "Systems of Genres and the Enactment of Social Intentions." In
Genre and the New Rhetoric, ed. Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway,
79-101. London: Taylor and Francis, 1994.
Miller, Carolyn R. "Genre as Social Action." Quarterly Journal of
Speech 70 (1984): 151-67. Reprinted, with corrections, in Genre
and the New Rhetoric, ed. Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway, 23-42.
London: Taylor and Francis, 1994.
—. "Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre." In
Genre and the New Rhetoric, ed. Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway,
67-78. London: Taylor and Francis, 1994.
Miller, Carolyn R., and Dawn Shepherd. "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre
Analysis of the Weblog." In Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community,
and Culture of Weblogs, ed. Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie
Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, Jessica Reyman. University of Minnesota, 2004.
Accessible at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/.
Orlikowski, Wanda J., and JoAnne Yates. "Genre Repertoire: The
Structuring of Communicative Practices in Organizations."
Administrative Science Quarterly 39 (1994): 541-74.
Orlikowski, Wanda J., JoAnne Yates, Kazuo Okamura, and Masayo Fujimoto.
"Shaping Electronic Communication: The Metastructuring of Technology
in the Context of Use." Organization Science 6 (1995): 423-44.
Russell, David R. "Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity
Theory Analysis." Written Communication 14 (1997): 504-54.
Spinuzzi, Clay. Tracing Genres through Organizations: A
Sociocultural Approach to Information Design. Acting with
Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Spinuzzi, Clay, and Mark Zachry. "Genre Ecologies: An Open-System Approach
to Understanding and Constructing Documentation." ACM Journal of
Computer Documentation 24 (2000): 169-81.
Yates, JoAnne, and Wanda [J.] Orlikowski. "Genre Systems: Chronos and
Kairos in Communicative Interaction." In The Rhetoric and Ideology
of Genre: Strategies for Stability and Change,, ed. Richard Coe,
Lorelei Lingard, and Tatiana Teslenko, 103-21. Research and Teaching in
Rhetoric and Composition. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2002.
—. "Genres of Organizational Communication: A Structurational
Approach to Studying Communication and Media." Academy of Management
Science 17 (1992): 299-326.
Yates, JoAnne, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Julie Rennecker. "Collaborative
Genres for Collaboration: Genre Systems in Digital Media."
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Hawwaii International Conference
on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, 1997.
Rhetorical Situation
Benoit, William L. "The Genesis of Rhetorical Action." Southern
Communication Journal 59 (1994): 342-55.
Bitzer, Lloyd F. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and
Rhetoric 1 (1968): 1-14.
Consigny, Scott. "Rhetoric and Its Situations." Philosophy and
Rhetoric 7 (1974): 175-86.
Vatz, Richard E. "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy
and Rhetoric 6 (1973): 154-61.
Selected Readings, Essays, Criticism
Bender, John, and David E. Wellbery, ed. The Ends of Rhetoric:
History, Theory, Practice. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1990.
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition:
Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: St. Martin's
Press, Bedford Books, 1990.
Brock, Bernard L., Robert L. Scott, and James W. Chesebro. Methods
of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective. 3rd ed.,
rev. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
Foss, Sonja K. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice.
Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1989.
Foss, Sonja K., Karen A. Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary
Perspectives on Rhetoric. 3rd ed. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press,
2002.
Hauser, Gerard A. Introduction to Rhetorical Theory. Speech
Communication Series. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986.
Kastely, James L. Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to
Postmodernism. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
Moran, Michael G., and Michelle Ballif, ed. Twentieth-Century
Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources.
Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
Rosteck, Thomas, ed. At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and
Rhetorical Studies. Revisioning Rhetoric. New York: Guilford Press,
1999.
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