Rhetoric, Culture, and Technology
James P. Zappen
Selected Bibliography
Rhetorical Theory and 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.
4th ed. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2009.
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.
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.
Lucaites, John Louis, Celeste Michelle Condit, and Sally Caudill, ed.
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. Revisioning Rhetoric.
New York: Guilford Press, 1999.
Moran, Michael G., and Michelle Ballif, ed. Twentieth-Century
Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources.
Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
Orality and Literacy
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, Belknap Press, 1963.
Innis, Harold A. The Bias of Communication. Toronto: Toronto
University Press, 1951.
—. Empire and Communications. Critical Media Studies. 1950.
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the
Word. 1982. New Accents. London: Routledge, 1988.
—. Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of
Discourse to the Art of Reason. 1958. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, Octagon Books, 1974.
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.
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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.
Plato
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.
—. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of
a Literary Form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Plato. Gorgias. In Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias, trans. W.
R. M. Lamb, 247-533. Vol. 3 of Plato. Loeb Classical Library,
Vol. 166. Cambridge: 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: Harvard
University Press, 1914.
—. Plato's Phaedrus. Trans. R. Hackforth. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1952.
—. The Republic. Trans. Paul Shorey. Vols. 5, rev. ed., and
6 of Plato. Loeb Classical Library, Vols. 237 and 276. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1930 (rev. 1937), 1935.
—. The Republic of Plato. Trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford.
London: Oxford University Press, 1941.
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.
Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1993.
Halloran, S. Michael. "Aristotle's Concept of Ethos, or If Not His
Somebody Else's." Rhetoric Review 1 (1982): 58-63.
McKeon, Richard, ed. Introduction to Aristotle. 2nd ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Reynolds, Nedra. "Ethos as Location: New Sites for Understanding
Discursive Authority." Rhetoric Review: 11 (1993): 325-38.
Michel Foucault
Davidson, Arnold I. "Ethics as Ascetics: Foucault, the History of
Ethics, and Ancient Thought." In The Cambridge Companion to
Foucault, ed. Gary Gutting, 115-40. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994.
Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge and The
Discourse on Language. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York:
Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972.
—. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human
Sciences. World of Man. New York: Random House, Vintage Books,
1973.
—. "Panopticism." In Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, 195-228. New York: Random House,
Vintage Books, 1979.
—. "Self Writing." In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed.
Paul Rabinow, trans. Robert Hurley and others, 207-22. Vol. 1 of The
Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984. New York: New Press,
1997.
—. "Technologies of the Self." In Ethics: Subjectivity and
Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow, trans. Robert Hurley and others, 223-51.
Vol. 1 of The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984. New
York: New Press, 1997.
Foucault, Michel, ed. I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered
my mother, my sister, and my brother . . . : A Case of Paracide in the
19th Century. Trans. Frank Jellinek. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, Bison Book, 1982.
Gutting, Gary. Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific
Reason. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida, Jacques. Margins of Philosophy. Trans. Alan Bass.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
—. Of Grammatology. Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974; Johns Hopkins
Paperbacks, 1976.
—. "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
Bakhtin, M[ikhail] M. "Discourse in the Novel." In The Dialogic
Imagination: Four Essays, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl
Emerson and Michael Holquist, 259-422. University of Texas Press Slavic
Series, No. 1. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
—. "The Problem of Speech Genres." In Speech Genres and Other
Late Essays, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. Vern W.
McGee, 60-102. University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No. 8. 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.
—. "Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences." In Speech
Genres and Other Late Essays, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist,
trans. Vern W. McGee, 159-72. University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No.
8. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
Berry, Ellen E., and Mikhail N. Epstein. Transcultural Experiments:
Russian and American Models of Creative Communication. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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.
Morson, Gary Saul, and Caryl Emerson. Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a
Prosaics. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Rhetoric, Intertextuality, and Contextuality
Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. New Critical Idiom. London:
Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge, 2000.
Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author." In Image — Music
— Text, trans. Stephen Heath, 142-48. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, Hill & Wang, 1977.
—. "From Work to Text." In Image — Music — Text,
trans. Stephen Heath, 155-64. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Hill & Wang, 1977.
—. "Rhetoric of the Image." In Image — Music —
Text, trans. Stephen Heath, 32-51. New York: Hill & Wang, 1977.
Reprinted in The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music,
Art, and Representation, trans. Richard Howard, 21-40. 1985.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological
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Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media,
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Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, and Others,
19-65. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2008.
Bhabha, Homi K. "Culture's In-Between." In Questions of Cultural
Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay, 53-60. London: Sage
Publications, 1996.
Condit, Celeste Michelle. "The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy." In
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader, ed. John Louis
Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, and Sally Caudill, 494-511.
Revisioning Rhetoric. New York: Guilford Press, 1999.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of
African-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to
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Jardine, and Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press,
1980.
—. Revolution in Poetic Language. Trans. Margaret Waller. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
McGee, Michael Calvin. "Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of
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Mieskowski, Jan. "Art Forms." In The Cambridge Companion to Walter
Benjamin, ed. David S. Ferris, 35-53. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Wolin, Richard. Walter Banjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Kenneth Burke
Brummett, Barry. "Burke's Representative Anecdote as a Method in Media
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Burke, Kenneth. Essays toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955.
Ed. William H. Rueckert. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2007.
—. A Grammar of Motives. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1969.
—. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature,
and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
—. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1969.
—. "Rhetoric—Old and New." Journal of General Education
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Crusius, Timothy W. "A Case for Kenneth Burke's Dialectic and
Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 19 (1986): 23-37.
—. Kenneth Burke and the Conversation after
Philosophy. Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1999.
George, Ann, and Jack Selzer. Kenneth Burke in the 1930s.
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South
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Henderson, Greig E. Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as
Symbolic Action. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
—. "A Rhetoric of Form: The Early Burke and Reader-Response
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Kenneth Burke, ed. Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams,
127-42. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Wolin, Ross. The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke. Studies
in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
2001.
Zappen, James P. "Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical
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Zappen, James P., S. Michael Halloran, and Scott A. Wible. "Some Notes on
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Rhetoric, Identity, and Identification
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." In
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Charland, Maurice. "Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple
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Hall, Stuart. "Introduction: Who Needs 'Identity'?" In Questions of
Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay, 1-17. London:
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Zagacki, Kenneth S. "Constitutive Rhetoric Reconsidered: Constitutive
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The Rhetorical Situation
Benoit, William L. "The Genesis of Rhetorical Action." Southern
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Bitzer, Lloyd F. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and
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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.
Marshall McLuhan/Jean Baudrillard
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—. Symbolic Exchange and Death. Trans. Iain Hamilton Grant.
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Genosko, Gary. Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze.
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McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic
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