Selected List of Resources on this Site

This page lists resources I have developed for my classes in the history of rhetoric, the history of criticism & theory, and composition pedagogy. I hope that others who study and teach in these areas may find these resources of some use.

Rhetoric

• The Question of Defining "Rhetoric"
• Rhetoric - An Etymology of the Greek Word from Homer to Plato
• Resources in Ancient Rhetorical Theory
• Gorgias's "Helen" - Notes
• Dialectical Reasoning in Aristotle's Theory of Rhetoric
• Vico and Rhetoric
• Nietzsche's Lectures on Rhetoric - Bibliographical and Reading Notes

History of Criticism, Literary Theory, & Aesthetics

• Georges Bataille - Resources
• Kenneth Burke - Resources
• Coleridge's Theory of Imagination - Notes
• Longinus, "On the Sublime" - Notes
• J. S. Mill, "Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties" - An Electronic Edition

Composition Pedagogy

• Composition and Cognitive Psychology - A Selected Bibliography
• Student Précis of Selected Articles in Composition Theory