On this page you will find links to on-site materials in Rhetorical Studies, with an emphasis on Western rhetorical theory and its history. Further down, you will find a short list of links to other sites with information on the study of rhetoric.
Gorgias of Leontini - Chronology and Bibliography
Gorgias's "Encomium on Helen" (text of Freeman's English translation)
Gorgias (text of English translation)
"Helen" (text of English translation)
The Rhetorica (text of the 1924 Roberts translation, in a frame-based display for easier navigation)
The Relationship of Dialectic and Rhetoric in Aristotle
The Concepts of Syllogism and Enthymeme in Aristotle
Scholarly Societies
The American Society for the History of Rhetoric <http://ashr.org/<>
The American Society for the History of Rhetoric was organized in 1977 as the American branch of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Its purpose is to foster the study of rhetoric in all historical periods in American as well as other cultures.
ASHR's goal is to promote the study of both the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and its relationship with poetics, politics, religion, law and other cultural influences.
The Society sponsors panels of scholarly papers at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, and Southern States Communication Association. In addition, it sponsors an independent "Preconference" at the NCA meeting each year.
Bibliographies and Journal Contents
Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
<http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/contents.html>
Maintained by Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.
Composition & Rhetoric Bibliographic Database Project
<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/bib/index.html>
Maintained by Lee Honeycut, Department of English at Iowa State University.
Rhetoric and Philosophy: Bibliography
<http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/personnel/cherwitz/rpbib.html>
Maintained by Richard Cherwitz, Department of Speech Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
Electronic Tekhnes
"Silva Rhetoricae"
A compendium of theoretial concepts and figures of speech, maintained by Gideon O. Burton, Department of English at Brigham Young University
Some pages on this site contain material from my classes taught in The Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
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