Below is the book list for my Fall 2012 graduate seminar Introduction to
Rhetorical Theory. The books, listed here in the order we'll read them, will be
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Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (English 891TT) David Fleming, fall 2016: Wednesdays, 5:00-7:30 pm Below is the book list for my fall 2016 graduate seminar Introduction to Rhetorical Theory. The books, listed here in the order in which we’ll read them, are all available for purchase through Amazon. See additional notes below. • • • • • • • • • • •
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1963. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.] Plato. Gorgias. Donald J. Zeyl, trans. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1987. Plato. Phaedrus. Alexander Nehemas & Paul Woodruff, trans. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1995. Jarratt, Susan C. Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1998. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.] Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. 2nd ed. George A. Kennedy, trans. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. Murphy, James J., & Cleve Wiese, eds. Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the “Institutio oratoria.” 2nd ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2015. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.] Lipson, Carol S., & Roberta A. Binkley, eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks. Albany: SUNY P, 2004. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.] Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969. Fahnestock, Jeanne. Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. Rickert, Thomas. Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2013. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.] Gries, Laurie E. Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. [Available as a free e-book from UMass Libraries.]
Notes: 1. There is a reading assignment for our first meeting: Wednesday, September 7. For that class, please read “Part One: The Image-Thinkers” of Eric Havelock’s Preface to Plato (pp 3-193). Optional supplementary reading is Book 9, “The Embassy to Achilles,” of The Iliad, which is about 800 lines long. Any edition is fine, though I recommend the Robert Fagles translation (Penguin) with Bernard Knox’s Introduction. There is no written response due at our first meeting. 2. As you can see, there is a heavy reading load for this course. I’ve tried to keep costs down as much as possible and still meet the goals of the course. Many of the books can be found used, and there are multiple copies of most texts in the Five College library system. I’ve requested that Du Bois Library put a copy of each text on 3-day reserve. In addition, Havelock’s Preface to Plato, Jarratt’s Rereading the Sophists, Murphy & Wiese’s Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, Lipson & Binkley’s Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks, Rickert’s Ambient Rhetoric, and Gries’ Still Life with Rhetoric are all available as free e-books through the UMass Libraries. 3. The two dialogues by Plato are available in many acceptable editions and translations. As for Aristotle, I strongly recommend the Kennedy translation (1st or 2nd ed.), especially for PhD students in Composition & Rhetoric. 4. Finally, a syllabus for the course is now available at http://people.umass.edu/dfleming/english891tt.html; I’ll provide paper copies of the syllabus at our first meeting.
