ENGLISH 5730 U/G
rhetoric

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 Links to sample
rhetorical analyses:


-- David E. Asma's study of how
"the 'place' or context of justice . . .
can be referred to a rhetorical
device"--in "The Courtroom
as 'Theatrical Place.'"


--"Edward R. Murrow's 'Orchestrated Hell': A Rhetorical Analysis [of a radio news broadcast],"
by Belyn Rodgers


--See (AASU) student's
rhetorical analysis of  U2's song
"Sunday Bloody Sunday."

--See analysis of E. B. White's
essay "Ring of Time."

See student's analysis (HANDOUT) of Chapter One of Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Student essay, "Analysis of Bonne
Bell and Cover Girl Ads,"
Univ. of Texas

Garry Wills' article
"Lincoln's Greatest Speech"
(from the September 1999
issue of The Atlantic
Monthly magazine), a
study of Abraham Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address.


Student analysis of two magazine
articles: "Celeron or Pentium II," by
Pallav Gupta

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resources

analyzing persuasive
appeals in advertisements:

class of 2000; class of 2002;
class of 2005; class of 2006

the blogora  
a public blogspace about rhetoric and rhetoricians 

enthymemes

general topics

graduate programs in rhetoric


handbook on rhetorical analysis
(W. Banks, 2001)

irony


it figures
A blog run by "Figaro," who "rips out

the innards of the things people say
and reveals the rhetorical tricks and pratfalls."

logos

love poems for
rhetorical analysis


maxims

metaphors be with you

music

organizations & associations

progymnasmata

quiz on rhetorical terms ('99)

recreations & diversions

resources on the rhetoric
of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address


rhetorical terms

the rhetoric of King Lear


the rhetoric
of brutus & mark antony
in shakespeare's julius caesar


rhetoricians, semioticians, et al.


sample rhetorical analyses

a sampling of sonnets

semiotics & the rhetoric of images


speeches

stylistic imitations
& parodies


subjects for rhetorical analysis

style

tropes and schemes

general topics
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Bibliography for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication
Bibliography of Rhetoric
A Brief Overview of Rhetoric
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
Ed Lamoureux: Rhetorical Resources
Exploring Plato's Dialogues: Jowett's Introduction to the Phaedrus
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
History of Rhetoric
House of Rhetoric
Kentucky Classics: A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples.
Links to Rhetorical Theory Notes
The Metaphor Home Page:   the computational treatment of metaphor and analogy
Metaphors Be with You (AASU)
The On-line Books Page.
Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2000
Rhetoric at Carnegie-Mellon
Rhetorical Theory: E-Texts
Rhetoric Links
Silva Rhetoricae
Toolbox of Rhetorical Terms (Baylor AP)
World War II Posters:  Powers of Persuasion

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graduate programs in rhetoric

Graduate Programs in Rhetoric Studies
(compiled by Dr. Gaines, Univ. of Maryland)

Bowling Green State University (KY): PhD in Rhetoric & Writing
Carnegie Mellon: MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric*

Catholic University of America
Iowa State University: PhD program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication*
Purdue University: PhD programs in Rhetoric & Comp
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: PhD in Rhetoric
Syracuse University: PhD in Composition & Cultural Rhetoric
Texas Tech University: MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric & Comp

Texas Woman's University
University of Arizona: MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric, Composition,
     & the Teaching of Writing 
University of California at Berkeley: MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric
University of Georgia: MA and PhD programs in Rhetoric
University of Nebraska at Lincoln: PhD in Rhetoric
University of Wisconsin at Madison: MA and PhD tracks in Rhetoric

Alphabetical list to home pages of US colleges and universities

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT HOMEPAGES (over 1300) WORLDWIDE

GRADSCHOOLS.COM
Extensive collection of links to graduate programs (in the US and
overseas) in professional writing, technical writing, and rhetoric.

PETERSON'S Guide to Graduate Schools

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irony

--"Bedtime Story," by George Macbeth
-- Booklist: Irony (Feb. 2000)
--"The Final Irony," by Zoe Williams (The Guardian, 28 June 2003)

--"Irony" (Wikipedia)
--"Irony," by Norman D. Knox [Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, ed. Philip P. Wiener (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), Vol. II, pp. 626-634.]
-- Irony Exercises: in Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress"; in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"; in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
--"Irony (fig.) and (lit.) in Modern American Religion," by Martin E. Marty (1984).
--"Irony, Nostalgia, and the Postmodern," by Linda Hutcheon.
--"Irony: The True Definition" (Interactive Playground).
--"Irony Is Dead; Long Live Irony!"  by David Beers (Salon.com 9-25-01).
--"A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift

-- "Richard Cory," by E. A. Robinson
--"The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin
--"The War Prayer," by Mark Twain

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logos

Aristotle: The Concepts of Syllogism and Enthymeme (James Comas)
The Critical Thinking Web Page
Elementary Logic (Garth Kemerling)
enthymemes (AASU)
Introductory Logic, William J. Kilgore
Language & Logic (Garth Kemerling)
Logic & Fallacies
Propaganda Analysis
Rhetoric and the Idea of Dialectical Reasoning in Aristotle,
   by Dr. J. Comas
Syllogism & Enthymeme (Georgia Tech)
Topos and Enthymeme, by E. F. Dyck
Using the Enthymeme as a Heuristic in Professional Writing Classes, by Martin Jacobi

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rhetoricians, semioticians, & others

Aristotle Links
Aristotle,   Rhetoric

Aristotle,  Rhetoric
Aristotle's Rhetoric (excerpts from Book I)*
Aristotle's Syllogism
Aristotle: Notes on On Rhetoric, Book I, by J. Comas
Introduction to Aristotle

Augustine
Saint Augustine

Sir Francis Bacon

Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke Links

Introduction to Kenneth Burke

The Cicero Homepage
Cicero on the Genres of Rhetoric

Gorgias (483-378)

Isocrates

Introduction to Perelman

Ferdinand de Saussure

Plato,
Gorgias
Plato, Gorgias:   Reading Guide
Plato, Phaedrus
Plato, Phaedrus ("Writing as Seduction")


Introduction to Weaver

Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1560)

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semiotics and the rhetoric of images
Advertising Links
The Bakhtin Centre (Sheffield University)
Bibliography of Pictorial and Other Kinds of Visual Semiotics (Lund Univ.)
"By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them," by Jay Parini
Center for Nonverbal Studies
Glossary of  Key Terms, by Daniel Chandler
International Semiotics Institute (Finland)
The Internet Semiotics Encyclopedia (Lund University)
The Nonverbal Dictionary
Proxemics
Reading Images: Approaches for Visual Literacy
Research Center for Semiotics (Berlin)
Semiotic Analysis of Images
Semiotics, Univ. of Colorado at Denver
Semiotic Links
Semiotic Terms
Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler
Sign: Signifier: Signified     (Radio Open Learning, Australia)
Studying Visual Communication, by Sol Worth (1981)
Text and Image: Selective Annotated Bibliography
Visual Communication Web Links (Dr. Paul Martin Lester)
Visual Literacy (course), Anthony Pennings
Visual Rhetoric (course), David Blakesly
"Visual Semiotics," by Goran Sonesson

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style
The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose, by A. A. Tilley
Excerpts from Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, by
   Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner (1994)
Greek Prose Style
Greek Sentence Structure:   Loose and Periodic Style
An Introduction to Rhetorical Style, by Robert Gaines (1999)

John Lyly and the Euphuistic Style, b
History and Development of Prose Style: A Reader
"Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell
Sprezzatura,
by Evelyn Spence


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Subjects for rhetorical analysis


AdFlip: Archive of Classic Print Ads
Arguments Online
E-mail Pyramid Scheme: New Shells for the Old Shell Game

Passages for rhetorical analysis

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Tropes and schemes
Drill on the Use of Rhetorical Devices (Bruce E. Clark)
Elements of Classical Rhetoric (Univ. of Durham)
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms (Jack Lynch)
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (Kentucky Classics)
Illustrated Glossary of Rhetorical Terms (AASU)
Irony
Making Sense of Metaphors
Metaphor & Metonymy Group
Metaphor: A Cognitive Heuristic for Writing and Teaching
Metaphor - a propositional comment and an invitation to intimacy
Metaphor: from Plato to the Postmodernists
Metaphors Be With You (AASU)
Rhetorical Tropes (Georgia Tech)
Style: A Starting List of Schemes & Tropes (Prof. Henry Limouze)


Institute of General Semantics

Perseus Digital Library


English 5730 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
Armstrong Atlantic State University
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