Readings for the course (required and recommended):
Arvatu, Adina and Andrew Aberdein. “Rhetoric.” From Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Butler, Paul. Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008. Campbell, Joseph. "Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art." In Myths Dreams and Religion. Edited by Joseph Campbell. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1970. Fahnestock, Jeanne. Rhetorical Figures in Science. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. ---. Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. Oxford UP, 2011. Fish, Stanley. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. New York: Harper Collins, 2011. FitzGerald, William. “Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition’s Bucket and Spade.” From The Centrality of Style. Eds. Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2013. Forsyth, Mark. The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase. Berkeley, 2014. Harris, Robert A. Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2018. Heinrichs, Jay. Word Hero: A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines That Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2011. Holcomb, Chris and Jimmie Killingsworth. Performing Prose. Southern Illinois UP, 2010. Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980. Landon, Brooks. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read. Plume, 2013. Lanham, Richard A.. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. 2nd Ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. ---. Style: an Anti-textbook, 2/e. Paul Dry Books, 2007. Quinn, Arthur. Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase. Routledge, 2005. Tufte, Virginia. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2006. Weathers, Winston. Otis Winchester. Copy and Compose: A Guide to Prose Style. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969. |