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.
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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.