Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Theory
American Rhetoric
A media rich resource for rhetoric with some unique pages devoted to
Movie Speeches, Rhetoric of 9/11 and Christian Rhetoric. Also features
the Online Speech Bank with over 5000 full texts, audio and videos. Rhetorical
Figures in Sound illustrates figures of speech in mp3 recordings. A massive
effort by Michael Eidenmuller at The University of Texas at Tyler.
American
Rhetorical Movements to 1900 and
American
Rhetorical Movements Since 1900
Meg Zulick's syllabi
for her courses provide notes, bibliographies, primary texts and links.
Argumentation
on the Web: Challenging Traditional Notions of Communication
Tom Formaro's Master's
thesis practices what it preaches, the thesis is presented in short pages
with many branching options.
Arisbe:
A Home for Charles S. Peirce Studies
"A philosophical website, providing coordinated access to the resources
on the internet relevant to the life, work, and continuing interest in
the American philosopher, scientist, and humanist Charles Sanders Peirce."
Produced by Joseph Ransdell, Emeritus Professor, Texas Tech, Department
of Philosophy.
Bibliography:
Resources on Narrative
Compiled by by Paul
Turpin, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Wayne C. Booth
Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary
Bibliography compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan
An interview
with Wayne C.Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams
authors of The Craft of Research
a
quick chapter summary of Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Rhetoric by Collin
Brooke, Syracuse University.
Center
for Dewey Studies
A guide to the holdings
of the Center, including the tables of contents of the 17 volumes of Dewey's
writings.
Charles S. Pierce Studies
Includes hypertext versions of Pierces's writings and other resources.
Peirce Edition
Project
Centered at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, the project's
Web site includes writings, biography, chronology and many additional resources
on their links page.
Hugh Dalziel Duncan Papers
Includes his correspondence with Kenneth Burke
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
"Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published
by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74." This electronic edition can be searched and browsed.
Deconstruction:
Some Assumptions
Notes on deconstruction
by John Lye, Professor of English, Brock University (Canada)
Democracy:
Rhetorical Texts
Robert Ivie, of Indiana
University compiled this list of texts by ex-presidents, other historical
figures and philosophers.
Doug
Brent's Rhetoric and Communication Home Page
Essays on the Philosophy of Technology
Organized by author. Includes essays by Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, etc.
Ernst Cassirer
Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy See also entry in The
Literary Encyclopedia
Ernst Cassirer and "Primeval
Stupidity"
Compiled and edited by Frederick Mann
Feminist
Theory
Links and original
texts. Includes a page devoted to French feminist theorists.
Feminist
Rhetorical Theories
Karen A. Foss, Sonja
K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin, editors Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.,
1999 reviewed by Marilyn Wilt. From the Association
for Feminist Anthropology Web site.
The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric by Dr. Gideon
Burton, Brigham Young University
A
Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
"Including an
Introduction and a Self Test by Robert Harris, Professor of English at Southern
California College in Costa Mesa, California Search capability and indexing
by Ross Scaife, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky."
Now two pages. See also A
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Guide
to Philosophy on the Internet
Peter Suber, Philosophy
Department, Earlham College has compiled a long list of resources.
Antonio
Gramsci - Resources
on
Available resources
include an online searchable version of the complete Bibliografia gramsciana
and the first five issues of the Newsletter of the International Gramsci
Society.
A
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert Harris, Professor
of English at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa,
California
Hermeneutics
A page of links from
the Open Directory Project, a sort of Yahoo run by volunteers, considered
to be a topnotch subject index.
I.A.
Richards Web Resource
Assembled by John Constable, College Lecturer in English, Magdalene College,
Cambridge
In
Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
These areas are coved:
Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Identity Politics. Areas
within each discipline will include the following: 1.a basic glossary area
for provisional definitions; 2.a collection of quotes from authors that
illustrate the use of terms in (1); and 3.a bibliography of all works cited.
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
The Value
of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy
tracing the development
of ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words
of 120 philosophers over 400 years by Andy Blunden.
KB Journal
"…publishes original scholarship that addresses, applies, repurposes,
or challenges the teachings of Kenneth Burke, which include his major books
and hundreds of articles, as well as the growing corpus of scholarship
about him. Nurturing interdisciplinary understanding, development, and
community across communication, composition, English, gender, literature,
philosophy, psychology, sociology, technical writing, rhetoric, and more,
KB Journal's mission is to build some stable knowledge to foster a better
world.
KAIROS: A Journal of
Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Kenneth Burke Links
A good starting place compiled and well maintained by Martin Ryder, University
Colorado at Denver
Lingua
MOO
"Lingua MOO was created
to serve primarily the University of Texas at Dallas Rhetoric and Writing
program and the School of Arts & Humanities. It serves as both a learning
environment for our students and a broader community for research and collaboration
on projects situated at the intersection of Arts & Humanities and electronic
media."
Logical Fallacies.Info
A well cross referenced guide to logical fallacies with examples by Tim
Holt.
Logical
Fallacies, Stephen's
Guide to
an index of fallacies with definitions, examples & proofs (counter
arguments).
Marx and Engels Writings
Marxist Writers: A Library
of the Marxists Internet Archive
In addition to Marx
& Engels you can find works by many Marxist writers like William Morris,
August Bebel, Eugene Debs, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, John Reed and
Louise Bryant, Erich Fromm, Che Guevara, just to name a small number.
Metaphor Web Sites
- Analogy,
Metaphor, Integration A
series of talks and discussion held at UCSD in 1998 The speakers were
Keith Holyoak, Ray Gibbs, Seana Coulson, Srini Narayanan, George Lakoff,
Arthur Markman, Douglas Hofstadter, Edwin Hutchins, and Gilles Fauconnier.
- Center
for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
- Cognitive
Science - UC San Diego Look
in the "people" page for many metaphor and blending scholars
who have Web pages with links to either downloadable or online texts
of many of their articles.
- The
Metaphoria Home Page (every trope needs one) by Tony Veale. See
also, his Encyclopaedia
Metaphorica
- George
Lakoff's Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
- Mark Taylor's Blending
and Conceptual Integration Site
- Metaphor
and Metonymy Group Zazie
Todd at the Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, Dr. Brigitte
Nerlich and Prof. David D Clarke at the University of Nottingham, and
a number of associate members elsewhere
- Metaphor
in Scientific Thinking by Ray Paton
- Metaphor:
from Plato to the Postmodernists This
project explores the role of metaphor in Plato's texts, postmodernist
works, culture, and technology. I have braided together citations
from
Plato, Derrida, Barthes, Bakhtin, and Lakoff & Johnson, while maintaining
a 'journey' metaphor throughout.--Erica Jean Seidel
- Metaphor
and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal Formerly
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity - Tables of Contents and article
abstracts back to 1986.
- Seana Coulson
conducts research in the areas of Conceptual Blending,
Joke Comprehension, Metaphor Comprehension and Analogical Rasoning, Comcept
Combination and Sentence Processing
Past
Masters (U of Iowa access only)
Works
of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli,
Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein,
Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English.
Philosophy
Research Base
"This web site
is a para/site research tool for the general study of (mostly) western philosophy,
including sections on Existentialism, Classic American philosophy, British
philosophy, Environmental philosophy, Non-western philosophy, Feminist Theory,
Ecofeminism, Queer Theory, etc."
Philosophy and Rhetoric
A Project MUSE journal with full text available to institutional subscribers.
Online issues go back to Volume 32, 1999. This link will only work for
The University of Iowa
POROI The Prpject on Rhetoric of Inquiry
Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention
The
Pragmatism Cybrary
John Shook is still
building this Web site, but a number of resources are already in place
A combination of original material and links the major categories are:
History
of Pragmatism, Genealogies of Pragmatic Thought, Library of Living Pragmatists,
Web Companion to Pragmatism, Bibliographies, and information on listservs,
journals and conferences.
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Reframing Rhetorical Theory and Practice through Feminist Perspectives
Kristen Hoerl's review of Foss, Foss and Griffin's Feminist
Rhetorical Theories in The
Review of Communication. 2:4
(October 2002)
Radical
Constructivism
Alex Riegler, Vienna
University, has constructed this useful and rich database of "papers,
books, information of proponents, organizations, and other links related
to the constructivist epistemology."
Rhetoric & Public
Affairs
Full text of this journal is available via The University of Iowa subscription to Project Muse.
Rhetoric,
etc. (UT-Arlington) Links
A mildly chaotic site
by Victor Vitanza that is worth mining for some real gems.
Rhetoric Notes
Bibliographies, Issues or Concepts, Intros to Theorists, Comments by
Theorists and Book Reviews compiled by Dale Sullivan, Northern Illinois
University
Rhetoric Review: A journal of rhetoric and composition
Rhetoric Society of America
Rhetoric
Resources on the e-server
Rhetorical Topographies
An online journal for the humanities
RhetNet: A CyberJournal
RHETNT-L (the
listserv associated with RhetNet)
You can join by clicking
HERE
and typing in the command "sub RHETNT-L Your Name"
Saussure,
Ferdinand de
Notes for her class
on Modern Critical Thought by Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor of English,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Sean's
One-Stop Philosophy Shop
True to its title:
Associations, Departments, Famous Philosopher's Works, Various '-isms, Real-Life
Philosophers, Journals, and more.
Semiology
and Rhetoric
"Form Reveals only
the Ambiguity of Meaning" Semiology and Rhetoric by Paul De Man
Semiotics
A major gateway to resources on semiotics, especially theorists, compiled
by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver
Semiotics for Beginners
Daniel Chandler's Web site was designed
for a class he taught on Media Education at the University of Wales,
Aberystyth. He eventually expanded his Web pages on Semiotics to a book, Semiotics:
The Basics, published in 2002 by Routledge. Chandler is also the
creator of the massive set of communication studies resources: MCS.
Society
for Women in Philosophy
In addition to SWIP
membership and listserv information, this site contains syllabi, bibliographies,
articles, calls for papers and other resources. Created and maintained by
Cynthia Freeland, U of Houston.
Toulmin:
Contributions of Rhetorical Theorist Stephen E. Toulmin
Grad student Melanie Hahn constucted this outline of Toulmin's theory.
Other Toulmin links:
Faculty page, Anthropology Dept. Univ. of S. California
Homepage at The Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies
Stephen Toulmin: An Intellectual Odyssey
By Marx W. Wartofsky
A Conversation with Stephen Toulmin
By Amy Lifson
Stephen
Toulmin in Foss, Foss, & Trapp, notes by Robert Trapp
Photo, 1997
Are
Nation States Obsolescent?
Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of Argument:
A Contextual Re-Reading
Stephen Toulmin: An Intellectual Odyssey
Bibliography of books and articles by Stephen Toulmin, from The New York
Review of Books.
The Toulmin Project Home Page
What
Do You Want to Know Today?
Ross Scaife at the
University of Kentucky (Classics) built this specialized search page that
allows you to search for rhetorical devices and literary terms, classics
Web sites and much more.
See also: Visual Communication • Visual Rhetorics
• Rhetorical Studies Texts • Rhetorical
and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory
Communication Studies Resources is compiled and maintained by Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu
Questions about the Department of Communication Studies should go to commstudies-inquiry@uiowa.edu
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