June 30, 2009

CCR 690

Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action
Eds. Mario Diani and Doug McAdam

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June 18, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition 
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, eds.
“Maria W. Stewart”
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April 13, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Richard Whately”
From Elements of Rhetoric
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April 5, 2009

CCR 731

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Seven: “Eighteenth Century Rhetorics”

The Rhetorical Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Thoman Sheridan”
A Course of Lectures on Elocution
“George Campbell”
From The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“Hugh Blair”
From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
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March 30, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorcial Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Francis Bacon”
From The Advancement of Learning
From Novum Organum
“John Locke”
 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Giambattista Vico”
From On the Study Methods of Our Time

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Six: “Rhetoric in the Seventeenth Century”
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March 19, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg
“Renaissance Rhetoric–Introduction”
“Desiderius Erasmus”
From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style
“Peter Ramus”
From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintillian
“Thomas Wilson”
From The Arte of Rhetorique

Rhetoric Retold
Cheryl Glenn
Chapter Four: “Inscribed in the Margins”

The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg
“Margaret Fell”
Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by Scriptures
“Madeleine de Scudery”
Of Conversation
Of Speaking too much, or too little. And how we ought to Speak.

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Five: “Rhetoric and Renaissance Humanism”
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March 3, 2009

CCR 731

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Chapter Four: “Rhetoric in the Latin Middle Ages”
Thomas Conley

Augustine
The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg

On Christian Doctrine
Augustine

Boethius
The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg

An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric
Boethius

Anonymous
The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg

From The Principles of Letter Writing
Anonymous

Christine de Pizan
The Rhetorical Tradition

Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg

From The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan

From The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan

Rhetoric Retold
Cheryl Glenn
Chapter Three:
“Medieval Rhetoric: Pagan Roots, Christian Flowering, or Veiled Voices in the Medieval Rhetorical Tradition.”

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February 25, 2009

CCR 731

From Institutes of Oratory
Quintilian

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Three: Late Classical and Medieval Greek Rhetorics
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February 17, 2009

CCR 731

Rhetorica ad Herennium
Anonymous

De Oratore
Cicero

From Orator
Cicero

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Chapter 2: “Hellenistic and Roman Rhetorics”
Thomas Conley

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February 12, 2009

CCR 690

Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky
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