Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures

"Selected Works Introduction Part I: The Concept of Tropes and Figures James Murphy. 1990. ""Topos and Figura: Historical Cause and Effect?"" In: pp. 239-53, G.L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen, and Konrad Koerner (eds.), De Ortu Grammaticae. Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Memory of Janpinborg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Brian Vickers. 1970. Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry. Edinburgh: MacMillan. Chapter 3, ""The Functions of Rhetorical Figures"", pp. 83-121. Joseph, Miriam. 1947. Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language. New York: Columbia University Press. ""Elocution or Style,"" pp. 31-40. Peter Mack. 2011. A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ""Manuals of Tropes and Figures"", pp. 208-227. Burke, Kenneth. 1941. ""Four Master Tropes."" The Kenyon Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 421-438. Genette, Gerard. 1982. ""Rhetoric Restrained"", Chapter 6, pp. 103-126, Figures of Literary Discourse, Translated by Alan Sheridan, Introduction by Marie-Rose Logan.New York: Columbia University Press. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. 1980. ""Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language,"" The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, Issue 8, pp. 453-486. Part II: Applications Literary criticism Sam Meyer. 1964. ""The Figures of Rhetoric in Spenser’s Colin Clout."" PMLA, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 206-218. de Man, Paul. 1979. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press. Chapter 5, ""Rhetoric of Tropes (Nietzsche)"" pp. 103-118. Politics Corbett Edward P.J. and Robert J. Connors. 1999. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ""John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address"", pp. 459-472. Michael C. Leff and Gerald P. Mohrmann. 1974. ""Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text,"" Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 346-358. Charles N. Smiley. 1917. ""Lincoln and Gorgias"". The Classical Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 124-128. Richard P. Fulkerson. 1979. ""The Public Letter as a Rhetorical Form: Structure, Logic, and Style in King’s ""Letter from Birmingham Jail"", The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 121-36. Jeanne Fahnestock. 2011. Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-6 Jonathan Charteris-Black. 2011[2005]. Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor. Second edition. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 3, ""Winston Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth,"" pp. 52-78. Skinner, Quentin. 2007. ""Paradiastole: Redescribing the Vices as Virtues."" In: pp. 149-166, Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, and Katrin Ettenhuber (eds.), Renaissance Figures of Speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Science Brian Vickers. 1985. ""The Royal Society and English Prose Style: A Reassessment."" In: pp. 3-76, Brian Vickers and Nancy S. Struever (eds.), Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth. Language Change in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Los Angeles: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. Jeanne Fahnestock. 1999. Rhetorical Figures in Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 5, ""Ploche and Polyptoton"" pp. 156-177. Advertising Edward F. McQuarrie and David Glen Mick. 1996. ""Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language,"" The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 22, No.4, pp. 424-438. Blair, Anthony J. 2004. ""The Rhetoric of Visual Arguments."" In: pp. 41-62, Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers (eds.), Defining Visual Rhetorics, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Music Buelow, George J. 1980. ""Rhetoric and Music."" In: pp. 793-803, Vol. XV, Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan."