Historical Rhetorics/A Little Aristotle and the Other Socrates

Chapter Five: A Little Aristotle and the Other Socrates

 * Aristotle's Rhetoric, Book Three
 * /Isocrates' Against the Sophists/
 * /Isocrates' Antidosis/
 * /Isocrates' "Busiris"/
 * /Vitanza's Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric, chapters 3 & 4/
 * /Welch's Electric Rhetoric, chapters 2 & 3/

As there are a number of readings this week, I have tried to post my reading notes for our various texts. Click on the links above.

Relevant Secondary Sources
 * Biescker, Barabara. "Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25.2 (1992):140-161.
 * Benoit, William. "Isocrates and Aristotle on Rhetoric."
 * Coulter, James A. "The Praise of Isocrates." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 8 (1967): 225-236.
 * Fortenbaugh, William W. "Aristotle's Platonic Attitude toward Delivery." Philosophy & Rhetoric 19 (1986): 242-54.
 * Graff, Richard. "Reading and the 'Written Style' in Aristotle's Rhetoric." ''Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31.4 (Autumn 2001) 19-44.
 * Jacob, Bernard E. “What if Aristotle Took Sophists Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review. 14.2 (Spring 1996): 237-52.
 * Johnstone, Christopher. "Communicating in Classical Contexts: The Centrality of Delivery." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 121-142.
 * Hasking, Ekaterina V. Rhetoric between orality and literacy: Cultural memory and performance in Isocrates and Aristotle." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87.2 (2001): 158-178.
 * Haskins, Ekaterina V. "Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Cultural Memory: Rereading Plato's Menexenus and Isocrates' Panegyricus. RSQ 35.1 (Winter 2005): 25-46.
 * /Papillion, Terry. "Isocrates' Techne and Rhetorical Pedagogy."/ Rhetoric Society Quarterly 25 (1995): 149-163.
 * /Papillion, Terry. "Mixed Unities in the Antidosis of Isocrates."/ Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27 (1997): 47-62.


 * Timmerman, David M. "Isocrates' Competing Conceptualization of Philosophy." Philosophy & Rhetoric (31.2) (1998): 145-159.
 * Walker, Jeffrey. "Aristotle's Lyric: Re-Imagining the Rhetoric of Epideictic Song." College English 51 (1989): 5-28.