Rhetoric Society Quarterly
122 articlesMarch 1981
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Historical Rhetoric. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources in English. Edited by Winifred Bryan Horner. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980. Pp. xii + 294. The Winged Word. Berkley Peabody. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. Pp. 562. $40.00. Averroës’ Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's “Topics,” "Rhetoric.” and “Poetics.” Edited and translated by Charles B. Butterworth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. Pp. 3d. & 206. Francis Bacon and the Style of Science. James Stephens. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. xi ‐ 188. $10.95 (Cloth).
January 1981
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Abstract Plato's Phaedrus; A Defense of the Philosophical Art of Writing. Ronna Burger, University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1980. 160 pp.
June 1980
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Critical Understandings: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism. Wayne C. Booth. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. 408. A Study of Writing. I. J. Gelb. Revised edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp. xix & 319.
March 1980
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Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. George A. Kennedy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. 292. $18.00, paper $9.00. Ann Berthoff and the Problem of Method in Writing: A Review Essay on Forming/Thinking/Writing: The Composing Imagination (Hayden Book Co., 1978)
January 1980
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Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature. William J. Kennedy. New Haven, Conneticut: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. 229. The Rhetoric of Western Thought. James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist and William E. Coleman, editors. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 1978. 10.95 (paper). Hesiod and the Language of Poetry. Pietro Pucci. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. vii + 152. $9.50 (hard cover).
September 1979
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Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. Robert J. Fogelin. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978. Pp. 351. An Introduction to Reasoning. Stephen Toulmin, Richard Rieke, Allan Janik. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 343. Historical Linguistics. Theodora Bynon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), 1978. Pp. x + 301, 7.95 (paper).
June 1979
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Revising Prose. Richard A. Lanham. New York: Scribner's, 1979. Richard Lanham, Revising Prose (New York; Scribner's 1979), p. 57. Writing in Reality. James E. Miller and Stephen N. Judy. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. $4.95.
March 1979
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Research on composing: points of departure, ed. Charles R. cooper and lee Odell. Urbana, ill.: note, 1978. 203 pp.
January 1979
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Advocacy Advertising and Large Corporations: Social Conflict, Big Business Image, the News Media, and Public Policy. Prakash Sethi. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1977. Pp. 355. Controversy Advertising: How Advertisers Present Points of View in Public Affairs: A Worldwide Study. New York: Hastings House, 1977. Pp. 189. Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray. Preface by R. W. Burch‐field. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. 386.
September 1978
June 1978
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Decisive Writing; An Improvement Program. L. P. Driskill and Margaret Simpson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Prose Style For The Modern Writer. Robert Miles and Marc F. Bertonasco. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1977.
March 1978
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Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. Mina P. Shaughnessy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 311. Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Richard L. Graves. Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden Book Company, Inc., 1976. Ethics in Human Communication. Richard L. Johannesen. Columbus, Ohio: Chas. E. Merrill Pub. Co., 1975.
January 1978
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The Plural I: The Teaching of Writing. William E. Coles, Jr. With a Foreward by Richard Larson. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 1978. Prose Style and Critical Reading. Robert Cluett. New York: Columbia University, 1976. Pp. 316. The Language of Adam: On the Limits and Systems of Discourse. Russell Fraser. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. 255. THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE AND THE ASSAULT ON AMBIGUITY
September 1977
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The Little Rhetoric. Edward P. J. Corbett. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1977. Pp. 357. Process and Thought in Composition. Frank D'Angelo. Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1977. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Jacqueline de Romilly. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. vi+108.
June 1977
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The Aims of Interpretation. E. D. Hírsch, Jr. The University of Chicago Press, 1976. P. 177. The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria: Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World. Robert W. Smith, The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.
March 1977
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The Rhetoric of Western Thought, James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist, and William E. Coleman, eds. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1976.
January 1977
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A Civil Tongue, by Edwin Newman. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, 1976. 207 pp. $8.95.
December 1976
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Strictly Speaking. Edwin Newman. New York.: Warner Books, 1974. 239 pp.
June 1976
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With Good Reason. S. Morris Engel, Nev York; St. Martin's Press, 1976; and Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric. Howard Kahane. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1971. The Rhetoric of Renaissance Poetry. Eds. Thomas O. Sloan and Raymond B. Waddington. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1974. A Review and Counter‐Review: Poetics, Rhetoric, and Logic: Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism. Wilbur Samuel Howell, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975.
March 1976
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An essay and a review: rhetorical competence A Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric, Frank J. D'Angelo. Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 1975. Pp. 183. Poetios, Rhetoric, and Logic: Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism, Wilbur Samuel Howell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature, Jonathan Culler, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
January 1976
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Understanding Discourse: The Speech Act and Rhetorical Action, Karl R. Wallace. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Ideology, by L. B Brown. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. 208 pp. $2.95. Ideology, by L. B Brown. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. 208 pp. $2.95.