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Sites of General Interest

Silva Rhetoricae  A Guide to the terms and concepts of classical and renaissance rhetoric, by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University.


On-Line Full-Text Rhetorics

Adam Smith: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres  Vol. IV of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, downloadable in multiple formats.

Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric  Hypertext version compiled by Lee Honeycutt of Iowa State Univerisity,  based on the W. Rhys Roberts English translation.

St. Augustine: On Christian Doctrine English translation from Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

Cicero: De Inventione

[Cicero]: De Ratione Dicendi ad C. Herrenium

Quintilian: Institutes of Oratory Hypertext version compiled by Lee Honeycutt of Iowa State University, from Rev. John Selby Watson's 1871 English translation.

Thomas Wilson: Arte of Rhetorique Project Gutenberg version of Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique 1560. Ed. G. H. Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909


Sites with Collections of texts

Peitho's Web A selection of key classical texts in English translation.

Perseus Digital Library  A massive archive of searchable classical and renaissance texts in original languages and English translation, hyperlinked to extensive lexical research tools.

Rhetoric & Composition A collaborative, multi-resource tool.  

American Rhetoric Database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches and other materials.


Other Scholarly Societies

ASHR American Society for the History of Rhetoric

CSSR / SCÉR Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric / Société Canadienne pour l'Étude de la Rhétorique

ISSBSR International Society for the Study of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric

ISSA International Society for the Study of Argumentation

NNRH Nordic Network for the History of Rhetoric / Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie

RSA Rhetoric Society of America

 

 

 



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