Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures

Roberto Franzosi is Professor of Sociology and Linguistics at Emory University, Georgia, USA.

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.