Selected Works

• 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.
  

1. 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.