Rhetoric

The Fragmentum Traguriense is a Latin edition of a newly "discovered" portion of Petronius's Satyricon, published at Nuremberg…

Inshā-yi Jāmī is a collection of Persian prose writings by the fifteenth-century poet, scholar, and Sufi master Nūr…

This work is a printed record of the ceremonial addresses delivered at the Académie française on Monday, 19…

The Discours sur le style is a short prose address by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, delivered upon…

McLuhan identifies Cicero as the foundational figure in a tradition that united eloquence with wisdom, defining a comprehensive…

The author uses Nashe as a focal point through which to examine the entire educational and intellectual tradition…

The Florida is a compilation of shorter passages, drawn from various public lectures and displays of oratory that…

The Apologia is a speech of self-defense delivered by the second-century North African writer and philosopher Apuleius before…

Herder understood language as the fundamental organ of human thought and perception, and this conviction necessarily shaped his…

The Pseudosophist, or Solecist is a short satirical prose work by the second-century Greek writer Lucian of Samosata.

The treatise argues that slander is a grave social evil, one that thrives because people are too quick…

This work is a treatise by Swiss physician Paracelsus addressing the nature of slander, defamation, and unjust criticism,…

Fragments is a 1980 collection of the surviving textual remains of Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, the first…

Kratkoye rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu (Brief Guide to Eloquence, 1748) is a Russian-language treatise on rhetoric and literary theory,…

The Philosophy of Style is an essay by Herbert Spencer that seeks to establish a scientific foundation for…