RHETORIC
some things to read (includes some odd choices) as of 1998

Plato: Phaedrus, Gorgias

Aristotle: Rhetoric

Cicero: De Oratore, De Inventione; Quintilian: Institutiones, esp. Bk. 12

Augustine: De Doctrina Christiana, De Magistro, Confessions

Renaissance: Ramus, Bacon, Machiavelli; Howell, R 1500-1700

18th-C: Howell, 18th-C. British Logic and R; Edmund Burke

19th-C: Conley, R in the European Tradition; Blair, Lectures on R; Whateley, Elements of R; Newman

I. A. Richards: Meaning of Meaning, Practical Criticism, Philosophy of Rhetoric

Burke: Grammar of Motives, Rhetoric of Motives, Rhetoric of Religion

Booth: R of Fiction, R of Irony, Modern Dogma and the R of Assent, Company We Keep, "The Idea of a University As Seen by a Rhetorician"

Other 20th-C: Toulmin, Uses of Argument; Kennedy, Art of Reasoning; Auerbach, Mimesis; Weaver, Ethics of R; Johannesen, Ethics in Human Communication.