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RHETORIC & COMPOSITION READING LIST
In consultation with the advisory committee, a student taking the rhetoric and composition primary exam may delete half of the rhetorical history list, half of the composition and pedagogy list, and then add to the combined list approximately the same number of works. A student taking secondary exams is responsible for either the entire rhetorical history section or the entire composition and pedagogy section of the Rhetoric and Composition fixed list, although each may be supplemented. A student taking the Rhetoric and Composition primary exam may not choose secondary exams in these areas.
I. Rhetorical Theory & History
Isocrates
Plato
Aristotle
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Augustine
Desiderius Erasmus
Margery Kempe or Christine De Pizan
Giambattista Vico
John Locke
Ralph Waldo Emerson or Margaret Fuller
Friedrich Nietzsche
M. M. Bakhtin
Susanne Langer
Kenneth Burke
Jurgen Habermas
Michel Foucault
Helene Cixous or Julia Kristeva or Jacques Lacan
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. or Geneva Smitherman
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak or Jacques Derrida
Stanley Fish or Richard Rorty
II. Composition & Pedagogy
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Hugh Blair and/or George Campbell
L. S. Vygotsky
John Dewey
James Britton
Paulo Freire
Louise Rosenblatt
Mina Shaughnessy
Ann Berthoff
Janet Emig
Peter Elbow
Mike Rose
James Berlin
Karen LeFevre
Elizabeth Flynn
Edward Corbett or James Kinneavy
Andrea Lunsford and/or Lisa Ede
Patricia Bizzell or Lester Faigley
Nancy Sommers or Sondra Perl
Shirley Brice Heath and/or Andrea Fishman
Lisa Delpit and/or Geneva Smitherman
For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
Administrative Assistant to Graduate Studies in English
3137 MHRA
(336) 334-5311