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Reference Sources for Rhetoric

This page singles out some of the basic reference books available in Carnegie Mellon University Libraries that are relevant to the study of rhetoric.

• Research Guides
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

Research Guides

Horner, Winifred Bryan, ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric. Rev. ed. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
HUNT REF-1 808.5 P993A

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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

Barnouw, Erik, et al., eds. International Encyclopedia of Communications. 4 vols.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
HUNT REF-1 302.203 I61

Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996.
HUNT REF-1 808.003 E56

Hammond, N. G. L., and H. H. Scullard. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
HUNT REF-1 880.3 O98A2

Lanham, Richard A. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
HUNT REF-1 808 L28H2

Mulholland, Joan. Handbook of Persuasive Tactics: A Practical Language Guide. London: Routledge, 1994.
HUNT REF-1 302.2 M95H

Purves, Alan C., Linda Papa, and Sarah Jordan, eds. Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts: A Project of the National Council of Teachers of English. 2 vols. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
HUNT REF-1 428 E56

Sonnino, Lee A. A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1968.
HUNT STACKS-2 808 S699H

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