This listing was originally posted to the H-Rhetor Listserv (H-Rhetor@msu.edu) Feb. 20, 1997. Suggestions for additions to this list would be most welcome.
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Section 1: Books and articles in the field of communication:
Bass, Jeff D. "The Appeal to Efficiency as Narrative Closure: Lyndon Johnson and the Dominican Crisis, 1965." Southern Speech Communication Journal 50 (1985): 103-20.
Bennett, W. Lance, and Murray Edelman. "Toward a New Political Narrative." Journal of Communication 35.Autumn (1985): 156-171.
Carlson, A. Cheree. "Narrative as the Philosopher's Stone: How Russell H. Conwell Changed Lead into Diamonds." Western Journal of Speech Communication 53.Fall (1989): 342-355.
Carpenter, Ronald H. "Admiral Mahan, 'Narrative Fidelity,' and the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 72 (1986): 290-305.
Ehrenhaus, Peter. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial:An Invitation to Argument." Argumentation and Advocacy 25.Fall (1988): 54-64.
Farrell, Thomas B. "Narrative in Natural Discourse: On Conversation and Rhetoric." Journal of Communication 35.Autumn (1985): 109-127.
Fisher, Walter R. "A Motive View of Communication." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 56 (1970): 131-139.
Fisher, Walter R. "Reaffirmation and the Subversion of the American Dream." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 59 (1973): 160-167.
Fisher, Walter R. "Toward a Logic of Good Reasons." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 64 (1978): 376-84.
Fisher, Walter R. "Narration as Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument." Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 1-22.
Fisher, Walter R. "The Narrative Paradigm: An Elaboration." Communication Monographs 52.December (1985): 347-367.
Fisher, Walter R. "The Narrative Paradigm: In the Beginning." Journal of Communication 35.Autumn (1985): 74-89.
Fisher, Walter R. Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.
Fisher, Walter R. "The Narrative Paradigm and the Assessment of Historical Texts." Argumentation and Advocacy 25.Fall (1988): 49-53.
Fisher, Walter R. "Clarifying the Narrative Paradigm." Communication Monographs 56 (1989): 55-58.
Fisher, Walter R. "Narration, Reason, and Community." Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. Ed. Richard Harvey Brown. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 199-217.
Fisher, Walter R. "Narrative Rationality and the Logic of Scientific Discourse." Argumentation 8 (1994): 21-32.
Gass, Robert H., Jr. "The Narrative Perspective in Debate: A Critique." Argumentation and Advocacy 25.Fall (1988): 78-92.
Glasser, Theodore L. "Narrative Form and Moral Force: The Realization of Innocence and Guilt through Investigative Journalism." Journal of Communication 38.Summer (1988): 8-26.
Griffin, Charles J.G. "The Rhetoric of Form in Conversion Narratives." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 76.May (1990): 152-163.
Haynes, W. Lance. "Shifting Media, Shifting Paradigms, and the Growing Utility of Narrative as Metaphor." Communication Studies 30.Summer (1989): 109-126.
Hollihan, Thomas A., Patricia Riley, and Keith Freadhoff. "Arguing for Justice: An Analysis of Arguing in Small Claims Court." Argumentation and Advocacy 22.Spring (1986): 187-195.
Hollihan, Thomas A., and Kevin T. Baaske. Arguments and Arguing: The Products and Processes of Human Decision Making. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. [argumentation textbook with narrative perspectives]
Hollihan, Thomas A., Kevin T. Baaske, and Patricia Riley. "Debaters as Storytellers: The Narrative Perspective in Academic Debate." Argumentation and Advocacy 23.Spring (1987): 184-193.
Hollihan, Thomas A. "Narrative Studies of Argument." Argumentation and Advocacy 25.Fall (1988): 47-48.
Hollihan, Thomas A., and Patricia Riley. "The Rhetorical Power of a Compelling Story: A Critique of a 'Toughlove' Parental Support Group." Communication Quarterly 35.Winter (1987): 13-25.
Jasinski, James. "(Re)constituting Community through Narrative Argument: Eros and Philia in The Big Chill." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (1993): 467-486.
Kirkwood, William G. "Narrative and the Rhetoric of Possibility." Communication Monographs 59 (1992): 30-47.
Kirkwood, William G. "Parables as Metaphors and Examples." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1985): 422-440.
Kirkwood, William G. "Revealing the Mind of the Sage: The Narrative Rhetoricof the Chuang Tzu." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 25 (1995 annual issue):135-148.
Kirkwood, William G. "Shiva's Dance at Sundown: Implications of Indian Aesthetics for Poetics and Rhetoric." Text and Performance Quarterly 10 (1990): 93-110.
Kirkwood, William G. "Stories that Bring Peace to the Mind: Communication and the Education of Feelings." Southern Communication Journal 66:1 (Fall 2000): 16-26.
Kirkwood, William G. "Storytelling and Self-Confrontation." Quarterly Journal of Speech 69 (1983): 58-74.
Kirkwood, William G. "The Turtle Spoke, the Donkey Brayed: Fables About Speech and Silence in the Panchatantra." Journal of Communication and Religion 10 (1987): 1-11.
Kirkwood, William G. and J. B. Gold. "Using Teaching Stories to Explore Philosophical Themes in the Classroom." Metaphilosophy 14 (1983): 341-352.
Lake, Randall A. "The Implied Arguer." Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent. Ed. David Cratis Williams, and Michael David Hazen. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. 69-90.
Lewis, William F. "Telling America's Story: Narrative Form and the Reagan Presidency." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 280-302.
Lucaites, John Louis, and Celeste Condit. "Re-Constructing Narrative Theory: A Functional Perspective." Journal of Communication 35.Autumn (1985): 90-108. 35.Autumn (1985): 90-108.
McGee, Michael Calvin, and John S. Nelson. "Narrative Reason in Public Argument." Journal of Communication 35.Autumn (1985): 139-155.
Mumby, Dennis K. "The Political Function of Narrative in Organizations." Communication Monographs 54.June (1987): 113-127.
Opt, Susan K. "Continuity and Change in Storytelling about Artificial Intelligence: Extending the Narrative Paradigm." Communication Quarterly 36.Fall (1988): 298-310.
Rowland, Robert C. "Narrative: Mode of Discourse or Paradigm?" Communication Monographs 54 (1987): 264-75.
Rowland, Robert C. "On Limiting the Narrative Paradigm." Communication Monographs 56.March (1989): 39-54.
Schuetz, Janice. "Narrative Montage: Press Coverage of the Jean Harris Trial." Argumentation and Advocacy 25.Fall (1988): 65-77.
Smith, Larry David. "A Narrative Analysis of the Party Platforms: The Democrats and Republicans of 1984." Communication Quarterly 37.Spring (1989): 91-99.
Verene, Donald Phillip. "Philosophy, Argument, and Narration." Philosophy and Rhetoric 22.2 (1989): 141-144.
Warnick, Barbara. "The Narrative Paradigm: Another Story." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (1987): 172-182.
Weal, Bruce W. "The Force of Narrative in the Public Sphere of Argument." Argumentation and Advocacy 22.Fall (1985): 104-114.
In Addition:
My own papers: In "Reading as Self-Persuasion:
Understanding Rhetorical Topics as Narrative Elements," I
make an argument for the genre of epideictic rhetoric &
its topics as progenitors of rhetorical uses of narrative, and
an argument for interpreting Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction
(2nd ed.) and Fisher's narrative paradigm as consonant with each
other. In "Reconsidering the Narrative Paradigm: The Implications
of Ethos," I claim ethos is an especially powerful rhetorical
proof in narratives, being closely interconnected with epideictic
topics, and is an element which is primarily performative.
Section 2: Other related sources on narrative, but not in the speech comm field:
W.J.T. Mitchell's (ed.) On Narrative is a book version of a symposium that was printed in a special issue of Critical Inquiry. None of the essays use the phrase "rhetoric," and many of them don't go any further than assessing it as a literary form. Several of the essays, though, do treat narrative as rhetorical, especially Hayden White's and Victor Turner's essays.
Jerome Bruner's Acts of Meaning. Bruner is a cognitive psychologist who says that cog-psych has gone down the wrong path in trying to eliminate meaning and agency from its understanding of human beings. He describes the use of narrative as part of the process of 'folk psychology' which people use to attribute motives and meanings to themselves and to others. He never uses the word rhetoric, but it's all through the book. Two kinds of narrative that he spends extensive time on are the uses of narrative by children to create and maintain identities, and the use of narratives to deal with breaches of social canons.
Calvin O. Schrag's "Rationality Between Modernity and Postmodernity," in Between Modernity and Postmodernity, (ed. Phillip White) uses narrative as a central concept.
Stanley Hauerwas--writes in the field of religious studies.
Both Roy Schaefer and Donald Spence write about the role of narrative in Freudian psychoanalysis. I've got a few titles if this area interests anyone.
Still waiting on my bookshelf for me to get to it: Paul Ricoeur's 3-volume Time and Narrative.
Section 3: Even more tangential, but still pertinent:
Aristotle's Poetics, especially since I read it as saying that character, via identification, makes all the difference for the import of the action. I tend to read the Rhetoric and the Poetics as playing off each other.
Some additional suggestions:
Hesse, Douglas. "Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric: Narrative
as Rhetoric's Fourth Mode." Rebirth of Rhetoric. Ed.
Richard Andrews. London: Routledge, 1992. 19-38.
Hesse, Douglas. "Essays and Experience, Time and Rhetoric."
Writing Theory and Critical Theory. Ed. John Clifford and
John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1994. 195-211.
Andres, Richard, ed. Narrative and Argument. Milton Keynes:
Open University Press, 1989.
Kirby, John. "Toward a Rhetoric of Poetics: Rhetor as Author
and Narrator." Journal of Narrative Technique 22 (1992):
1-22.
Kenneth Burke--especially the literary-oriented works--for identification.
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, for his idea that literature is a means of developing hypothetical models for being human; from this perspective, I don't think Frye and Booth are very far apart.