Michel Foucault:A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 8 June 2006

Ansell-Pearson, Keith. "The Significance of Michel Foucault's Reading of Nietzsche: Power, the Subject, and Political Theory." Nietzsche: A Critical Reader. Ed. Peter Sedgwick. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995. 13-30.

Beer, Dan. Michel Foucault: Form and Power. Oxford UP, 2002.

Bevir, Mark. "Foucault and Critique: Deploying Agency Against Autonomy." Political Theory 27.1 (February 1999): 65-84.

Biesecker, Barbara. "Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 350-64.

Blair, Carole. "The Statement: Foundation of Foucault's Historical Criticism." Western Journal of Speech Communication 51 (1987): 364-83.

Blair, Carole. "Symbolic Action and Discourse: The Convergent/Divergent Views of Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault." Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought: Rhetoric in Transition. Ed. Bernard L. Brock. Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 1995. 119-65.

Burke, Sean. The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1992.

Butler, Judith. "Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault." Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender. Ed. Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1987. 128-142.

Chartier, Roger. "Figures of the Author." Of Authors and Origins: Essays on Copyright Law. Ed. Brad Sherman and Alain Strowell. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 7-22.

Cooper, Martha. "Rhetorical Criticism and Foucault's Philosophy of Discursive Events." Communication Studies 38 (1987): 1-17.

Couzens, David. "Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu." Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture. Ed. Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Cronin, Ciaran. "Bourdieu and Foucault on Power and Modernity." Philosophy and Social Criticism 22.6 (1996): 55-85.

Dobrin, Sidney I. Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition. Albany: SUNY P, 1997.

During, Lisabeth. "Clues and Intimations: Freud, Holmes, Foucault." Cultural Critique 36 (Spring 1997).

Elliott, Anthony, and Larry Ray, eds. Key Contemporary Social Theorists. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.

Ferguson, Roderick A. "The Stratifications of Normativity." Rhizomes 10 (Spring 2005).

Fitzgerald, Kathryn R. "From Disciplining to Discipline: A Foucauldian Examination of the Formation of English as a School Subject." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 16.3 (1996): 435-54.

Foertsch, Jacqueline. "The Circle of Learners in a Vicious Circle: Derrida, Foucault, and Feminist Pedagogic Practice." College Literature 27.3 (Fall 2000).

Foss, Sonja, and Ann Gill. "Michel Foucault's Theory of Rhetoric as Epistemic." Western Journal of Speech Communication 51 (1987): 384-401.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Tavistock, 1972.

Foucault, Michel. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. Ed. James D. Faubion. Trans. Robert Hurley, et al. New York: New P, 1998.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1977.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1978, 1980.

Foucault, Michel. Fearless Speech. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2001.

Foucault, Michel. Language, Countermemory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977.

Foucault, Michel. "Of Other Spaces." Diacritics (1986): 22-27.

Foucault, Michel. "The Order of Discourse." Trans. Ian McLeod. Untying the Text. Ed. Robert Young. Boston: Routledge, 1981. 48-78.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage, 1973.

Foucault, Michel. "Politics and the Study of Discourse." The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Ed. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1991.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. Trans. Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

Foucault, Michel. "The Subject and Power." Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Ed. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Chicago, 1982.

Foucault, Michel. "What Is an Author?" Bulletin de la Societe francaise de Philosophie 63.3 (1969): 73-104. Rpt. Language, Countermemory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 113-38.

Frank, Luanne. "Michel Foucault." Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 169-184.

Fraser, Nancy. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1989.

Gearhart, Suzanne. "The Taming of Michel Foucault: New Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and the Subversion of Power." New Literary History 28.3 (Summer 1997).

Habermas, Jurgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Cambridge: MIT, 1990.

Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Materiality of Informatics." Configurations 1.1 (1993): 147-70.

Herndl, Carl G. "Tactics and the Quotidian: Resistance and Professional Discourse." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 16.3 (1996): 455-70.

Herzberg, Bruce. "Michel Foucault's Rhetorical Theory." Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. Ed. Patricia Harkin and John Schilb. New York: MLA, 1991. 69-81.

Honneth, Axel. The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory. Trans. Kenneth Baynes. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1991.

Jensen, George H. "Introduction to Russian Formalism, Prague Structuralism, and the Bakhtin Circle." The Philosophy of Discourse: The Rhetorical Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought. Ed. Chip Sills and George H. Jensen. Vol. 1. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 155-63.

Jones, Donald C. "Beyond the Postmodern Impasse of Agency: The Resounding Relevance of John Dewey's Tacit Tradition." JAC 16.1 (1996): 81-102.

Kogler, Hans Herbert. "The Self-Empowered Subject: Habermas, Foucault and Hermeneutic Reflexivity." Philosophy and Social Criticism 22.4 (1996).

Larochelle, Gilbert. "From Kant to Foucault: What Remains of the Author in Postmodernism." Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Ed. Alice Roy and Lise Buranen. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1999. 121-131.

Lechte, John. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Loewenstein, Joseph. The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. U Chicago P, 2002.

Lunsford, Andrea A., and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

McNay, Lois. Foucault: A Critical Introduction. New York: Continuum, 1994.

Moussa, Mario, and Ron Scapp. "The Practical Theorizing of Michel Foucault: Politics and Counter-Discourse." Cultural Critique 33 (Spring 1996).

Muckelbauer, John. "On Reading Differently: Through Foucault's Resistance." College English 63.1 (September 2000): 71-94.

Nesbit, Molly. "What Was an Author?" Yale French Studies 73 (1987): 229-257.

Peters, Michael. "Michel Foucault, 1926-1984." Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. Ed. Joy A. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 2001. 170-174.

Phillips, Kendall A. "Spaces of Invention: Dissension, Freedom, and Thought in Foucault." Philosophy and Rhetoric 35.4 (2002): 328-344.

Pignatelli, Frank. "Dangers, Possibilities: Ethico-Political Choices in the Work of Michel Foucault." Philosophy of Education 1993.

Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. U Chicago P, 1990.

Prado, C.G. Starting with Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy. Boulder: Westview,1995.

Punday, Daniel. "Foucault's Body Tropes." New Literary History 31.3 (Summer 2000).

Ree, Jonathan. "No Good Reason." Times Literary Supplement 13 August 2004: 27.

Reid, Roddey. "Foucault in America: Biography, 'Culture War,' and the New Consensus. Cultural Critique 35 (Winter 1996).

Reynolds, Bryan, and Joseph Fitzpatrick. "The Transversality of Michel de Certeau: Foucault's Panoptic Discourse and the Cartographic Impulse." Diacritics 29.3 (Fall 1999).

Roth, Michael S. "Foucault on Discourse and History: A Style of Delegitimation." The Philosophy of Discourse. Ed. Chip Sills and George H. Jensen. Vol. 2. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 102-124.

Shapiro, Gary. Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying. U Chicago P, 2003.

Silverman, David, and Brian Torode. The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its Limits. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.

Sloane, Sarah J. "The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As a Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes." Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999. 49-65.

Smith, A.M. "Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: Butler and Fraser on Capitalism and the Regulation of Sexuality." Social Text 67 (2001).

Snyder, Carol. "Analyzing Classifications: Foucault for Advanced Writers." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 209-216. Rpt. Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary A. Olson and Julie Drew. Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1996. 137-144.

Spellmeyer, Kurt. "Foucault and the Freshman Writer: Considering the Self in Discourse." College English 51 (1989): 715-729.

Spellmeyer, Kurt. "Testing as Surveillance." Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies and Practices. Ed. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri. Modern Language Association, 1996. 174-84.

Tuhkanen, Mikko. "Foucault's Queer Virtualities." Rhizomes 11.12 (Fall 2005).

White, Hayden. The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.

White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

Williams, Bernard. Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy. Princeton UP, 2002.

Wilson, Norman J. History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Yarbrough, Stephen R. After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse Beyond Language and Culture. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.