Memory: 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 25 November 2006

Brooke, Collin Gifford. "Forgetting to Be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (Fall 2000): 775-795.

Burns, Lisa M. "Collective Memory and the Candidates' Wives in the 2004 Presidential Campaign." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 8.4 (Winter 2005).

Carruthers, Mary. The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Carruthers, Mary. "Memory and Authority." The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge UP, 1990. 189-220.

Castiglia, Christopher. "Where I'm Coming From: Memory, Location, and the (Un)making of National Subjectivity." Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing. Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich. Logan: Utah State UP, 2001. 317-334.

Crowley, Sharon. The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

Davis, Steven, ed. Causal Theories of Mind: Action, Knowledge, Memory, Perception and Reference. 1982.

Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. U Chicago P, 1998.

Bruner, M. Lane. Strategies of Remembrances: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity Construction.

Edkins, Jenny. Trauma and the Memory of Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Eves, Rosalyn Collings. "A Recipe for Remembrance: Memory and Identity in African-American Women's Cookbooks." Rhetoric Review 24.4 (2005): 280-297.

Francoz, Marion Joan. "Habit as Memory Incarnate." College English 62.1 (September 1999): 11-29.

Gathercole, Susan E., and Alan D. Baddeley. Working Memory and Language Processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

Gross, Alan G. "Presence as Argument in the Public Sphere." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.2 (Spring 2005): 5-22.

Helmers, Marguerite. "Media, Discourse, and the Public Sphere: Electronic Memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales." College English 63.4 (March 2001): 437-456.

Horner, Winifred Bryan. "Reinventing Memory and Delivery." Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 173-184.

Hutton, Patrick H. "The Art of Memory Reconceived: From Rhetoric to Psychoanalysis." Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987): 371-392.

Jones, Edward S. Improvement of Study Habits: Including Approved Techniques of Studying in College. Buffalo NY: Foster & Stewart, 1934, 1945.

Kaufman, Rona. "Testifying, Silencing, Monumentalizing, Swallowing: Coming to Terms with In Memory's Kitchen." JAC 24.2 (2004): 427-446.

Kintsch, W. The Representation of Meaning in Memory. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum, 1974.

Krell, David Farrell. Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge. Indiana UP, 1990.

Kuberski, Philip. The Persistence of Memory: Organism, Myth, Text. U California P, 1992.

Lury, Cecilia. Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity. New York: Routledge, 1998.

McGee, D.B. Rev. of Francis A. Yates' The Art of Memory. Rhetoric Review 16 (1997): 152-157.

McNair, John R. "Computer Icons and the Art of Memory." Technical Communication Quarterly 5.1 (Winter 1996): 77-86.

Meyer, B.J.F. The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Memory. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1975.

Miller, Nancy K. "The Girl in the Photograph: The Vietnam War and the Making of National Memory." JAC 24.2 (2004): 261-290.

Murphy, James J. "The Metarhetoric of Aristotle, with Some Examples from His On Memory and Recollection." Rhetoric Review 21.3 (2002): 213-228.

Pennycook, Alastair. "Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism." TESOL Quarterly 30 (1996): 201-230.

Reynolds, John Frederick, ed. Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

Rider, Janine. The Writer's Book of Memory: An Interdisciplinary Study for Writing Teachers. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Ryan, Kathleen J. "Memory, Literacy, and Invention: Reimagining the Canon of Memory for the Writing Classroom." Composition Studies 32.1 (Spring 2004): 35-48.

Said, Edward W. "Invention, Memory, and Place." Critical Inquiry 26.2 (Winter 2000): 175-192.

Socolovsky, Maya. "Cyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shootings." JAC 24.2 (2004): 467-490.

Ulmer, Gregory. Electronic Monuments. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2005.

Villanueva, Victor. "Cuentos de mi Historia: An Art of Memory." Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing. Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich. Logan: Utah State UP, 2001. 267-276.

Villanueva, Victor. "Memoria Is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourse of Color." College English 67.1 (Sept. 2004): 9-19.

Wright, Elizabethada A. "Rhetorical Spaces in Memorial Places: The Cemetery as a Rhetorical Memory Place/Space." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.4 (Fall 2005): 51-82.