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Michael C. Leff

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The Topics of Argumentative Invention in Latin Rhetorical Theory from Cicero to Boethius1983 · 147 citations
Words the most like things: Iconicity and the rhetorical text1990 · 117 citations
Things made by words: Reflections on textual criticism1992 · 82 citations
In search of Ariadne's thread: A review of the recent literature on rhetorical theory1978 · 80 citations
Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"2004 · 72 citations

Works

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Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text

Routledge eBooks·2020·2 authors·chapter

28citations

Perelman, ad Hominem Argument, and Rhetorical Ethos

Argumentation·2009·1 author

27citations

Up from Theory: Or I Fought the Topoi and the Topoi Won

Rhetoric Society Quarterly·2006·1 author

39citations

Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Rhetoric and Public Affairs·2004·2 authors

72citations

Tradition and Agency in Humanistic Rhetoric

Philosophy and Rhetoric·2003·1 author

41citations

Rhetoric and Dialectic in Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’

Argumentation library·2003·1 author·chapter

19citations

The Relation between Dialectic and Rhetoric in a Classical and a Modern Perspective

Argumentation library·2002·1 author·chapter

Lincoln at Cooper Union: Neo‐classical criticism revisited

Western Journal of Communication·2001·1 author

27citations

Rhetorical disciplines and rhetorical disciplinarity: A response to Mailloux

Rhetoric Society Quarterly·2000·1 author

22citations

Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Twenty-First Century

Argumentation·2000·1 author

72citations

Taking up the challenge: A response to Simons

Quarterly Journal of Speech·1999·4 authors

20citations

Cicero's Pro Murena and the Strong Case for Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Public Affairs·1998·1 author

59citations

Commonplaces and argumentation in Cicero and Quintilian

Argumentation·1996·1 author

24citations

The idea of rhetoric as interpretive practice: A humanist's response to Gaonkar

Southern Communication Journal·1993·1 author

30citations

Things made by words: Reflections on textual criticism

Quarterly Journal of Speech·1992·1 author

82citations

Words the most like things: Iconicity and the rhetorical text

Western Journal of Speech Communication·1990·2 authors

117citations

Dimensions of temporality in Lincoln's second inaugural

Communication Reports·1988·1 author

50citations

Textual criticism: The legacy of G. P. Mohrmann

Quarterly Journal of Speech·1986·1 author

69citations

I. Topical invention and metaphoric interaction

Southern Speech Communication Journal·1983·1 author

49citations

Interpretation and the art of the rhetorical critic

Western Journal of Speech Communication·1980·1 author

62citations

In search of Ariadne's thread: A review of the recent literature on rhetorical theory

Central States Speech Journal·1978·1 author

80citations

Lincoln at cooper union: A rationale for neo‐classical criticism

Quarterly Journal of Speech·1974·2 authors

48citations

Lincoln at Cooper Union: A rhetorical analysis of the text

Quarterly Journal of Speech·1974·2 authors

71citations