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• Descriptive writing

• Descriptive Writing (New York: Macmillan, c1911), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Rhetoric of Literate Action (v1 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Theory of Literate Action (v2 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• What Do We Know About the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives (c2013), ed. by Gabrijela Kišiček and Igor Ž. Žagar (multiple formats with commentary at scholarsportal.info)
• The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Rhetorical Dimensions of Cyberspace (c1996), ed. by Beth Williams Baldwin and Tim Flood (frame-dependent HTML at Colorado State)
• Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Paul Butler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Frederick J. Antczak (PDF at Ohio State)
• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2019), by Justin Hodgson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Douglas Eyman (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• The Arte of Rhetorique, by Thomas Wilson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• On Literary Composition: Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum (in Greek and English; London: Macmillan and Co., 1910), by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ed. by W. Rhys Roberts (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Longinus on the Sublime: The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript, With Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles and Appendices (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1935), by Longinus, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Sublime (London and New York: Macmillan, 1890), by Longinus, trans. by H. L. Havell, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Phaedrus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Cicero's Milo: A Rhetorical Commentary (Cicero's text in Latin, Donnelly's commentary in English; New York et al.: Bruce Pub. Co., c1935), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Francis P. Donnelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Three Literary Letters (Ep. ad Ammaeum I, Ep. ad Pompeium, Ep. ad Ammaeum II): The Greek Text Edited with English Translation, Facsimile, Notes, Glossary of Rhetorical and Grammatical terms, Bibliography, and Introductory Essay on Dionysius as a Literary Critic (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1901), by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ed. by W. Rhys Roberts
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Quarterly Journal of Speech (partial serial archives)

• Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Douglas Eyman (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Thomas J. Rickert (page images at Pitt)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, ca. 2022), ed. by Atilla Hallsby (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), ed. by Ernest Stromberg, contrib. by Matthew Dennis, Patricia Bizzell, Angela Pulley Hudson, Malea D. Powell, Janna Knittel, Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Karen A. Redfield, Robin DeRosa, Anthony G. Murphy, Ellen L. Arnold, Peter D'Errico, and Richard Clark Eckert (page images at Pitt)

• Précis Writing for Beginners (London: Blackie and Son, ca.1917), by Guy Noel Pocock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Progressive Course of Précis Writing (1913), by Frederick Eden Robeson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indexing and Précis Writing (London: Macmillan, 1908), by G. B. Beak (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Usefulness of Analytic Abstracts (1922), by Gordon S. Fulcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Institution of Theory (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Play and Place of Criticism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Framing Theory's Empire (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2007), ed. by John Holbo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation (originally published 1982; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael Ryan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tar for Mortar: The Library of Babel and the Dream of Totality (Earth: BABEL Working Group, c2018), by Jonathan Basile
  • PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Martin Paul Eve (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Molly Wallace
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Institution of Criticism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Legacies of Paul de Man (2005), ed. by Marc Redfield (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Kenneth Burke, ed. by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth and Co., 1911), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical I, by Norman N. Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Essays Literary and Critical, by Matthew Arnold (DjVu at archive.org)
• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Toronto)
• The New Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at Columbia University, March 9, 1910 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920 edition), by T. S. Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
• Literary Criticism From the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by David Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)

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