Dialogue and Dialectics

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.

Blondell, Ruby. The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Clay, Diskin. "The Origins of the Platonic Dialogue." In The Socratic Movement, edited by Paul A. Vander Waerdt. Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Friedländer, Paul. Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. New York: Pantheon, 1958. Translation of Platon: Seinswahrheit und Lebenswirklichkeit.

Giannantoni, Gabriele, ed. Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae. 4 vols. Naples: Bibliopolis, 1990.

Griswold, Charles H., Jr. Introduction to Platonic Writings/ Platonic Readings. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Originally published 1988.

Kahn, Charles H. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Nightingale, Andrea. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Vlastos, Gregory. Socratic Studies, edited by Myles Burnyeat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. See "The Socratic Elenchus: Method Is All."