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Assuming The Positions
$24.95Winner of the 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition.
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Available Means
$65.00“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history…
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Available Means
$37.95“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history…
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Between Politics and Ethics
$55.00For nearly twenty-five years, English studies has been focused on two terms: politics and ethics. However, the institutional emergence, development, and relationship of these two concepts have yet to be…
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Black Identity
$30.00Exploring the role of rhetoric in African American identity and political discourseDexter B. Gordon’s Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the…
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Changing the Subject in English Class
$35.00Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Lacan, Marshall W. Alcorn Jr. formulates a systematic explanation of the function and value of desire in writing instruction. Alcorn argues that in…
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Cicero on Oratory and Orators
$35.00Contains Cicero’s De Oratore and Brutus, influential sources over the centuries for ideas on rhetoric and training for public leadership.The De Oratore, written in 55 B.C., argues that rhetoric is…
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Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry
$30.00Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism…
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Cold Warriors
$45.00Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West returns to familiar cultural forces—the West, anticommunism, and manliness—to show how they combined to suppress dissent and dominate the…
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Composition and the Rhetoric of Science
$35.00Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse calls for instructors of first-year writing courses to employ primary scientific discourse in their teaching and for rhetoricians of science…
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Composition in the Twenty-First Century
$35.00The essays in this book, stemming from a national conference of the same name, focus on the single subject required of nearly all college students—composition.Despite its pervasiveness and its significance,…
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Composition Studies in the New Millennium
$35.00A collection of twenty-four essays assessing and challenging the current state of writing instruction, Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future emerges from presentations given…