Southern Illinois University Press

  • Dario Fo

    Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi present an international collection of essays reevaluating the multifaceted performance art of Nobel laureate Dario Fo. The contributors, all of whom either have previously published…

    $40.00
  • Dark Alphabet

    In works whose subjects range from the religious to the carnal, the whimsical to the foreboding,Jennifer Maier’s debut collection of poems,Dark Alphabet, explores the everyday mysteries of our common experience…

    $16.95
  • Dear Mr. Lincoln

    During the Civil War, Americans felt themselves to be on intimate terms with their commander in chief, sending President Abraham Lincoln between two hundred and five hundred pieces of mail…

    $25.00
  • Death Underground

    Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only…

    $22.95
  • Defining Reality

    In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of “is”and more as sociopolitical questions of “ought.” Instead of asking “What is X?”…

    $35.00
  • Desiring Voices

    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism proposes that we attend to…

    $46.00
  • Dialogic Confession

    In this landmark volume of contemporary communication theory, Ronald C. Arnett applies the metaphor of dialogic confession—which enables historical moments to be addressed from a confessed standpoint and through a…

    $32.00
  • Dialogic Education

    Examining undergraduate education from the point of view of a philosopher of communication, Ronald C. Arnett takes a positive view of higher education during a time when education is being…

    $35.00
  • Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge

    Morace analyzes the novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge together because they provide a dialogue of conflicting views, styles, and forms of the contemporary novel. This dialogue parallels the…

    $34.00
  • Dialogue, Dialectic and Conversation

    This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers.We write and read as participants in…

    $35.00
  • Direct Theory

    “Art is thinking in images.”—Victor ShklovskyUndulating water patterns; designs etched directly into exposed film; computer- generated, pulsating, multihued light tapestries—the visual images that often constitute experimental film and video provide…

    $27.50
  • Documentary Dilemmas

    A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security.Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional…

    $32.00