Southern Illinois University Press

  • Ragged Dicks

    Portraits of self-made men are rife in Western culture, as James V. Catano observes. Positive and negative, admittedly fictional and ostensibly factual, these portraits endure because the general rhetorical practice…

    $35.00
  • Readings from Classical Rhetoric

    Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome.This unique anthology of primary texts in…

    $39.00
  • Real Emotional Logic

    Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipkin explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such…

    $42.00
  • Reality Fictions

    Providing in-depth accounts and close critical examinations of nine of Wiseman’s films—Titicut Follies, High School, Basic Training, Essene, Juvenile Court, Primate, Welfare, Canal Zone, and The Store—thissecond edition features a…

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  • Red Clay Suite

    In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier…

    $18.95
  • Regendering Delivery

    Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and…

    $35.00
  • Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife

    “To tell my own story is to tell that of my famous husband, General John A. Logan,” explains Mary S. Logan in the preface to her autobiography.Married to John A….

    $21.95
  • Rereading the Sophists

    This book is a critically informed challenge to the traditional histories of rhetoric and to the current emphasis on Aristotle and Plato as the most significant classical voices in rhetoric….

    $35.00
  • Rescuing the Subject, 2nd Edition

    When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller’s Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer established a landmark pedagogical approach to composition based on the…

    $35.00
  • Response to Reform

    Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching critiques the politics of labor and gender biases inherent in the composition workplace that prevent literacy teachers from attaining professional status…

    $35.00
  • Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts

    In this precise and provocative treatise, Julie Jung augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitudes rather than simply changing texts. Revisionary…

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  • Revisiting Racialized Voice

    Revisiting Racialized Voice:African American Ethos in Language and Literature argues that past misconceptions about black identity and voice, codified from the 1870s through the 1920s, inform contemporary assumptions about African…

    $24.00