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The Rhetoric of Cool
$38.00The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media offers a historical critique of composition studies’ rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work….
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The Rise of Robert Dodsley
$39.00Robert Dodsley (1703–1764) started life humbly for a man destined to become his century’s premier bookseller and publisher. He began as an apprentice weaver and developed into a poet and…
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The Road Story and the Rebel
$32.00In The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television, Beat studies scholar Katie Mills examines how road stories, which have offered declarations of independence to generations…
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The Scenographic Imagination, Third Edition
$35.00In this enlarged and thoroughly revised third edition of his widely used text, Darwin Reid Payne explores the principles and philosophies that shape the visual elements of theatre.Payne sets out…
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The Schlemiel as Metaphor, Revised and Enlarged Edition
$34.00The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.In…
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The School and Society
$25.00First published in 1899,The School and Society describes John Dewey’s experiences with his own famous Laboratory School, started in 1896.Dewey’s experiments at the Laboratory School reflected his original social and…
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The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon
$38.00Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy in America, and as president of Princeton reformed the curriculum to give emphasis to…
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The Staff and the Serpent
$33.00If laughter is good medicine, then the twenty-two essays offered here by Dr. Allen B. Weisse should prove a hearty antidote to a host of ills suffered by doctors, students…
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The Star-Spangled Banner
$15.95The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel’s sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears…
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The Tenth Muse
$29.00With authority and sensitivity Plotkin traces the close relationship between Hopkins’s poetry and the theories of language suggested in his Journals and expounded by Victorian philologists such as Max Müller…
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The Unlikely Celebrity
$22.00Thomas Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent nearly half a century in a Minnesota mental institution and emerged to blossom into a most unlikely celebrity….
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The Villagers
$25.00The Villagers is a story of the ruthless exploitation and extermination of an Indian village of Ecuador by its greedy landlord. First published in 1934, itis here available for the…