Southern Illinois University Press

  • Christina Rossetti

    Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devo­tional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti’s works and…

    $31.95
  • Cicero on Oratory and Orators

    Contains 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…

    $35.00
  • Circle

    Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history….

    $16.95
  • Class-Passing

    Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, Martha Stewart, and Britney Spears typify class-passers—those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own—asserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film…

    $30.00
  • Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry

    Back 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…

    $30.00
  • Cold Warriors

    Cold 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…

    $45.00
  • Communicating Ideas with Film, Video, and Multimedia

    Written for a broad audience of professional informational and corporate filmmakers, film students, technical writers, and clients, Communicating Ideas with Film, Video, and Multimedia: A Practical Guide to Information…

    $40.00
  • Communication and Community

    Martin Buber’s work suggests that real life begins with two individ­uals engaged in dialogue, not just taking care of one’s own needs as described in social Darwinism.Arnett argues that the…

    $35.00
  • Communication and the Human Condition

    Starting with the premise that we live in communication (rather than standing outside communication and using it for secondary purposes), Pearce claims that people who live in various cultures and…

    $35.00
  • Communication Incompetencies

    Gerald M. Phillips draws on his twenty-five-year, five-thousand-client experience with the Pennsylvania State University Reticence Program to present a new theory of modification of “inept” communication behavior. That experience has convinced…

    $40.00
  • Composing Ourselves

    When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the years 1910–20, the world of live drama was wide open for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit…

    $35.00
  • Composition and the Rhetoric of Science

    Composition 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…

    $35.00