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Defining Reality
$35.00In 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?”…
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Desiring Voices
$46.00“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…
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Dialogic Confession
$32.00In 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…
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Dialogic Education
$35.00Examining 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…
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Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge
$34.00Morace 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…
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Dialogue, Dialectic and Conversation
$35.00This 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…
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Direct Theory
$27.50“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…
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Documentary Dilemmas
$32.00A 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…
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Dreams Within a Dream
$45.00“What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream.” Michael Bliss views Miranda’s voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as…
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Edith Wharton on Film
$45.00Edith Wharton (1862–1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them…
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Editorializing “The Indian Problem”
$22.95Drawing on four decades of New York Times editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly…
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Eight Months in Illinois
$17.50The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841–42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable…
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