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The Dark Matter of Words
$39.00Timothy Walsh’s study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence. Textual gaps, narrative lacunae, and strategic…
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The Daybreak Boys
$29.00“Who howled … and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts—Allen Ginsberg, “Howl””Beat.” A single-word synthesis describing this group of disaffected heroes of the subculture who used the…
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The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle
$44.00The first major collection of Boyle’s writings to be published since Thomas Birch’s eighteenth-century edition of his works presents material hitherto available only in the archives of the Royal Society.This…
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The End of Composition Studies
$35.00Setting forth an innovative new model for what it means to be a writing teacher in the era of writing across the curriculum, The End of Composition Studies urges a…
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The English Department
$35.00Tounderstand the history of “English,” Ross Winterowd insists, one must understand how literary studies, composition-rhetoric studies, and influential textbooks interrelate. Stressing the interrelationship among these three forces, Winterowd presents a…
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The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric
$55.00Arguing for an oral theory of Reader Response Criticism, Steven B. Katz conducts a philosophical investigation into the possibility and desirability of teaching reading and writing as rhetorical music.In the…
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The Feature Film Distribution Deal
$45.00John W. Cones, whose real goal is to stimulate a long-term film industry reform movement, shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major…
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The Feature Film Distribution Deal
$40.00John W. Cones, whose real goal is to stimulate a long-term film industry reform movement, shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major…
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The Flowering Plants: Flowering Rush to Rushes
$30.00The second edition of Flowering Plants: Flowering Rush to Rushes offers new material, including a preface, seventeen new illustrations of the additional species now known from Illinois, a revised list…
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The Force of Fantasy
$24.00In this book, first published in 1985, Ernest G. Bormann explores mass persuasion in America from 1620 to 1860, examining closely four rhetorical communities: the revivals of 1739–1740, the hot…
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The Gendered Pulpit
$35.00In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching—one of the oldest and least studied rhetorical traditions—Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race, and gender in rhetorical performance…
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The Great Cyclone at St Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896
$21.50Shortly after 5:00 P.M. On Wednesday, May 27, 1896, a Herculean tornado shattered the St. Louis Area. Within twenty minutes, 137 people had perished in St. Louis, with 118 dead…
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