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The Reader, the Text, the Poem
$27.00Louise M. Rosenblatt’s award-winning work continues increasingly to be read in a wide range of academic fields—literary criticism, reading theory, aesthetics, composition, rhetoric, speech communication, and education. Her view of…
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The Reality of Illusion
$32.00Applying research findings from studies in visual perception, neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and anthropology, Joseph D. Anderson defines the complex interaction of motion pictures with the human mind and…
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The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, Revised Edition
$35.00Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, whose works were first published in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, constituted the great triumvirate of British Rhetoricians. For 20 years,…
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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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