1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition

Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, and Wendy Sharer

With Brian Lehew, Shannon Pennefeather, and Martin Schleuse

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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A product of extensive archival research and numerous interviews, 1977: A Cultural Moment In Composition examines the local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural, and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year composition program at one representative site, Penn State University, in the late 1970s. Sidebar commentaries from Stephen A. Bernhardt, Hugh Burns, Sharon Crowley, Lester Faigley, Janice Lauer, Elaine Maimon, Jasper Neel, and John Warnock—many of whom were just beginning in the field in 1977—enrich and complicate the story. In the emerging tradition of program-based histories, such as Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo’s Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration (Parlor Press, 2005), 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition offers a counterpoint to broader institutional histories of composition by investigating how local phenomena can be explained by larger movements and how larger movements can be understood through local contexts.

About the Authors

Brent Henze is Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University. His research on the rhetoric of science, reporting genres in ethnological science, scientific institutions, and the scientific treatment of racial difference has appeared in Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, and elsewhere.

Jack Selzer is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. Currently President of the Rhetoric Society of America, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village , Kenneth Burke in the 1930s , Kenneth Burke and His Circles (Parlor Press, 2008), Rhetorical Bodies , Understanding Scientific Prose, and Good Reasons .

Wendy Sharer is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at East Carolina University. She is the author of Vote and Voice: Women’s Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930 (2004) and co-editor of Rhetorical Education in America (2004). Her work appears in several edited collections, as well as in journals such as Rhetoric Review and Rhetoric Society Quarterly .

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction

2 Background I: The Cultural Scene in 1977

3 Background II: English Studies in 1977

• The Birth of TOPOI, Hugh Burns

4 Composition in 1977: The National Conversation

• Rhetoric and the Process Movement, Janice Lauer
• Finding Composition, Stephen A. Bernhardt
• Linguistics and Composition, Lester Faigley
• The Birth of WAC, Elaine Maimon
• Two Gentlemen in Wyoming, Sharon Crowley
• Rhetoric in Wyoming, 1977, John Warnock
• Gathering Options for the Teaching English: Freshman Composition, Jasper Neel
• Rhetoric Seminar on Current Theories of Composition, Janice Lauer

5 Composition in 1977: A Close Look at a Material Site

6 Responding to the Crisis: Conversing about Composition at Penn State in 1977

Notes
Sources Consulted and Cited
Index

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years

Edited by Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard, with Sarah L. Yoder and Amy K. Hermanson

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal’s history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to acquire is now offered in a coherent and comprehensive collection that is complemented by a detailed index and unified bibliography. This collection covers a range of periods and topics in the history of rhetoric, including Greek and Roman rhetoric, rhetoric and religion, women in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and science, Renaissance and British rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture, and the development of American rhetoric and composition. The editors, Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard, provide a preface and afterword that synthesize the mission and meaning of this work for students and scholars of the history of rhetoric.

About the Author

Richard Leo Enos is Professor and Holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric & Composition - History of Rhetoric at Texas Christian University.

David E. Beard is Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Contents and Contributors

Preface: Our Title Is Our Mission Statement
Richard Leo Enos

1 Beyond Dichotomy: The Sophists’ Understanding of Antithetical Thought
Valerie V. Peterson

2 Hermagoras’ Theory of Prose Oikonomia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Robert Stephen Reid

3 The Teaching of the Progymnasmata of Pedro Juan Núñez (Valencia 1529–1602)
Ferran Grau Codina

4 Erasmus’s Irenic Rhetorical System
Bohn D. Lattin

5 Neglected Texts of Olympe de Gouges, Pamphleteer of the French Revolution of 1789
Mary Cecilia Monedas

6 Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric : The Evolution of a Method
Beth L. Hewett

7 Visions of the Probable: The Transition from Rhetorical to Mathematical Models of Probability
Terri Palmer

8 A Rhetorical Liturgy: Ephesians I and the Problem of Race Relations in the Early Christian Church
Gary S. Selby

 9 “Danced through Every Labyrinth of the Law”: Benjamin Austin on Rhetoric as Virtue and Vice in Early American Legal Practice
Sean Patrick O’Rourke

10 The Human Genome Project: Novel Approaches, Probable Reasoning, and the Advancement of Science
Charlotte A. Robidoux

11 Let’s Re-Enact Rhetoric’s History
John C. Adams

12 Leading Lady or Bit Part: The Role of the History of Rhetoric in Communication Education
Glen McClish

13 Encomium on Helen as Advertisement: Political Life According to Gorgias the Barbarian
Michael William Pfau

14 Upholding the Values of the Community: Normative Psychology in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Ulrike Zinn Jaeckel

15 Enacting the Roman Republic: Reading Pliny’s Panegyric Rhetorically
Davis W. Houck

16 Hrotsvit, Strong Voice of Gandersheim
Janet B. Davis

17 Classical and Christian Conflicts in Keckermann’s De rhetoricae ecclesiasticae utilitate
Jameela Lares

18 Rethinking the History of African-American Self-Help Rhetoric: From Abolition to Civil Rights and Beyond
Jacqueline Bacon

19 Historical Continuity and the Politics/Rhetoric of Democracy: Solonian Reforms and the Council of 400
Davis W. Houck

20 Recognizing a Rhetorical Theory of Figures: What Aristotle Tells Us About the Relationship Between Metaphor and Other Figures of Speech
Sara Newman

21 Disciplinary Relations in Ancient and Renaissance Rhetorics
Robert Gaines

 22 Walter Pater and the Rhetorical Tradition: Finding Common Sense in the Particular
Lois Peters Agnew

 23 Contemporary Pedagogy for Classical Rhetoric: Averting the Reductionism of Classical Opposition
David Timmerman

 24 Rhetoric, Civic Consciousness, and Civic Conscience: The Invention of Citizenship in Classical Greece
Christopher Lyle Johnstone

 25 Motives for Practicing Shakespeare Criticism as a “Rational Science” in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism
Beth Innocenti Manolescu

 26 Sentimental Journey: The Place and Status of the Emotions in Hugh Blair’s Rhetoric
Sean Patrick O’Rourke

27 Who Measures “Due Measure”? or, Kairos Meets Counter- Kairos: Implications of Isegoria for Classical Notions of Kairos
Jerry Blitefield  

28 “Time Appeases Anger”: The Rhetorical-Political Temporality of the Paradigmatic Passion of Orge in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Politics
Renu Dube

29 Augustan Rhetoric: The Declining Orator
Ilon Lauer  

Afterword: Moments of Opportunity in the History of Rhetoric
David E. Beard  

Appendix: A Brief History of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Bibliography of Classical Authors
Bibliography
Index

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Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics

Edited by Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Catherine Hobbs, Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the ancient Near East more generally, Israel, Japan, India, and ancient Ireland. The ten essays examine rhetorics as broadly construed, analyzing texts, addressing silence, as well as considering the placement and use of texts as part of multimedia cultural communication, involving ritual along with oral, visual, sensual, experiential, and architectural elements and performances.

Contributors include Roberta Binkley, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Carol S. Lipson, Yichun Liu, Arabella Lyon, Steven B. Katz, Marie Lee Mifsud, Scott R. Stroud, James W. Watts, Xiaoye You, and Kathy Wolfe.

About the Editors

Carol S. Lipson is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, and immediate past chair of the Writing Program at Syracuse University.  She received her PhD in English at the University of California–Los Angeles, where she began the study of Egyptology. She has published on ancient Egyptian medical rhetoric, on the multimedia nature of ancient Egyptian public texts, and on the central Egyptian value of Maat in relation to the culture’s rhetorical principles. With Roberta Binkley, she co-edited Rhetoric Before and Beyond The Greeks (SUNY Press, 2004). 

Roberta Binkley received her PhD in rhetoric from the University of Arizona.  Subsequently she has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and at Arizona State University.  Her research has focused on Near Eastern rhetoric in early Mesopotamia, with particular attention to the works of the priestess and poetess Enheduanna. With Carol S. Lipson, she co-edited Rhetoric Before and Beyond The Greeks.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction, Carol S. Lipson

Religious Rhetoric of the Ancient Near East

2 Ritual Rhetoric in Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James W. Watts
3 The Gendering of Prophetic Discourse: Women and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East, Roberta Binkley
4 Rhetoric and Identity: A Study of Ancient Egyptian Non-Royal Tombs and Tomb Autobiographies, Carol S. Lipson
5 The Hebrew Bible as Another, Jewish Sophistic: A Genesis of Absence and Desire in Ancient Rhetoric, Steven B. Katz

Rhetorical Studies of the Ancient Far East

6 Reading the Heavenly Mandate: Dong Zhongshu’s Rhetoric of the Way (Dao), Yichun Liu and Xiaoye You
7 “Why Do the Rulers Listen to the Wild Theories of Speech-Makers?” Or Wuwei, Shi, and Methods of Comparative Rhetoric, Arabella Lyon
8 The Right Use of True Words: Shinto and Shingon Buddhist Rhetoric in Ancient Japan, Kathy Wolfe

Rhetoric from Ancient India

9 Storytelling as Soul-Tuning: The Ancient Rhetoric of Valmiki’s Ramayana. Mari Lee Mifsud
10 Argument in Classical Indian Philosophy: The Case of Śankara’s Advaita Vedānta, Scott R. Stroud

An Ancient Western Non-Greek Rhetoric: Ancient Ireland

11 Orality, Magic, and Myth in Ancient Irish Rhetoric, Richard Johnson-Sheehan

Contributors
Index

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Argument in Composition

John Ramage, Micheal Callaway, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Zachary Waggoner

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978-1-60235-109-7 (paperback; $30.00; £19.00; €22.00; $34.00 CAD); © 2009 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse; 272 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, works cited, and index.

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Argument in Composition provides access to a wide range of resources that bear on the teaching of writing and argument. The ideas of major theorists of classical and contemporary rhetoric and argument—from Aristotle to Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman—are explained and elaborated, especially as they inform pedagogies of argumentation and composition. John Ramage, Micheal Callaway, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, and Zachary Waggoner present methods of teaching informal fallacies and analyzing propaganda, while also providing a rationale for preferring an argument approach over other available approaches to the teaching of writing. The authors also identify the role of argument in pedagogies that are not overtly called argument, including pedagogies that foreground feminism, liberation, critical cultural studies, writing across the curriculum, genre, service learning, technology, and visual rhetoric. The lists of further reading and the annotated bibliography provide opportunities for learning more about the approaches presented in this indispensable guide.

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman
Published jointly by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

About the Authors

John Ramage is Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University and the author of numerous books, including Rhetoric: A User’s Guide (2005) and (with John Bean and June Johnson) Writing Arguments. Micheal Callaway is Residential Faculty at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, where he focuses on teaching and developing curriculum for developmental writing courses. Zachary Waggoner teaches courses in rhetoric, composition, videogame theory, and new teaching assistant education at Arizona State University. He is the author of My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games (McFarland, 2009). Jennifer Clary-Lemon is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-editor, with Peter Vandenberg and Sue Hum, of Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers (NCTE, 2006) and has published work in Composition Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, and (with Maureen Daly Goggin and Duane Roen) the Handbook of Research on Writing.

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Preface

1 Introduction: Why Argument Matters

Coming to an Understanding of Argument
John Leo, “Cultural Relativism Leaves Some Blind to Evil”
Stanley Fish, “Condemnation without Absolutes”
Discussion of Leo and Fish Part I: Some Theoretical Background
Discussion of Leo and Fish Part II: Getting from Duality to Commitment
Leo and Fish Part III: The Elements of Argument
Argument and “the purification of war”
Why Students Need Argument
Argument and Critical Literacy
Argument and Identity
Ethics and Argument
Notes

2 The History of Argument

Philosophy vs Rhetoric
Rhetoric’s Ossification Problem
Key Figures of Modern Argument Theory
Introduction to Kenneth Burke
Introduction to Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca
Stephen Toulmin
Summary
Notes

3 Issues in Argument

The Fallacy Debate
The Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Fallacies
Alternatives to Focusing on Argument in a Writing Class: Critical/Cultural Studies
Expressivist Pedagogy
Procedural Rhetoric
To Teach or Not to Teach . . . Propaganda
What Is Propaganda? Burke and Ellul
Propaganda in a Nutshell
Notes

4 Introduction to Best Practices

What Works in Teaching Writing
Best Practices
Liberatory Rhetoric
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Argument Textbooks
Scholarly Works

Feminism and Argument
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Argument Textbooks
Scholarly Works

Service Learning and Argument
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Argument Textbooks
Scholarly Works

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Argument Textbooks
Scholarly Works—General
Anthropology
Business
Economics
Engineering
Political Science
Computers and Writing
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Textbooks
Scholarly Works

Visual Rhetoric
Works Cited
For Further Reading
Textbooks
Scholarly Works

5 Glossary of Terms

6 Annotated Bibliography

Works Cited
Index
About the Authors

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Au Japon: The Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892–1894

Amédée Baillot de Guerville, Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Daniel C. Kane

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What they were saying in 1904 . . .

“Monsieur de Guerville is a passionate, and perhaps overly partial, friend of Japan. What he describes for us [in Au Japon] is what he himself witnessed—the festivals, the dinners, and the prominent and picturesque customs of the common people . . . Here is not a single figure, not a statistic, but vivid sketches that cut to the quick, and which, without sacrificing accuracy, offer up all the delights of a charming novel.” — L’Illustration (1904)

In Au Japon “[A. B. de Guerville] recounts some of his experiences in this country and sets forth his opinions about what he saw and heard. . . . The style is thoroughly French; that is to say, light, clear and graceful, and the matter is always interesting. What strikes us especially is that the author takes such trouble to contradict the gross exaggerations published in 1895 about the Port Arthur affair. Mr. de Guerville was among the newspaper correspondents who entered the place immediately after the fight and he is therefore in a position to speak positively. His verdict is this: ‘ . . . there was no butchery and no general massacre.’” —Japan Weekly Mail (1904)

In what was by all appearances a relatively short life, Amédée Baillot de Guerville was by turns an instructor of French at a women’s college, a newspaper and magazine owner and editor, Honorary Commissioner for the World’s Columbian Exhibition, popular lecturer, war correspondent, author, and general “globe-trotter.” Immigrating to the United States as a very young man in the 1880s, de Guerville gained his widest fame as a New York based correspondent and lecturer in the 1890s, before returning to his native France in 1898. In Au Japon (1904), de Guerville recounts with mostly comical gaze—and perhaps a touch of imagination—his experiences in the Far East during the years 1892 and 1894. As the author himself confesses, “each of us sees things in our own way.” After a century, that of Monsieur de Guerville is worth rediscovering.

In addition to translating the original French, Daniel C. Kane provides a thorough introduction, a glossary of key figures, a chronology of de Guerville’s publications, and an index.

Writing Travel Series
Edited by Jeanne Moskal

About the Author

Amédée Baillot de Guerville (1869-1911) was a French war correspondent and travel writer whose books include Au Japon (1904), La Lutte contre la tuberculose (1904), and La Nouvelle Egypte, ce qu’on dit, ce qu’on voit du Caire à Fashoda. 1905). He was a lecturer in French at Milwaukee Women’s College and later served as the Honorary Commissioner of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

About the Translator

Daniel Kane received his BA in French and History from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1992. After a time in Korea in the military he went on to study Korean History at the University of Hawaii, where he received his MA in 1999. He is currently completing a doctorate in Korean history from the University of Hawaii.

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Between the Twilight and the Sky

Jennie Neighbors

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What others are saying about Between the Twilight and the Sky

Say a moth alights, trembling, on a page. Between its wings and the page is a poem—in fact, the poem seems to be an articulation of this space. The words of the poem are drawn from the residuum of a library—classical myth, philosophy, poetry—as it traces the liminal membrane between perception and voice, voice and mind. Between the Twilight and the Sky, Jennie Neighbors’s stunning collection, reverberates in the interstices “between the unimaginable and the incomplete” “like a river announcing its depth and extremity.” At its heart, affection, capacity, “as music that winds.”
—Ann Lauterbach

Jennie Neighbors’s new book Between the Twilight and the Sky is a brilliant, engaging adventure for the reader. Great poems in three Cantos wherein we are brought into “the direction the poem must travel” and find “the anomalous you must meet to become.” Hers is a “music that winds.”
—Robin Blaser

About the Author

Jennie Neighbors lives in Spartanburg, SC, with her husband, Jim, and son, Esten. She is a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellow, a graduate of Naropa University’s MFA Program and a recipient of their Ted Berrigan Memorial Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in journals of innovative writing such as Osiris, Dirigible, and gestalten. She teaches at Wofford College.

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Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies

Vicki Byard

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978-1-60235-131-8 (paperback; $24.00; £17.00; €18.00; $28.00 CAD; $29.00 AUS); 978-1-60235-132-5 (hardcover; $50.00; £34.00; €37.00; $57.00 CAD; $59.00 AUS); 978-1-60235-133-2 (Adobe eBook; $14.00; £9.00; €11.00; $17.00 CAD; $18.00 AUS) © 2009 by Parlor Press. 172 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, works cited, and index.

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Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies is a student-friendly guide to how knowledge is constructed and disseminated in composition studies, as well as a thorough handbook on how to conduct bibliographic research in the discipline. Student readers are taught Stephen North's taxonomy of scholarship, empirical research, and practice so that they can better contextualize the sources they read, and they learn the unique ways that some genres of publication function in composition studies. The book also leads students through the entire process of completing a bibliographic assignment. Students learn to search for and select pertinent sources effectively, how to use major databases and other bibliographic resources to conduct a comprehensive search for disciplinary knowledge, and how to draft and revise an annotated bibliography and a review of literature. Four appendices offer additional support in understanding libraries, journals, and databases, all as they pertain to research in composition studies. The book helps students make sense of a broadly defined discipline and prepares them to become active and independent learners, as well as original contributors to the unending conversation in composition studies.

Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies is the first volume in Parlor Press's new Lenses on Composition Studies series, which features texts written specifically for upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate courses in composition studies.

Lenses on Composition Studies
Edited by Sheryl Fontaine and Steve Westbrook

About the Author

Vicki Byard is Professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University, located in Chicago, where she currently serves as the Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program. She teaches first-year and upper-level writing courses, as well as graduate-level theory and research courses in an MA composition program. Previously, she authored the Instructor's Resource Manual for the first and second editions of The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, and she is a frequent presenter at national conferences in composition studies. She received her MA and PhD in rhetoric and composition from Purdue University.

Contents

1 Directions to the Parlor: The Need for a Guide to Scholarship in Composition Studies

The Need for Student-Centered Introductions to Composition Studies
The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Academia
The Need for Bibliographic Instruction in Composition Studies
Suggestions for Using This Book
Some Cautions about This Book
Works Cited
For Further Reading

2 Voices in the Parlor: The Construction of Knowledge in Composition Studies

Scholarship
Definition of Scholarship
Examples of Scholarship
Advice for Locating Scholarship
Empirical Research
Definition of Empirical Research
Examples of Empirical Research
Advice for Locating Empirical Research
Practice
Definition of Practice
Examples of Practice
Advice for Locating Practice
Hybrid Knowledge
Works Cited
For Further Reading

3 Genres in the Parlor: The Dissemination of Knowledge in Composition Studies

Books and Edited Collections
Print and Electronic Journals
Theses and Dissertations
Professional Organizations’ Websites, Position Statements, and Conventions
Mailing Lists and Their Archives
Works Cited
For Further Reading

4 Approaching the Parlor’s Threshold: Preparing for Your Bibliographic Search in Composition Studies

Assessing Your Library’s Resources
Identifying Your Search Terms
Keywords
Controlled Vocabulary
Understanding Web Search Options
Boolean Operators
Advanced Search Options
Search Histories
Establishing Your Criteria for Sources
Quantity
Credibility
Relevance
Timeliness
Cumulative Merit
Choosing a Documentation Style
MLA
APA
Reference Management Software
Works Cited
For Further Reading

5 Your Hosts for the Parlor Conversation: Major Databases and Bibliographies in Composition Studies

Five Databases Essential to Composition Studies
CompPile
WorldCat
MLA International Bibliography
ERIC
JSTOR
Additional Bibliographic Resources
Dissertation Indexes
Journals’ Websites
Other Online Bibliographies
Print Bibliographies
Works Cited

6 Synthesizing the Parlor Conversation: Completing Bibliographic Assignments in Composition Studies

The Bibliographic Search Process
Identifying Your Citations
Evaluating and Refining Your Bibliography Draft
Obtaining Hard Copies of Your Sources
Writing Bibliographic Assignments
Writing an Annotated Bibliography
Writing a Literature Review
Joining the Scholarly Conversation
Works Cited
For Further Reading

Appendix A: Assessing Your Library Resources
Appendix B: Scholarly Journals in Composition
Appendix C: Inclusion of Composition Journals in Periodical Indexes
Appendix D: Journals Holdings in Nearby Libraries
Index
About the Author

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Blood Orbits

Ger Killeen

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Series Editor: Jon Thompson

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Blood Orbits is a series of poems and prose poems exploring various conceptualizations of history both as a generative principle of meaning and as particular contexts and events through which we shape our subjectivities.

In language that is richly musical and startlingly surreal, these poems interrogate and confront narratives that encode oppression, violence, and dishonesty, both the “grand narratives” which structure our place in history as well as the stories that we as individuals tell ourselves to make sense of our lives in their dailiness.

The events confronted in these poems are refracted through various consciousnesses using speaking voices that emerge from a whole spectrum of narrators, some reliable, some not, some linear in the way their language operates, some not. These events include the years of the Terror after the French Revolution, the opening up of the American West, the early exploration of the Arctic, and various colonial adventures.

In writing that is at once philosophically sophisticated and restlessly energetic, the poetry of Blood Orbits brings to life what Wallace Stevens called “the hum of thoughts evaded in the mind,” exploring ideas as ideas, but also evolving a poetic language that squarely confronts the consequences, whatever they may be, of those ideas in real human lives.

Literary influences on this work include Paul Celan, Susan Howe, Walter Benjamin and Elizabeth Willis.

About the Author

Ger Killeen teaches in the Department of English and Writing at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon. His special interests are postmodern poetry, Celtic literature, the poetry of mysticism, and critical theory. He is the author of several books, including A Stone That Will Leap Over the Waves (Trask House, 1999), A Wren (Bluestem Press, winner of the Bluestem Award for Poetry), and Signs Following (Parlor Press, 2005). His work also appears in several anthologies, including From Here We Speak (Oregon State University Press), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), and The Gertrude Stein Awards 2006 (Green Integer).

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The Book of the Floating World

Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-013-7 ($16.00; expanded edition, paperback); © 2007 by Parlor Press. 101 pages with photographs and notes

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Reviews of the Original Edition (2004)

Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing #8 (2005). "The poems in The Book of the Floating World are poems of increasing complexity. That is to say, for me, reading the book twice, three times, ten times, has layered its subject(s) further and further behind the sighting of the opaque lens, while simultaneously bringing more layers to the surface."
— Brandon Shamoda

Octopus Magazine, #4 (Dec. 2004). "The lyrics in this book reward slow and thoughtful re-readings. The photography and poetry are haunting." 
—Marcus Slease

What other people say about The Book of the Floating World . . .

The poems, like their photographs, begin with still objects, with ourselves outside, looking in through time and culture. Suddenly the scenes come alive and we see a surprising compassion and beauty rise up. Each poem holds startling links between the floating samsaric world and a calm inquirer. We are looking at a by-gone Japan; we are looking at our current selves.
— John Balaban, author of Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems and Spring Essence

If history is the patient work of interpreting those records of the dead that are left to us, Jon Thompson’s searching poems are genuinely historical—acts of listening and looking with a complex, and empathetic, attention. These poems, with their grave cadences and moral clarity, in the end counter the blinding white light of disaster that suffuses them.
— Susan Stewart, author of Columbarium and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses

In The Book of the Floating World, the poet imagines his way into the past, constructing his dead father’s experience of occupation Japan, and at the same time reflecting eloquently on the fallibility of such an endeavor. With his only evidence a group of photographs taken by his father, Thompson moves beyond those particular images to summon up vivid fragments of scenes cradled in the narrator’s subtle, intelligent consciousness. The poems are elegant, elegiac meditations on the nature of personal history and mortality. In the book as a whole, the continuous and arresting conjunctions of past and present give The Book of the Floating World a quality of timelessness.
—Angela Davis-Gardner, author of the novels Felice and Forms of Shelter

Part moral memoir, part imagined life of the father, part imagined history, part solid history, this unusual combination of verbal and visual—of the then seen from the perspective of now—makes a rare and interesting book.
—Betty Adcock, author of The Difficult Wheel and Intervale

Description

Loosely based upon photographs of Occupied Japan, The Book of the Floating World ranges across a war-ravaged landscape, from a shattered Tokyo to scenes of a depleted countryside, with a close examination of the lives constructed out of that ruin. The Book of the Floating World explores the photographed moment—and poetry—as a peculiar and arresting instance of witness. Threaded throughout this collection is a set of interrelated meditations upon history, violence, war, memory, and art itself.

First published in 2004, The Book of the Floating World is offered here in a new expanded edition, complete with all the original photographs of Japan during the American Occupation—the starting point for Jon Thompson’s elegiac poetry. In their clarity and openness, these photographs frame the struggle between old and new identities taking shape in the postwar era. This new edition of The Book of the Floating World represents a ground-breaking collaboration between the visual and the literary in a format that traces the hidden connections between past and present.

About the Author

Jon Thompson is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses in twentieth century literature. In addition to his publications in poetry, he has published Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press, 1993). He also edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and is the editor of Parlor Press’s poetry series, Free Verse Editions.

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Building Genre Knowledge

Christine M. Tardy

Second Language Writing
Series Editor: Paul Kei Matsuda

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978-1-60235-112-7 (paperback, $32.00; £21.00; €24.00; $38.00 CAD); 978-1-60235-113-4 (hardcover, $65.00; £41.00;  €48.00; $76.00 CAD); 978-1-60235-114-1 (Adobe eBook, $18.00; £13.00; €14.00; $22.00 CAD); © 2009 by Parlor Press; 331 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography.

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Building Genre Knowledge traces the writing of four multilingual graduate students in engineering and computer sciences over time, offering a window into the writers’ processes in developing increasingly sophisticated knowledge of academic and professional genres. These in-depth longitudinal case studies follow the writers’ trajectories through the overlapping settings of writing classrooms, disciplinary content classrooms, and scholarly research. The writers’ texts, interview discussions, professors’ feedback, and classroom experiences together construct a rich picture of the conflicts that they encounter and the learning resources available to them in different settings over time.   

Through close examination of the stories of these writers, Building Genre Knowledge articulates a theory of genre knowledge development that allows for complexity across individuals, communities, and tasks. After first outlining an accessible model of genre knowledge that encompasses multiple knowledge domains, the book explores the ways in which writers develop increasingly sophisticated genre knowledge as they move through their graduate education.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, Building Genre Knowledge provides a unique look into the processes of building genre knowledge while offering a dynamic theory of those processes that is inclusive of both monolingual and multilingual writers—a necessary move in today’s linguistically diverse classrooms. It will therefore be of great interest to researchers and practitioners in both first and second language writing studies.

About the Author

Christine M. Tardy is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University in Chicago, where she serves as Graduate Director and teaches courses in writing, teacher education, and applied linguistics. She has taught English as a second or foreign language in the U.S., Czech Republic, Japan, and Turkey. She has published extensively in the areas of genre and discourse studies, second language writing, and academic writing instruction.

Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Genre and Genre Knowledge
2 The Researcher and the Writers
3 Learning through Other People’s Words
4 Genre Analysis in the Writing Classroom
5 Accumulated Exposure and the Learning of a Multimodal Genre
6 Repeated Practice: Lab Reports in the Graduate Classroom
7 The Culmination of Graduate Research: Learning to Write a Master’s Thesis
8 Writing for/in a Discipline: First Forays into the Larger Research World
9 Building Genre Knowledge
Appendices A-E
Notes
References
Index

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Child in the Road

Cindy Savett

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-029-8 (paperback; $15.00 £8.00); 144 pages, © 2007 by Cindy Savett

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Child in the Road is a mother’s response to the sudden death of her young daughter, a rendering of the wide range of emotions experienced afterwards--not description, but an expression of grief from its center. The poems pull vivid imagery from the deepest layers of the unconscious, postcards from a sleepwalker unable to find rest, waking again and again in the wrong story. Who is alive and who is dead? What does it mean to go on living, “eyes searching / under the earth”?

What others are saying about Child in the Road

With a rare combination of intensity fused to grace, the poems in Cindy Savett’s first collection, Child in the Road, feel as if they might have been written by a sailor who walked the plank and disappeared into the depths.  The poems care nothing for the events or ordinary logic of life on land. They never come up for air­ and don’t seem to have to.  It is as if Savett created each line with an extraordinary lung capacity, so that her poetry can live at the bottom of the ocean of the unconscious —enabling us to live there, too. . . . The poems shape a brilliant coral reef discovered in the waters of a turbulent dream.
—Molly Peacock, author of Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems

I read Child in the Road as one long poem, lyric, meditative, wheeling, fierce; for all its richness of language, it seems to be reaching for some place beyond language, from which to mourn the death of a young child:

bless this plate of bones
bless this twisted flight
this first of hours
bless this carrying horse
knees bent
on Mother’s Trail.

—Jean Valentine, author of The Cradle of the Real Life and
the 2004 National Book Award winner, Door in the Mountain

About the Author

Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at mental institutions in the Philadelphia area and has published her poetry in a wide variety of journals. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania, with her husband and children.

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

Free Verse Editions is a joint venture between Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Parlor Press. The series will publishes three to five books of poetry per year, collections that use language to dramatize a singular vision of experience, a mastery of craft, a deep knowledge of poetic tradition, and a willingness to take risks. Please review the series description for more information.

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Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics

Elenore Long

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978-1-60235-056-4 (paperback, $30.00, £16.00, €20.00); © 2008 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse; 316 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, works cited, and index.

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Offering a comparative analysis of community-literacy studies, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a rich theoretical framework for reviewing emergent community-literacy projects, examines pedagogies that educators can use to help students to go public in the course of their rhetorical education at college, and adapts local-public literacies to college curricula. A glossary and annotated bibliography provide the basis for further inquiry and research.

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Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics is the perfect entry to the exuberant practice of literacy in community. It brings contemporary research to life—in people, stories, and purposes. And it documents the amazingly diverse ways ordinary people go public.”
—Linda Flower, Carnegie Mellon

“Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics begins to articulate a history for community literacy studies, and such a history is essential for helping us figure out where we are going with this area of inquiry. Long provides a new set of tools as well, and her local publics framework, in particular, will prove valuable to researchers and teachers alike.”
—Jeff Grabill, Michigan State

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman
Published jointly by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

About the Author

After completing a postdoctoral fellowship through Pittsburgh’s Community Literacy Center and Carnegie Mellon University, Elenore Long continued to direct community-literacy initiatives with Wayne Peck and Joyce Baskins. With Linda Flower and Lorraine Higgins, she published Learning to Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry. They recently published a fifteen-year retrospective for the Community Literacy Journal. She currently directs the composition program and Writers’ Center at Eastern Washington University.

Contents

Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Common Abbreviations
1 Introduction and Overview
What This Book Doesn’t Do

2 Definitions and Distinctions
The Local Public Framework
Guiding Metaphor
Context
Tenor of the Discourse
Literacies
Rhetorical Invention

3 Locating Community Literacy Studies
Two Prior Accounts
Situating the Study of Literacy in the Public Realm
Documenting and Theorizing Local Public Discourse
Situating the Study of Participatory Democracy
Ideas about Actually Existing Democracy
Rhetorical Interventions to Support Democratic Engagement

4 An Impromptu Theater: A Local Public That Turns Its Back on Formal Institutions
Distinctive Features: Dramatic and Spontaneous
The Impromptu Theater in Context: Location, Power, and the Integrity of Community Life
Tenor of the Discourse: Edgy and Competitive, Curbed by Play
Performative Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Practice, Modeling, and Feedback
Implications

5 The Cultural Womb and the Garden: Local Publics That
Depend on Institutions to Sponsor Them
A Cultural Womb: The Local Public in Brandt’s Literacy in American Lives
Distinctive Features: Nurtures and Prepares
The Cultural Womb in Context: Location and Cultural Agency
Tenor of the Discourse: Resourceful
Interpretative Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Inspiration, Instruction, and Transformation
Implications
A Garden: The Local Public in Heller’s Until We Are Strong Together
Distinctive Features: Nurtures and Prepares
The Garden in Context: Location, Agency, and Maturation
Tenor of the Discourse: Literary Uplift
Belletristic Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Precision at the Point of Utterance
Implications

6 The Link and Gate: Local Publics That Intersect with Public Institutions
A Link: The Local Public Sphere in Barton and Hamilton’s Local Literacies
Distinctive Features: Linking Networks Across Domains
The Link in Context: Location, Bottom- Up Initiative, and Agency
Tenor of the Discourse: Hybrid—a Mix of the Formal and the Everyday
Mobilizing Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Adapting and Retooling
Implications
A Gate along a Fenceline: The Local Public in Cushman’s The Struggle and the Tools
Distinctive Features: Access, Space, and Conflict
The Gate in Context: Location and Linguistic Agency
Tenor of the Discourse: Dueling Dualities
Institutional Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Evaluating Acquired Literacies
Transferred to New Contexts
Implications

7 The Community-Organizing Effort and the Community Think Tank: Local Publics Forged in Partnership with Formal Institutions
A Community-Organizing Effort: The Local Public in Goldblatt’s “Alinsky’s Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood- Based Literacy Projects"
Distinctive Features: Complexity and Pleasure The Community-Organizing Effort in Context: Location and Legacy
Tenor of the Discourse: Bite Tempered by Sweetness
Consensus-Building Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Transforming Problems into Issues for Action
Implications
The Community Think Tank: The Local Public Sphere in Flower’s “Intercultural Knowledge Building: The Literate Action of a Community Think Tank"
Distinctive Features: Diversity, Conflict, and Tools
The Community Think Tank in Context: Location and Legacy
Tenor of the Discourse: Prophetic—Principled and Inventive
Design and Inquiry-Driven Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: The Construction of Negotiated Meaning
Implications

8 The Shadow System: A Local Public That Defies Formal Institutions
Distinctive Features: Mimics and Shelters Difference
The Shadow System in Context: Location and Cultural Imaginary
Tenor the Discourse: Threatening and Hyperbolic
Tactical Literacies
Rhetorical Invention: Cultural Appropriation
Implications

9 Pedagogical Practices
Overview
Interpretative Pedagogies
Institutional Pedagogies
Tactical Pedagogies
Inquiry-Driven Pedagogies
Materialist Rhetoric: Realizing Practical Outcomes through Consensus
Intercultural Inquiry: Restructuring Deliberative Dialogues around Difference
Performative Pedagogies
Conclusion

10 Glossary
11 Annotated Bibliography
Notes
Works Cited
About the Author
Index

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Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum

Edited by Edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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1-932559-17-5 ($29.00; £16.75; paperback); © 2006 by Parlor Press. 216 pages, with Index and Bibliography

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Writing across the curriculum is experiencing a renaissance in institutions across the country. People starting or restarting WAC programs will want to read Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum.

Composing a Community is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people developing those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community. Composing a Community captures the stories of pioneers like Elaine Maimon, Toby Fulwiler, and others, giving readers first-hand accounts from those who were present at the creation of this new movement. David Russell’s introduction sets this emergent narrative into relief.

Contributors

Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven, themselves pioneers in WAC history, have assembled some of its most eloquent voices in this collection: Charles Bazerman, John C. Bean, Toby Fulwiler, Anne Herrington, Carol Holder, Peshe C. Kuriloff, Linda Peterson, David R. Russell, Christopher Thaiss, Barbara E. Walvoord, and Sam Watson. Their style is personal, lively, and informal as the authors succeed in putting their personal memories in the larger context of WAC studies.

About the Editors

Susan H. McLeod is Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on writing across the curriculum and composition. In 2006, she will publish Writing Program Administration in Parlor Press’s series, Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition.

Margot Iris Soven is Professor of English at La Salle University and is currently the Director of the Core Curriculum and the Writing Fellows Program. She has published widely on writing across the curriculum and composition. Her latest book is What the Writing Tutor Needs to Know (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006).

Contents

Introduction: WAC’s Beginnings: Developing a Community of Change Agents, David R. Russell

1. It Takes a Campus to Teach a Writer: WAC and the Reform of Undergraduate Education, Elaine P. Maimon
2. University-Schools Partnership: WAC and the National Writing Project at George Mason University, Christopher Thaiss
3. Circles of Interest: The Growth of Research Communities in WAC and WID/WIP, Charles Bazerman and Anne Herrington
4. The Start of Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum in the California State University System, Carol R. Holder and Susan H. McLeod
5. WAC Becomes Respectable: The University of Chicago Institutes on Writing and Higher Order Reasoning, Margot Soven
6. Writing across the Curriculum in the Ivy Consortium, Peshe Kuriloff and Linda Peterson
7. Montana, Mina Shaughnessy, and Microthemes: Reflections on WAC as a Community, John C. Bean
8. Still a Good Place to Be: More than 20 Years of the National Network of WAC Programs, Christopher Thaiss
9. Gender and Discipline in Two Early WAC Communities: Lessons for Today, Barbara E. Walvoord
10. Writing Across the Michigan Tech Curriculum, Toby Fulwiler, with Additions by Art Young
11. My Story of Wildacres, 1983–1998, Sam Watson

About the Authors
Index

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The Country of Lost Sons

Jeffrey Thomson

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1-932559-14-0 ($14.00, paperback); © 2004 by Parlor Press. 84 pages

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Jeffrey Thomson’s second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, investigates the narrative environment of childhood, especially the way violence is inscribed on children through myth, culture, and legend. The poems trace the growth of the author’s young son (his vulnerability and equal potential for violence) across a landscape of rewritten myth and narrative. From the Trojan War (bracketed as it is by the deaths of two children, Iphegenia and Astyanax) through the Biblical accounts of Job, Jeremiah, and Jephthah to the modern tragedies of the war in Kosovo, AIDS, and the contemporary culture of violence, the poems build to a culmination of fear that is only tempered by love, grace, and the redemptive power of storytelling itself.

What people are saying about The Country of Lost Sons . . .

In the midst of so many fast-talking contemporary poetry books comes Jeffrey Thomson’s lovely The Country of Lost Sons. Here is a book that chooses tender, meditative music over electric chatter. Here are the poems that tell us poetry can still explore and heal earnestly. More than praise, I want to offer gratitude for such an intimate book. After reading it, you will want to offer gratitude too.
— Terrance A. Hayes

If horror is a given in the world, what place exists for beauty? If children are given in ransom to the gods, what parent can give thanks? The Country of Lost Sons takes Job’s children, and Jephthah’s daughter, and Hector’s son, lost at Troy, and fashions from their stories a cautionary chronicle for our own place and time, where love aspires to the condition of protection, but protection serves merely as prelude to elegy.
—Lynne McMahon

Jeffrey Thomson’s The Country of Lost Sons imagines a land where the aggrieved and the grieving come wounded together, across borders of time and nation, epochs of loss and resurrection. There, they are redeemed, if not in fact then in his poems’ muscular music and flint-edged wisdom. So many things “hiss” in these poems—shoes, doors, paper, even grass—we sense the horror lurking within daily graces. It’s this horror Thomson interrogates and then reinvents in the deadly flight of Philoctetes’s arrow and his own son’s small-fisted punch. Beneath the city’s shattered walls—ours, after all—Thomson raises the “terrible blessing of hope.”
—Kevin Stein

The Country of Lost Sons, Jeffrey Thomson’s brilliant new book, shows the poet to be a man deeply read in western and world literature, a poet who sees the past and present, life and art, as inseparable, and yet this knowledge is never forced, never pretentious—just a vital part of life as we live it day to day. How else can we understand the joys and horrors we live except in the context of everyone’s joys and horrors, the book seems to ask. That knowledge and the passion of its saying tips everything toward joy.
—Andrew Hudgins

About the Author

Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime (Carnegie Mellon 2009) and Renovation (Carnegie Mellon 2005). Also forthcoming is a an anthology of emerging poets: From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great co-edited with Camille Dungy and Matt O’Donnell (Persea Books, 2009). 

His awards include a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Creative Artists Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the 2008 Felllowship in the Literary Arts from the Maine Arts Commission, as well as fellowships from the Wesleyan Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers Conference and Writers @ Work.

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Developing Successful College Writing Programs

Edward M. White

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0-9663233-5-1 (paperback, $20.00); © 1998 by Calendar Islands Publishers. 232 pages with notes, bibliography, and index

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Already a classic in the field, Edward White's Developing Successful College Writing Programs remains an essential book for anyone involved in the teaching and/or administration of post-secondary writing instruction.

White shows how to develop and implement a comprehensive program that will improve both student writing and the overall college curriculum. Based on the findings of a five-year study on the effective teaching of writing, as well as on the author's extensive college teaching background and his many years as a writing program administrator, this book deals with recent research in the teaching of writing and its applications in the college classroom. We're pleased to be able to offer the first paperbound edition of this important title.

What people are saying about Developing Successful College Writing Programs . . .

This is an excellent and much-needed book that provides important advice for college administrators, deans, and English department chairs as well as writing program directors. The information is accurate and useful, the writing clear and frank. A major contribution.
— Richard Lloyd-Jones, University of Iowa, Past president of the National Council of Teachers of English

In recognizing the enormous complexity facing writing programs today and in offering as many concrete ways as possible of dealing with those complexities, White's is a 'real life' book, one that should be of great help to all those interested in helping others to 'see the complexity and importance of writing, to distinguish between the simple and not so simple, to be willing to accept the evidence of many kinds of serious inquiry into the nature of creative thought.
— Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University

[Developing Successful College Writing Programs] is a fine, wise, experienced introduction to the field, explaining clearly and in one place all that we know now from experience and research about the teaching of writing and the administering of writing programs."
— Chris Anderson, Oregon State University, in WPA: Writing Program Administration

About the Author

Edward M. White is an emeritus professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, and a visiting professor of English at the University of Arizona.  He is the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on literature and the teaching and assessment of writing, and has written or edited thirteen books, including Teaching and Assessing Writing (Second Edition 1994, paperback 1998).

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13 ways of happily

Books 1 & 2

Emily Carr

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize
Chosen "Top 11 (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011" by Rob McLennan

Free Verse Editions
Series Editor: Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-202-5 (paperback, $14; £10, $15 CAD, €12, $16 AUS); 978-1-60235-203-2 (Adobe eBook, $12, £9, $13 CAD, €10, $14 AUS). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 75 pages.

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“If ostranenie—to make strange—is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether.  Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it’s not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world sometimes alarming, often unsettling, and always careening until we, too, arrive ‘delirious & shredded, sailing sideways through the greenly ravished vowels.’”  —Cole Swensen

“The poems of Emily Carr’s 13 ways of happily are like the butterflies of which she writes, “all-mond & a-mind white an ecstasy of crystalline palimpsest” sprouting “wings in the mind.” They waver across imagination’s field, alight on detail or insight, “flimmer on the dream’s / cobweb.” God and angels in wry company with the “plush octopus,” the particular songbird, the Pepsi ad. Carr is alert to the environmental “surround,” her poems delicate fronds of the observable world as it touches upon the window of inner plane. One reads a Carr poem first in wonder, for each poem is a tensile condensation that startles then dazzles. One returns, though, to ponder the profound stillness at the heart of 13 ways of happily.”  —Cynthia Hogue

“What I find most appealing is that this book seems a living sensibility, as if I can feel its vibrancy in my hands. It has the intellectual curiosity and linguistic verve that power so much current poetry, but without any cynical disdain for traditional lyricism and figurative language. In fact, its fractured, episodic nature seems to push metaphor toward fresh ways of honoring both the microcosmic and the metaphysical, toward places where “phytoplankton in a raindrop echo” and “love . . . is a sail at the end of the world.” The overall effect is expansive and exotic—a “mirage of buoyant polyglot” that remains grounded in immediate sensory and emotive experience, yet channels and extends that experience throughout even the most self-conscious formal innovation. There is a brilliant mind at work here, and an open heart—and the result is strangely beautiful.” —Mark Cox

About the Author

Emily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press), was the winner of the 2009 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, the story will fix you it is there outside your &, was published in Toadlily Press’s 2009 Quartet Series. In 2010, Emily was a Poetry Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center & Writer in Residence at the Jack Kerouac House. You can read her work in recent issues of Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Bombay Gin, Margie, Interim, Caketrain, Phoebe, Fourteen Hills, The Capilano Review, So To Speak, dusie, and Versal.

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An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Translated by Mark Terrill

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978-1-60235-198-1 (paperback, $18; £13; $19 CAD  €14; $19 AUS). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 221 pages, in English and German.

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What Others Are Saying . . .

• Review by Stephan Delbos in The Prague Post: "Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's revolutionary poetry: 'The James Dean of poetry' offers a new bi-lingual collection"
• Stephan Delbos interview Mark Terrill at Colophon: The Prague Post Book Blog

Description

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s radical poetics was unique in postwar German literature. His primary influences were Gottfried Benn, European modernism and the French nouveau roman. In the 1960s these influences were merged with William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara and Ted Berrigan (the latter two of which Brinkmann translated into German). Brinkmann’s strong affiliation with the New American Poetry provided a reverse-angle, cross-cultural perspective on one of the liveliest epochs in American letters, with a decisively German slant. His permanent confrontation with the postwar German literary establishment (reminding one at times of Jack Spicer and his place in American poetry), and his envelope-pushing experiments with language, syntax and semantics (taken to the extreme in Westwärts 1 & 2), led him further and further away from the literary scene. His confrontational nature and volatile personality were feared at readings, and together with his huge creative output and his early death, earned him a reputation as the “James Dean of poetry,” a true enfant terrible of contemporary letters.

An Unchanging Blue provides a generous sampling of translations (with German originals) taken from ten collections of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s poetry published between 1962 and 1975. An extensive introduction by Mark Terrill contextualizes Brinkmann’s place in postwar German literature.

Maybe the only genius in the postwar literature of West Germany. —Heiner Müller

About the Author

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was born in Vechta, Germany, in 1940, in the midst of World War II, and died in 1975, in London, England, after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. During his lifetime, Brinkmann published nine poetry collections, four short story collections, several radio plays, and a highly acclaimed novel. He also edited and translated two important German-language anthologies of contemporary American poetry (primarily Beat and New York School, for which Brinkmann had a particular affinity), and translated Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems into German, as well as a collection of poems by Ted Berrigan, entitled Guillaume Apollinaire ist Tot. In May, 1975, just a few weeks after his death, Brinkmann’s seminal, parameter-expanding poetry collection Westwärts 1 & 2 appeared, which was posthumously awarded the prestigious Petrarca Prize.

About the Translator

Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he’s worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook and postal worker. His poems, prose, memoirs, criticism and translations have appeared in over 500 literary journals and anthologies worldwide, a dozen chapbooks, several broadsides and three full-length collections, including Kid with Gray Eyes (Cedar Hill Books) and Bread & Fish (The Figures). He recently guest-edited a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, which includes his translations of Günter Grass, Peter Handke, Nicolas Born and many others. Other collections of his translations have been published by Longhouse and Toad Press. Currently he lives on the grounds of a former shipyard near Hamburg with his wife and a large brood of cats.

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Mark Terrill's Introduction and two poems from the collection, "Letter to Humphrey Bogart, Already Far Away" and "Artificial Light":

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Attitudes: Selected Prose and Poetry

W. Ross Winterowd

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978-1-60235-150-9 (paperback, $20.00; £15; €16  $24 AUD; $22 CAD); © 2010 by Parlor Press. 285 pages.

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Description

At times Winterowd is playful, and at other times he's the mordantly cynical critic--of the academy, of academicians, and of society in general.  His attitudes are leavened by wit, and his insights are never mundane.  Attitudes is for anyone who has become jaded by the gray monotone of much writing in our profession. Attitudes includes essays, poems, and a novella, Academy Awards. All are published here for the first time.

About the Author

W. Ross Winterowd is the Bruce R. McElderry Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, where he founded its PhD program in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature. He has authored, coauthored, or edited many essays, reviews, poems, and books, including Searching For Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey (2004, Parlor Press), Senior Citizens Writing (2007, Parlor Press), The Culture and Politics of Literacy (1989, Oxford), and The English Department: An Institutional and Personal History (1998, Southern Illinois). He has been leading writing workshops for seniors in Huntington Beach, California, since 1997. In 2010, he received the field’s highest honor, the Exemplar Award, from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Contents

Part I.  Bricolage

“Chicken” and Poetry: The Unspeakable and the Unsayable
Insomniac Rhapsody on Vitalism
Writing Theorists Writing: Life Studies
The Seasons: Four Prose Lyrics
Tropical Thoughts
The Orgone Experience; or, Renewal Is Possible
The Ceremony of Innocence 29

II.  Poems

Parsnip, Carrot, Beet, Radish, Rutabaga, Jicama, Potato, Sweet Potato, Pea, Bean I, Bean II, Oats, Wheat, Rye, Rice, Sotweed, Lettuce, Cabbage, Okra,

Matters Professional

Deconstructionism
The Jaded Compositionist Meditates on His Calling During an Attack of Influenza
Slither, Bustle, Waddle, and Glide, Members of the Departmental Subcommittee on Allocation of Office Supplies and Faculty Amenities
Meditation at a Scholarly Conference

Erotica

Hiking Wheeler
Eudora (on having read One Writer’s Beginnings, by another Eudora)
The Deep Structure of Desire

Matters Personal

Lenses
With George and Mary
Code Blue
Les Fleurs Sauvages
Mellow Drama
“But a good cigar is a smoke”
How to Read a Page

III.  Academy Awards

About the Author

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Basic Writing

George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk

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978-1-60235-174-5 (paperback, $30.00; £21; $32 CAD; €24; $35 AUD); © 2010 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. 247 pages, with notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.

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Description

Framed by historic developments—from the Open Admissions movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the 1990s and beyond—Basic Writing traces the arc of these large social and cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field. George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk balance fidelity to the past with present relevance, local concerns with (presumptively) global knowledge, personal judgment with (apparent) objectivity. Basic Writing circles back on the same general story, looking for different themes or seeing the same themes from different perspectives. What emerges is a gestalt of Basic Writing that will give readers interested in its history, self-definition, pedagogy, or research a sense of the important trends and patterns. Otte and Mlynarczyk make research trajectories clear without oversimplifying them or denying  the undeniable blurring, dissensus, and differential development that characterizes the field.

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman
Published jointly by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

About the Authors

George Otte is a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. He served as coeditor of the Journal of Basic Writing from 1996 to 2002. He is the coauthor with Nondita Mason of Writers’ Roles: Enactments of the Process (Harcourt, 1994) and, with Linda Palumbo, of Casts of Thought: Writing In and Against Tradition (Macmillan, 1990).

Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk has taught basic writing at the City University of New York since 1974. She is currently professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Kingsborough Community College, where she codirects the ESL program. She is the author of Conversations of the Mind: The Uses of Journal Writing for Second-Language Learners (Erlbaum) and the coauthor, with Steven Haber, of In Our Own Words: Student Writers at Work (Cambridge). She has served as coeditor of the Journal of Basic Writing since 2003.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Series Editor’s Preface, Charles Bazerman

Introduction
1 Historical Overview
2 Defining Basic Writing and Basic Writers
3 Practices and Pedagogies
4 Research
5 The Future of Basic Writing

Appendix: Basic Writing Resources
Works Cited
Index
About the Authors

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Camera Phone

Brooke Biaz

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978-1-60235-162-2 (paperback, $16.00; £11.00; €13.00; $18 AUS; $18 CAD); 978-1-60235-163-9 (Adobe eBook, $12.00; £8.00; €9.00; $13 AUS; $13 CAD). © 2010 by Parlor Press. 245 pages, with low-cost recipes and recommendations for futher reading.

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Description

“I crouch in Modern Film Classics while Karen, coming in from the backroom, and from the left, ten minutes after opening, makes some comment about some writer or another looking like Rene Russo. To which I call out: “Oh, right, who exactly?” I phone shoot her in medium shot with a wall of films by Scorsese behind her.”

“On the seventh floor all is pretty quiet. The corridor is long, dog-legging at half way. A TV somewhere is playing what sounds like a repeat of 1980s cop show Hill Street Blues. I have no idea which episode, and, even though I’ve seen them all more than once, I can’t seem to get interested in thinking about it. The low-pile carpeting is allowing me to glide effortlessly and silently over it, while not forgetting to shoot each one of the apartment doors so that the threatening notion that one of them could open at any minute and reveal . . .”

Camera Phone is a novel of cell phones and films—with some fabulous, low-cost recipes and recommendations for further reading. Let’s face it, there’s more than meets the eye when you’re studying film at the University of Southport.

About the Author

Brooke Biaz (aka Graeme Harper) is a fiction writer, scriptwriter, and cultural critic. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, New Writing. His awards include the National Book Council Award for New Fiction (Australia), among many others. He has been a Professor of Creative Writing at a number of universities, none of which are the University of Southport.  His most recent works of fiction include Moon Dance (Parlor Press, 2008) and Small Maps of the World (Parlor Press, 2006).

Contents

Part 1

1, Being There (Read Ch. 1 in PDF format)
2, Beauty and the Beast
3, Pulp Fiction

Part 2

1, Donnie Brasco
2, Godzilla
3, A Life Less Ordinary
4, Dark City
5, Groundhog Day

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Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers

Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu

Perspectives on Writing Series (Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse)
Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod

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978-1-60235-300-8 (paperback; $30; £20; $30 CAD; €24; $29 AUD); 978-1-60235-301-5 (hardcover; $60; £40; $60 CAD; €48; $58 AUD); 978-1-60235-302-2 (Adobe eBook; $20; £14; $21 CAD; €16; $19 AUD) © 2012 by Andy Kirkpatrick and Zhichang Xu. 229 pages, with notes and bibliography. Published by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse.

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Description

In Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers, Andy Kirkpatrick and and Zhichang Xu offer a response to the argument that Chinese students’ academic writing in English is influenced by “culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate.” Noting that this argument draws from “an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing,” they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worldwide calls for “a radical reassessment of what English is in today’s world.” The result is a book that provides teachers of writing, and in particular those involved in the teaching of English academic writing to Chinese students, an introduction to key stages in the development of Chinese rhetoric, a wide-ranging field with a history of several thousand years. Understanding this important rhetorical tradition provides a strong foundation for assessing and responding to the writing of this growing group of students.

About the Authors

Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor and Head, School of Languages and Linguistics, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Directly prior to that he was Director of the Research Centre into Language Education and Acquistion in Multilingual Societies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is the author of English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model (Hong Kong University Press, 2010) and the editor of the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes (2010). He is editor of the journal Multilingual Education and of the book series of the same name (both with Springer).

Zhichang Xu is a lecturer in English as an International Language (EIL) at Monash University, Australia. His research areas include Chinese English (as an emerging Expanding Circle variety of English), English language teaching (ELT), intercultural education, blended teaching and learning, academic writing, and Chinese studies. He is the author of Chinese English: Features and Implications (Hong Kong Open University Press, 2010), and the lead author of Academic Writing in Language and Education Programmes (Pearson, 2011).

Contents

Introduction
1 Rhetoric in Ancient China
2 The Literary Background and Rhetorical Styles
3 The Rules of Writing in Medieval China and Europe
4 The Ba Gu Wen（八股文）
5 Shuyuan and Chinese Writing Training and Practice
6 Principles of Sequencing and Rhetorical Organisation: Words, Sentences and Complex Clauses
7 Principles of Sequencing and Rhetorical Organisation: Discourse and Text
8 The End of Empire and External Influences
9 Party Politics, the Cultural Revolution and Charter 08
10 A Review of Contemporary Chinese University Writing (Course) Books
Conclusion
Works Cited
Notes

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Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom

Edited by Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss

Perspectives on Writing Series (Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse)
Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod

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978-1-60235-262-9 (paperback, $40); 978-1-60235-263-6 (hardcover, $80); 978-1-60235-264-3 (Adobe ebook on CD, $20). © 2011 by Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. 432 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. Published by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse.

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The editors of Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom bring together stories, theories, and research that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our writing classrooms. The essays in the collection identify and describe a wide range of pedagogical strategies, consider theories, present research, explore approaches, and offer both cautionary tales and local and contextual successes. Essays are contributed by Timothy R. Amidon, Brian Ballentine, Barclay Barrios, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Katie Donnelly, Robert Dornsife, Jeffrey Galin, Kathie Gossett, E. Ashley Hall, TyAnna Herrington, Renee Hobbs, Rebecca Moore Howard, Tharon W. Howard, John Logie, Nicole Nguyen, James E. Porter, Clancy Ratliff, Jessica Reyman, Jim Ridolfo, Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, Elizabeth Vincelette, Janice R. Walker, Steve Westbrook, Russel Wiebe, and Bob Whipple.

About the Editors

Martine Courant Rife, JD, PhD, is a professor of writing at Lansing Community College, where she teaches courses in digital authorship, technical and business writing, and first-year composition. She serves as Senior Chair of the CCCC-IP Caucus and is a CCCC-IP Committee member. Rife received the 2007 Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article Award for “Technical Communicators and Digital Writing Risk Assessment.”

Shaun Slattery is a strategy consultant for a social software company and has been a faculty member at DePaul University and the University of South Florida Polytechnic, where he taught technical and professional writing and new media. His research on digital writing practices has been published in Technical Communication Quarterly; Technical Communication; Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies (Hampton Press, 2009); and Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (Hampton Press, 2007).

Dànielle Nicole DeVoss is a professor of professional writing at Michigan State University. Her co-edited collections include Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (with Heidi McKee; Hampton, 2007), which won the 2007 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, and Technological Ecologies and Sustainability (with Heidi McKee and Dickie Selfe; Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2007). She also published—with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl and Troy Hicks—Because Digital Writing Matters (Jossey-Bass, 2010).

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Country Album

James Capozzi

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-277-3 (paperback, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €11; $15 AUS); 978-1-60235-278-0 (Adobe ebook on CD, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €11; $15 AUS) © 2012 by Parlor Press. 82 pages.

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Praise for James Capozzi's Country Album

James Capozzi's Country Album is an important book. The rendering of the poems is flawless, so much so that they have an extraordinary perceptual and tonal range. Country Album is a penetrating and fascinating collection. —Michael Burkard

At one moment, while reading James Capozzi’s manuscript, it occurred to me that he might actually be a Martian who learned to write by studying the incomplete works of John Donne, Raymond Queneau and J. G. Ballard. But that only tells part of the story. He seems to have traveled to different countries—Spain, New Jersey, and Nevada--and recognized that all of them are foreign. Ghosts and ghostly voices rise up from the ground. Without falling into some obvious pattern or strategy, Capozzi puts words together that sound as if they have been connubial all along. The best poems worm their way into the reader’s brain, adding their own wires and synapses.  —John Yau

In Capozzi’s Country Album, we have nothing of the simplicity invoked by the pairing of the words: “country album.” It is as if the poet were blessed with a permanent quirk, something “wrong” in his mental structure that allows him to traverse all worlds at once, real and imaginary. What continues to astonish me long after reading this book is the fact that not a single moment in any one poem is predictable. The title poem of the collection is perhaps the only clue to what drives this relentless imagination: “articulate lilac//goat illuminat/ed against night/sky//so lacking spontaneity/it fails//to move us.” To avoid, at all costs, the failure “to move us,” might just be this poet’s credo—how else do we explain such extraordinary links of time and space?  —Larissa Szporluk

James Capozzi was born in West Milford, New Jersey. He attended The College of New Jersey and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a founding editor of Bat City Review and the recipient of a James A. Michener Fellowship. Country Album is the winner of the 2010 New Measure Poetry Prize. He lives in Binghamton, New York, where he is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University.

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Current

Lisa Fishman

Free Verse Editions
Series Editor: Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-200-1 (paperback, $14; £10, $15 CAD, €12, $16 AUS) 978-1-60235-201-8 (Adobe eBook, $12, £9, $13 CAD, €10, $14 AUS) . © 2011 by Parlor Press. 106 pages.

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Description

Lisa Fishman's Current follows The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2007) further into an experience of time as theater, weather, myth, insect body, plantlife, transcription, synchrony, and figment. Her poems are pressed into argument and song by means of attention to the moment and to cross-currents of making, of music, over time. Current enacts a poetics of the uncanny in very close touch with the actual, creating a field of vibrations in which the possibilities and limitations of vision and art collide and change.

Praise for Lisa Fishman's work . . .

[H]er poems are consistently powerful in their close hewing to the physical world. —Publishers Weekly

"Part of what makes Fishman's work so pleasurable to read is the feeling of pure motion in the sounds and images [. . .], at once angular and wild, precise and hurtling." —Indiana Review

"Also implicit in Fishman's work is the idea that words are physical or material, that they come through sound from the body—are, in fact, part of the body." —How2

About the Author

Lisa Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. She is the author of three earlier books of poetry and most recently the chapbook, at the same time as scattering (Albion Books).

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Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing

Edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony DiRenzo

Perspectives on Writing Series (Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse)
Edited by Mike Palmquist and Susan McLeod

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978-1-60235-165-3 (paperback, $32.00; £23; $34 CAD; €25; $37 AUD). © 2010 by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony DiRenzo. 340 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography.

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Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures—what the editors characterize as the “art and science of writing”—often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to “function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical.”

Contributors include Diana L. Ashe, Brian D. Ballentine, Kelly Belanger, Julianne Couch, Anthony Di Renzo, James M. Dubinsky, Jude Edminster, David Franke, Gary Griswold, Dev Hathaway, Brent Henze, Colin K. Keeney, Michael Knievel, Carla Kungl, Carol Lipson, Andrew Mara, Jim Nugent, Anne Parker, Jonathan Pitts, Alex Reid, Colleen A. Reilly, Wendy B. Sharer, Christine Stebbins, and Janice Tovey.

About the Editors

David Franke teaches at SUNY Cortland, where he served as director of the professional writing program. He founded and directs the Seven Valleys Writing Project at SUNY Cortland, a site of the National Writing Project.

Alex Reid teaches at the University at Buffalo. His book, The Two Virtuals: New Media And Composition (Parlor Press, 2007) received honorable mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory, and his blog, Digital Digs (http://alex-reid.net), received the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog award for contributions to the field of rhetoric and composition (2008).

Anthony Di Renzo teaches business and technical writing at Ithaca College, where he developed a Professional Writing concentration for its BA in Writing. His scholarship concentrates on the historical relationship between professional writing and literature.

Contents

Preface
Composing
1 The Great Instauration: Restoring Professional and Technical Writing to the Humanities
Anthony DiRenzo

2 Starts, False Starts, and Getting Started: (Mis)understanding the Naming of a Professional Writing Minor
Michael Knieval, Kelly Belanger, Colin Keeney, Julianne Couch, and Christine Stebbins

3 Composing a Proposal for a Professional / Technical Writing Program
W. Gary Griswold

4 Disciplinary Identities: Professional Writing, Rhetorical Studies, and Rethinking “English”
Brent Henze, Wendy Sharer, and Janice Tovey

Revising
5 Smart Growth of Professional Writing Programs: Controlling Sprawl in Departmental Landscapes
Diana Ashe and Colleen A. Reilly

6 Curriculum, Genre and Resistance: Revising  Identity in a Professional Writing Community
David Franke

7 Composing and Revising the Professional Writing Program at Ohio Northern University: A Case Study
Jonathan Pitts

Minors, Certificates, Engineering
8 Certificate Programs in Technical Writing: Through Sophistic Eyes
Jim Nugent

9 Shippensburg University’s Technical / Professional Communications Minor: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Carla Kungl and S. Dev Hathaway

10 Reinventing Audience through Distance
Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara

11 Introducing a Technical Writing Communication Course into a Canadian School of Engineering
Anne Parker

12 English and Engineering, Pedagogy and Politics
Brian D. Ballentine

Futures
13 The Third Way: PTW and the Liberal Arts in the New Knowledge Society
Anthony DiRenzo

14 The Write Brain: Professional Writing in the Post-Knowledge Economy
Alex Reid

Post-Scripts by Veteran Program Designers
15 A Techné for Citizens: Service-Learning, Conversation, and Community
James Dubinsky

16 Models of Professional Writing / Technical Writing Administration: Reflections of a Serial Administrator at Syracuse University
Carol Lipson

Biographical Notes

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Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed

Second Edition
© 2003 by Parlor Press
ISBN: 1-932559-10-8

Edited by Kate Agena, Karl Stolley, Rita Wu, Christopher Eklund, Christopher Berry, Jingfang Ren, Jennie Blankert, David Blakesley, Serkan Gorkemli, Bob Stein, et al.

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Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed (Zip file; 6.2 MB)

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Description

This multimedia ebook was one of the first (of seven) books ever cataloged in the MLA International Bibliography in 2003. Designed, produced, and published at Computers and Writing 2003 at Purdue University in the Digital Learning Collaboratory, May 22, 2003, from 1:40 to 5:50 p.m. Illustration, "The History of Writing" © 2003 by Tobias Ott

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Contents

• Preface, David Blakesley (with production photos)
• Perspectives on Digital Publishing (Team)
• Digital Production: A Multimedia Tour (Video from the Event)
• Electronic Dissertations: Preparing Students for Our Past or Their Futures?, Susan Lang
• Digital Archives and the Future of Scholarly Writing, George Pullman
• Should You Publish in Electronic Journals?, Aldrin E. Sweeney
• Modern Chivalry and the Case for Electronic Texts, Janice McIntire-Strasburg
• Digital Archives and Public Domain Historical Works on Teaching/Learning of Workplace Writing, Patricia Sullivan and Julie Staggers
• Fair Usage of Film Stills, Kristin Thompson (Society for Cinema Studies)
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Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke
Edited by Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber

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Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and excursions of his own, in the interest of tracking down the implications of terminologies and concepts, all the while grappling with some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burk ecollects the bulk of his literary reviews, many of them reprinted here for the first time and positioning them as scholarship in their own right. In over 150 reviews, Burke explores poetic, fictional, and critical works to discern the nature of aesthetics, rhetoric, communication, literary theory, sociology, and literature as equipment for living. Along the way, he encounters some of the finest literary and critical minds of his day, including writers such as William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Henry Miller, and Marianne Moore; and critics and philosophers such as John Dewey, J. L. Austin, Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Wilson, I. A. Richards, Denis Donoghue, Wayne Booth, Harold Bloom, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Alfred North Whitehead. This collection organizes reviews across the wide range of fields that Burke engages, including literature, literary criticism, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, and biography.

About the Editors

Nathaniel A. Rivers (PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. Ryan P. Weber, (PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Together, they received the Emergent Scholar Award from the Kenneth Burke Society in 2005.

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Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology

James Wynn

Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Series Editor: Alan G. Gross

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In Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology, James Wynn examines the confluence of science, mathematics, and rhetoric in the development of theories of evolution and heredity in the nineteenth century. Evolution by the Numbers shows how mathematical warrants become accepted sources for argument in the biological sciences and explores the importance of rhetorical strategies in persuading biologists to accept mathematical arguments.

Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology is an important addition to the growing corpus of work treating the historical and mathematical concerns behind the rhetoric of science. By tracing the genesis of the mathematical hegemony in biology through a rhetorical lens, Wynn has contributed to our understanding of how past debates in the scientific community have helped establish the dominant epistemology of contemporary society. More than that, it supplies an intriguing and little-known narrative starring some of the biggest names in biological naturalism, unveiling for the reader one of the many significant dramas of scientific history. Wynn has managed to activate the imagination of both the scholar and the interested layperson in an area of inquiry that is too often seen as remote, restrictive, and esoteric. —David J. Tietge, author of Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse and Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America

About the Author

James Wynn is Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published articles in Rhetorica, Written Communication, and 19th Century Prose. His recent interests have been in rhetoric, science, mathematics, and public policy with a focus on nuclear power. He is a founder and current director of the Pittsburgh Consortium for Rhetoric and Discourse Studies.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Variation, Evolution, Heredity and Mathematics in the 21st Century

1 Introduction
2 A Proper Science: Mathematics, Experience, and Argument in Nineteenth Century Science
3 Evolution by the Numbers: Mathematical Arguments in The Origin of Species
4 Hidden Value: Mendel, Mathematics, and the Case for Uniform Particulate Inheritance
5 Probable Cause: Rhetorical Strategies and Francis Galton’s Arguments for a Mathematical Model of Inheritance
6 Behind the Curve: Karl Pearson and the Push for Theoretical Mathematical Biology
7 Weightless Elephants on Frictionless Surfaces: The Ethos of Biometry

Conclusion
Afterword
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices

Edited by Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt

Second Language Writing
Series Editor, Paul Kei Matsuda

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978-1-60235-224-7 (paperback, $32; £21; $32 CAD; €24; $32 AUD). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 359 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.

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Much of what is known about teaching second language writing today has been based on research in English as a second language, writing in English in English-dominant countries and other contexts, without giving close consideration to the important work of teaching foreign language writing in many languages and contexts around the world. Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices takes a significant step in addressing this imbalance by examining many of the topics that influence foreign language teaching. Fourteen chapters researched and authored by scholars working in nine different countries and regions explore the contexts of foreign language writing pedagogy, the diversity of national and regional approaches, the role of universities, departments, and programs in pedagogy, and the cognitive and classroom dimensions of teaching and learning. This volume provides a cross-section of the current status of foreign language writing instruction, while developing a fuller appreciation for the broadened perspectives that it can bring to second language writing. Both teachers and researchers in foreign language writing will benefit greatly from this collection.

Contributors include Rachida Elqobai, Yukiko Abe Hatasa, Icy Lee, Natalie Lefkowitz, Rosa Manchón, Hui-Tzu Min, Marly Nas, Hadara Perpignan, Melinda Reichelt, Marcela Ruiz-Funes, Jean Marie Schultz, Oleg Tarnopolsky, Helga Thorson, Kees van Esch, and Wenyu Wang.

About the Editors

Tony Cimasko is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His work has been published in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Computers and Composition, English for Specific Purposes, and the online edition of What Is “College -Level” Writing? Volume 2.

Melinda Reichelt is Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She has published her work in the Journal of Second Language Writing, World Englishes, Composition Studies, Issues in Writing, the ELT Journal, Modern Language Journal, the International Journal of English Studies, College ESL, Foreign Language Annals, the WAC Journal, English Today, and International Education.

Contents

Introduction

The State of Foreign Language Writing Studies
Melinda Reichelt, “Foreign Language Writing: An Overview”
Marcela Ruiz-Funes, “Reading to Write in a Foreign Language: Cognition and Task Representation”
Rosa Manchón, “The Language Learning Potential of Writing in Foreign Language Contexts: Lessons from Research”
Jean Marie Schultz, “Second Language Writing in the Era of Globalization”

National and Regional Profiles of Foreign Language Writing Instruction
Rachida Elqobai, “EFL in the Moroccan Educational System: The Whys and Hows”
Yukiko Abe Hatasa, “L2 Writing Instruction in Japanese as a Foreign Language”
Icy Lee, “Issues and Challenges in Teaching and Learning EFL Writing: The Case of Hong Kong”

Foreign Language Programs
Hadara Perpignan, “Ideas into Words: Narrowing the Gap in Doctoral Candidates’ Academic Writing in EFL”
Hui-Tzu Min, “A Principled Eclectic Approach to Teaching EFL Writing in Taiwan”
Oleg Tarnopolsky, “Teaching English Writing in Ukraine: Principles and Practices”
Marly Nas & Kees van Esch, “Writing in Spanish as a FL in Nijmegen: In Search of a Balance”

Pedagogical Concerns
Natalie Lefkowitz, “The Quest for Grammatical Accuracy: Writing Instruction among Foreign and Heritage Language Educators”
Helga Thorson, “Student Perceptions of Writing as a Tool for Increasing Oral Proficiency in German”
Wenyu Wang, “Teaching Academic Writing to Advanced EFL Learners in China: Principles and Challenges”

Afterword
Contributors
Index
About the Editors

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GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century

Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley

Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

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978-1-60235-236-0 (paperback, $30); 978-1-60235-237-7 (hardcover, $60); 978-1-60235-238-4 (Adobe ebook on CD, $18). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 266 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index.

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GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century examines identity formation in a generation of rhetoric and composition professionals who have had explicit preparation in scholarly dimensions of writing program work. GenAdmin disrupts histories and narratives that posit writing program administration as managerial, where the most one can hope for is to become a hero who successfully champions writing rather than a victim of an untenable job. The authors draw on composition and rhetorical theory, WPA experiences and scholarship, and contemporary philosophy to offer writing program administration as an epistemology and a discourse for change. GenAdmin repositions WPAs as agents and reclaims writing program administration as a positive professional commitment that looks toward, rather than simply stems from, current challenges in higher education. An Afterword by Jeanne Gunner, Joseph Harris, Dennis Lynch, and Martha Townsend continues the important conversation, setting the stage for future discussion of the issues raised in this groundbreaking account of a new generation of writing program administrators.

What People Are Saying . . .

GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century makes an important contribution to writing studies in general by showing how the identification of writing program administration as scholarly and creative (not merely administrative) invites new ways to think about and theorize composition’s place in the field and in institutional structures. GenAdmin also contributes to WPA scholarship by opening a rich and textured discussion of a very specific moment in which WPA work becomes a focus for graduate studies in the field. . . . GenAdmin speaks with equal importance to junior and senior WPAs, to the people who train graduate students for WPA work, and to those who hire new WPAs.

—Nancy C. DeJoy, Michigan State University

About the Authors

Colin Charlton is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and coordinator of developmental reading/writing at the University of Texas-Pan American. Jonikka Charlton is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and coordinator of first-year writing at the University of Texas-Pan American. Tarez Samra Graban is Assistant Professor of English and coordinator of multilingual writing at Indiana University. Kathleen J. Ryan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Montana. Amy Ferdinandt Stolley is Assistant Professor of English and Writing Program Director at Saint Xavier University.

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Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

Anis S. Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff

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978-1-60235-170-7 (paperback, $30.00; £21; $32 CAD; €24; $35 AUD); © 2010 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse. 277 pages, with glossary, bibliographies, illustrations, and index.

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Genre: an Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.  The book presents an historical overview of genre; describes key issues and theories that have led to the reconceptualization of genre over the last thirty years; examines current research and lines of development in the study of genre; provides examples of various methodologies for conducting genre research; and explores the possibilities and implications for using genre to teach writing at various levels and within different disciplines. While the book examines various traditions that have shaped the field’s understanding of and approaches to genre, what connects these various approaches is a commitment to the idea that genres reflect and coordinate social ways of knowing and acting in the world and thus provide valuable means of researching how texts function in various contexts and teaching students how to act meaningfully in multiple contexts.

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman
Published jointly by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

About the Authors

Anis Bawarshi is Associate professor of English and Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Washington and author of Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition (2003); Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004; with Amy Devitt and Mary Jo Reiff); A Closer Look: A Writer’s Reader (2003; with Sidney I. Dobrin).

Mary Jo Reiff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and author of Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives (2004), co-author (with Amy Devitt and Anis Bawarshi)  of Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004), and co-editor (with Kirsten Benson) of Rhetoric of Inquiry (2009).

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface, Charles Bazerman
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction and Overview

Part 1: Historical Review and Theories of Genre
2 Genre in Literary Traditions
3 Genre in Linguistic Traditions: Systemic Functional and Corpus Linguistics
4 Genre in Linguistic Traditions: English for Specific Purposes
5 Genre in Rhetorical and Sociological Traditions
6 Rhetorical Genre Studies

Part 2: Genre Research in Multiple Contexts
7 Genre Research in Academic Contexts
8 Genre Research in Workplace and Professional Contexts
9 Genre Research in Public and New Media Contexts

Part 3: Genre Approaches to Teaching Writing
10 From Research to Pedagogy: Multiple Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Genres
11 Rhetorical Genre Studies Approaches to Teaching Writing

Glossary, Melanie Kill
Annotated Bibliography, Melanie Kill
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Authors

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Goaded by the Spirit of Hierarchy T-Shirt

Kenneth Burke Conference T-Shirts

Get your limited run t-shirts from the 2011 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society hosted at Clemson University, May 26-29, 2011. T-shirts are 100% cotton and come in a range of sizes. Each t-shirt front has one of five lines from Burke's "Definition of Human." To view or puchase any of the other sayings, click on the link to view the product.

• symbol-using animal
• inventor of the negative
• rotten with perfection
• goaded by the spirit of hierarchy
• separated from my natural conditions by instruments of my own making

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Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle 2e

Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
Richard Leo Enos

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Catherine Hobbs, Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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978-1-60235-212-4 (paperback, $32); 978-1-60235-213-1 (hardcover, $60); 978-1-60235-214-8 (Adobe eBook; $20). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 300 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.

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Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle’s Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary “rhetorics” were emerging throughout Greece. These newly acquired resources and research procedures demonstrate that oral and literate rhetoric emerged not only because of intellectual developments and the refinement of technologies that facilitated communication but also because of social, political and cultural forces that nurtured rhetoric’s growth and popularity throughout the Hellenic world. Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle offers insights into the mentalities forming and driving expression, revealing, in turn, a great deal more about the relationship of thought and expression in Antiquity. A more expansive understanding of these pre-disciplinary manifestations of rhetoric, in all of their varied forms, enriches the history and the nature of classical rhetoric as a formalized discipline.

About the Author

Richard Leo Enos is Professor and holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University. His research concentration is in classical rhetoric with an emphasis in the relationship between oral and written discourse. He is past president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (1980–1981) and the Rhetoric Society of America (1990–1991). He received the RSA George E. Yoos Award Distinguished Service and was inducted as an RSA Fellow in 2006. He is the founding editor of Advances in the History of Rhetoric and the editor (with David E. Beard) of Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years (2007, Parlor Press). He is also the author of Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence, Revised and Expanded Edition (2008, Parlor Press).

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Humanistic Critique of Education: Teaching and Learning as Symbolic Action

Edited by Peter M. Smudde

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978-1-60235-157-8 (paperback; $30.00; £20; €23; $35 AUD; $33 CAD); 978-1-60235-158-5 (hardcover, $60.00; £40; €46; $70 AUD; $66 CAD); 978-1-60235-159-2 (Adobe eBook on CD, $20.00; £14; €16) © 2010 by Parlor Press. 268 pages with notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index.

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Humanistic Critique of Education’s ten essays by noted scholars address the subject of educational policy, methods, ideology and more, with stress upon the rhetoric of contemporary teaching and learning. Humanistic Critique of Education focuses on education as symbolic action, as the foundation of discovery and, thus, as “equipment for living” in Kenneth Burke’s terms. These essays will spark dialogue about improving education in democratic societies through the lens of humanism.

The authors take their lead from Burke’s famous essay, “Linguistic Approach to Problems of Education,” which is included in the volume, and thus address the design, practice, and outcomes of educational programs in the new millennium. Key subjects include cognitive motivational outcomes, student development, literacy, active learning, constructivism, problem-based learning, cooperative educational movements, learning communities, student retention, community responsibility and service learning, technology, curriculum development, and more. Humanistic Critique of Education is the first sustained attempt to apply Burke’s profound insights to the problems of educational reform and policy. Contributors include Peter Smudde, Bernard L. Brock, Kenneth Burke, Andrew King, Elvera Berry, Mark E. Huglen, Rachel McCoppin, Richard H. Thames, James F. Klumpp, Erica J. Lamm, Robert Wess, Bryan Crable, and David Cratis Williams.

Peter M. Smudde (PhD, Wayne State University) is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. He came to academe in 2002 after sixteen years in industry in the fields of public relations, marketing communications, and technical writing. His primary research and teaching interest is the application of Burke’s ideas and contemporary theories of rhetoric to pedagogy and industry.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Prelude to Critique
Peter M. Smudde and Bernard L. Brock

1 Linguistic Approach to Problems of Education
Kenneth Burke

2 Kenneth Burke as Teacher: Pedagogy, Materialism, and Power
Andrew King

3 The Both-And of Undergraduate Education: Burke’s “Linguistic” Approach
Elvera Berry

4 The Education of Citizen Critics: The Consubstantiality of Burke’s Philosophy and Constructivist Pedagogy
Peter M. Smudde

5 Extending Kenneth Burke and Multicultural Education: Being Actively Revised by the Other
Mark E. Huglen and Rachel McCoppin

6 Preaching What We Practice: Course Design Based on the Psychology of Form
Richard H. Thames

7 Motives and Metaphors of Education
James F. Klumpp and Erica J. Lamm

8 A Burkeian Approach to Education in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Robert Wess

8 “By and Through Language, Beyond Language”: Envisioning a Burkeian Curriculum
Bryan Crable

10 Educational Trajectories for Open and Democratic Societies: Kenneth Burke’s “Linguistic Approach”
David Cratis Williams

Contributors
Index

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Instances: Selected Poems

Jeongrye Choi

Translated by Brenda Hillman, Wayne de Fremery and Jeongrye Choi

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-234-6 (paperback, $18; £13; $18 CAD; €14; $18 AUS); 978-1-60235-235-3 (Adobe ebook; $14; £9; $14 CAD; €11; $14 AUS) © 2011 by Parlor Press. 145 pages, in English and Korean.

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"Jeongrye Choi's Instances." The Iowa Review (Feb. 2012).

Though Jeongrye Choi is the author of four books of poetry in her native South Korea, her work has been largely unavailable to American audiences; however, with Instances, a translation of Choi’s selected poems by Brenda Hillman, Wayne De Fremery, and Jeongrye Choi herself, English readers now have the opportunity to encounter one of South Korea’s most intriguing women poets.—Ruth Williams.

Description

One of Korea's most exacting and innovative poets, Jeongrye Choi writes a poetry that uncovers the strangeness of everyday experience. Alert and streetwise, but tuned into the undercurrent of things, Choi's poetry creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity. Favoring imagistic condensation and formal trimness, Choi's poetry possesses a highly-suggestive, allusive intensity that locates the startling within the familiar. Always rooted in the here-and-now, Choi's speakers are simultaneously outside it, questioning the propriety of our taken-for-granted arrangements. Delicate and wistful, this poetry has the tensile strength to address itself to the deepest challenges of human experience: as Choi writes, with characteristic (and deceptive) off-handedness, "hey abyss." In a world of inconstancy and ceaseless transformation, Choi's poetry forgoes easy consolations and instead offers poetry of the highest order as the only consolation. Reading it offers an almost vertiginous sense of the variousness of experience. As Brenda Hillman observes, "There is a quality of imagination in her work that is still a rare thing in poetry."

About the Translators

Brenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Practical Water. She is the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. | Wayne de Fremery recently received his doctorate from Harvard University with a dissertation on Korean poetry from the 1920s. He currently lives near Seoul where he continues his study of Korean literature.

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Inventor of the Negative T-Shirt

Kenneth Burke Conference T-Shirts

Get your limited run t-shirts from the 2011 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society hosted at Clemson University, May 26-29, 2011. T-shirts are 100% cotton and come in a range of sizes. Each t-shirt front has one of five lines from Burke's "Definition of Human." To view or puchase any of the other sayings, click on the link to view the product.

• symbol-using animal
• inventor of the negative
• rotten with perfection
• goaded by the spirit of hierarchy
• separated from my natural conditions by instruments of my own making

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Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS

Amy D. Propen

Visual Rhetoric Series
Edited by Marguerite Helmers

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978-1-60235-254-4 (paperback, $32, £22, $33 CAD, €26, $32 AUS) 978-1-60235-255-1 (hardcover, $65, £43, $67 CAD, €52, $65 AUS) 978-1-60235-256-8 (Adobe ebook on CD, $25; £17, $26 CAD, €21, $25 AUS. © 2012 by Parlor Press. 281 pages with illustrations, notes, appendices, and bibliography.

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Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space to guide our interpretations of the world around us. Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS examines in depth, and in several contemporary settings, how visual and material discursive artifacts, when understood as rhetorical, shape our understanding of the unique cultural moments that these artifacts set out to represent. Using three cases that involve an exploration of the corporeal influence of the green spaces and commemorative sculptures at the Lowell Mills National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts; the cartographic texts produced by GPS devices; and two maps involved in a federal court case about marine mammal protection, this book explores and tests the value of what Propen calls “visual-material rhetorics,” or a visual rhetoric more expressly attuned to studies of space, the body, and materiality. Grounding all three cases is a theoretical approach that combines Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopias with Carole Blair’s theory of material rhetoric. Such an approach brings Foucault’s important work on spatiality into conversation with visual-material rhetorics to show how we benefit from conceptualizing rhetorical objects as not merely textual in the traditional sense but also as both visual and material—as spatial. Together, the cases in this book demonstrate how visual-material rhetorics illuminate the contexts that shape our various lived and embodied experiences and how visual-material rhetorics function in the service of advocacy.

About the Author

Amy D. Propen is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at York College of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota. Her research on visual rhetoric, critical cartographies, and rhetoric as advocacy has appeared in journals and edited collections, including Technical Communication Quarterly, Written Communication, ACME: An International E-Journal of Critical Geographies, and Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. She is co-author, with Mary Lay Schuster, of Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom: Persuasive Practices in Domestic Violence and Child Protection Cases.

Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 Visual Rhetoric and Spatiality
2 The Visual-Material Spectrum 
3 Empathizing with Marginalized Bodies
4 Navigating the Mediated, Posthuman Body
5 Advocating for Nonhuman Bodies
6 Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics

Appendix A: Interview Questions, Chapter Four
Appendix B: Coding Categories and Subcategories Derived from Interviews in Chapter Four
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil

Jennifer Hayward and M. Soledad Caballero

Writing Travel Series
Edited by Jeanne Moskal

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978-1-60235-187-5 (paperback, $32.00; £22; €25; $34 CAD; $34 AUS). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 425 pages, with illustrations, annotations, notes, bibliography, and index.

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Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil is a scholarly edition of nineteenth century travel writer Graham’s travel narrative first published in 1824.  One of only a few women travelers to have written about her experiences in South America in the early nineteenth century, Graham provides an invaluable first-hand account of Brazil and its transformation from a Portuguese colony to an independent nation.  She offers not only observations about social customs, politics, and the role of the British in South America but also insights into Brazilian slavery at a time of rising abolitionist activism.  This edition is unique in incorporating Graham's own unpublished corrections to her first edition and in bringing together supplementary materials to contextualize the journal, including contemporary reviews of her narrative, early nineteenth century maps of Brazil, and Graham’s unpublished autobiographical and historical sketch, “Life of Don Pedro.”  The edition also provides an editors’ introduction situating Graham’s narrative in relation to the few extant travel narratives about Brazil—all written by men—as well as within the socio-historical and cultural landscape of her time, with particular focus on abolitionist discourses and the process of Brazilian independence.  Graham actively imagined Brazil as a New World site of extraordinary possibility, and she envisioned herself as furthering the country’s development; she critiqued slavery in particular as a practice antithetical to Brazil’s transformation into a modern, civilized nation.  Graham creates a complex, and sometimes contradictory, portrait of Brazil as a wilderness ripe with plenitude and possibility as well as an emergent nation-state, a visionary site of New World modernity.

About the Authors

Jennifer Hayward, professor and chair of English at The College of Wooster, received her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. In addition to essays on nineteenth century British travelers in Latin America, she is author of Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (University Press of Kentucky, 1997) and editor of Maria Graham’s 1824 Journal of a Residence in Chile (University Press of Virginia, 2003). Hayward’s academic awards include an NEH Summer Stipend (2006), and BSA and Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowships (2006). Her current research focuses on nineteenth century Scottish travellers in the Americas, with particular focus on gendered perspectives and issues of national identity.

M. Soledad Caballero is an associate professor of English at Allegheny College and received her PhD from Tufts University. Her teaching and research interests include British Romanticism, travel writing, women’s literature, and Latino/a contemporary literatures. She has published articles about women travel writers Maria Dundas Graham and Frances Calderón de la Barca in scholarly journals as well as edited collections. She has also published a short memoir piece about bilingualism. Currently she is working on a longer project about the aesthetics of monstrosity in the nineteenth century, in particular how ideas of the monstrous map onto foreign bodies or alienated bodies in the body politics of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England.

Contents

Introduction
Editorial Method
Acknowledgments
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil
Appendix I: Maps of Brazil, 1818 and 1819
Appendix II: Sketch of the History of Brazil
Appendix III: The Quarterly Review
Appendix IV: Maria Graham’s Unpublished “Life of Don Pedro”
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

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Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905–1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America

Sarah Robbins and Ann Ellis Pullen

Writing Travel Series
Edited by Jeanne Moskal

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Nellie Arnott's Writing on Angola, 1905-1913 recovers and interprets the public texts of a teacher serving at a mission station sponsored by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Portuguese West Africa. Along with a collection of her magazine narratives, mission reports, and correspondence, Nellie Arnott's Writing on Angola offers a critical analysis of Arnott's writing about her experiences in Africa, including interactions with local Umbundu Christians, and about her journey home to the U.S., when she spent time promoting the mission movement before marrying and settling in California.

Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola sets Arnott's writing within the context of its historical moment, especially the particular situation of American Protestant women missionaries working in a Portuguese colony. This book responds to recent calls for scholarship exploring specific cases of cross-cultural exchange in colonial settings, with a recognition that no single pattern of relationships would hold in all such sites. Robbins and Pullen also position Arnott's diverse texts within the tradition of feminist scholarship drawing on multifaceted archives to recover women's under-studied publications from previous eras.

Part I presents three approaches to interpreting Arnott's oeuvre: biographical (Chapter 1), historical (Chapter 2), and rhetorical (Chapter 3). Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (Part II) provide an annotated edition of Arnott's public texts, organized into three stages of authorial development, ranging from her initial journey to Africa, to her gradual professionalization as a mission teacher, to her travels home and fundraising while on furlough.

What People Are Saying

Sarah Robbins and Ann Ellis Pullen used Nellie Arnott’s public writings to show how Arnott developed as a writer…. Robbins and Pullen do not hesitate to characterize Arnott’s work as part of a colonial enterprise. Through a careful analysis of her writings, however, they argue that Arnott’s experiences in Angola enabled her to develop her authorial voice, contribute to building an important female literacy network in the United States, and shape the imagination of new constituencies of mission supporters for Africa. (197-98).

—Barbara Reeves-Ellington, writing for Social Sciences and Missions 24 (2011)

Arnott's missionary narratives, which take readers on a fascinating odyssey from the American South to Portuguese West Africa to the golden state of California, demonstrate the complex national and transnational contexts that shaped perceptions about race, class, gender, and religion in the early twentieth century.  Robbins's and Pullen's scrupulous and exhaustive archival research on Arnott's life and public and private writing distinguishes their book from other recovered travel literature. They demonstrate the significance of feminist discursive analysis as a methodology for understanding culture.

—Barbara McCaskill, University of Georgia

In my graduate class, which focuses on American women’s rhetoric and religion, I use Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, as part our examination of the women’s missionary movement and its empowering impact on women. I especially appreciate how Robbins and Pullen's book contributes to my class's discussions of women’s rhetorical practices, the archival recovery of women rhetors, and the value of interdisciplinary inquiries.

—Lisa Shaver, Baylor University

It was with much anticipation that I began reading Nellie Arnott's Writing on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America.  Most of Ms. Arnott's  time in Angola was spent on the then ABCFM mission station of Kamundongo in the highlands of the then Portuguese colony. Here she learned to function, as a teacher and evangelist, in Umbundu, the language of one of the major groups in Angola and, indeed, one of my “first” languages.   My eagerness was born of the fact that, of my seventeen years in Angola, I spent the first five in Kamundongo (decades after Ms. Arnott’s time), having been born nearby in Chissamba where the mission hospital had a doctor. A major pleasure, then, was the promise of reading about places and people that I would recognize, some because they lived on into my time, many others because of the oral histories recounted by my parents and their colleagues as well as by the parents and elders of my Umbundu friends.  My expectations were more than met.  For several days I read well into the night, scribbling notes I would develop in emails to the authors, and pausing to conjure up an event, face or place once so familiar to me.   For the events and situations recounted in Ms. Arnott’s letters, including her relationships with other missionaries, the Umbundu people and Portuguese authorities, the authors identify patterns and contexts that have enhanced my understanding of the first seventeen years of my life.  An instructive and personally rewarding read!

—Frank Collins, Ph.D., Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada

About the Authors

Sarah Robbins is the Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University and the author of Managing Literacy, Mothering America (Pittsburgh Press, 2006), which won a Choice award from the American Library Association. She is also the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge, 2007). 

Ann Ellis Pullen is Professor of History, Emerita, at Kennesaw State University, where she chaired the Department of History and Philosophy and the Women's Studies Program. She has authored articles on the early twentieth-century interracial movement in the U.S. South in a variety of publications.

Contents

Abbreviations
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Missionary Authorship as Network-Building
Part I: Contexts for Reading Nellie Arnott's Writing
1 Nellie Arnott Darling: Traveler in Mission Service
2 Mission Service in National and Transnational Contexts
3 Writing on Multiple Journeys
Part II The Public Writings of Nellie J. Arnott (Darling)
4 Traveling to Portuguese West Africa
5 Woman's Work at a Highlands Mission Station
6 Cultivating Networks of Influence
Appendix 1: Mission Publications' Editing of Arnott's Writing
Appendix 2: ABCFM Missionaries in Angola
Appendix 3: Image Citations and Explanatory Context
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

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On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy

Edited by Shane Borrowman

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When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and composition studies, the topic is almost always related to computers—despite their comparatively recent development and deployment in this millennia-old profession. Computers themselves are new; composition’s rush to emergent technologies is not. New teachers face expectations that they will master everything from word processing to the multi-modal essay, from Aristotle’s Rhetoric to the classroom whiteboard. While little can be done immediately to change such unrealistic and unreasonable expectations, teachers and scholars can benefit greatly from considering the place such expectations and technologies have in the larger and longer flow of rhetoric and composition studies—from the technology of road building in the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school from afar, to the technology of handwriting, now largely falling by the wayside. From this past emerge fresh perspectives on the future of writing technologies in the digital age.

The story of technology in composition’s history and pedagogy is one of stability and change, of short-term success and long-term failure. The essays in On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy tell the story of rhetoric and composition’s long and intriguing relationship with writing technologies, revealing the ways that they have transformed the teaching and understanding of writing throughout history. Contributors include Shane Borrowman, Richard Leo Enos, Daniel R. Fredrick, Richard W. Rawnsley, Shawn Fullmer, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Joseph Jones, Sherry Rankins Robertson, Duane Roen, Marcia Kmetz, Robert Lively, Crystal Broch-Colombini, Thomas Black, Jason Thompson, and Theresa Enos.

About the Editor

Shane Borrowman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montana Western, where he teaches composition and creative nonfiction. He is editor or co-editor of numerous collections, including Trauma and the Teaching of Writing (SUNY, 2005), The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration (Parlor Press, 2008), and Rhetoric in the Rest of the West (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). Additionally, he is editor/co-editor of multiple first-year composition textbooks and readers. His nonfiction has appeared in publications ranging from Brevity and Conclave: A Journal of Character to Whitefish Review and Rhetoric Review.

Contents

Introduction: Process and Place, Technology in a Glass
Shane Borrowman

1 Writing Without Paper: A Study of Functional Rhetoric in Ancient Athens
Richard Leo Enos

2 Adsum Magister: The Technology of Transportation in Rhetorical Education
Daniel R. Fredrick

3 Motivations for the Development of Writing Technology
Richard W. Rawnsley

4 “The Next Takes the Machine”: Typewriter Technology and the Transformation of Teaching 
Shawn Fullmer

5 Handwriting, Literacy, and Technology
Kathleen Blake Yancey

6 “Making the Devil Useful”: Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Writing
Joseph Jones

7 Textbooks and Their Pedagogical Influences in Higher Education: A Bibliographic Essay
Sherry Rankins Robertson and Duane Roen

8 Disciplining Technology: A Selective Annotated Bibliography
Marcia Kmetz, Robert Lively, Crystal Broch-Colombini, and Thomas Black

9 The Rhetoric of Obfuscation and Technologies of Hidden Writing: Poets and Palimpsests, Painters and Purposes
Jason Thompson and Theresa Enos

Index
Contributors

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Poems from above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi

Ashur Etwebi

Translated by Brenda Hillman and Diallah Haidar

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Series Editor: Jon Thompson

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Ashur Etwebi is one of Libya’s leading writers. A poet, novelist, and translator, he has published six books of poetry, two novels, and three books of translation.

Etwebi compactly renders experience in a hauntingly classical way. His work is rooted in the landscapes of his country, and in inventing forms in his literary traditions that will capture his engagement with his place and culture. His poetry is intimate but grand, innovative but traditional, influenced by Modernist poetry . . . yet populist and accessible. His phrasing and syntax are often very unpredictable, risk-taking, experimenting with neologisms, inventing language. In his work, there is often a strongly elegiac note; his irony reminds one of Eliot, his imagistic purity reminds one of Pound. Yet he has an intimate knowledge of his fellow creatures that brings to mind William Carlos Williams. Ashur Etwebi enters the mysterious places of the land and sea through the experiences of the human beings he encounters, never engaging in sentimental homage but putting forward a powerful and delicious reverie and a poetic vision.

—Brenda Hillman (from her Translator’s Note)

About the Translators

Brenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Practical Water. She is the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California.

Diallah Haidar is a Lebanese-American and a native speaker of Arabic. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a BA degree in English Literature and in Near Eastern Studies. She received her MA degree from Columbia University in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.

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Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing

Edited by Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda

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Second Language Writing
Series Editor, Paul Kai Matsuda

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Theory has been used widely in the field of second language writing. Second language writing specialists—teachers, researchers, and administrators—have yet to have an open and sustained conversation about what theory is, how it works, and, more important, how to practice theory. Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing features fourteen essays by distinguished scholars in second language writing who explore various aspects of theoretical work that goes on in the field.

The key  issues addressed in Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing include the nature of theory in second language writing and the role theory plays in second language writing research, instruction, and administration; the possibility and desirability of developing a comprehensive theory or theories of second language writing; applications of theory, including the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of adapting theories from other areas of inquiry to second language writing research, instruction, and assessment; theorizing and building theory, including the ways in which second language writing teachers, researchers, and administrators develop theories of second language writing, what a theory of second language writing might look like; the relationship between the conceptual work of theorizing and data-driven theory building; practicing theory, including how second language writing teachers, researchers, and administrators might address theory; the practical issues of learning to work with theory; and the ways that theory informs instruction and administration as well as materials development.

Contributors include Dwight Atkinson, Diane Belcher, A. Suresh Canagarajah, Joan Carson, Deborah Crusan, Alister Cumming, Doug Flahive, Lynn M. Goldstein, Linda Harklau, John Hedgcock, Alan Hirvela, Ryuko Kubota, Paul Kei Matsuda, Lourdes Ortega, Dudley W. Reynolds, Tony Silva, Christine Tardy, Gwendolyn Williams, and Wei Zhu

About the Editors

Tony Silva is a Professor in the Department of English at Purdue University, where he directs and teaches courses in the Graduate Program in ESL and the ESL Writing Program. He co-edited the Journal of Second Language Writing from 1992 to 2007 and has served as the co-host of the Symposium on Second Language Writing since 1998. He has co-edited four books, co-authored another, and published his work in such journals as the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, College Composition and Communication, ELT Journal, Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and Written Communication.

Paul Kei Matsuda is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. Founding co-chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and Editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing, he has published widely on second language writing in a wide variety of edited collections as well as journals such as such as College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition,College English, English for Specific Purposes, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Basic Writing, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Written Communication.

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Introduction
Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda

Part I. The Nature and Role of Theory in Second Language Writing

1 Between Theory with a Big T and Practice with a Small p: Why Theory Matters
Dwight Atkinson

2 Theories, Frameworks, and Heuristics: Some Reflections on Inquiry and Second Language Writing
Alister Cumming

3 Multicompetence, Social Context, and L2 Writing Research Praxis
Lourdes Ortega and Joan Carson

4 Finding “Theory” in the Particular: An “Autobiography” of What I Learned and How about Teacher Feedback
Lynn M. Goldstein

Part II. Reflections on Theoretical Practices

5 Practicing Theory in Qualitative Research on Second Language Writing
Linda Harklau and Gwendolyn Williams

6 Cleaning up the Mess: Perspectives from a Novice Theory Builder
Christine Tardy

7 A Reconsideration of Contents of “Pedagogical Implications” and “Further Research Needed” Moves in the Reporting of Second Language Writing Research and Their Roles in Theory Building
Doug Flahive

8 Beyond Texts: A Research Agenda for Quantitative Research on Second Language Writers and Readers
Dudley W. Reynolds

9 Ideology and Theory in Second Language Writing: A Dialogical Treatment
A. Suresh Canagarajah

10 Critical Approaches to Theory in Second Language Writing: A Case of Critical Contrastive Rhetoric
Ryuko Kubota

11 Theory and Practice in Second Language Writing: How and Where Do They Meet?
Wei Zhu

12 Theory-and-Practice and Other Questionable Dualisms in L2 Writing
John Hedgcock

13 Assess Thyself Lest Others Assess Thee
Deborah Crusan

14 “Do I Need a Theoretical Framework?” Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on the Role of Theory in Dissertation Research and Writing
Diane Belcher and Alan Hirvela

Contributors
About the Editors

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Reading Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti

Edited by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo

A Valve Book Event

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Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history. The present volume collects generalist and specialist, academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others. And Moretti’s responses to these responses. Originally written as contributions to an online book event hosted at The Valve (www.thevalve.org), and edited for this volume, these essays explore, extend and criticize many aspects of Franco Moretti’s work. They will be of interest to anyone interested in Moretti’s brand of “distant reading”; or in the prospects for quantitative approaches to literary style and genre; or recent interdisciplinary work in the humanities generally.

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Contributors: Bill Benzon, Tim Burke, Jenny Davidson, Ray Davis, Jonathan Goodwin, Eric Hayot, John Holbo, Steven Berlin Johnson, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sean McCann, Franco Moretti, Adam Roberts, Cosma Shalizi.

About the Editors

Jonathan Goodwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He works on modernist literature, film, and narrative theory.

John Holbo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and the author, with Belle Waring, of Reason and Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato (Pearson 2009).      

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Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history. The present volume collects generalist and specialist, academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians, philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others. And Moretti’s responses to these responses. Originally written as contributions to an online book event hosted at The Valve (www.thevalve.org), and edited for this volume, these essays explore, extend and criticize many aspects of Franco Moretti’s work. They will be of interest to anyone interested in Moretti’s brand of “distant reading”; or in the prospects for quantitative approaches to literary style and genre; or recent interdisciplinary work in the humanities generally.

Contributors

Contributors: Bill Benzon, Tim Burke, Jenny Davidson, Ray Davis, Jonathan Goodwin, Eric Hayot, John Holbo, Steven Berlin Johnson, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sean McCann, Franco Moretti, Adam Roberts, Cosma Shalizi.

Rhetoric's Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos

Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos

Bernard Alan Miller

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Catherine Hobbs, Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay

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978-1-60235-147-9 (paperback, $34.00, £22, $34 CAD, €25, $33 AUS). ©2011 by Parlor Press. 197 pages, with notes and bibliography.

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Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric.  For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language. 

In Rhetoric’s Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly conceived theory of rhetoric, one concerned with “earth” in its Heideggerian aspect, complex and multifaceted, at the root of a phenomenology placing the focus on earth as the power of Being itself, whereby it is manifest purely as language. Here, earth means “native soil,” a place of the “rootedness” of a people, where the forces of nature and culture are joined in language to constitute a community. In Miller’s view, language is not only an ontological process comprising the very dynamic of our being  but, more critical to Rhetoric’s Earthly Realm, it is a power whose rhetorical dimensions are most clearly apparent in the phenomenon of kairos.

The concept of kairos—as espoused by the Sophist Gorgias—has an enigmatic dimension, being an instance of the “pre-Socratic mystery” and therefore bearing a much more mystical imprint than otherwise sanctioned in theories of rhetoric. It  designates a “spontaneity” in the generation of language that, from the Platonic perspective, has discomforting similarities to processes of psychic intervention and poetic frenzy. Given the perspective of an “earthly realm,” Miller attempts to retrieve a kairos true to the spirit of Gorgias, one where the pre-Socratic world view remains intact, allowing a more congenial ambiance for reimagining and appreciating Sophistic rhetoric. In Rhetoric’s Earthly Realm, the essential ingredients of Sophistic rhetoric are reconfigured or rendered anew, including concepts like doxa, apate, and techne. 

About the Author

Bernard Alan Miller teaches courses in writing, American Indian literature, and freshman composition at Eastern Michigan University. His research and publications have dealt primarily with rhetorical theory, with an emphasis on cross-cultural studies and the various connections between pre-Platonic and postmodern thought. He earned his PhD in 1987 from Purdue University.

Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Earthly Realms and the Pre-Socratic Mystery
2 The Platonic Kairos
3 The Gorgian Kairos
4 Das Sein, Dasein, and Doxa: Attending to the Way of Heidegger's Thought
5 Heidegger and the Gorgian Kairos
6 Paradox and the Power of the Possible: Kairos as the Mark of the Trickster
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism

Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art

Kelly Pender

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The word techne has no equivalent in English and so is usually understood as one of the three terms that approximate its original Greek meaning: art, skill, craft.  As a kind of productive knowledge, techne is often defined by its close association with rationality and instrumentality. Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art is a book about the relationships among the many meanings of this complex term. Kelly Pender tells the story of techne’s presence in the development of rhetoric and composition as an academic discipline in the mid-twentieth century, the influence of postmodern theory on that development, and what is often taught or not taught under the rubric of “writing” in contemporary composition courses.  The arguments Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism makes about these relationships are deconstructive and seek to challenge some of the field’s most firmly entrenched binaries about what writing is and how (or if) it should be taught.  To make these arguments, Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism uses Samuel Weber’s retranslation of the Heideggerian term “Ge-stell” as a form of emplacement to show how composition theories and pedagogies based on techne work simultaneously to both “close down” and “open up” possibilities for experiencing writing as an inherently valuable, nonrational mode of bringing-forth.

What People Are Saying

Pender’s final provocative suggestion—that it is precisely through the apparent opposition between “closed” and “open” that writing itself has been marginalized within the writing classroom—is an extraordinarily insightful point, one that deserves serious consideration within the rhetoric and composition community.

—John Muckelbauer, author of Invention and the Future: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change

About the Author

Kelly Pender holds a PhD in English from Purdue University. She is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in professional writing, public discourse, critical theory, and classical rhetoric.  She has presented papers at numerous conferences, and her work has appeared in journals such as Postmodern Culture, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.  Her research interests include the history and theory of rhetoric and composition, critical theory, and, medical rhetoric, particularly rhetorics of genetic risk and disease prevention.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Is Techne?
2 The New Classicist Definition of Art
3 Postmodern Theory and the Re-Tooling of Techne
4 Closing Down and Opening Up: Techne and the Issue of Instrumentality
5 Closing Down and Opening Up: Techne and the Issue of Teachability
6 Why Techne? Why Now?
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

Telling Stories, Talking Craft: Conversations with Contemporary Writers

Edited by Christopher Feliciano Arnold and Anthony Cook
Foreword by Michael Martone

Published by Parlor Press and Sycamore Review

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978-1-60235-178-3 (paperback, $18.00; £14, $20 CAD, €16, $23 AUS). © 2010 by the Purdue Research Foundation. 243 pages, with indexes.

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Telling Stories, Talking Craftis a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University’s international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.

Charles Baxter on the myth of productivity | Kate Bernheimer on taking women seriously | Larry Brown on happy endings | Robert Olen Butler on war and fear | Michael Chabon on his reputation in Finland | Lan Samantha Chang on fiction since 9/11 | Peter Ho Davies on kitchen sink drafts | Andre Dubus III on bartending | Richard Ford on getting in fistfights | Jane Hamilton on landscape and Home Depot | Nick Hornby on The Da Vinci Code  | Ha Jin on being called a traitor | Nami Mun on fictional gaps | Benjamin Percy on zombies and cemeteries | Steve Yarbrough on rejection and the South | Plus: Michael Martone on the art of the literary interview | full index of craft terms

About the Editors

Christopher Feliciano Arnold has written for Playboy, Ecotone, Northwest Review, and other magazines.  His fiction has received awards from The Atlantic Monthly and The National Society of Arts and Letters, and special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology.

Anthony Cook grew up in Cincinnati and now lives in Lafayette, Indiana. He has worked for the Las Vegas Sun and the Cincinnati Post, and now teaches writing at Purdue University.

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The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric

David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, and Anthony J. Michel

New Media Theory
Series Editor, Byron Hawk

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978-1-60235-308-4 (paperback; $30; £20; $31 CAD; €24; $30 AUS) 978-1-60235-309-1 (hardcover; $60; £40; $62 CAD; €48; $60 AUS) 978-1-60235-310-7 (Adobe ebook; $20; £14; $21 CAD; €16; $21 AUS). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 255 pages, with notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index.

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From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life. Possibilities for this participation are continually evolving in light of cultural and technological changes. The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric explores the ways that public rhetoric has changed due to emerging technologies that enable us to produce, reproduce, and distribute compositions that integrate visual, aural, and alphabetic elements. David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, and Anthony J. Michel argue that to exploit such options fully, rhetorical theory and pedagogy need to be reconfigured. Rhetorical concepts such as invention, context, and ethics need to be transformed, which has important implications for the writing classroom, among other sites of rhetorical education.

Sheridan, Ridolfo, and Michel suggest an expanded understanding of the ancient rhetorical concept of kairos (the opportune moment) as a unifying heuristic that can help theorists, teachers, and practitioners understand, teach, and produce multimodal public rhetoric more effectively. In this expanded sense, kairos includes considerations of genre and dissemination through material-cultural contexts. Ultimately, they argue that culture itself is at stake in our understanding of multimodal public rhetoric. Important cultural categories such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and place, are produced and reproduced not just through the dynamics of language but through the full range of multimodal practices.

About the Authors

David M. Sheridan is an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, where he teaches courses on writing, creativity, technology, and media. He also directs the RCAH Language and Media Center. His previous publications include articles in JAC, Enculturation, and Computers and Composition. He co-edited, with James Inman, Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric (Hampton, 2010). Under the sponsorship of MSU’s Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Sheridan is working with others to develop a game called INK—a multiplayer virtual world designed to function as a rich environment for public rhetorical practices.  In 2012 Sheridan was the recipient of MSU’s Teacher-Scholar Award.

Jim Ridolfo is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Cincinnati. He received his PhD in 2009 from the Michigan State University Rhetoric and Writing program, where he worked for six years at the Writing in Digital Environments Research Center. His work has appeared in Ariadne, Journal of Community Informatics, JAC, Enculturation, Journal of Community Literacy Studies, Pedagogy, Kairos, and Rhetoric Review. He is currently a 2012 Fulbright Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Scholar and is working on his second book. He lives with his partner Janice Fernheimer and their two pet bearded dragons, Electra and Salsa. 

Anthony J. Michel is currently Chair of the English Department at Avila University in Kansas City, where he teaches courses in American literature and composition and rhetoric. His research interests are in alternative rhetorics, social activism, new media, and writing theory.  He has written on a variety of subjects, including Julie Dash's film Daughters of the Dust, hip hop culture in the writing classroom, and the role of new media in social movements.  His articles and chapters have appeared in JAC, Enculturation, and in several edited collections.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Foundational Terms
1 Kairos and the Public Sphere
Part II: Kairotic Inventiveness and Rhetorical Ecologies
2 Multimodal Public Rhetoric and the Problem of Access
3 Kairos and Multimodal Public Rhetoric
4 Composing with Rhetorical Velocity: Looking Beyond the Moment of Delivery
5 Challenges for an Ecological Pedagogy of Public Rhetoric: Rhetorical Agency and the Writing Classroom
Part III: The Challenges and Possibilities of Multimodal Semiosis
6 A Fabricated Confession: Multimodality, Ethics, and Pedagogy
7 Public Rhetoric as the Production of Culture
Part IV: Practice and Pedagogy: A Synthesis
8 Case Study: The D Brand
9 Multimodal Public Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom
Notes
Works Cited
Appendix
Index
About the Authors

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The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010

Edited by Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, Brian Bailie, and Collette Caton

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978-1-60235-228-5 (paperback, $30, £20, €23, $30 CAD, $30 AUD). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 294 pages, with bibliography and illustrations. Individual essays in this book have been reprinted with permission of the respective copyright owners.

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The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010 represents the result of a nationwide conversation—beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition—to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field’s independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in the field, the essays featured here explore issues ranging from classroom practice to writing in global and digital contexts, from writing workshops to community activism. Together, the essays provide readers with a rich understanding of the present and future direction of the field.

In addition to the introduction by Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, Brian Bailie, and Collette Caton, the anthology features work by the following authors and representing these journals: John Harbord (Across the Disciplines), Jill McCracken (Community Literacy Journal), Amy M. Patrick (Composition Forum), Laurie E. Gries and Collin Gifford Brooke (Composition Studies), James E. Porter (Computers and Composition), Amy Robillard (JAC), Janet Bean and Peter Elbow (Journal of Teaching Writing),Virginia Kuhn (Kairos),  Christine Tulley and Kristine Blair (Pedagogy), Christopher Wilkey and Bonnie Neumeier (Reflections), and David Bartholomae (Writing on the Edge).

About the Editors

Steve Parks is Associate Professor of Writing at Syracuse University. He is author of Class Politics: The Students’ Right To Their Own Language and Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love, as well as co-editor/publisher of over fifteen community press publications. He has also served as editor of Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning and Community Literacy and is currently Executive Director of New City Community Press (www.newcitycommunitypress.org).

Linda Adler-Kassner is author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books and over thirty-five articles and book chapters, including The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writers and Writing, which won the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Best Book Award in 2010. Her research focuses broadly on the ways that audiences inside and outside the university understand writing and literacy; on how people act on those understandings (in the past and in the present); and on the implications of those actions for writing programs and institutions.

Brian Bailie is a PhD candidate in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse University. Bailie’s work focuses on the intersections of technology and activism, transnationalism and rhetoric, identity and media, and the ways activists exploit, expand, resist, and utilize these intersections to their tactical advantage. Bailie has served as contributor, associate editor, and special issue editor for Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. His most recent publications have appeared in the KB Journal and Composition Forum.

Collette Caton is a PhD student in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse University. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, digital writing, media studies, and working-class rhetorics. She has presented conference papers at CCCC, Computers & Writing, and Feminisms & Rhetorics, and she has served as a contributor, associate editor, and special issue editor for Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning and Community Literacy.

Contents

Introduction
Stephen J. Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, Brian Bailie, and Collette Caton

Across the Disciplines
Writing in Central and Eastern Europe: Stakeholders and Directions in Initiating Change
John Harbord

Community Literacy Journal
Street Sex Work: Re/Constructing Discourse from Margin to Center
Jill McCracken

Composition Forum
Sustaining Writing Theory
Amy M. Patrick

Composition Studies
An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom
Laurie E. Gries and Collin Gifford Brooke

Computers and Composition
Recovering Delivery for Digital Rhetoric
James E. Porter

JAC
Pass It On: Revising the Plagiarism Is Theft Metaphor
Amy Robillard

The Journal of Teaching Writing
Freewriting and Free Speech: A Pragmatic Perspective
Janet Bean and Peter Elbow

Kairos
Speaking with Students: Profiles in Digital Pedagogy
Virginia Kuhn, with DJ Johnson and David Lopez

Pedagogy
Remediating the Book Review: Toward Collaboration and Multimodality across the English Curriculum
Christine Tulley and Kristine Blair

Reflections
Engaging Community Literacy through the Rhetorical Work of a Social Movement
Christopher Wilkey

Interview with Bonnie Neumeier
Christopher Wilkey

Writing on the Edge
Everything Was Going Quite Smoothly Until I Stumbled on a Footnote
David Bartholomae

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The Bodies

Christopher Sindt

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-285-8 (paperback, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €12; $14 AUS); 978-1-60235-286-5 (ebook, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €12; $14 AUS) © 2012 by Parlor Press. 113 pages.

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What people are saying . . .

The “flickering body” in Christopher Sindt’s new poems is luminous and personal, and serves as a guide. We are taken passionately into a world of disappearing wetlands, herons, oaks, apple grasses, dunes, and sea figs, beyond clarity and certainty. These poems are meditative histories of the natural world. They leap into the wild of earth, of feeling, and of language. —Jane Miller

Impossible perhaps—he thinks—to read the world, to sing it, to offer up its names.  Yet, as Christopher Sindt reminds us in this probing and often startling collection, the world, that world, is all that is the case, with its Dantescan windings and sudden, Ovidian transformations.  His encounters with it here, at once lyric and elegiac, tacitly argue that this “temporary world” might just be enough. —Michael Palmer

Tracing the intertidal circuits of story and understory, of body and soul, of land and sea, Christopher Sindt’s sensitive and intelligent poetry offers “a foundation for becoming.”  Acutely attentive to the ways ecology and its theology sing in harmony, The Bodies strikes chords—voices and forms laid among and alongside each other.  Here, the reader enters into the ways we all “must travel the land of/duplicate forms, hip bone of rabbit chasing after hip bone of fox.”  Sindt guides us through this terrain, from false clarity to a truer knowledge full of “seams and breaches.”  This is tide, song,  transfiguring body: a poetry to be embraced with “both arms please.” —Elizabeth Robinson

About the Author

Christopher Sindt is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Studies. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Leigh, his daughter Halina, and his son Luke. He is the author of the chapbook, The Land of Give and Take (Momotombo Press, 2002).

The Curiosities

Brittany Perham

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-239-1 (paperback, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €11; $15 AUS); 978-1-60235-240-7 (Adobe ebook on CD, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €11; $15 AUS) © 2012 by Parlor Press. 72 pages.

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Brittany Perham's first collection, The Curiosities, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome— a "stomach plumed by syringe," a "zoo's lost leopard," a "forest of high-waisted trees"— up to the eye. In their image-making, the poems place language itself beneath the glass slide of a microscope in order to discern its component structures, its natural patterns. Curiosity here is a way of looking—unsatisfiable, looping back on itself, yielding only further questions. In these uncanny and passionate poems our own lives are made strange to us, and we are wonderstruck.

The poems in The Curiosities make a powerful system, almost an atmosphere out of stories of the body and memories of place. In poem after poem, the speaker is mysterious but never remote; the language is deliberate but never staged. And at all times, the music, intensity and craft of the work bring us close. This is a wonderful debut collection. —Eavan Bolan

With curatorial precision and a starling's penchant for multiple threads in both song and shelter, Brittany Perham has fashioned a haven of curiosities captivating to the ear as well as the eye. These poems dream in color and sound: bright, chantant, lifting and lowering the music and the light, so that we are transported from this world into the antechambers of the heart and back again. You cannot re-enter the waking world after reading these lucid, eloquent poems and not feel forever changed. —D. A. Powell

As with all wunderkammern, cabinets of curiosities, it is the quality of the collected wonders that matters. A brother's illness, a family's disintegration and abiding bonds, the odd dignity of children, a teacher's suicide, loss and redemption of a vital love—these old stories, in Brittany Perham's hands, become new. Poems whose titles derive from other poets and poems—Wyatt, Frost, Dickinson, nursery rhyme—serve as touchstones, letting us know that although a "hard season" of strange forsaking has passed, in its wake is a coming to terms with pain's exactitude and the happinesses that, as Dickinson said, "would be life." In "Afterlove," the poet describes her wary hope as "stiff carriers crowd[ing] / my rooms, an army of competing clatter / and rust," yet she dares to further hope: "I saw there was something still / for each of us to want. // Gulls dispersed, white / above the roofline, so white / I could not tell / one from the other, nor one / from the sky." Such ecstasy and oneiric yearning are just two marvels of this irresistible collection. —Lisa Russ Spaar

Brittany Perham is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2009-2011. Her work may be found in the Bellevue Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Lo-Ball, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.

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The English Language: From Sound to Sense

Gerald P. Delahunty and James J. Garvey

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978-1-60235-180-6 (paperback, $40; £28; $41 CAD; €32; $45 AUS) ©2010 by Gerald P. Delahunty. 476 pages, with notes, glossaries, exercises, illustrations, and index. This title is also available online through the WAC Clearinghouse.

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Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, The English Language: From Sound to Sense offers readers who have little or no analytic understanding of English a thorough treatment of the various components of the language. Its goal is to help readers become independent language analysts capable of critically evaluating claims about the language and the people who use it. Written in a clear style, The English Language guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses can be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences can be modified to suit speakers’ and writers’ discourse purposes.

The English Language avoids presenting the language as set of arbitrary facts by grounding its conclusions in the analytic methods that have characterized the best grammatical and linguistic practices for hundreds of years.  Although its perspectives derive from modern-traditional and generative grammar, its goal is to provide its readers with a broad spectrum of basic knowledge about English. Its stance is rigorously descriptive, but the object of its description is the standard variety of the language, thus making it an invaluable resource compatible with a wide range of purposes, including educated engagement with the language issues that periodically convulse the media and educational institutions.

Each chapter contains a glossary of terms, a list of readings, and numerous exercises (many using authentic texts).

About the Authors

Gerald P. Delahunty is Associate Professor of Linguistics and English and Assistant Chair of the Colorado State University Department of English, where he teaches courses on all aspects of linguistics and occasional courses on Irish literature. He has published on syntactic theory, English syntax, sociolinguistics, and Irish archaeology.

James J. Garvey taught linguistics and literature courses in the Department of English at Colorado State University. He died tragically in 2006.

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The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Edited by Judy Batalion

Aesthetic Critical Inquiry
Edited by Andrea Feeser

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978-1-60235-242-1 (paperback, $30; £21; $32 CAD; €24; $31 AUS) 978-1-60235-243-8 (hardcover, $60; £42; $64 CAD; €48; $62 AUS) 978-1-60235-244-5 (Adobe ebook on CD, $20; £14; $21 CAD; €16; $21 AUS) © 2012 by Parlor Press. 302 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography.

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With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduct, the reception of “low” versus “high” comedy, and the differences between televised and live jokes. Contributors reflect on the subjectivity of audience members and the spread of affect, as well as the two-way relationship between joker and listener. They investigate race, sexuality and gender in humor, and contemplate the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences includes excerpts and scripts from Michael Frayne’s Audience and Andrea Fraser’s Inaugural Speech. Judy Batalion interviews noted comic writers, performers, and theater designers, including Iain Mackintosh, Shazia Mirza, Julia Chamberlain, Scott Jacobson, and Andrea Fraser. Sarah Boyes contributes a short photographic essay on comedy clubbers. Essay contributors include Alice Rayner, Matthew Daube, Lesley Harbidge, Gavin Butt, Diana Solomon, Rebecca Krefting, Kevin McCarron, Nile Seguin, Elizabeth Klaver, Frances Gray, AL Kennedy, Kélina Gotman, and Samuel Godin. The comedy duo of Sable & Batalion share their conclusions about audience responses to hip-hop theater.

About the Editor

Judy Batalion is a writer, performer, and independent scholar. She has written and performed stand-up, sketches, improv, one-woman shows, short films, and comedy theater in her native Canada, throughout the UK (where she spent a decade), and in the US. Her academic work has appeared in publications including Contemporary Theatre Review, and her journalism and personal essays have been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs, including the Washington Post, the Jerusalem Post, Salon, the Forward and Nerve. She has a BA from Harvard in the History of Science, and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in Art History. She currently resides in New York City.

Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Difference at Work: The Live Comedy Audience
Judy Batalion

1 Creating the Audience: It’s All in the Timing
Alice Rayner

2 Room for Comedy
Iain Mackintosh

3 The Stand-up as Stand-in: Performer-Audience Intimacy and the Emergence of the Stand-Up Comic in the United States since the 1950s
Matthew Daube

4 A Comedic Tour de Monde
Shazia Mirza

5 Audienceship and (Non)Laughter in the Stand-up Comedy of Steve Martin
Lesley Harbidge

6 Hoyle’s Humility
Gavin Butt

7 George Lillo’s The London Merchant and the Laughing Audience
Diana Solomon

8 Laughter in the Final Instance: The Cultural Economy of Humor (Or why women aren’t perceived to be as funny as men)
Rebecca Krefting

9 Rhyme or Reason: Trying to Draw Some Conclusions about Comedy Audiences
Sable & Batalion

10 Choosing Comedy           
Julia Chamberlain

11 Seven Steps to the Stage: The Audience as Co-creator of the Stand-up Comedy Night 
Kevin McCarron

12 Hecklers: A Taxonomy
Nile Seguin

13 The Comedy Clubbers: Photographs
Sarah Boyes

14 Audience
Michael Frayn

15 Ugly Betty and the (Live) Comedy Audience
Elizabeth Klaver

16 Watching Me, Watching You: Sitcom and Surveillance
Frances Gray

17 Obscene or Absent: Literary versus Comedy Audiences
AL Kennedy

18 The Daily Show’s Studio Audience
Scott Jacobson

19 It’s My Show, Or, Shut Up and Laugh: Spheres of Intimacy in the Comic Arena and How New Technologies Play Their Part in the “Live” Act
Kélina Gotman and Samuel Godin

20 High Time for Humor
Andrea Fraser

21 Inaugural Speech
Andrea Fraser

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The Uses of Grammar 2e

Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
Judith Rodby and W. Ross Winterowd

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978-1-60235-250-6 (paperback, $40); 978-1-60235-252-0 (Adobe ebook on CD, $20). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 352 pages, with illustrations, notes, exercises, glossary, and index.

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In this second edition of The Uses of Grammar, Judith Rodby and W. Ross Winterowd develop their successful first edition with new examples, more discussion questions and exercises, and clear explanations of the grammatical principles that teach students to understand grammar conceptually and deeply. The first edition has been completely redesigned visually to enhance learning and retention. Rodby and Winterowd’s The Uses of Grammar 2e is an accessible approach grounded in deep understanding of language acquisition, structure, and even the rhetoric of everyday use. The Uses of Grammar 2e integrates traditional, structural, and functional concepts with ideas from contemporary linguistics and grammatical study. Rather than simply partition the study of grammar from the bottom up—from the parts to the whole—Rodby and Winterowd employ a unique structure based on the differentiation of form and function. This structure is framed around three questions: What are the forms in the grammar of American English? How do those forms function in that grammar? How are they used in real-life speaking and writing to achieve specific purposes? Students may learn, for example, how a variety of forms (including nouns, pronouns, verbals, and clauses) can all function as nominals. This form/function approach ensures that students learn the uses of grammar as both an object of study and as the living text of social interaction.

The Uses of Grammar 2e thus uses living language to illustrate the practical applications of grammar in our lives. These examples are drawn from a wide variety of sources—newspapers, magazines, books, and the writings of undergraduate students--and from such writers and speakers as Ronald Reagan, Shirley Chisholm, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, and Jane Addams. Class-tested and refined to be student- and instructor-friendly, The Uses of Grammar 2e also features "For Discussion" sections that enhance students' understanding of the principles covered in the text and encourage classroom discussion. “Using Grammar” sections show students how to think about grammar’s function in social relations. “Language Learning” sections summarize critical concepts. Chapter Previews and Chapter Reviews help students anticipate the new principles, rules, and concepts to follow and reinforce learning. Exercises ask students to rehearse new learning, and Challengers ask them to apply this learning to broader issues or more complex problems.

About the Authors

Judith Rodby joined the faculty at California State University, Chico in 1989 after finishing her PhD in the rhetoric, linguistics, and literature program at the University of Southern California. She has been the composition coordinator, writing center director, and coordinator of basic writing. She is currently working primarily in the field of English education and is coordinator for the National Writing Project's National Reading Initiative. She has published in composition, ESL, youth development, and English education.

W. Ross Winterowd was the Bruce R. McElderry Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, where he founded its PhD program in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature. He authored, coauthored, or edited many essays, reviews, poems, and books, including Searching For Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey (2004, Parlor Press), Senior Citizens Writing (2007, Parlor Press), Attitudes: Selected Prose and Poetry (2010, Parlor Press), The Culture and Politics of Literacy (1989, Oxford), and The English Department: An Institutional and Personal History (1998, Southern Illinois). In 2010, he received the field’s highest honor, the Exemplar Award, from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He passed away in January, 2011, shortly after completing work on The Uses of Grammar.

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The Wabash Trilogy

William J. Palmer

Includes the three new novels The Wabash Baseball Blues, The Redneck Mafia, and Civic Theater

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978-1-60235-164-6 ($25.00; £20; €22; $28 CAD; $30 AUD); 978-1-60235-168-4 ($14.99; Adobe eBook on CD).
© 2010 by William J. Palmer. 625 pages

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The Wabash Trilogy includes three new novels by William J. Palmer: The Wabash Baseball Blues, The Redneck Mafia, and Civic Theater. Each novel shows Palmer at his most poignant and hilarious as he tracks his characters through the tragicomedy of life in the Midwest.

Reviews of William J. Palmer’s “Mr. Dickens” novels . . .

And fun it is when William J. Palmer sends Charles Dickens into bawdy Mayfair in The Detective and Mr. Dickens. —New York Times Book Review

But even if you are not a mystery buff, you will enjoy The Detective and Mr. Dickens. . . . The book, a result of both imagination and expertise, is a multifaceted jewel. . . . If it doesn’t revive your interest in Dickens’ novels, it will at least provide you with the pleasure of a good mystery. —San Diego Magazine

The brightest star on the 1990 gift list . . . It is an informative, entertaining, and thoroughly exciting tale . . . and, happily, there is more to come in what could be a great new series. —St. Louis Post Dispatch

Amazingly entertaining, suspenseful reading for both mystery aficionados and literature lovers. —Booklist

It will delight fans of Victorian London in general, and of Charles Dickens in particular . . . The novel, with elegant literary flair, provides a satisfying blend of scholarship and imagination. —Chicago Sun Times

You will yearn for Palmer’s next installment. —Indianapolis News

We always talk about “escaping” into a good mystery. The phrase was never more apt than in the case of The Detective and Mr. Dickens and its sequel, The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens. —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

William J. Palmer is the author of the “Mr. Dickens” series of Victorian murder mysteries which have been selections of The Literary Guild, The Book of the Month Club, The Mystery Guild and The Doubleday Book Club. Two of these novels have also been optioned for feature film production. He has also written books on film history and novel criticism. He is a professor in the English Department at Purdue University and lives in West Lafayette, Indiana, in close proximity to the Wabash River.

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Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design

Edited by Leslie Atzmon

Visual Rhetoric Series
Edited by Marguerite Helmers

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978-1-60235-191-2 (paperback, $40; £26; $40 CAD; €30; $41 AUS ). © 2011 by Parlor Press. 472 pages, including illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index.

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The essays in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as verbal or visual messages that have a tactical persuasive objective—a speech that wants to convince us to vote for someone, or an ad that tries to persuade us to buy a particular product—becomes in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design the persuasive use of a broad set of meta-beliefs. Designed objects are particularly effective at this second level of persuasion because they offer audiences communicative data that reflect, and also orchestrate, a potentially broad array of cultural concerns. Persuasion entails both the aesthetic form and material composition of any object.

Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design features ten scholarly essays steeped in rhetorical analysis of artifacts, as well as two visual essays on the topic of ornamental typography with accompanying verbal texts. The essays in this collection span a number of design disciplines, including manufacturing design, graphic design, architectural design, and monument design. Contributors include Leslie Atzmon, Gerry Beegan, Guillemette Bolens,  Kate Catterall , Barry Curtis, Michael Golec, Vladimir Kulik, Ryan Molloy, Teal Triggs, Jane Webb, Jack Williamson, and Lori Young.

About the Editor

Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She earned her MFA in graphic design from Eastern Michigan University, and her PhD in Design History from Middlesex University in London, England. Atzmon’s work includes visual projects as well as design historical research.  She has published articles in the journals  Design Issues and Visual Communication, and has most recently published two articles in the online version of Eye: magazine.  Atzmon has presented her work at the Design History Society conference, the Design Research Society conference, the AIGA Design Education conference, the Modern Language Association conference, and the International Conference of Design Studies and Design History. Her principle areas of research interest are late nineteenth-century fantasy imagery, book history, and the history of typography. Atzmon was awarded a Kress Foundation Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art for the 2003-2004 academic year. She is a member of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists) and the Design History Society.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Visual Rhetoric and the Special Eloquence of Design Artifacts
Leslie Atzmon

1 Visual Style and Forms of Science in the Cold War
Michael J. Golec

2 Collapse: The Erasure of Time, History, and Memory in the Urban Landscape of Northern Ireland
Kate Catterall

3 Riot Grrrl Punk: A Case Study in the Personal Politics of British Riot Grrrl Fanzines
Teal Triggs

4 Architecture and the Politics of Reading: Nikola Dobrovic and the Generalštab Building in Belgrade
Vladimir Kulic

5 The Essential Outline: John Flaxman and Neoplatonism in Early Nineteenth-Century Manufactures
Jane Webb

6 Arms Akimbo: Kinesic Analysis in Visual and Verbal Art
Guillemette Bolens

7 Industrialization, Human Agency, and the Materiality of Illustration in the Victorian Press
Gerry Beegan

8 Dinosaur Design
Barry Curtis

9 Supernatural Selection: Sidney Sime’s Weird Science
Leslie Atzmon

10 Visual Design Narratives: Detection, Meaning, and Programming
Jack Williamson

Visual Essays
Introduction: Types of Ornamental Eloquence
Leslie Atzmon

11 “Iced Up” and “Platinum Plus”: The
Development of Hip-Hop Typographic Ornaments
Ryan Molloy

12 Regen(d)erating Decoration: Cultural Narratives in Ornamented Fonts Magneto Motivity
Lori Young

Contributors
Index
About the Editor

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Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies

Edited by Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen J. Ryan

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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978-1-60235-135-6 (Paperback; $40.00; £26; €29; $44 AUD; $43 CAD); 978-1-60235-137-0 (Adobe eBook; $30.00; £20; €22; $34 AUD; $32 CAD). © 2010 by Parlor Press. 504 pages, with introduction, bibliographies, and index.

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Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies gathers significant, oft-cited scholarship about feminism and rhetoric into one convenient volume. Essays examine the formation of the vibrant and growing field of feminist rhetoric; feminist historiographic research methods and methodologies; and women’s distinct sites, genres, and styles of rhetoric. The book’s most innovative and pedagogically useful  feature is its presentation of controversies in the form of case studies, each consisting of exchanges between or among scholars about significant questions. These debates have shaped the field’s past and continue to influence its present and future directions. The collection provides both students and teachers with an accessible introduction to and comprehensive overview of the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics.

In Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics, Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen J. Ryan “have presented the field of feminist rhetorics . . . with an important and timely collection of primary scholarly work, the first collection of late twentieth and twenty-first century published scholarship in this field that they claim is here to stay. Feminist rhetorics, they assert, is ‘no longer a promising possibility or a nascent area of study but has, in fact, arrived.’ I agree with them, and I applaud their bold yet careful stance in framing this ‘walk through’ feminist rhetorics.”

— Kate Ronald, “Foreword”

Contributors include Barbara Biesecker, Patricia Bizzell, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton), Celeste. M. Condit, Robert Connors, Jane Donawerth, Bonnie J. Dow, ​Lisa Ede, Jessica Enoch, Sonja K. Foss, Xin Liu Gale, Cheryl Glenn, Cindy. L. Griffin, Susan Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Shirley Wilson Logan, Andrea Lunsford, Carol Mattingly, Roxanne Mountford, Mary Queen, Krista Ratcliffe, Susan Romano, Mary B. Tonn, Hui Wu, and Susan Zaeske.

About the Editors

Lindal Buchanan is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University. Kathleen J. Ryan is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Composition at the University of Montana.

Contents

Introduction: Walking and Talking through the Field of Feminist Rhetorics
Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen J. Ryan

Part 1 Charting the Emergence of Feminist Rhetorics

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, "Introduction" Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric
Susan Jarratt, "Speaking to the Past: Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric"
Cheryl Glenn, "sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric"
Lisa Ede, Cheryl Glenn, and Andrea Lunsford, "Border Crossings: Intersections of Rhetoric and Feminism"
Krista Ratcliffe, "Bathsheba's Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, and Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories of Rhetorics(s)"

Part 2 Articulating and Enacting Feminist Methods and Methodologies

Patricia Bizzell, "Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What Difference Do They Make?"
Susan Romano, "The Historical Catalina Hernández: Inhabiting the Topoi of Feminist Historiography"
Vicki Tolar Collins (Burton), "The Speaker Respoken: Rhetoric as Feminist Methodology"
Hui Wu, "Historical Studies of Women Here and There: Methodological Challenges to Dominant Interpretive Frameworks"
Jessica Enoch, "Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of Sterilization Abuse"
Mary Queen, "Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in a Digital World"

Part 3 Exploring Gendered Sites, Genres, and Styles of Rhetoric

Jane Donawerth, "Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical Theory by Renaissance Women"
Susan Zaeske, "The 'Promiscuous Audience' Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Women's Rights Movement"
Shirley Wilson Logan, "Black Women on the Speaker's Platform (1832-1899)”
Nan Johnson, "Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space in Postbellum America"
Carol Mattingly, "Woman's Temple, Women's Fountains: The Erasure of Public Memory"
Bonnie J .Dow and M. B Tonn, " 'Feminine Style' and Political Judgment in the Rhetoric of Ann Richards"

Part 4 Examining Controversies: Four Case Studies

Case Study 1 Debating Disciplinary Directions: Recovery versus Retheorizing
Barbara Biesecker, "Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric"
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, "Biesecker Cannot Speak for Her Either"

Case Study 2 Debating the Aims of Discourse: Persuasive versus Invitational Rhetoric, Samuel R Evans
Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L Griffin, "Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric"
Celeste M. Condit, "In Praise of Eloquent Diversity: Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion"

Case Study 3 Debating Causality: Women and the Demise of Rhetorical Education
Robert Connors, "Gender Influences: Composition-Rhetoric as an Irenic Rhetoric"
Roxanne Mountford, "Feminization of Rhetoric?"

Case Study 4 Debating Ethos: Traditional versus Feminist Research Methods, Barbara Hebert
Xin Liu Gale, "Historical Studies and Postmodernism: Rereading Aspasia of Miletus"
Cheryl Glenn, "Comment: Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography"
Susan Jarratt, "Comment: Rhetoric and Feminism: Together Again"

Selected Bibliography
Works Cited
Index
About the Editors

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We'll See: Poems by Georges L. Godeau

We'll See: Poems by Georges L. Godeau

Translated by Kathleen McGookey

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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978-1-60235-283-4  (paperback, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €12; $14 AUS); 978-1-60235-284-1 (ebook, $14; £10; $15 CAD; €12; $14 AUS) © 2012 by Parlor Press. 125 pages, in English translation.

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We’ll See, originally published in France in 1995 as On Verra Bien by le dé bleu, is Georges L. Godeau’s first book translated into English.  This is a collection of ninety brief prose poems, most of which focus on ordinary people and events.  Godeau’s prose poems are disarmingly and deceptively simple, yet resonate with each other.  Godeau has said, “A poem should not last longer than its emotion.”  Still, his prose poems capture, almost photographically, moments of everyday life.  Jacques Reda has said that Godeau’s poetry is poetry of “what happens when nothing happens.”  In his account of a day spent with Godeau, Xavier Person observed that his poems were a lot like his modest house in Magné, France—a little cold, excessively clean, very tidy, and without a lot of furniture—poems that contained only the most straightforward and impassioned elements.

What people are saying . . .

In Georges Godeau’s We’ll See, the ordinary, quotidian details of everyday life reveal the miraculous lurking there, and each poem becomes a window on the absolute. These poems are quiet, efficient, but unsettling in their deep resonances. Although little happens in Godeau’s poems, each is filled with lucent, telling particulars. His poems, so calm on the surface, accrue enormous power. Like frames in a movie, each poem appears almost static, but in congress, they span immense psychic and spiritual geographies. Godeau exposes a world in which the marvelous is all around us, a world in which “Providence has blue eyes.” Godeau’s terse prose poems are the perfect vehicle for his modest, unassuming voice, and Kathleen McGookey has rendered Godeau’s laconic utterances in colloquial American English that is true to the original, and absolutely convincing in translation. —Gary Young

There’s no one else like Georges L. Godeau: he has invented a poetry of daily life with a gaze that is at once tender and concrete, almost objective (so he counts stars or people, years, the animals in a herd, he adds everything up). He pays attention to meek, ordinary people, to the delicate ties of friendship, and he says, “We’ll see,” and then it is clear like water. In Godeau’s poems, which contain nearly everything, everything is understandable. —Valérie Rouzeau

In these magical poems, trap doors open suddenly in ordinary scenes: If you are not big and strong you will not get the grilled salmon. A mother and daughter, after working hard, had lunched in town, like two ladies. A man refilling a prescription in a pharmacy remarks, out of nowhere, No, I don’t have a gun. I’m grateful to Kathleen McGookey for introducing me to this wonderful poet, and for her translations, which are so translucent I feel as if I’m reading the French originals through their clear lenses. I like to think of her book introducing Godeau’s sensibility to countless other readers, and their faces lighting with pleasure in one room, one town, one city after another, just as Godeau’s poems illuminate the people and places he writes about. —Sharon Bryan

About the Author

Georges L. Godeau was born in 1921 in Villiers-en-Plaine, France, and worked as an engineer, specializing in rural areas.  He also devoted himself to writing; his first book was published in 1962 and he published fifteen more books before his death in 1999.  Several more volumes have appeared posthumously.  His work won the Prix du Livre in Poitou-Charentes in 1991.

About the Translator

Kathleen McGookey received both her PhD in literature with a creative dissertation and her MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University, and her BA in French from Hope College. For her translation of We’ll See, she received a Hemingway grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her book of prose poems, Whatever Shines, was published by White Pine Press. Her latest work is a chapbook entitled October Again (2012, Burnside Review Press).

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Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon

Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

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978-1-60235-304-6 (paperback; $32; £21; $32 CAD; €25; $31 AUS); 978-1-60235-305-3 (hardcover; $60; £39; $60 CAD; €46; $57 AUS); 978-1-60235-306-0 (Adobe ebook; $20; £14; €16 AUS). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 289 pages, with notes, illustrations, tables, bibliography, appendices, and index.

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Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges presents an empirical study of the writing programs at one hundred small, private liberal arts colleges. Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon provide detailed information about a type of writing program not often highlighted in the scholarly record and offer a model for such national, multi-institutional research. Utilizing the mixed methods approach of grounded theory, Gladstein and Regaignon weave together survey, interview, and focus group data, site document analysis, and institutional history. They describe the writing programs at small colleges today as being dominated by writing across the curriculum-based approaches to writing instruction and the writing centers as emphasizing peer tutoring, and hence the development of undergraduate students as leaders and scholars. For small colleges, the movement toward vertical writing curricula, professionalized leadership positions, and innovative writing assessments occurs when institutions deepen or reaffirm their commitment to writing across the curriculum. In addition, Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges offers a heuristic for understanding and comparing writing programs within and across institutions.

About the Authors

Jill M. Gladstein is Associate Professor of English and directs the Writing Associates Program at Swarthmore College, which received a CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. She is one of the co-founders and the current chair of the Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators consortium. She has published on writing centers, writing fellows programs, and writing program administration. Her articles have appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration and Across the Disciplines.

Dara Rossman Regaignon is Associate Professor of English and Director of College Writing at Pomona College. She is one of the co-founders of the Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators consortium. Her articles have appeared in Pedagogy, WPA: Writing Program Administration, WAC Journal, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword: Writing Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Treasures in Small Packages by Carol Rutz
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Studying Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
I  A Grounded Theory of Writing Program Administration
1 The Small Liberal Arts College Structure of Feeling
2 Grounded Theory and Mixed Methods Research
3 Mapping Small College Sites of Writing
4 Configurations of Writing Program Leadership
5 Positioning of Writing Program Administrators
II  Curriculum-Centered Writing Instruction
6 Writing Requirements
7 Staffing First-Year Writing
8 Redefining Small College Writing Programs: Leadership Configurations and Writing Requirements
III  Student-Centered Writing Instruction
9 Writing Centers
10 Supporting Diversely Prepared Writers
IV  Small College Writing Programs
11 Assessment
12 Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Schools Invited to Complete the Survey
Appendix B: Writing at SLACs Survey
Appendix C: Initial E-mail Invitation to Complete the Survey
Appendix D: Supplemental Tables
Appendix E: Assessment Materials from Occidental College
Appendix F: List of Questions for Schools to Consider when Investigating Writing Program Structures
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Authors

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Writing Spaces 2

Volume 2
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky

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978-1-60235-196-7  (paperback, $25, £18  $26 CAD, €20, $26 AUS); © 2011 by Parlor Press and the respective authors. 362 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliographies. Available under a Creative Commons License subject to the Writing Spaces Terms of Use.

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Writing Spaces Series
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky

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Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing  offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing.  In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly.  Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.

Volume 2 continues the tradition of the previous volume with topics, such as the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration.

All volumes in the series are published under a Creative Commons license and available for download at the Writing Spaces website (http://www.writingspaces.org), Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com/writingspaces), and the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu/).

About the Editors

Charles Lowe is Assistant Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University where he teachers composition, professional writing, and Web design. Pavel Zemliansky is Associate Professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University.

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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing

Volume 1
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky

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978-1-60235-184-4  (paperback, $23, £17,  $24 CAD, €20, $27 AUS); © 2010 by the respective authors. 288 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. Available under a Creative Commons License subject to the Writing Spaces Terms of Use.

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Writing Spaces Series
Edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky

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"Given the open source distribution, paired with the quality and breadth of selections, Writing Spaces is a welcome innovation in the composition textbook industry. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky have created a collection that is full of practical, insightful, and accessible advice for novice writers. It’s hard to think of a reason not to recommend this text; given that it is entirely customizable, an instructor can disregard any articles that are not relevant to her classroom. I can download one article this morning, make copies, and hand it out to my class this afternoon. I can select several articles at the beginning of the term and add them to a course packet. Or I can do away with printing altogether and give out the article link. This flexibility also allows instructors to be responsive to students’ financial concerns: every student with access to a campus computer lab can read the articles free of charge. Most writing instructors will find much to like in Writing Spaces; I certainly have."

Description

Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing  offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series.  In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly.  Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.

Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.

All volumes in the series are published under a Creative Commons license and available for download at the Writing Spaces website (http://www.writingspaces.org), Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com/writingspaces), and the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu/).

About the Editors

Charles Lowe is Assistant Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University where he teachers composition, professional writing, and Web design. Pavel Zemliansky is Associate Professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University.

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Writing a Progressive Past: Women Teaching and Writing in the Progressive Era

Lisa Mastrangelo

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Catherine Hobbs, Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay

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978-1-60235-258-2 (paperback, $27; £19; $29 CAD; €22; $27 AUD); 978-1-60235-259-9 (hardcover, $60; £41; $63 CAD; €49; $60 AUD) 978-1-60235-260-5 (Adobe ebook on CD, $20; £14; $21 CAD; €17; $20 AUD). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 187 pages, with notes and bibliography.

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Writing a Progressive Past: Women Teaching and Writing in the Progressive Era traces the lineage of writing instruction during the Progressive Era, from the influences of John Dewey, to the graduate program designed and run by Fred Newton Scott. Finally, it explores two sites of writing instruction run by Scott’s graduates: one at Wellesley College and one at Mount Holyoke College. Defying the myth that rhetorical education was in decline at this time, Writing a Progressive Past uses a feminist framework to show a rich tradition of progressive teaching and writing practices. It emphasizes the work of early writing program administrators as they negotiated the boundaries of teaching and administering writing and offers historical models for those attempting to design their own feminist and progressive classrooms.

About the Author

Lisa Mastrangelo is a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the College of St. Elizabeth, in Morristown, New Jersey, where she teaches courses in composition, creative non-fiction, and research writing. Her work on Progressive Era instruction and archival research has been published in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, College English and several edited collections. With Barbara L’Eplattenier, she co-edited Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline (Parlor Press, 2004), which received the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 John Dewey and Progressivism
2 Fred Newton Scott and the Legacy of Deweyian Progressive Writing Instruction
3 Clara Stevens and the Mount Holyoke College English Department
4 Sophie Chantal Hart and Wellesley College
5 Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

Writing in Knowledge Societies

Edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova

Perspectives on Writing Series (Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse)
Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod

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978-1-60235-268-1 (paperback, $40); 978-1-60235-269-8 (hardcover, $80); 978-1-60235-270-4 (Adobe ebook on CD, $20). © 2011 by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova. 452 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. Published by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse.

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The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. Writing in Knowledge Societies helps us conceptualize the ways in which rhetoric and writing work to organize, (re)produce, undermine, dominate, marginalize, or contest knowledge-making practices in diverse settings, showing the many ways in which rhetoric and writing operate in knowledge-intensive organizations and societies.

Essays are contributed by Natasha Artemeva, Chantal Barriault, Charles Bazerman, Doug Brent, Janet Giltrow, Amanda Goldrick-Jones, Jeffrey Grabill, Heather Graves, Roger Graves, William Hart-Davidson, Miriam Horne, Ken Hyland, Heekyeong Lee, Mary Maguire, Lynn McAlpine, Anthony Paré, Anne Parker, Margaret Procter, Martine Courant Rife, Paul Rogers, Catherine Schryer, Tania Smith, Philippa Spoel, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Olivia Walling, Diana Wegner, and Larissa Yousoubova.

About the Editors

Doreen Starke-Meyerring is an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Anthony Paré is a professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Natasha Artemeva is an associate professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada. Miriam Horne is an assistant professor in the Core Division at Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont, USA. Larissa Yousoubova is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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Divination Machine

F. Daniel Rzicznek

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F. Daniel Rzicznek is a shapeshifter of poets—sometimes a watchful heron, sometimes a wheeling hawk, sometimes a gliding owl, and always an exquisitely observant crow. Poetry, he says, is a paranormal event. Divination Machine makes the case.
—Djelloul Marbrook 

We have confessional poets, who write about themselves; nature poets, who write about place; experimental poets, who write about language.  And we have F. Daniel Rzicznek, who finds “many centers to the world,” whose Divination Machine resists simplification into any one category. Rzicznek is a poet for whom “Everything / is a piece of the vision.”
— H. L. Hix

About the Author

F. Daniel Rzicznek’s previous collections of poetry include Neck of the World (winner of the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award from Utah State University Press) and Cloud Tablets (winner of a Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Award). He is also coeditor, with Gary L. McDowell, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2010. His poems have appeared in journals such as Boston Review, The New Republic, Orion, Gray's Sporting Journal, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches English at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.     

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Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story

Jon Volkmer

Writing Travel Series
Edited by Jeanne Moskal

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1-932559-69-8 ($18.00; £11.00; paperback); © 2006 by Parlor Press. 253 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliography

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“And don’t you dare set me up as some kind of a snippy foil just for the sake of narrative exposition unless you say how smart I am and mention my kicky new hair cut.”

My wife Janet is really smart and has a kicky new hair cut.

Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story is travel writing in its most hilarious, poignant, and consequential form. It is the year 2000, and Jon has a grant to write about “the Euro-transitional era.” From Amsterdam to Alsace, the tourist life is good. He and Janet eat and drink and spar with breezy affection while Jon pays scant attention to his project. As they drive on toward southern France, it becomes clear that something has gone very wrong—both in the journey itself, and in the telling of the journey. Jon the author steps in to explain that he had stopped writing for three years. In the meantime, the tragedy of 9/11 and the drum-beat of war have changed everything. Janet has launched into peace activism and spiraled into depression. In the very month of the Iraq invasion, at the height of America’s anti-French hysteria, Jon goes to France to try to the finish the book. But the ground beneath his story has shifted. The gloom of the real world bleeds into his writing—where it finds parallels in the pain of personal relationship and in the lies of every claim of “nonfiction.” In the end, Eating Europe strives for reconciliations: the author to his wife, the wife to her character, the author to his work, the work to its genre, America to France.

About the Author

Jon Volkmer has written numerous travel features for newspapers and magazines. He is director of creative writing at Ursinus College, where he teaches travel writing and travel literature. He is an award-winning fiction writer, essayist and poet, with publications in such journals as Parnassus, Prairie Schooner, Texas Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He is the author of The Art of Country Grain Elevators, a poetry collection with photographs by Bruce Selyem (Bottom Dog Press.) He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Denver University, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska.

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Effective Writing: A Handbook with Stories for Lawyers

John Phelps Warnock, with Harold C. Warnock

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Effective Writing offers specific advice on the many kinds of writing lawyers do in actual practice. It considers what makes writing effective in letters of various kinds, forms, bills, the many kinds of writing done through the trial, writing for an appeal, contracts, and writing for wills and trusts. The last chapter addresses how to rewrite to promote more effective thinking and how to rewrite for the reader, going beyond the usual considerations of correct or “plain” style to address what constitutes effective word choice, sentence structure, organization, citation and quotation in real contexts. The book is seasoned with “sidebars”—brief stories about legal writing from many judges, lawyers, and other writers-- that help to bring the world of legal writing alive. This book is the product of a collaboration between a distinguished lawyer and a professor of English (Rhetoric and Writing).

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Effective Writing considers the many kinds of writing lawyers do for their daily routine, for the trial through the appeal, and "for the future" (contracts, wills, trusts). It addresses available technologies—and points out their limitations. This book will be an invaluable resource for judges and practitioners at all stages of their careers. And it will offer the reader plenty of good company.
—Gary Fry, in Arizona Attorney (March, 2004)

About the Authors

John Phelps Warnock has a J.D. (1968) from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Over the last twenty-five years, he has consulted on legal writing to law firms and judicial groups in the United States and Canada and was a long-time member of the faculty for the annual Judgment Writing Seminar offered by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. He is a graduate of Amherst College, where he was a Sloan scholar, and Oxford University, where he was a Keasbey scholar. He now teaches rhetoric and writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Arizona Bar on inactive status.

Harold C. “Hal” Warnock (1912-1997) was a member of the Arizona Bar for over sixty years. He was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He was a founding member of the Arizona Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and served as President of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. He was twice appointed by the Governor of the state as Co-Chair of the Arizona Commission on Uniform Laws, and was appointed in 1991 as Arizona contact person for the Joint Editorial Board of the Uniform Probate Code Commission. Besides writing as a practicing lawyer, he published articles about the law and nonfiction about his experiences playing baseball for the St. Louis Browns in the 1930s.

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1 Introduction
The Authors
Statement of the Case: “Effective Legal Writing” Should be Distinguished from “Good Legal Writing”
Prepare to Write Effectively: Habits of Mind and Practice
Writing and Effective Billing

2 Writing through the Day
Facts
Forms
Letters
Specific Kinds of Letters

3 Writing through the Trial
Writing toward the Trial
Writing toward the Settlement
Writing to Ask the Judge for an Order: Motions
Writing at the End of Trial
Writing to Keep Clients Satisfied

4 Writing through the Appeal
Making the Record
The Effective Notice of Appeal
Designating the Record
The Brief
The Appellee’s Brief
The Reply Brief

5 Writing for the Future: Contracts and Wills and Trusts
The Memorandum of Contract
Wills and Trusts

6 Rewrite for Effectiveness
Rewrite to Develop Thinking
Rewrite Drafts for Readers

Checklist Inventory
Index of Topics

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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955

Kenneth Burke
Selected, Arranged, and Edited by William H. Rueckert

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In August, 1959, an anxious Bill Rueckert wrote Kenneth Burke to ask, “When on earth is that perpetually “forthcoming” A Symbolic of Motives forthcoming? Will it be soon enough so that I can wait for it before I complete my book [Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations]? If the Symbolic is not forthcoming soon, would it be too much trouble for you to send me a list of exactly what will be included in the book, and some idea of the structure of the book?” Burke replied, “Holla! If you’re uncomfortable, think how uncomfortable I am. But I’ll do the best I can. . . .” In the course of their long correspondence, the nature of the Symbolic­—Burke’s much-anticipated third volume in his Motivorum trilogy—vexed both men, and they discussed its contents often. Ultimately, Burke left the job of pulling it all together to Rueckert.

Forty-eight years after they first discussed the Symbolic, Rueckert has fulfilled his end of the bargain with this book, Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950­–1955. This collection contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In this book—some of which appears here in print for the first time—Burke offers his most precise and elaborated account of his dramatistic poetics, providing readers with representative analyses of such writers as Aeschylus, Goethe, Hawthorne, Roethke, Shakespeare, and Whitman. Following Rueckert’s Introduction, Burke lays out his approach in essays that theorize and illustrate the method, which he considered essential for understanding language as symbolic action and human relations generally. Burke concludes with a focused account of humans as symbol-using and misusing animals and his tour de force reading of Goethe’s Faust.

About the Author

Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) is the author of many books, including the landmark predecessors in the Motivorum trilogy: A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). He has been hailed as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century and possibly the greatest rhetorician since Cicero. Paul Jay refers to him as “the most theoretically challenging, unorthodox, and sophisticated of twentieth-century speculators on literature and culture.” Geoffrey Hartman praises him as “the wild man of American criticism.” According to Scott McLemee, Burke may have “accidentally create[d] cultural studies.”

About the Editor

William H. Rueckert, the “Dean of Burke Studies,” authored or edited numerous groundbreaking books and articles on Kenneth Burke, William Faulkner, and others. They include the landmark study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations (1963, 1982), Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966 (1969), and Encounters with Kenneth Burke (1994). With Angelo Bonadonna, he is the editor of Burke’s On Human Nature, A Gathering While Everything Flows: Essays, 1967-1984 (2005). He is also the author of Glenway Wescott (1965), Faulkner From Within — Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner (Parlor, 2004), and the editor of Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 (Parlor, 2003). His essays include the often-cited “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.” Rueckert completed work on the Symbolic shortly before his death in late 2006.

Contents

Preface
Introduction, William H. Rueckert
Part 1: Some Basic Requirements for a Dramatistic Poetic

1 A “Dramatistic” View of “Imitation”
2 Three Definitions 
3 The Language of Poetry, “Dramatistically” Considered
4 Fact, Inference, and Proof in the Analysis of Literary Symbolism

Part 2: Dramatistic Analyses of Individual Texts and Authors

5 Ethan Brand: A Preparatory Investigation
6 The Orestes Trilogy
7 Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method
8 The Vegetal Radicalism of Theodore Roethke
9 Policy Made Personal: Whitman’s Verse and Prose-Salient Traits

Part 3: By and Through Language, Beyond Language

10 A Socioanagogic Approach to Literature: Selections from “Linguistic Approach to Problems of Education”
11 Goethe’s Faust, Part I 

Index

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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner

William H. Rueckert

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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert’s lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner’s development as a novelist through eighteen novels—ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers—to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At the heart of Faulkner from Within is Rueckert’s sustained treatment of Go Down, Moses, a turning point in Faulkner’s career away from the destructive selves of the earlier novels and—as first manifest in Ike McCaslin—toward the generative selves of his later work. Faulkner from Within is a wide-ranging, beautifully written appreciation and analysis of the imaginative life of a great American author and his complex work.

About the Author

William H. Rueckert, the “Dean of Burke Studies,” authored or edited numerous groundbreaking books and articles on Kenneth Burke, William Faulkner, and others. They include the landmark study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations (1963, 1982), Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966 (1969), and Encounters with Kenneth Burke (1994). With Angelo Bonadonna, he is the editor of Burke’s On Human Nature, A Gathering While Everything Flows: Essays, 1967-1984 (2005). He is also the author of Glenway Wescott (1965) and the editor of Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 (Parlor, 2003). His essays include the often-cited “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.” Shortly before his death in late 2006, Rueckert published the long-awaited edition of Burke's Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
List of Abbreviations 

Part I: 1927-1932

1. Faulkner Discovers His Native Territory, Flags in the Dust (1926-1927; published 1973)

2. Faulkner’s First Great Novel: Anguish in the Genes, The Sound and the Fury (1929)

3. Destructive and Destroyed Being 

The Coffin of Being, As I Lay Dying (1930)
A Grammar of Negative Being, Sanctuary (1931)
Demonic Incarnation and the Pestilential Word, Light in August (1932)

Part II: 1935-1940

4. Verticality and Flight Passions, Pylon (1935)
5. Faulkner and the Civil War
Sutpen’s Vortex of Destruction, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
Bayard’s Last Stand, The Unvanquished (1938)
6. Faulkner’s Dialectical Novel, The Wild Palms (1939)
7. Economic, Moral, and Sexual Passions in The Hamlet, The Hamlet (1940) 

Part III: 1942

8. Curing the Work of Time, Go Down, Moses (1942)

Part IV: 1948-1962

9. Beginning the Work of Redemption
The Education of Chick Mallison, Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Redeeming the Earlier Works 
Faulkner’s Paladin, Knight’s Gambit (1949)
10 December 1950   272
10. Cleansing the Temple, Requiem for a Nun (1951)
11. War, Power and The Book: Faulkner’s Fable for Tomorrow, A Fable (1944-1953: published, 1954)
12. Social Comedy in Yoknapatawpha County, The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959)
13. Serene and Comic: The Joyful Act of Closure, The Reivers (1962)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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The Flying House

Dawn-Michelle Baude

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"With her concern with history, place, and formal experimentation, Baude positions herself firmly in the Pound-Williams-Olson tradition, and The Flying House extends that lineage nobly, giving us a vision not only of the world and of language, but also of our places in them—a vision not only historical but, as Baude suggests, urgent." --Andy Frazee, Verse Magazine (July 2009).

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From the ancient to the contemporary, the personal to the literary, The Flying House is an investigation of the “relic” in the largest sense of the term. Written on-site in the Middle East and Europe, the poems inhabit a space at once contemporary and historical, in which current conflicts recall old wars and archeological artifacts rhyme with cutting-edge fashions. Part travelogue, part cultural compendium, the poems move through a poetic space in which the influence of Robert Duncan and Gustaf Sobin are as apparent as the influences of Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Susan Howe. Informed by literary and cultural theory as well as humanist traditions, The Flying House explores the gap between the empirical and the emotional sometimes with dread, but more often with joy.

About the Author

Dawn-Michelle Baude, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Gaffiot Exquis (1997), The Book of One Hand (1998), The Beirut Poems (2001), Egypt (2002), and Through a Membrane / Clouds (2006). She earned an MA from the New College of California, an MFA from Mills College, a Diplôme des etudes approndis in Shakespeare from the Sorbonne, and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois - Chicago.  She teaches in the U.S. and in Europe.

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Dawn-Michelle Baude’s The Flying House—written in many countries (“sites”) and including some ten years of work—reads like a long poem with its unifying themes of place and impermanence, permanent violence, [and] traces of the past. . . . The elegant, open-field line casts over the page like a lace net—Pausanias as if something psychically earth-shaking actually happened while living the guide book that is now our ancient history. The music, a fast line, pulls the reader forward by the throat. This is a beautiful, puzzling, sad, and fascinating book.
—Alice Notley

How wonderful to finally have a full-length collection of poems by Dawn-Michelle Baude—a poet who has lived a poet’s life, itinerant, thoughtful, and, despite her title, on the ground. Or, to use her terminology, “site-specific.” Baude reminds us of the importance of presence in our understanding of language, history, politics, poetry. It emerges via the repeated plosive “p” in her stunning meditation on the power of the image over language, “Once Upon A Train Station (A Museum).” Countering the structuralist dogma of our day she writes: “(I’ve always felt) / language innocent / image indelible.” There is an urgent necessity to her sequence “The Beirut Poems” in which Baude interweaves a disturbing, yet lyrical violence, “his slender rifle / its silver / vaunts the moon / rattles the stars” with aesthetic hesitation, “Who could discuss poetry in this / ruckus.” Acting as a framework to this beautiful book are her “Fieldwork” poems, which, like Duncan’s Passages, provide the conditions for and commentary on the poet’s larger project. Above all, The Flying House is an ethical book, the record of a poet who believes poetry can still help us recover what remains humane in the human universe.
—Jennifer Moxley

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Framing Theory's Empire (iPaper version)

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Framing Theory's Empire

Edited by John Holbo

A Valve Book Event

Glassbead Books
Edited by John Holbo

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Framing Theory's Empire started life as a “book event”—an online, roundtable-style symposium on Theory’s Empire (Columbia UP, 2005). Two dozen contributors offered reviews, criticism, and commentary. Now in book form, it includes a preface by Scott McLemee and afterthoughts from Theory’s Empire’s editors.

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As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. Theory's Empire was an important step in that direction. Framing Theory's Empire carries on the conversation with sophistication and flair. —Denis Dutton, editor, Philosophy & Literature

It's rare for authors to have their work be the object of a lengthy, detailed, serious and lively dialogue shortly after its publication. John Holbo's commitment to using the Internet as an instrument for bringing about precisely such a dialogue is a wonderful example of how new technologies can enhance the quality of our intellectual exchanges.  And to make that lively dialogue be the object of another book, on-line and in hard copy, is a further contribution. —Daphne Patai, editor, Theory's Empire

Contributors

Mark Bauerlein, Michael Bérubé, Timothy Burke, Chris Cagle, Christopher Conway, Will H. Corral, Jodi Dean, Brad DeLong, Morris Dickstein, John Emerson, Jonathan Goodwin, Daniel Green, Matt Greenfield, John Holbo, Mark Kaplan, Scott Eric Kaufman, Adam Kotsko, Kathleen Lowrey, Jonathan Mayhew, Sean McCann, Scott McLemee, John McGowan, Daphne Patai, Kenneth Rufo, Amardeep Sing, and Jeffrey Wallen.

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From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China

Baotong Gu

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978-1-60235-100-4 (paperback; $30.00; £22.00; €25.00; $38.00 CAN); © 2009 by Parlor Press. 280 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography.

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From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China is the first book to provide a systematic historical, rhetorical, as well as critical account of the development of major writing technologies in China, spanning a history of over five thousand years. Baotong Gu covers the development of a wide array of major writing technologies, most of which were native Chinese inventions, including oracle inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, brush pens, ink, early forms of paper, the modern form of paper, block printing, movable type, the Chinese typewriter, the computer, and the Internet. From Oracle Bones to Computers distinguishes itself from other historical studies because it examines these technologies from a rhetorical perspective to explore how the cultural context, especially the role of language and communication, helps construct and shape the meanings of Chinese writing technologies.

An innovative feature of this book is its development of a six-element, operationalized model of rhetorical analysis that can be applied to the study of any writing technology. Using this model, the author examines the rhetorical contexts of writing technologies in China in their respective historical periods by examining them in the context of exigency, ideology, participants, knowledge creation, access and control, and communication. From Oracle Bones to Computers will appeal to historians, theorists, and teachers across diverse fields of study, such as writing, rhetoric, technology, technology transfer, Asian studies, and cultural studies.

About the Author

With a research interest mainly in the reciprocal relationship between writing technology development and cultural contexts, Baotong Gu’s publications range from articles, reviews, and translations to four co-edited collections: Content Management: Implications for Technical Communicators (2008, a special issue for Technical Communication Quarterly); Content Management: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice (2009, Baywood); Contemporary Western Rhetoric: Critical Methods and Paradigms (1998, China Social Sciences Academy Press); and Contemporary Western Rhetoric: Speech and Discourse Criticism (1998, China Social Sciences Academy Press). Gu is an associate professor of English at Georgia State University.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: (De)Mystifying the Chinese Culture
2. (Un)loading Technology
3. Rhetoricizing and Operationalizing Technology   
4. Oracle and Bronze Inscriptions     
5. Early Forms of Pen, Ink, and Paper          
6. The Modern Form of Paper         
7. Block Printing and Movable Type           
8. The Chinese Typewriter   
9. The Computer and the Internet   
10. Conclusion: Toward a More Pluralistic Model of Knowledge Construction       

Appendix: Milestone First Events in China’s Internet Use    
References   
Index          
About the Author

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Genre in a Changing World

Edited by Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo

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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. Genre in a Changing World provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

Contributors include John M. Swales, Paul Prior, Maria Antónia Coutinho, Florencia Miranda, Fábio José Rauen, Cristiane Fuzer, Nina Célia Barros, Leonardo Mozdzenski, Kimberly K. Emmons, Natasha Artemeva. Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Lynn McAlpine, Adair Bonini, Rui Ramos, Helen Caple, Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo, Charles Bazerman, Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo, Désirée Motta-Roth, Amy Devitt, Maria Marta Furlanetto, Salla Lähdesmäki, David R. Russell, Mary Lea, Jan Parker, Brian Street, Tiane Donahue, Estela Inés Moyano, Solange Aranha, and Giovanni Parodi.

Perspectives on Writing
Edited by Mike Palmquist

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

ADVANCES IN GENRE THEORIES

John M. Swales, "Worlds of Genre—Metaphors of Genre"
Paul Prior, "From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing"
Maria Antónia Coutinho and Florencia Miranda, "To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies"
Fábio José Rauen, "Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces"

GENRE AND THE PROFESSIONS

Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros, "Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of Language in the Genre Closing Argument"
Leonardo Mozdzenski, "The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet: A Critical Approach"
Kimberly K. Emmons, "Uptake and the Biomedical Subject"
Natasha Artemeva, "Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers Learning Genres of Their Profession"
Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine, "The Dissertation as Multi-genre: Many Readers, Many Readings"

GENRE AND MEDIA

Adair Bonini, "The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree"
Rui Ramos, "The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier: The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal"
Helen Caple, "Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet: A New News Story Genre"
Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo, "Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery"

GENRE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Charles Bazerman, "Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn"
Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo, "Bakhtin Circle’s Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices"
Désirée Motta-Roth, "The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy"
Amy Devitt, "Teaching Critical Genre Awareness"
Maria Marta Furlanetto, "Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State: Assessing the Route, Opening Paths"
Salla Lähdesmäki, "Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks: Genre Embedding as Recontextualization"

GENRE IN WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

David R. Russell, Mary Lea, Jan Parker, Brian Street, and Tiane Donahue, "Exploring Notions of Genre in 'Academic Literacies' and 'Writing Across the Curriculum': Approaches Across Countries and Contexts
Tiane Donahue, "Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research"
Estela Inés Moyano, "Negotiating Genre: Lecturer’s Awareness in Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level"
Solange Aranha, "The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for Graduate Students in Two Fields"
Giovanni Parodi, "Written Genres in University Studies: Evidence from an Academic Corpus of Spanish in Four Disciplines"

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Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline

Edited by Edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier Lisa Mastrangelo

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline collects essays that shine new light on the early history of writing program administration. Broad in scope, the book illuminates the development of the profession in the narratives of the individuals who helped form the discipline prior to the emergence of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in 1976, including those narratives of Gertrude Buck and Laura J. Wylie, Edwin Hopkins, Regina Crandall, Rose Colby, George Jardine, Clara Stevens, Stith Thompson, and George Wykoff. Drawing from deep archival work, these narratives offer rare glimpses into writing program administration and the development of composition as a college requirement.

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“It is a marvelous, ground-breaking book . . . an important contribution to an important field. Everyone interested in composition and rhetoric will read and cite this book. It is quite alone in its focus on the pre-history of the WPA function.”
— Edward M. White

Contributors

In addition to eleven chapters from contributors, Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration includes a preface by Edward M. White, a concluding essay by Jeanne Gunner, interviews with Erika Lindemann and Kenneth Bruffee, and a detailed introduction by the editors, Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo.

About the Editors

Barbara L’Eplattenier is assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas—Little Rock, where she teaches in the professional writing track. Her historical research focuses on the rhetoric of Progressive Era women. She has published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection.

Lisa Mastrangelo is assistant professor of English and coordinator of Women’s Studies at the College of St. Elizabeth, where she teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. Her research interests include nineteenth-century writing instruction and administration at women’s colleges. Her work in this area has been published in Rhetoric Review.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface, Edward M. White
Acknowledgments
Why Administrative Histories? Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo

Part I: Individuals

The WPA as Publishing Scholar: Edwin Hopkins and The Labor and Cost of the Teaching of English
Randall Popken

“Replacing Nice, Thin Bryn Mawr Miss Crandall with Fat, Harvard Savage”: WPAs at Bryn Mawr College, 1902 to 1923
D’Ann George

Cooperative Writing ‘Program’ Administration at Illinois State Normal University: The Committee on English of 1904-05 and the Influence of Professor J. Rose Colby
Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn

Building a Career by Directing Composition: Harvard, Professionalism, and Stith Thompson at Indiana University
Jill Terry Rudy

Part II: Communities
The “Advance” Toward Democratic Administration: Laura Johnson Wylie and Gertrude Buck of Vassar College
Suzanne Bordelon

“Is It the Pleasure of this Conference to Have Another?” Women’s Colleges Meeting and Talking about Writing in the Progressive Era
Lisa Mastrangelo and Barbara L’Eplattenier

Sifting Through Fifty Years of Change: Writing Program Administration at an Historically Black University
Deany M. Cheramie

Part III: Discipline
A Genesis of Writing Program Administration: George Jardine at the University of Glasgow
Lynée Lewis Gaillet

Moving Toward a Group Identity: WPA Professionalization from the 1940s to the 1970s
Amy Heckathorn

Representing the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration: Professional Narratives of George Wykoff at Purdue, 1933-1967
Shirley K Rose

Industrial-Strength Composition and the Impact of Load on Teaching
John Heyda

Doomed to Repeat It?: A Needed Space for Critique in Historical Recovery
Jeanne Gunner

Contributing Authors
Acknowledgments and Illustration Credits
Index

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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

Janice M. Lauer

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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. It presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse. After a discussion of treatments of invention from the Sophists to the nineteenth century, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition introduces a range of early twentieth-century multidisciplinary theories and calls for invention’s awakening in the field of English studies. It then showcases inventional theories and pedagogies that have emerged in the field of Rhetoric and Composition over the last four decades, including the ensuing research, critiques, and implementations of this inventional work. As a reference guide, the text offers a glossary of terms, an annotated bibliography of selected texts, and an extensive bibliography.

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Because invention raises such fundamental problems of theory and practice, its history extends back to the earliest reflections on effective communication in classical rhetoric. Thus this volume ties together some of the most ancient rhetorical wisdom with some of the most contemporary thinking about what it is to compose a text. Because Invention in Rhetoric and Composition ties together some of our most ancient and modern thinking, it is especially fitting that this book initiates the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition series, which will attempt to bring together the wide range of learning applicable to learning to write at all levels of education and in all settings.
—"Foreword," Charles Bazerman, Series Editor

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Charles Bazerman
Published jointly by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse

About the Author

Janice M. Lauer is Professor of English, Emerita at Purdue University, where she was the Reece McGee Distinguished Professor of English. She founded and has directed a doctoral program in Rhetoric and Composition. In 1980 she received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. In 1998, she received the College Composition and Communication Conference’s Exemplar Award. She has served on the executive committees of CCCC, the National Council of Teachers of English, The Rhetoric Society of America, and the Discussion Group in the History and Theory of Rhetoric of the Modern Language Association, and coordinated the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition. For thirteen summers she directed a two-week international Rhetoric Seminar. Her publications include Four Worlds of Writing: Inquiry and Action in Context, Composition Research: Empirical Designs, and New Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention, as well as essays on rhetorical invention, disciplinarity, writing as inquiry, composition pedagogy, historical rhetoric, and empirical research.

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Kenneth Burke and His Circles

Edited by Jack Selzer and Robert Wess

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Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century. Burke is considered as “in conversation” with a host of important principals who influenced Burke and were in turn influenced by him.

The essays were selected from among ones first presented at a 2005 conference at Penn State University, the principal repository of Burke archives, and thus the ideal site for this conference’s exploration of the circles Burke participated in. Collectively, the papers presented at the conference conceive circles broadly to encompass Burke’s relationships to personal friends (e.g., Ralph Ellison), to major intellectual figures (e.g., Richard McKeon, Wayne Booth, Denis Donoghue), to academic fields of study (e.g., neo-Aristotelianism, corporate communication, Continental philosophy), and to cultural and artistic movements (such as jazz and contemporary poetry). Together, the essays offer new and illuminating perspectives on the complexity and diversity of the circles in which Burke worked to produce one of the important and enduring bodies of work in American intellectual life in the twentieth century.

About the Editors

Jack Selzer is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. President of the Rhetoric Society of America from 2008 to 2009, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, Kenneth Burke in the 1930s, Rhetorical Bodies, Understanding Scientific Prose, and Good Reasons. In 2005, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kenneth Burke Society.

Robert Wess is a member of the Emeritus Faculty at Oregon State University and the author of Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism, as well as numerous articles on Burke and other theorists and literary works. He was also the editor of KB Journal’s special issue on Ecocriticism (Spring, 2006). In 1999, he received the Distinguished Service Award (1999) from the Kenneth Burke Society and served as its President from 2005 to 2008.

Contents

Abbreviations of Works by Kenneth Burke

Introduction
Jack Selzer and Robert Wess

1 From Acceptance to Rejection: Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, and Invisible Man
Bryan Crable

2 An Interview with Ben Belitt: On Kenneth Burke’s Bennington Years
Michael Jackson

3 Denis Donoghue’s Kenneth Burke
Miriam Marty Clark

4 Burke’s McKeon Side: Burke’s Pentad and McKeon’s Quartet
Robert Wess

5 Essentializing Temporality, Temporizing Essence: The Narrative Theory and Interpretive Practice of Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth
Greig Henderson

6 Style and the Defense of Rhetoric: Burke’s and Aristotle’s Competing Models of Mind
James Kastely

7 Aesthetic Power and Rhetorical Experience
Gregory Clark

8 The Romantic in the Attic: William Blake’s Place in Kenneth Burke’s Intellectual Circle
Laura E. Rutland

9 Leveraging a Career with Kenneth Burke: The Politics of Theory in Literary Studies
Cary Nelson

10 Kenneth Burke and the Claims of a Rhetorical Poetry
Melissa Girard

11 The “Logological Organizing” of Corporate Discourse: A Burkean Case-Study Analysis
Peter M. Smudde

12 Still the King of Queens? Kenneth Burke, The Rhetoric of Religion, and the Theorizing of Rhetoric and Religion Now
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

13 The Revelations of “Logology”: Secular and Religious Tensions in Burke’s Views on Language, Literature, and Hermeneutics
Christine E. Iwanicki

14 Burkean Perspectives on Prayer: Charting a Key Term through Burke’s Corpus
William T. FitzGerald

Works Cited
Contributors
Index

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Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare

Edited by Scott L. Newstok

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This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished lectures and notes, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke. Burke’s interpretations of Shakespeare have influenced important lines of contemporary scholarship; playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations; and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections of what makes a play function .

Burke’s intellectual project continually engaged with Shakespeare’s works, and Burke’s writings on Shakespeare, in turn, have had an immense impact on generations of readers. Carefully edited and annotated, with helpful cross-references, Burke’s fascinating interpretations of Shakespeare remain challenging, provocative, and accessible. Read together, these pieces form an evolving argument about the nature of Shakespeare’s artistry. Included are thirteen analyses of individual plays and poems, an introductory lecture explaining his approach to reading Shakespeare, and a comprehensive appendix of scores of Burke’s other references to Shakespeare. The editor, Scott L. Newstok, also provides a historical introduction and an account of Burke’s legacy.

This edition fulfils Burke’s own vision of collecting in one volume his Shakespeare criticism, portions of which had appeared in the many books he had published throughout his lengthy career. Here, Burke examines Hamlet , Twelfth Night , Julius Caesar , Venus and Adonis , Othello , Timon of Athens , Antony and Cleopatra , Coriolanus , King Lear, Troilus and Cressida , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Macbeth , The Merchant of Venice , The Tempest, Falstaff, the Sonnets, and Shakespeare’s imagery.

What people are saying about Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare . . .

Of all the American “New Critics,” Kenneth Burke has been the most interesting to critics and scholars in recent years. In gathering his writings on Shakespeare, Scott Newstok has done an invaluable service, not least because some twenty-five percent of the material is published here for the first time. Burke’s central concern is with dramatic form, which is conceived both precisely, in respect to the workings of the plays, and generously, with wide-ranging rhetorical, social, and human awareness. Though Burke was far more than a literary critic, these essays bring out how important literary expression was to his ideas of human motives and possibilities. There is something for everyone here: even those most at home with Burke and Shakespeare will find surprises and fresh suggestions throughout. —Paul Alpers, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Scott Newstok’s well-edited collection of Kenneth Burke’s essays on Shakespeare is an authentic augmentation of the best modern criticism we have on Shakespeare. Burke, a superb rhetorician, confronts daringly the triple greatness of the greatest of all writers ever: cognitive power, linguistic richness, and a whole cosmos of persuasive women and men made up out of words. —Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale

As my guides in reading Shakespeare, I name first Kenneth Burke, an American regarded by various of his fellow citizens as the equal of the most formidable literary minds of the American twentieth century, who wrote repeatedly on Shakespeare as well and as consistently as anyone might be thought to have done. —Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Harvard University

Kenneth Burke's insights into how Shakespeare's plays work— as poetry, drama, and theater—are as profound as Aristotle's insights on tragedy, Freud's on dreams, and Stanislavsky's on acting. What treasure, to have all this at last between two covers! —Toni Dorfman, Yale Theater Studies

Age cannot wither Kenneth Burke’s reflections on Shakespeare, which are as fresh, vital, and quirky now as they were when they first appeared. This volume would be worth having for the celebrated essays on Othello and King Lear alone, but it is particularly gratifying to find so many other remarkable displays of Burke’s quicksilver mind. —Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Harvard University

Kenneth Burke turns to Shakespearean drama to find some paradigm of true community. The relation of literature to politics, including modern political religions, from Puritan theocracies to totalitarianisms of Left or Right, is Burke’s burden even when he seems to be literary in the most technical sense. — Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Yale University

I have been inspired by the example of Kenneth Burke for his repeated emphasis on the inseparability of language, rhetoric, and discourse from political and social issues and for his failure to observe the decorum of a more restricted kind of literary criticism. —Patricia Parker, Margery Bailey Professor of English and Dramatic Literature Stanford University

Burke’s marvelously inventive essays on Shakespeare’s plays are too valuable a national resource to languish in the world out of print. —William H. Pritchard, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English Amherst College

About the Author

Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) was the author of many books, including the landmark Motivorum trilogy: A Grammar of Motives (1945), A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), and Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955 (2007). He has been hailed as one of the most original American thinkers of the twentieth century and possibly the greatest rhetorician since Cicero. Burke’s enduring familiarity with Shakespeare helped shape his own theory of dramatism, an ambitious elaboration of the “all the world’s a stage” conceit. Burke is renowned for his far-reaching 1951 essay on Othello, which wrestles with concerns still relevant to scholars more than half a century later; his imaginative ventriloquism of Mark Antony’s address over Caesar’s body has likewise found a number of appreciative readers, as have his many other essays on the playwright. Parlor Press has also published Burke's Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 (2003) and Kenneth Burke and His Circles (2008), edited by Jack Selzer and Robert Wess.

About the Editor

Scott Newstok teaches English at Rhodes College. He is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and co-editor (with Ayanna Thompson) of Weyward Macbeth, a collection of essays exploring the intersection of race and performance.

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A Map of Faring

Peter Riley

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"Peter Riley's most recent full-length poetry collection, A Map of Faring, is precisely the sort of project that is helping to distinguish the newly established Free Verse Editions, a joint venture between Free Verse and Parlor Press. With its commitment to featuring translations, combined with an international scope, Free Verse Editions has been consistently proving that the site of contemporary poetry consists not so much of place, but of places and their rich, adjacent terrains."

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A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that are transforming the world, even as it searches to understand, within that reckoning, the possible regenerative presence of art.

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Lines at Night /1

Back at evening, a stone room full
mainly of fireplace. We burn
olive roots, dry thyme, as night
gathers outside we finish
the wine, foot on sill.

Everything we touch grates
with dust and the fire
crackles and flares up.
The fire dies down, the fields
outside are gradually closed.
A speaking darkness surrounds us

And you are in it, and the light
you hold in there, is that a belief?
What else could it be?

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Peter Riley is a leading poet in Britain. His collections of poetry and other writings include Love-Strife Machine (1969), The Linear Journal (1973), Lines on the Liver (1981), Track and Mineshafts (1983), Snow Has Settled . . . Bury Me Here (1997), Passing Measures: Selected Poems (2001), Alstonefield: A Poem (2004), and Excavations (2004).

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Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987

Edited by William H. Rueckert

Transcribed from the originals by Barbara L. Rueckert; Foreword by Angelo Bonadonna

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Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) has been hailed by many as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. In The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Paul Jay refers to him as “the most theoretically challenging, unorthodox, and sophisticated of twentieth-century speculators on literature and culture.” Geoffrey Hartman praised him as “the wild man of American criticism.” We see him (finally) represented in the influential Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. The Chronicle of Higher Education suggested in 2001 that Burke may have “accidentally create[d] cultural studies.”

Burke has profoundly influenced in one way or another a long list of major literary theorists, poets, novelists, linguists, and rhetoricians. They include Harold Bloom, Wayne Booth, Paul De Man, Hugh Duncan, Ralph Ellison, Dell Hymes, Richard Kostelanetz, Frank Lentricchia, Andrea Lunsford, Howard Nemerov, Edward Said, Victor Vitanza, Hayden White, and William Carlos Williams.

These letters show the development of Burke’s thought in the last thirty or so years of his life, when he remained remarkably productive not only as a correspondent but as a critic and traveling scholar. Rueckert became for Burke both student and “co-conspirator,” with Burke himself playing the roles of teacher, mentor, father, and peer. While Burke corresponded for many years with Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Hugh Duncan, and others, with Rueckert, we see him writing to someone who may have understood and appreciated his work more than anyone. These letters often probe deeper, with less explanation and defensiveness, more inquiry and reflection. As one might expect among like-minded peers, we also see sharp critiques of contemporaries, including theorists who have had enormous influence of their own, including Marshall McLuhan and Fredric Jameson.

Rueckert’s Introduction to the letters sets this correspondence into relief. Angelo Bonadonna’s Foreword stands as one Burkean scholar’s use of these letters to make inroads of his own.

This appearance of previously unpublished writings of Kenneth Burke is an event not just for Burke studies, but for the wider community of readers interested in understanding the “progress” of literature, literary theory, culture, rhetoric, and philosophy in the late twentieth-century. If ever there was criticism played out as if it were a “blow-by-blow description of a prize-fight,” this is it.

The Burke-Rueckert correspondence provides a rich, fertile field for future Burke studies. Scholars will find references to every imaginable Burke theme. […] We see Burke charting his struggles with the Symbolic […]; his expansion of the Motivorum from a trilogy to a tetralogy; his dichotomous views on catharsis/dialectic; his method of conducting critical reviews. […] What may generate more immediate attention from scholars is Burke’s reflection on the themes of his remarkably productive late period, including his characterization of the relationship of “dramatism” to “logology”; the development of his “Bodies that Learn Language” formula; his take on postmodern language theory […]; and his development of the Super-Nature/Counter-Nature dichotomy.— Angelo Bonadonna, Foreword,“Some More of the Many Kenneth Burkes”

About the Editor

William H. Rueckert, the “Dean of Burke Studies,” authored or edited numerous groundbreaking books and articles on Kenneth Burke. They include the landmark study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations (1963, 1982), Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966 (1969), and Encounters with Kenneth Burke (1994). With Angelo Bonadonna, he is the editor of Burke’s On Human Nature, A Gathering While Everything Flows: Essays, 1967-1984 (2005). He is also the author of Glenway Wescott (1965) and the Parlor Press book, Faulkner From Within—Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner (2005). His essays include the often-cited “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism.” Shortly before his death in late 2006, Rueckert published the long-awaited edition of Burke's Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955.

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“Man, you guys worked me hard …”—Chris Mooney

From stem cell research to intelligent design to global warming, political conflict over science is heating up.

In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles. And, again and again, those obstacles have arisen on the right—from the Bush administration, from coalitions of Republicans and from individually powerful Republicans. As the new paperback edition announces, Mooney’s book, “brings this whole story together for the first time, weaving the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.”

Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science? started life as a ‘book event’—an online, roundtable-style critical symposium on Mooney’s work, hosted at Crooked Timber (crookedtimber.org). Eight contributors offered reviews, discussion and critical commentary. And Mooney responded to his critics. Now the event is a book, available here in print for the first time and online (for free download at parlorpress.com).

Contributors

JOHN QUIGGIN is a Federation Fellow in economics and political science at the University of Queensland. He is prominent both as an academic economist and as a commentator on public policy.

HENRY FARRELL is assistant professor in the Center for International Science and Technology Policy of the Elliott School of International Affairs, and the Department of Political Science at George Washington University.

TED BARLOW is a litigation consultant. He lives in Houston, TX with his fiancée and their crime-fighting dog.

DANIEL DAVIES began his career at the Bank of England and has been an analyst and stockbroker for ten years. He is a business school graduate, although not strictly a MBA, because there was an MSc in Finance qualification which was substantially cheaper.

JOHN HOLBO is an assistant professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

TIM LAMBERT is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.

STEVE FULLER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He is associated with the research programme of ‘social epistemology’, the name of the journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his twelve books, the latest of which are The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2006) and The New Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2006).

KIERAN HEALY is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. His new book is Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs (University of Chicago, 2006)

CHRIS MOONEY – in addition to being the author of The Republican War on Science – is the Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and a senior correspondent for the American Prospect magazine.

Contents

1 Republican War on Science: Introduction to a Seminar
John Quiggin

2 The Republican War on Science
Henry Farrell

3 War on Science
Ted Barlow

4 Worldwide War on Science
John Quiggin

5 The Stars and Stripes Down to Earth
Daniel Davies

6 Mooney Minus the Polemic?
John Holbo

7 War with the Newts
Henry Farrell

8 The War and the Quarrels
Tim Lambert

9 If There’s a War, Please Direct Me to the Battlefield
Steve Fuller

10 The Revolution Will Not Be Synthesized
Kieran Healy

11 War over Science or War on Science
John Quiggin

12 Man, You Guys Worked Me Hard . . .
Chris Mooney

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Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse

Kevin J. Porter

Winner of the 2006 W. Ross Winterowd / JAC Award for Best Book in Composition Theory.

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1-932559-78-7 ($32.00; paperback; £18.50); © 2006 by Parlor Press. 424 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index

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Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse is concerned with the interanimations of meaning, time, language, and discourse. The chief target of critique is meaning apriorism, the notion that the meaning of an utterance (or sign) is always found in or traceable to something temporally and logically prior, such as intention. In opposition, Porter proposes meaning consequentialism, a theory that integrates meaning and time in terms of its consequences. Given the history of concepts like meaning, time, language, and discourse, any serious attempt to understand them must be interdisciplinary; so Meaning, Language, and Time draws on a wide range of important work in the history of philosophy, rhetoric, and composition. In this groundbreaking work, Porter joins these conversations with the aim of breaching the traditional disciplinary walls and opening new areas of inquiry.

What people are saying about Meaning, Language, and Time . . .

Even as it problematizes the very notion of a scholarly “field,” this book offers an important contribution to theoretical work done in and around rhetoric and composition. While the Meaning, Language, and Time organized around questions concerning the temporality of meaning, the exploration of these questions offers an itinerary through linguistics, philosophy, rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, physics, and a host of other “fields.” At the heart of this book is a powerful interdisciplinary spirit that seeks to interrogate the problem of meaning across an extraordinarily diverse terrain and to show, for instance, the imbrications of practical pedagogical questions and enormous lineages of philosophical, scientific, and religious speculation. Indeed, the book is relentless in seeking out and revealing a whole series of strategies through which scholarship across the arts and sciences remains firmly committed to a schema of what it calls “meaning aprioirism” – the belief that the meaning of an utterance somehow pre-exists the consequences of that utterance.

It is undoubtedly a significant contribution to theoretical work in rhetoric and composition, while also (and quite intentionally) expanding the scope of what it might mean to contribute to that arena.
—John Muckelbauer, University of South Carolina

About the Author

Kevin J. Porter (PhD, Wisconsin) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches courses in rhetoric and composition with an emphasis on its collisions and collusions with critical theory, hermeneutics, literary theory, philosophy, and semiotics. His essays have appeared in, among other places, College Composition and Communication,College English,Cultural Critique,JAC, and SubStance.

Contents

Table and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 The Neglected Question of Meaning
2 The Principle of Panchronism: Eternity, Mysticism, and Interpretation
3 Panchronism and Consequentialism: The Labor of Meaning and the End of Interpretation
4 The Principle of Simultaneity: Absolute Time and the Spatialization of Society, Language, and Mind
5 Simultaneity and Consequentialism: The Distensions and Discontinuities of Mind and Community
6 The Principle of Durativity: Duration, Evolution, Intertextuality, and the Problem of Surplus Meaning
7 Meaning and Time
8 Severity, Charity, and the Consequences of Student Writing: Toward a Consequentialist Pedagogy
9 (In)Conclusion: An Envoi
Appendix: Premises about Time, Discourse, and Mind
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

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Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation

Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren

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1-932559-62-0 (paperback, $32.00; £18.50); © 2005 by Parlor Press. 524 pages with notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index

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Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Al Capone were all are criminals who robbed and killed, yet they were considered good outlaws, celebrated in sensational newspapers, newsreels, and dime novels of the day, and later in film and television, for their daring, courage, loyalty, and even chivalry. Our fascination with criminal heroes has a long history, extending back to legendary accounts in medieval chronicle, romance, and ballad. Although their names may not be familiar—Earl Godwin, Hereward, Eustache the Monk, Fouke Fitz Waryn, Án Bow-Bender, Gamelyn, Owain Glyndwr, William of Cloudesley, and William Wallace—these outlaws, in addition to Robin Hood, were all driven to lives of crime as victims of political intrigue or legal injustice. They committed capital crimes punishable by death, but, paradoxically, they were loved, encouraged, and supported by their communities.

This revised and expanded edition of Medieval Outlaws gathers twelve outlaw tales, introduced and freshly translated into Modern English by a team of specialists, including Timothy S. Jones, Michael Swanton, Thomas E. Kelly, Mica Gould, Stephen Knight, Shaun F. D. Hughes, Alexander L. Kaufman, Thomas H. Ohlgren, Thomas Hahn, and Walter Scheps. The tales range in date from the Norman Conquest to the sixteenth century. Introductions precede each selection and notes identify all of the significant names, places, and historical events mentioned in the texts. Accessible and entertaining, these tales will be of interest to the general reader and student alike.

About the Editor

Thomas H. Ohlgren is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Purdue University and is the author of numerous books and articles on medieval manuscripts and literature.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to Revised Edition
Preface to Sutton Edition
Frequently Cited References
General Introduction

1. Timothy S. Jones, The Outlawry of Earl Godwin
2. Michael Swanton, The Deeds of Hereward
3. Thomas E. Kelly, Eustache the Monk
4. Carter Revard, The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston
5. Thomas E. Kelly, Fouke fitz Waryn
6. Mica Gould, Two Tales of Owain Glyndwr
7. Stephen Knight, The Tale of Gamelyn
8. Shaun F. D. Hughes, The Saga of Án Bow-bender
9. Alexander Kaufman, The Hermit and the Outlaw
10. Thomas H. Ohlgren, A Gest of Robyn Hode
11. Thomas Hahn, Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesley
12. Walter Scheps, From The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace

List of Contributors
Index

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Moon Dance

A Novel

Brooke Biaz

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978-1-60235-043-4 (paperback $18.00; £11.00) © 2008 by Parlor Press; 437 pages

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Being born in the 1960s can take ten years of your life. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. Moon Dance is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind!

About the Author

Graeme Harper (writing as Brooke Biaz) is a fiction writer, scriptwriter and cultural critic. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal New Writing, Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University (UK). Chair of the International Centre for Creative Writing Research, his works include: Swallowing Film: Short Film Fiction; Black Cat, Green Field; Teaching Creative Writing; Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine, with A. Moor; and Small Maps of the World (Parlor Press, 2005) . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), an Honorary Professor at the University of Bedfordshire (UK), and a member of the Welsh Academi. His awards include the National Book Council Award for New Fiction (Australia) and many others.

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Nearer (Essays)

Arthur Saltzman

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1-932559-72-8 (paperback; $20.00; £11.50); © 2006 by Parlor Press; 363 pages.

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Lyrical, witty, and elegiac, the twenty-five essays in Nearer show the imagination at work and play amid the ambiguities, consternations, and beauties of the world. They range in subject matter from confrontations with magnitude (God, death, and the physical universe) to examinations of the compact, coiled insistences to be found in the ordinary and the local—what John Updike refers to as “the small answer of a texture.” There are meditations on the appeals and the pitfalls of celebrity, the strange and complex nature of memorials, the threat of creeping fraudulence in personal and professional life, the place and possibility of faith, and the damage that settling for “whatever” can do. “Getting Known,” “My Animal Instincts,” and “In So Many Words” have been named Notable Essays in the Best American Essays series.

About the Author

In addition to Nearer, Arthur Saltzman’s previous books include the collections of essays Solve for X (2007, University of South Carolina Press) and Objects and Empathy (2001, winner of the First Series Creative Nonfiction Award), and six critical studies of literature and writers. Recognitions for his writing include the 2005 Columbia Nonfiction Award, the 2003 Victor J. Emmett Memorial Essay Award (from Midwest Quarterly), the 2002 Nebraska Review Creative Nonfiction Award, and the inaugural Ames Memorial Essay Award (from Literal Latte). His collection, Obligations of the Harp is due out from Parlor Press in early 2009. He was a Professor of English at Missouri Southern State University at the time of his death in 2008.

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Standing on Fishes
Impostors
Nearer
Chosen People
The Porlock Principle
Model Behavior
The Cast of Characters
Some One-on-One
Memorial Haul
A Few Paces from Hemingway
Don’t Breathe a Word
Savages
Cast Irony
Prosthetic Devices
Excerpts from the Vertical File
The Orders of Magnitude
Inadmissible Evidence
Waiting for Takeoff
Shelf Life
Trash Talking
Getting Known
Mistake and Identity
My Animal Instincts
Something Like a Particle, Something Like a Wave
In So Many Words
Acknowledgments

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Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process

Helen Foster

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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978-1-60235-019-9 (paperback; $30.00; £17.00); © 2007 by Parlor Press. 268 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.

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Helen Foster’s Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process is a rigorous and extensive exploration of one of the dominant metaphors of rhetoric and composition, and, more broadly, of the formation and the future of an academic discipline. Foster offers an important new approach to research in the field, one that explores and moves beyond the tension between “writing process” and “post-process” positions. Her notion of networked process promotes a culture of inquiry that grapples with the complexity of writers, writing research, pedagogy, and curricular change.

Central to networked process is a theory of networked subjectivity, an idea that complicates and reformulates commonplace assumptions about student, teacher, and disciplinary identities. Networked subjectivity is grounded in the material reality of writing work and a fundamental acknowledgment of multiple literacies and multiple ways of knowing and being in the world. In Networked Process, Foster offers a compelling and timely investigation of the future of the discipline, arguing convincingly for the promotion of the undergraduate writing major and for the coalescence of disciplinary identity around the increasingly complex, postmodern notion of networked process, encapsulated by the re-visioning of rhetoric and composition as rhetoric and writing studies.

About the Author

Helen Foster holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University and is currently associate professor of English at the University of Texas El Paso, where she serves as director of the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program. She has presented papers at numerous conferences and is published in various journals. Her research areas include the history and theory of composition studies; rhetorical and cultural studies theory, particularly regarding issues of power, knowledge, marginalization, and legitimacy; and the emerging area of undergraduate rhetoric and writing studies.

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New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy

Edited by Jeff Rice and Marcel O'Gorman

New Media Theory
Edited by Byron Hawk

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978-1-60235-063-2 (paperback; $30.00; £18.00; €21.00); © 2008 by Parlor Press. 316 pages with illustrations, references, and index

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The essays in New Media/New Methods: the Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies. Representing a specific school of theory emergent in graduates of the University of Florida and working from the concept of electracy, as opposed to literacy, contributors present various heuristics for elaborating new media rhetoric and theory. New Media/New Methods challenges literacy-based understandings of new media, which typically pose such work as hermeneutics or textual interpretation. Rather than grounding their work in hermeneutics, contributors rely on heuretics, or invention, to outline new modes of scholarly discourse reflective of and adapted to digital culture.

Contributors

Ron Broglio, Elizabeth Coffman, Denise K. Cummings, Bradley Dilger, Michelle Glaros, Michael Jarrett, Barry Jason Mauer, Marcel O’Gorman, Robert Ray, Jeff Rice, Craig Saper, and Gregory L. Ulmer.

About the Editors

Jeff Rice is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Campus Writing Program, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and the textbook Writing about Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom (Longman) as well as numerous essays on new media and writing. He blogs at Yellow Dog (http://www.ydog.net).

Marcel O’Gorman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo and Director of the Critical Media Lab. His published research, including E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory and the Humanities (University of Toronto Press, 2006), is concerned primarily with the fate of the humanities in a digital culture. O’Gorman is also a practicing artist, working primarily with physical computing inventions and architectural installations.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Getting Schooled: Introduction to the Florida School
Jeff Rice and Marcel O’Gorman

Part 1: Origins: What Is the Florida School and Where Does It Come From?
1 Florida out of Sorts
Gregory L. Ulmer

2 Eight Film Studies Problems for the Twenty-First Century
Robert Ray

3 The Florida School’s Legacy, or The Devil’s Millhopper Joke Revisited
Craig Saper

Part 2: Theory: Inventing New Modes of Scholarly Discourse 
4 Hypericonomy, Negatively Defined  
Marcel O’Gorman

5 Ease and Electracy 
Bradley Dilger

Part 3: Research: Media Performance in Media Studies
6 Elvis (The Florida School Remix)
Michael Jarrett

7 Speculating a Hollywood, Finding Picture City
Denise K. Cummings

8 Serial Logic: Meditations on Homesick: FemTV Remembers the Gainesville Murders
Elizabeth Coffman and Michelle Glaros

Part 4: Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning (in) a New Academic Apparatus
9 Nietzsche at the Apollo: An Experiment in Clipography
Barry Mauer

10 Deleuzian Strolls, Wordsworthian Walks, and MOO Landscapes 
Ron Broglio

11 Funkcomp
Jeff Rice

Contributors
Index

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Obligations of the Harp

Arthur Saltzman

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There is never a dull phrase in Arthur Saltzman’s Obligations of the Harp, his fourth book of essays. The writing in these twenty-five pieces is by turns wry and satirical, sensually descriptive, playfully punning—but always nuanced and illuminating.  Reference points range from Kobe Bryant to John Updike, from geology to Jewish ritual. One essay is a fanciful treatment of the history of the human cannonball; another provides a deeply humane and humorous account of preparing middle-schoolers for History Day. Varied in topic and tone, Saltzman consistently revels in and re-imagines the mysterious quirks of human behavior. The  award-winning essay, “Reason Not the Need,” for example, links the seemingly random care behind what we choose to save from a fire to Saltzman’s personal soft-spot for cafeteria jelly packets, “with the heft and suppleness of a small toad resting squat in your palm,” to the plundering of the Iraqi National Museum of Antiquities. “Hard-wired for wonder and for worry,” Saltzman is a truly original mind alive to the artful accidents and patterns of the social, natural, and human worlds. 

In addition to The Obligations of the Harp, Arthur Saltzman’s previous books include the collections of essaysSolve for X (2007, University of South Carolina Press), Nearer (2006, Parlor Press) and Objects and Empathy (2001, winner of the First Series Creative Nonfiction Award), and six critical studies of literature and writers. Recognitions for his writing include the 2005 Columbia Nonfiction Award, the 2003 Victor J. Emmett Memorial Essay Award (from Midwest Quarterly), the 2002 Nebraska Review Creative Nonfiction Award, and the inaugural Ames Memorial Essay Award (from Literal Latte). He was a Professor of English at Missouri Southern State University at the time of his death in 2008.

Contents

1. The Table on the Planet
2. Get Up and Get Away
3. Castaways
4. The History Channelers
5. Watch This Space
6. Reason Not the Need
7. Taking Pains
8. From the Notebook of the Human Cannonball
9. The Obligations of the Harp
10. Name-Dropping
11. On the Blink
12. Chapter Thirty-Four, in Which Our Hero Cuts to the Chase
13. Blown Away
14. An Elegy for Eureka
15. The Art of Getting By
16. Chump Change
17. A First Course in Aperture Therapy
18. A Wet Blanket Apology
19. Clique Song
20. It Is to Weep
21. On Reading with a Pen
22. Time Out
23. Falling with Style
24. What All the Fuss Is For
25. Much Obliged

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Orlando Innamorato [Orlando in Love]

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Stanley Ross

Unabridged and newly translated.

The Renaissance
Edited by Charles Ross

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1-932559-01-9 (paperback; $30.00; £18.00; €21.00); © 2004 by Parlor Press. 720 pages with detailed introduction, maps, notes, bibliography, and index

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What others are saying about Orlando Innamorato . . .

Listen to Umberto Eco talk about Orlando Innamorato in "Live from the New York Public Library" on iTunes (Nov. 17, 2008).

Eco: "Anyway, I have never read some masterpieces of Italian literature . . ."
Moderator: "Such as?"
Eco: ". . . but I know more or less what they are about."
Moderator: "Admit at least to one of the books you haven't read."
Eco: "Orlando Innamorato, by Boiardo."
Moderator: "Really?"
Eco: "Never read it. But as [Pierre] Bayard would say, although I cannot make a complete lecture, at least I can speak for 20 minutes about it. Its relationship with Ariosto, with Tasso. . . ."

“Neglect of Italian romances robs us of a whole species of pleasure and narrows our very conception of literature. It is as if a man left out Homer, or Elizabethan drama, or the novel. For like these, the romantic epic of Italy is one of the great trophies of the European genius: a genuine kind, not to be replaced by any other, and illustrated by an extremely copious and brilliant production. It is one of the successes, the undisputed achievements.”— C. S. Lewis

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Like Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo’s chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando’s love-stricken pursuit of “the fairest of her Sex, Angelica” (in Milton’s terms) through a fairyland that combines the military valors of Charlemagne’s knights and their famous horses with the enchantments of King Arthur’s court.

Today it seems more than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful summaries to Boiardo’s cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as to block the reader’s encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the world.

About the Editor

Charles Stanley Ross has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago and teaches English and comparative literature at Purdue University.

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Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (iPaper version)

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Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates investigates the role of rhetoric in shaping public perceptions about a novel technology: peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. While broadband Internet services now allow speedy transfers of complex media files, Americans face real uncertainty about whether peer-to-peer file sharing is or should be legal. John Logie analyzes the public arguments growing out of more than five years of debate sparked by the advent of Napster, the first widely adopted peer-to-peer technology. The debate continues with the second wave of peer-to-peer file transfer utilities like Limewire, KaZaA, and BitTorrent. With Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion, Logie joins the likes of Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jessica Litman, and James Boyle in the ongoing effort to challenge and change current copyright law so that it fulfills its purpose of fostering creativity and innovation while protecting the rights of artists in an attention economy.

Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates

John Logie

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Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates investigates the role of rhetoric in shaping public perceptions about a novel technology: peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. While broadband Internet services now allow speedy transfers of complex media files, Americans face real uncertainty about whether peer-to-peer file sharing is or should be legal. John Logie analyzes the public arguments growing out of more than five years of debate sparked by the advent of Napster, the first widely adopted peer-to-peer technology. The debate continues with the second wave of peer-to-peer file transfer utilities like Limewire, KaZaA, and BitTorrent. With Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion, Logie joins the likes of Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jessica Litman, and James Boyle in the ongoing effort to challenge and change current copyright law so that it fulfills its purpose of fostering creativity and innovation while protecting the rights of artists in an attention economy.

Logie examines metaphoric frames—warfare, theft, piracy, sharing, and hacking, for example—that dominate the peer-to-peer debates and demonstrably shape public policy on the use and exchange of digital media. Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion identifies the Napster case as a failed opportunity for a productive national discussion on intellectual property rights and responsibilities in digital environments. Logie closes by examining the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the “Grokster” case, in which leading peer-to-peer companies were found to be actively inducing copyright infringement. The Grokster case, Logie contends, has already produced the chilling effects that will stifle the innovative spirit at the heart of the Internet and networked communities.

About the Author

John Logie is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota.

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Physis

Nicolas Pesquès
Translated and Introduced by Cole Swensen

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

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For over twenty-five years, Nicolas Pesquès has been writing an homage to Juliau, the mountain he sees out his window. In Physis, the fifth book of the series, he weaves philosophical reflection in and out of an encounter with the body of the mountain, the body of language, and the human body that bridges the two. Employing an exquisitely spare, precise phrasing, Physis underscores the distance on which all landscape is based, searching out the ways in which humans work to make a home on earth.

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