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Syracuse University Press Figures That Speak
Book SynopsisIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.
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The University of Alabama Press The Critical Double Figurative Meaning in
Book SynopsisOver 25 centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Protagoras declared: on every question there are two opposing answers, including this one. This work sets out to demonstrate that Protagoras' statement constitutes one of the fundamental principles of aesthetic and rhetorical theory.
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The University of Alabama Press Poetic Voices Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Book SynopsisRecent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.
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The University of Alabama Press Geoengineering Persuasion and the Climate Crisis
Book SynopsisExposes the deeply worrying state of discourse over geoengineering - the intentional manipulation of the earth's climate as means to halt or reverse global warming. The book investigates how geoengineering proponents marshal geologic actors into their arguments - and how current discourse could lead to greater exploitation of the earth.
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The University of Alabama Press Fitter Happier
Book SynopsisExamines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century.
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The University of Alabama Press Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law
Book SynopsisA rich work that analyses the interplay between ancient rhetorical traditions and modern legal practice, reestablishing the lost connections between law and classical rhetoric. The volume draws on an array of sources to illuminate how ancient rhetorical insights may even today challenge and enrich our grasp of contemporary legal principles.
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The University of Alabama Press Threshold
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University of Alabama Press Radical Advocate
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The University of Alabama Press Popular Stories and Promised Lands Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages Studies in Rhetoric Communication
Trade ReviewPopular culture stories - found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies - gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties. Aden offers a well-constructed argument that creating a sense of place (and with it a sense of personal identity and community) serves as an important enticement for many popular cultures works.... Aden handles contemporary theory deftly [and] does an excellent job of identifying many of the tensions present in 20th-century America. - Quarterly Journal of Speech ""Stories encountered at the movies, on television, and in popular magazines are treated as reflections of the popular culture.... Believing that the American experience has been guided by a 'normative narrative' or 'grand narrative' that constitutes the 'American dream,' Aden holds that stories can be used to extract the 'rules' of a narrative, determine the direction, and identify conceptions of the 'promised lands' for a culture."" - Critical Studies in Mass Communication
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University of Alabama Press Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAncient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection."" - Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
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The University of Alabama Press Rhetoric Through Everyday Things Rhetoric Culture
Book SynopsisArgues that the field of rhetoric's recent attention to material objects should go further than simply open a new line of inquiry. To maximize the interdisciplinary turn to things, rhetoricians must seize the opportunity to reimagine and perhaps resolve rhetoric's historically problematic relationship to physical reality and ontology.Trade Review“With this volume, Barnett and Boyle go beyond the reach of the speaker-audience-purpose model of human communication to include material objects. The book comprises four parts: 'The New Ontology of Persuasion,' 'Writing Things,' 'Seeing Things,' and 'Assembling Things.' The contributors—an impressive group of scholars ranging from experts to doctoral candidates—offer essays that explore objects as vibrant agents of persuasion and not just passive nonverbal tools. In a particularly intriguing chapter titled 'The Things They Left Behind: Toward an Object-Oriented History of Composition,' Kevin Rutherford and Jason Palmeri encourage the reader to engage in an empathetic dialogue with nonhuman historical objects: for example, history might be read differently if one examined the writing desks of important figures. This book has deep implications for the present materialist turn in the humanities. Unique for its ontological synthesis of rhetorical theory and nonverbal communication, this volume would be useful as a companion reader to a range of courses in rhetoric—from the basic course to advanced seminars—and it would be excellent complementary reading for courses in nonverbal communication. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” - CHOICE“Many scholars are writing and thinking about rhetoric’s materiality, and this collection’s emphasis on ontology is one of the most popular ways of engaging the subject. The essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things address a notoriously difficult set of theoretical problems in a way that will be approachable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as more advanced scholars in rhetoric. I can imagine it being of great interest to scholars in both communication and English departments.” - Greg Dickinson, coeditor of Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials and author of Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life""This volume is an important and capacious contribution to the arrival of 'thing theory' in rhetorical studies. The tensions across chapters will make this a lively text for discussion. It will be taught and cited for the coming years, and I commend the editors for assembling such a thorough collection of essays."" - Debra Hawhee, author of Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language and Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation
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The University of Alabama Press Reframing Rhetorical History
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.
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UNIV OF ALABAMA PR Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and
Book SynopsisDescribes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today, including affirmative action, gay rights, and assisted suicide.Trade Review“Rejecting the unfulfilled ideals of certainty, singular truths, and perspicuous clarity in legal discourse, Mootz offers a provocative and well-grounded consideration of the way that law and legal practice simultaneously create and are grounded in rhetorical knowledge. The book reveals the dynamic character of law’s rhetorical knowledge and, at the same time, insists on the possibility of reason and rationality.”—William Lewis, Drake University“Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory is an important resource for any serious student of rhetoric and law. And it is a significant step in overcoming the modem law's ‘deeply ironic resistance to rhetoric.’—Argumentation and Advocacy
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The University of Alabama Press Dreamer Nation
Book SynopsisTells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation.Trade Review“Dreamer Nation is an elegantly written and thoroughly researched rhetorical history of undocumented youth activism during the Obama years. Ribero’s book will be beneficial to readers interested in social movements, queer of color critique, decolonial feminism, and anyone interested in immigration politics.”- J. David Cisneros, author of The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
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The University of Alabama Press Fitter Happier
Book SynopsisExamines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century.
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The University of Alabama Press Disobedient Aesthetics
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The University of Alabama Press Oligarchy in America
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The University of Alabama Press I the People
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University of Alabama Press Radical Advocate
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University Alabama Press Overturned
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University Alabama Press Algorithmic Worldmaking
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University of Alabama Press Countermemory
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Duke University Press The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and
Book SynopsisPublic policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. This title explores the interplay of language, action, and power in both the practice and the theory of policy-making.Trade Review"This book has the potential to be important in the field, the leading statement for a movement. It does not call merely for words to balance the statistics, as in the tired debate between the humanities and the sciences. On the contrary, it argues that the words and the statistics are all part of the argument. The contributors apply theories of judgment ranging from classical rhetoric to modern theories of narrative to see the judging whole. The book proposes a new way to see old debates. . . . In short, the book is excellent."—Donald N. McCloskey, University of IowaTable of ContentsEditors' Introduction I. The Argumentative Turn: Policy Institutions and Practices Policy Discourse and the Politics of Washington Think Tanks / Frank Fischer Discourse Coalitions and the Institutionalization of Practice: The Case of Acid Rain in Great Britain / Maarten A. Hajer Political Judgment and the Policy Cycle: The Case of Ethnicity Policy Arguments in the Netherlands / Robert Hoppe Counsel and Consensus: Norms of Argument in Health Policy / Bruce Jennings II. Analytical Concepts: Frames, Tropes, and Narratives Survey Research as Rhetorical Trope: Electric Power Planning Arguments in Chicago / J. A. Throgmorton Reframing Policy Discourse / Martin Rein and Donald Schon Reading Policy Narratives: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends / Thomas J. Kaplan Learning from Practice Stories: The Priority of Practical Judgment / John Forester III. Theoretical Perspectives Policy Analysis and Planning: From Science to Argument / John S. Dryzek Planning Through Debate: The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory / Patsy Healey Policy Reforms as Arguments / William N. Dunn Guidelines for Policy Discourse: Consensual versus Adversarial / Duncan MacRae, Jr. Contributors Index
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Duke University Press King Lear and the Naked Truth
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] learned, intelligent, and interesting book. . . . [A] wide-ranging knowledge of Renaissance religious and political commentary and of current criticism is made available in a lucid and persuasive argument.” - Edward Pechter, Journal of English and Germanic Philology“Kronenfeld’s achievement here is enormous, particularly in providing a necessary corrective to versions of historicism that seem Old in all but political slant.” - Andrew James Hartley, Christianity and Literature“To read [this] book . . . is to encounter a mind capable of tackling the most sophisticated of historical and theoretical topics with both grace and reason. Kronenfeld takes us on a tour both of history and of Shakespeare’s text in a way that finally leaves each seeming at once extremely complex but also much more readily comprehensible. She manages the difficult feat of clarifying without simplifying, and for that reason alone her book is well worth the attention of any serious student of Lear, Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and literary theory.” - Ben Jonson Journal“King Lear and the Naked Truth is richly researched, deeply learned, and largely achieves what it sets out to do. This is an important study from which all readers will learn.” - Ronald Knowles, Renaissance Quarterly“Judy Kronenfeld’s book on political criticism and King Lear makes some important points and provides a rich florilegium of quotations from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century homiletic texts (along with an excellent bibliography). It is a book anyone doing sociohistorical or political criticism of Shakespeare, or of any Elizabethan or Jacobean texts, should take seriously.” - Richard Strier, Shakespeare Quarterly“Kronenfeld’s painstaking reconstruction of English Reformed thought on subjects such as charity, rank, and the family deserves a wide audience. . . . Her thoughtful and challenging critique of new historical readings of Lear also merits consideration.” - Kenneth J. E. Graham, Modern Philology"This is a most impressive book, one that is sure to have an impact, raise questions, and create controversy."—Herbert Lindenberger, Stanford University“King Lear and the Naked Truth is richly researched, deeply learned, and largely achieves what it sets out to do. This is an important study from which all readers will learn.” -- Ronald Knowles * Renaissance Quarterly *“[A] learned, intelligent, and interesting book. . . . [A] wide-ranging knowledge of Renaissance religious and political commentary and of current criticism is made available in a lucid and persuasive argument.” -- Edward Pechter * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *“Judy Kronenfeld’s book on political criticism and King Lear makes some important points and provides a rich florilegium of quotations from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century homiletic texts (along with an excellent bibliography). It is a book anyone doing sociohistorical or political criticism of Shakespeare, or of any Elizabethan or Jacobean texts, should take seriously.” -- Richard Strier * Shakespeare Quarterly *“Kronenfeld’s achievement here is enormous, particularly in providing a necessary corrective to versions of historicism that seem Old in all but political slant.” -- Andrew James Hartley * Christianity and Literature *“Kronenfeld’s painstaking reconstruction of English Reformed thought on subjects such as charity, rank, and the family deserves a wide audience. . . . Her thoughtful and challenging critique of new historical readings of Lear also merits consideration.” -- Kenneth J. E. Graham * Modern Philology *“To read [this] book . . . is to encounter a mind capable of tackling the most sophisticated of historical and theoretical topics with both grace and reason. Kronenfeld takes us on a tour both of history and of Shakespeare’s text in a way that finally leaves each seeming at once extremely complex but also much more readily comprehensible. She manages the difficult feat of clarifying without simplifying, and for that reason alone her book is well worth the attention of any serious student of Lear, Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and literary theory.” * Ben Jonson Journal *
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University of Pittsburgh Press Politics Of Remediation
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University of Pittsburgh Press Poets Philosophers Lovers On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Latinx and Latin American Profiles
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University of Pittsburgh Press Rhetorical Crossover The Black Rhetorical
Book SynopsisAn examination of the ways African American rhetoric becomes whitened when it crosses over into white audiences.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Toward a Feminist Rhetoric
Book SynopsisThis work collects together the writings of Gertrude Buck (known for her work on the history of composition), aiming to show her thoughts on rhetorical theory, some selections from her textbooks on argumentative and expository writing, her poetry and fiction, and a play, ""Mother-Love"".
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University of Pittsburgh Press CompositionRhetoric
Book SynopsisConnors provides a comprehensive history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today's practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language, and life.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Available Means
Book SynopsisAvailable Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.
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University of Pittsburgh Press American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance
Book SynopsisThe book examines the complex and sophisticated efforts of American Indian writers and orators to constructively engage an often hostile and resistant white audience through language and other symbol systems.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Acts of Enjoyment Rhetoric Zizek and the Return of the Subject Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisThe goal of the psychoanalytical approach is to highlight the best pedagogical aspects of cultural studies to allow for well-rounded individual expression, ultimately providing the tools necessary to address larger issues of politics, popular culture, ideology, and social transformation.
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University of Pittsburgh Press CounterHistory of Composition A
Book SynopsisA Counter-History of Composition contests the foundational disciplinary assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition.Trade ReviewHawk's remapping of the field's histories is complicated and ambitious. He takes a romp through histories of invention, vitalism, method, and dialectic from Aristotle forward, providing, among other things, a much-needed counter-history to James Berlin and a rich reading of Coleridge's method that breathes life into complex vitalisms that the field has worked at erasing. - Dr. Sherrie Gradin, Ohio University ""In this original and important contribution to composition scholarship, Byron Hawk sets out to correct a crucial misunderstanding that has plagued theory and historiography for three decades: a mischaracterization of vitalism. By providing a nuanced analysis of this crucial concept, Hawk effectively rewrites our intellectual history. A must read!"" - Gary A. Olson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University
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University of Pittsburgh Press Inessential Solidarity
Book SynopsisThis work examines critical intersections of rhetoric and solidarity in order to demonstrate that a rhetorical imperative—an underivable obligation to respond—is the condition for symbolic exchange, and therefore not only for the "art"of rhetoric, but for all determinate relations. Winner of the 2010 JAC W. Ross Winterowd Award
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University of Pittsburgh Press Practicing Writing
Book SynopsisThomas Masters examines a pivotal era—the years following arrival of former soldiers on college campuses thanks to the GI Bill—in the history of the most ubiquitous and most problematic course offered in America: freshman English.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition
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University of Pittsburgh Press Plateau Indian Ways with Words
Book SynopsisIn Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and continues to this day.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Tasteful Domesticity Womens Rhetoric and the American Cookbook 17901940 Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisTasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity.Trade ReviewWalden advances the scholarship on cookbooks and housekeeping advice manuals by examining them through the lens of ‘taste’ and rhetorical theory. She demonstrates how such texts functioned in contradictory and complex ways, revealing in new ways the truly intersectional nature of domestic ideology—how prescriptive norms around home, gender, race, class, nation, and ethnicity work together and through each other."" - Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh""Tasteful Domesticity delivers on its promise to model how we can and should read cookbooks for political, philosophical, national, gendered, and racial rhetorics worked out in their pages. By untangling subtle differences in the word ‘taste’ and in authors’ access to it, Walden changes both food studies in the humanities and nineteenth century women’s history."" - Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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University of Pittsburgh Press Rhetorics of Resistance Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisThe period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late-1980s.Trade ReviewThis is an important project, supporting the claim that even in the oppressive climate of 1980s apartheid South Africa, the local newspapers created or identified certain rhetorical spaces in which to register various forms of verbal resistance."" - Shirley W. Logan, University of Maryland""The book's central focus is on the strategies – rhetorical, legal, political – that anti-apartheid newspapers employed to report on matters that were prohibited by the government’s strict censorship laws. Trabold presents a well-written, compelling textual analysis alongside good empirical interview material."" - Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town
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University of Pittsburgh Press On the End of Privacy
Book SynopsisThe Anxiety of Transparency in an Age of Electronic Innovation and Intrusion
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University of Pittsburgh Press Animal Who Writes The
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Fordham University Press The LincolnDouglas Debates
Book SynopsisThe seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery.Trade Review"These thirteen essays are all products of the annual and acclaimed Lincoln Forum. While the Union president is the central theme, the topics range far afield and offer a tasty hors d'oeuvre for Civil War scholars and students alike." -- -James I. Robertson, Jr. Author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend. "A vivid, boisterous picture of politics during our most divisive period ... This fresh, fascinating examination ... deserves a place in all American history collections." - Library Journal "Abraham Lincoln's life and work produced a cornucopia of provocative ideas, analyses and opinions. John Y. Simon and Harold Holzer have made it easier for us to share in that abundance with a volume of carefully selected works from the Lincoln Forum." -- -Mario Cuomo former Governor of New York
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Fordham University Press Drawing the Line
Book SynopsisMakes a contribution to contemporary aesthetic discourses through conversations on the borderlines of philosophy and literature, literature and the law, law and politics, politics and justice, justice and art in post -apartheid South Africa.Trade Review"Clarkson's book shows us in so many ways that the post-apartheid world is by no means a given world and that the question of its possibility will depend on whether we are still able to become aware again of - and willing to act ethically and politically upon - our poetic potentiality to bring forth a world that would aesthetically be other than and other to the Nietzschean eternal recurrence of 'the worst'." -- -Jaco Barnard-Naude SA Journal of Law, 131.4 "Drawing the Line is itself a boundary-crossing book in the sense that it pulls evidence from an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines: law, art and architecture, literature and literary theory, philosophy." -H-AfrArts "Drawing the Line will appeal to readers working in a variety of scholarly fields: it is an important text for anyone grounded in contemporary South African literary and cultural studies, offers rich contributions to interdisciplinary studies of transitional justice and jurisprudence, and will be valuable for scholars working at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics as well as those exploring the impacts of posthumanism on projects of social transformation." -Ariel: A Review of International English Literature "One rarely comes across work of such intelligence and imagination. This book is beautifully written and one finds oneself forever being caught out by wonderful and unpredicted connections, turns of phrase, the ease and acuity with which insights from disparate fields are brought together and developed." -- -Emilios Christodoulidis University of Glasgow "What makes Clarkson's project truly dialogical-and what distinguishes it from a number of other analyses of contemporary South African culture and literature-is that she both reads South African culture in terms of theory but also examines and, indeed displays, what South African culture might also offer theory." -- -Russell Samolsky University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Drawing the Line 1. Drawing the Line 2. Redrawing the Lines Part II: Crossing the Line 3. Justice and the Art of Transition 4. Intersections: Ethics and Aesthetics 5. Poets, Philosophers, and Other Animals Part III: Lines of Force 6. Visible and Invisible: What Surfaces in Three Johannesburg Novels? 7. Who Are We? Conclusion Notes References Index
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Fordham University Press Critical Rhythm
Book SynopsisExplores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ben Glaser, 1 Rhythm’s Critiques Why Rhythm? Jonathan Culler, 21 What Is Called Rhythm? David Nowell Smith, 40 Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness Simon Jarvis, 60 Body, Throng, Race The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics Virginia Jackson, 87 Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body Haun Saussy, 106 Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm Erin Kappeler, 128 Beat and Count The Rhythms of the English Dolnik Derek Attridge, 153 How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper Thomas Cable, 174 Picturing Rhythm Meredith Martin, 197 Fictions of Rhythm Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds Natalie Gerber, 223 Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm? Yopie Prins 247 Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel” Ewan Jones, 274 Acknowledgments 297 List of Contributors 299 Index 303
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Fordham University Press Critical Rhythm
Book SynopsisExplores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ben Glaser, 1 Rhythm’s Critiques Why Rhythm? Jonathan Culler, 21 What Is Called Rhythm? David Nowell Smith, 40 Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness Simon Jarvis, 60 Body, Throng, Race The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics Virginia Jackson, 87 Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body Haun Saussy, 106 Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm Erin Kappeler, 128 Beat and Count The Rhythms of the English Dolnik Derek Attridge, 153 How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper Thomas Cable, 174 Picturing Rhythm Meredith Martin, 197 Fictions of Rhythm Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds Natalie Gerber, 223 Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm? Yopie Prins 247 Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel” Ewan Jones, 274 Acknowledgments 297 List of Contributors 299 Index 303
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Fordham University Press The Two Cultures of English Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the discipline of English in North American universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with special attention directed toward the relationship between Rhetoric and Composition and literary theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23 2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60 3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92 4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131 5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156 Coda: English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193 Acknowledgments, 203 Notes, 205 Bibliography, 221 Index, 241
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Fordham University Press The Two Cultures of English Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the discipline of English in North American universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with special attention directed toward the relationship between Rhetoric and Composition and literary theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23 2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60 3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92 4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131 5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156 Coda: English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193 Acknowledgments, 203 Notes, 205 Bibliography, 221 Index, 241
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Fordham University Press Lives of the Dead Poets Keats Shelley Coleridge
Book SynopsisLives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It argues that this fascination with the poetic life—a special case of the attachments we form to poetic figures—speaks to the mode of poetry’s survival into modernity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Tracing Keats 29 2. The Art of Losing: Shelley’s Adonais 53 3. Shelley’s Pod People 76 4. Late Coleridge 92 5. Coleridge the Talker 115 Coda 133 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 139 Index 169
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