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  • - Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing
    af Sarah Robbins
    668,95 kr.

    Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters--the domestic literacy narrative--and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century.

  • af Jane Greer
    668,95 kr.

    A Detailed Study of the Rhetorical Labor of Low- and No-Wage Women Workers Unaffiliated with Traditional Labor Unions

  • - Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations
    af Diane Davis
    618,95 kr.

    This 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

  • - Women's Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy
    af Sean Zwagerman
    618,95 kr.

    Wit's End is an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy, seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. Zwagerman argues that women, whose direct, explicit performative speech has been traditionally denied, or not taken seriously, have often turned to humor as a means of communicating with men.

  • - Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Literary Humanism
    af Walter Beale
    618,95 kr.

    This book seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric, and literary studies through the concept of symmetry (how words mirror thought, society, and our vision of the world). Honorable Mention, 2009 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Award

  • - Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies
    af Tim Mayers
    618,95 kr.

    Tim Mayers explores the nature of the contemporary English department with the intent of drawing connections between the usually separate fields of creative writing and composition studies.

  • - Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community
     
    678,95 kr.

    Scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications analyze how discourse is used to construct working-class identities. The essays connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality, among others.

  • - Literate Practices And Social Change
    af Gwen Gorzelsky
    618,95 kr.

    Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception.

  • - Composition And Postcolonial Studies
     
    618,95 kr.

    Crossing Borderlands contains essays examining the intersection between composition and postcolonial studies, two fields that seek to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed.

  • - Disturbing History 1819-1929
    af Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori
    678,95 kr.

    Mariolina Salvatori presents an anthology of documents that examine the evolution of American education in the nineteenth century and meaning of the word pedagogy.

  • - An Anthology Of Women's Rhetoric(s)
     
    558,95 kr.

    Available 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.

  • - The Postwar Discourse of Freshman English
    af Thomas M. Masters
    608,95 kr.

    Thomas 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.

  • - Institutional And Student Needs In Higher Education
    af Mary Soliday
    618,95 kr.

    Mary Soliday reveals that institutions' needs for remedial writing programs may outweigh students' needs for those same programs. Uses CCNY's open admissions policy as an in-depth case study, she questions the belief that language use is key to access to higher education. Winner of the 2004 CCCC Outstanding Book Award

  • af A. Suresh Canagarajah
    678,95 kr.

    Offers a critique of current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. Winner of the 2002 JAC Gary A. Olson Award

  • - Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil Rights Era
    af Steve Lamos
    618,95 kr.

    Using critical race theorist Derrick BellAEs concept of \u201cinterest convergence,\u201d Lamos shows that these programs were promoted or derailed according to how and when they fit the interests of underrepresented minorities and mainstream whites (administrators and academics).

  • - Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
    af Catherine Prendergast
    558,95 kr.

    English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. This book presents a study of how language lives in the imagination as much as in the world and an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive.

  • - Women In The Rhetorical Tradition
    af Andrea Lunsford
    678,95 kr.

    These essays examine how women from the period of ancient Greece all the way through to modern times have appropriated traditional forms of rhetoric and used them in women's discourse.

  • af Richard E. Miller
    618,95 kr.

    Richard E. Miller questions the current views of the relationship between the humanities and daily life, and proposes that, in the face of increasing violence, the humanities should become more important, not less. Winner of the 2006 CEE James H. Britton Award

  • - Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women
    af Jacqueline Jones Royster
    678,95 kr.

    This work offers a scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. It focuses on elite 19th-century African American women who used language with consequence.

  • - Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing
    af Rebecca Dingo
    558,95 kr.

    An original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally, and how it's often reconfigured to work both for and against women and to maintain existing power structures.

  • - Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos
    af Janet Eldred
    313,95 kr.

    New in PaperJanet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American public.

  • - Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas
    af David A. Joliffe & David A. Goldblatt
    613,95 kr.

    In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas.

  • - A Posthumanist Composition
    af Marilyn M. Cooper
    543,95 kr.

    Writing as a Social Practice and Embodied Behavior

  • - Reading the Archives of Composition
     
    678,95 kr.

    An original and significant study of the developmental diversity within the discipline of composition that opens the door to further examination of local histories as guideposts to the origins of composition studies.

  • - Word Medicine, Word Magic
     
    608,95 kr.

    The 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.

  • - The Rhetorical Tactics of the American Female Moral Reform Society, 1834-1854
    af Lisa Shaver
    553,95 kr.

    An Examination of the American Female Reform Society's Periodical That Delineates Rhetorical Tactics of the 19th Century Women's Reform Movement.

  • - The Rhetorical Tradition of the Tribes of the Inland Pacific Northwest
    af Barbara Monroe
    618,95 kr.

    In 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.

  • - Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century
     
    308,95 kr.

    Timely and provocative rhetorics representing critical issues of the 21st century.

  • - Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing
    af Stacey Waite
    613,95 kr.

    Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher.

  • - The Black Rhetorical Presence in White Culture
    af Cedric D. Burrows
    608,95 kr.

    An examination of the ways African American rhetoric becomes whitened when it crosses over into white audiences.