This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect theory and how each of those ideas have been applied. The book then moves into discussing the unique elements of the rhetorical framework known as the rhetorrectional situation. Three case studies taken from the Christian tradi...

Whether intentional or not, the power of a moment in popular culture like The Witcher can illuminate and question what might be taken for granted or left unseen in our world. Theology, Religion and The Witcher: Gods and Golden Dragons takes a profound look at the intersection of popular culture and religious studies in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher. The twelve contributors offer close readings and analysis of an eclectic tapestry of characters and stories from ...

A musical-poetic collaboration of epic portion. Performance poet SETH reads his poetry collection A Black Odyssey to the musical accompaniment of 28 diverse musicians.Published in 2012, the collection’s language runs the gamut from the vernacular to the Elizabethan; everything from pattern poems, free verse, prose poems, sonnets to parodies of Mother Goose.Modeled after Homer’s Odyssey, using it as an allegorical scaffolding for the poet’s...

You can read this novel for its silliness and absurdity. Its author uses every trick in the book—and a few uniquely his own—to keep the laughs coming. You don’t have to take this novel seriously. You may enjoy merely for the fun of it.You can read this novel for its wit and flights of lyricism, its clever turns of phrasing, its pearls of wisdom and insight. Or for its complex plot, its unexpected twists and turns; its cast of bizarrely colorful characters.You can read this ...