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  • The Elements of Style ( 4th Edition)

    The Elements of Style is a must-have guidebook for anyone who wants to improve their writing skills. Written by William Strunk Jr. and revised by E.B. White, this book has been the go-to resource for generations of writers who want to write with clarity, grace, and style. The book covers everything from grammar and punctuation to style and usage, with clear and concise explanations and examples. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction

    Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

    by Dan Shen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Animal Who Writes

    A Posthumanist Composition

    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Cooper considers writing as a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference

    Series series Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
    Winner of the 2015 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge AwardUnlike much current writing studies research, Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference addresses conversations about diversity in higher education, institutional racism, and the teaching of writing by taking a microinteractional look at the ways people define themselves and are defined by others within institutional contexts. Focusing on four ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shared Land/Conflicting Identity

    Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use

    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an issue of land and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Spirits of the Cold War

    Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy

    by Ned O'Gorman ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    In spring of 1953, newly elected President Eisenhower sat down with his staff to discuss the state of American strategy in the cold war. America, he insisted, needed a new approach to an urgent situation. From this meeting emerged Eisenhower’s teams of “bright young fellows,” charged with developing competing policies, each of which would come to shape global politics. In Spirits of the Cold War, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Introducing Science through Images

    Cases of Visual Popularization

    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An examination of how images can serve as communication tools to popularize science in the public eyeAs funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis

    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    Case studies exploring the roots of persuasion and rhetorical unconsciousnessRhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion; in fact all intentional ... Read more

    $45.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City of Marble

    The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.—14 c. e.).Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legal Persuasion

    A Rhetorical Approach to the Science

    This book develops a central theme: legal persuasion results from making and breaking mental connections. This concept of making connections inspired the authors to take a rhetorical approach to the science of legal persuasion. That singular approach resulted in the integration of research from cognitive science with classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, and the application of these two ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing

    A New and Complete Annotated English Translation

    Edited by Natalya Baldyga ...
    While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations – the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767–69). This collection of 104 short essays represents one of the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Mourning in the Anthropocene

    Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence

    Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues in this eloquent and urgent book, our capacity to grieve for more-than-human others is neither natural nor inevitable. Weaving together personal narratives, theoretical meditations, and insightful readings of cultural artifacts, he suggests that ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory

    A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

    Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Persuasive Acts

    Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry

    Edited by Amy Dayton, Jennie Vaughn ...
    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    The historiography of feminist rhetorical research raises ethical questions about whose stories are told and how. Women and other marginalized people have been excluded historically from many formal institutions, and researchers in this field often turn to alternative archives to explore how women have used writing and rhetoric to participate in civic life, share their lived experiences, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Rhetoric of the "Corrupt Bargain" in the 1824 Election

    Clay, Jackson, and Democratic Strategy

    by Amos Kiewe ...
    In this book, Amos Kiewe explores the story of the 1824 Presidential election, when the House of Representatives elected the president after no candidate won outright the majority of the Electoral College. Though most in the nation assumed that Andrew Jackson, who won the popular vote and the plurality of the Electoral College, would be elected the presidency by the House, Kiewe demonstrates how ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations

    An Isocratean Model

    by Charles Marsh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Relations
    This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have proven to be fruitful fields of exploration. Charles Marsh presents Isocratean rhetoric as an instructive antecedent. Isocrates was praised by Cicero ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

    by Ian Barnard ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    **Winner of the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer ScholarshipAnalyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender**In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Intentions

    Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored

    by Arabella Lyon ...
    Series series Literature and Philosophy
    The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes how an audience's intentions affect their interpretations, shows how audiences negotiate ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Argument in Composition

    Series series Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
    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. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t

    How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes have been tallied and, more importantly, what this and similar practices signal to the electorate about the value of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies

    Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts

    Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts brings together national and transnational scholars from rhetoric, composition, writing studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to address food as a topic of inquiry and a matter of social and environmental justice. The contributors in this edited collection ... Read more

    $40.99 USD $34.99 USD

  • Democracy, Deliberation, and Education

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings.Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Communication in Legal Advocacy

    Series series Studies in Communication Process
    Communication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive anaysis of the communication processes in trials. Responding to the emerging interest in alternative dispute resolution, the book situates the trial within the broadercontext of dispute resolution, calling attention to the ways in which ... Read more

    $17.99 USD