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Writing Genres

by Amy J. Devitt

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 Examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses. This book demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, and how they develop out of their contexts historically.
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William Burroughs And The Secret Of Fascination

by Oliver Harris

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 Examining the major works of Burroughs from the 1950s, Harris pieces together a material record of his creative history through an examination of his letter writing in real life, and in his fiction. Thus, the book suggests new ways to comprehend Burroughs's unique work and politics.
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Rhetorics Of Motherhood

by Lindal Buchanan

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Direct Theory - Experimental Motion Pictures As Major Genre

by Edward S. Small e Timothy Johnson

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Volker Schlondorff'S Cinema - Adaptation, Politics, And The "Movie-Appropriate"

by George Lellis

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 Examines the work of major postwar German director Volker Schlondorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambitiousness of Schlondorff's work that are comparable to the work of Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder.
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Liberating Language - Sites Of Rhetorical Education In Nineteenth-Century Black America

by Shirley Wilson Logan

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 Identifies experiences of 19th-century African Americans - categorized as sites of rhetorical education - that provided opportunities to develop communication and text-interpretation skills. This book shows how nontraditional sites, which seldom involved formal training in rhetorical instruction, proved effective for African American advancement.
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Dispositional Properties

by David Weissman

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 Attacks a problem central to the philosophy of mind and, by implication, to the theory of being: Are there potentialities, capabilities, which dispose the mind to think in one way rather than another?
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Rhetoric On The Margins Of Modernity - Vico, Condillac, Monboddo

by Catherine Hobbs

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 This text focuses primarily on the Neapolitan Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), the Frenchman Etienne de Condillac (1714-1780), and Lord Monboddo (1714-1780), whose work rhetoric and linguistics intertwine as they respond to emerging attitudes and values of science and philosophy in the 18th century.
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Literacy And Racial Justice - The Politics Of Learning After Brown V. Board Of Education

by Catherine Prendergast

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 Catherine Prendergast draws on various insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, providing a historical basis that informs debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations and high-stakes standardized testing.
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Composition Studies In The Millennium - Rereading The Past, Rewriting The Future

by Lynn Z. Bloom

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 Having emerged from presentations given at the national Writing Program Administrators' Conference, in 2001, this collection of 24 essays assesses and challenges the current state of writing instruction, charting new directions and approaching composition studies from different perspectives.
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Where Writing Begins - A Postmodern Reconstruction

by Michael Carter

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 Taking an innovative approach to the postmodern dilemma in rhetoric and composition, this study offers a positive and modern pedagogy that redefines and revalues writing and the teaching of writing through reconstructive, postmodern thought.
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Pelican Tracks

by Elton Glaser

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 This is a book of poems with a homing instinct: Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio. These reflections are extracted from the origins and ends of the poet's life.
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Shaping Information - The Rhetoric Of Visual Conventions

by Charles (Professor And Chair, Department Of English, Iowa State University, Usa) Kostelnick e Michael (Director Of Implementation, Envision Technology Solutions, Midvale, Utah, Usa) Hassett

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 In this wide-ranging analysis, the authors demonstrate how visual language in professional communication - text design, data displays, illustrations - is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified and modified by users in visual discourse communities.
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Unending Conversations - New Writings By And About Kenneth Burke

by Kenneth Burke

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 A collection of writings by and about Kenneth Burke. It includes portions of Burke's work toward the never-completed volume, "A Symbolic of Motives", plus essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H. Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael and Michael Feehan.
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Seduction, Sophistry And The Woman With The Rhetorical Figure

by Michelle Ballif

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 The rhetorical tradition, Michelle Ballif asserts, is based on the systematic exclusion of sophistry. In keeping with Aristotle's prescription, rhetoric continues to be a counterpart to dialect, a handmaiden to the pursuit of truth, even if that truth is merely probable.
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Rhetoric As Philosophy - The Humanist Tradition

by Ernesto Grassi

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 By going back to the Italian humanist tradition and aspects of earlier Greek and Latin thought, Ernesto Grassi develops a conception of rhetoric as the basis of philosophy. He explores the sense in which the first principles of rational thought come from the metaphorical power of the word.

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