In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.Tapping previously unexplored sour
Philip L. Simpson provides an original and broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s.
This comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the spe-cialized handbooks of the individual stocks.?The text begins with an in
In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of ?is” and more as sociopolitical questions of ?ought.” Instead of asking ?Wha
Edith Wharton (1862?1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as an
Examining the Mexican American civil rights movement through the public rhetoric of a veteran activistHéctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights examines the tran
Once labeled the “lot that laugher built,” the Hal Roach Studios launched the comedic careers of such screen icons as Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy. With this stable of stars, the Roach
When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the years 191020, the world of live drama was wide open for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit of antico
Applying research findings from studies in visual perception, neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and anthropology, Joseph D. Anderson defines the complex interaction of m
John W. Cones, whose real goal is to stimulate a long-term film industry reform movement, shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major studios and distributors actual
In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumpt
In Lectures on Ethics, 1900?1901, Donald F. Koch supplies the only extant complete transcription of the annual three-course sequence on ethics John Dewey gave at the University of Chicago. In his in
Payne (theater, Wake Forest U.) here revises his standard monograph (2d ed., 1981). Major change is the use of the computer. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Rural Literacies identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas, and reviews traditional misrepresentati
As part of the sixteenth century’s intellectual "triumvirate," which included Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon, Justus Lipsius formulated a humanist scholarship aimed ultimately at practical applica
John W. Cones, whose real goal is to stimulate a long-term film industry reform movement, shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major studios and distributors actual
Poets of every age deal with roughly the same human emotions, and for the experienced reader poetry is interesting or not depending upon the moment-by-moment intensity of its appeal. This skillful ren
A collection of all of Dewey’s writings for 1920 with the excep-tion of Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. The nineteen items
When the 1990 English docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? cast serious doubt on the guilt of six men convicted of bombing two British pubs in 1974, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that a "telev
At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway?and, by extension, of American theatre itself?former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six pract
