Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, 1865-1911 examines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expe
Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to ch
Art as Experience evolved from John Dewey’s Willam James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University from February to May 1931. In his Introduction, Abraham Kaplan places Dewey’s philosophy of art withi
Except for Democracy and Education, the 53 items in Volume 10 include all of Dewey’s writings from 1916–1917, the years when he moved into politics and began to write about topics of general public in
In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only a service discipline, editor Gary A. Olson’s Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work demonstrates that it already
Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, whose works were first published in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, constituted the great triumvirate of British rhetoricians. This is a repri
As long-term collaborators whose research includes a study of collaborative writing funded by FIPSE (the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education), Ede and Lunsford challenge the assumptio
After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensi
Steven Adler examines the dynamic life and workings of the theatre company responsible for some of the world’s most compelling performances and influential productions of the last forty years, includi
Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence.Textual gaps, narrative la
Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that “no rhetoric—not Plato’s or Aristotle’s or
Roughly chronological, these essays explore Barnes’ early work in the New York newspaper world of the ‘teens, proceed through the 1954 publication of The Antiphon, and include several approaches to su
Contains Cicero’s De Oratore and Brutus, influential sources over the centuries for ideas on rhetoric and train-ing for public leadership.?The De Oratore, written in 55 B.C., argues that rhetoric is s
Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome.This unique anthology of primary texts in classical rhetoric contain
John Henry Newman (1801?1890) was very much a man of his time?an eminent Victorian philosopher and theologian who formed part of an influential Romantic movement in literature, art, and architecture.
Originally published in Scribner’s, The Cosmopolitan, McClure’s, and Lippincott’s, Sarah Orne Jewett’s stories about Irish immigrant figures constitute a neglected corner of h
In the fall semester of 1772/73 at the Albertus University of Konigsberg, Immanuel Kant, metaphysician and professor of logic and metaphysics, began lectures on anthropology, which he continued until
Volume 8 dis-cusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the ?English Ballad-Singer,” boxing champion of England, ?Gentleman” John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family? Charles,
Volumes three and four of this monumen-tal work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers?Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria?Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, Geo
Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy examines the significant roles that theater patrons have played in shaping and developing theater in the United States. Because box
