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African American Rhetoric(s)
African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an introduction to fundamental concepts and a systematic integration of historical and contemporary lines of inquiry in the study of African American rhetorics. Edited…
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After Rhetoric
Aware that categorical thinking imposes restrictions on the ways we communicate, Stephen R. Yarbrough proposes discourse studies as an alternative to rhetoric and philosophy, both of which are structuralistic systems…
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After the Death of Literature
Calling Samuel Johnson the greatest literary critic since Aristotle, Richard B. Schwartz assumes the perspective of that quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters to examine the critical and theoretical literary developments…
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Air Transport Labor Relations
Robert W. Kaps examines air transport labor law in the United States as well as the underlying legislative and policy directives established by the federal government. The body of legislation…
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Aliens
How and when does there come to be an “anthropology of the alien?” This set of essays, written for the eighth J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction,…
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All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work
From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work… “Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready…
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All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work
From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work… “Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready…
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Always Danger
Always Danger offers a lyrical and highly imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people’s lives—whether it’s violence, war, mental illness, car accidents, or the fury of Mother Nature. In…
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Always of Home
Edgar Allen Imhoff renders a series of touching, colorful vignettes about growing up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression. He writes poignantly of his family and their struggles (including…
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American Flamingo
Taking its title from an Audubon painting, American Flamingo shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a larger sense of time and place through…
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American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking
The Japanese army’s brutal four-month occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as “the rape of Nanking.” As they slaughtered an…
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American Silent Film
Gregg Bachman and Thomas J. Slater present an array of essays that reveal the incredible complexity of silent films and the era in which they were produced. Essentially, silent films…