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  • Rhetoric’s Pragmatism

    Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

    by Steven Mailloux ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.Following from the proposition that rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Interpretive Conventions

    The Reader in the Study of American Fiction

    by Steven Mailloux ...
    In Interpretive Conventions**, Steven Mailloux provides a general introduction to reader-response criticism while developing his own specific reader-oriented approach to literature.** He examines five influential theories of the reading process—those of Stanley Fish, Jonathan Culler, Wolfgang Iser, Norman Holland, and David Bleich. He goes on to argue the need for a more comprehensive reader ... Read more

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  • Little Women

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  • Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders

    by Jamie Whyte ...
    Uncover the truth under all the BSIn the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty. It's time we learned how to see through the rhetoric, faulty reasoning, and misinformation that we're subjected to from morning to night by talk-radio hosts, op-ed columnists, advertisers, self-help gurus, business "thinkers," and, of course, ... Read more

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  • David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    A Reader's Guide

    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a "three-stage rocket to the future," a work "equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life," while Time Magazine included Infinite ... Read more

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  • How to Win an Argument

    An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero, James M. May ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest oratorAll of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct—and often floundering or failing as a result—we’d win more arguments if we learned ... Read more

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  • Doublespeak

    by William Lutz ...
    Series Book 1 - Rebel Reads
    Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or "bureaucratese," and inflated language—showing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine ... Read more

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  • Hugging the Shore

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even ... Read more

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