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Features the work of 15 scholars, who invite us to consider the theory of historiography: to re-ask difficult questions about the purposes and methodologies of writing histories of rhetorics, broadly defined, and to provoke us to question what it means, what it should mean, what it could mean to write histories of rhetoric, composition, communication.

Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social beliefs of their era of production.

This volume of communication theory applies dialogic confession to the works of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who pointed to an era of postmodern difference with his notion of ""a world come of age."" Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility develops a conceptual framework that will advance scholarship.

Vascular Flora of Illinois: A Field Guide, Fourth Edition, presents the most up-to-date nomenclature available, adding 29 new genera, 226 new species, and 28 new hybrids, and also notes where the status of taxa, as well as the nomenclature, has changed. Indexes for common names and for family and genus names are included.

Memoirs of Alan J. Dixon, former U.S. Senator from Illinois. The book is composed of around 120 short anecdotes, which are divided into six chapters corresponding to the stages of his political career.

The first book-length study in English of Cuban and Cuban American plays, Cuba Inside Out provides a framework for understanding texts and performances that support, challenge, and transgress boundaries of exile and nationalism. Prizant reveals the intricacies of how revolution is staged theatrically, socially, and politically on the island and in the Cuban diaspora.

The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship is no exception. In Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work, author Catherine C. Braun calls for a shift in thinking about the professional methods and digital goals of the English studies discipline and its central texts.

Though scholars have written much on emancipation and the U.S. Colored Troops, Smith's work frames the evolution of Lincoln's ideas within congressional actions, explaining how, when, and why the president seemed to be so halting in his progression to military emancipation. After tracing Lincoln's evolution from opposing to supporting emancipation as a necessary war measure and to championing the recruitment of black troops, Smith details the creation, mobilization, and diverse military service of the USCT.

Over the course of the Civil War, fifty-nine men served as governors of the twenty-five Union states. In this revealing volume, award-winning historian William C. Harris explores the complex relationship between Lincoln and the governors of the Union states, illuminating the contributions of these often-overlooked state leaders to the preservation of the nation.

In this broadly conceived study, Ralf Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive relationship between performance and its 'other', the grotesque.

This volume features 16 position papers by scholars and researchers of composition and rhetoric; most are followed by invited responses by other compositionists. They approach composition from a variety of perspectives including rhetorical, historical, social, cultural, political and economic.

In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only as a service discipline, this book demonstrates that it already is an intellectual discipline and has developed an impressive tradition of intellectual work in a range of subject areas.

Rosenthal notes that docudrama wields more influence than the documentary and that ""reality-based stories taken from topical journalism are the most popular drama genre on US and British television today"". This collection of essays addresses the dominant questions and controversies of the genre.

Examines the work of major postwar German director Volker Schloendorff 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 Schloendorff's work that are comparable to the work of Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder.

Tracks the champion of action films, sci-fi TV, vampire novels, and neo-Gothic comics. This title intends to bridge nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies in pursuit of an ambitious, antisocial, arrogant, and aggressively individualistic mode of hero from his inception in Byron's ""Manfred"", ""Childe Harold"", and ""Cain"".

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.

This work is an introduction to the cinema of mainland China from the early 1930s to the early 1990s. Emphasizing both film contexts and film texts, this study covers a broad cinematic analysis that includes investigations of cultural, cross-cultural, social, ethnic and political issues.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) acknowledged that she disliked the movies. Yet her fiction often referenced film and popular Hollywood culture, and she even sold the rights to several of her novels to Hollywood studios. This work explores these seeming contradictions and examines the texts in which Wharton referenced film and Hollywood culture.

Presents narratives that demystify and illuminate the research process by showing how personal experiences, family history, and scholarly research intersect. This book traces the importance of place in archival research and the parallels between the lives of research subjects and researchers.