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Argues that an underclass of rural whites is being left out of multicultural conversations. Katherine Kelleher Sohn shares how her own search for identity in the academic world parallels the journeys of eight non-traditional, working-class women. Through interviews and case studies, Sohn illustrates how academic literacy empowers women in their homes, jobs, and communities.

Using the rhetorical experiences of students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender, the author proposes a way of thinking about ethos that addresses the challenges of social justice, identity, and transfer issues in the classroom. She challenges writing teachers to consider ethos as a series of identity performances.

The second in a series of four illustrated guides to identifying aquatic and standing water plants in the central Midwest, this convenient reference volume includes descriptions, nomenclature, ecological information, and identification keys to plants in all of the monocot families except sedges that are found in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Arguing that rhetorical listening facilitates conscious identifications needed for cross-cultural communication, the author establishes eavesdropping, and listening pedagogically as approaches to rhetorical listening. She defines rhetorical listening, addressing identifications with gender and whiteness within public debates and pedagogy.

Introduces students to current issues in rhetorical theory through an extended treatment of the rhetorical appeal, a frequently used but rarely discussed concept at the core of rhetorical analysis and criticism. Shunning the standard Aristotelian approach the author uses common, accessible language to explain the concept of the rhetorical appeal.

An indictment of love, fixating on the paranoid relationship between body and state, on the dangerous relationship between family history and sexual history, and on the elusive relationship between gender and sexuality - specifically as experienced in the working-class towns of the southernmost Midwest.

This study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. It approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and attempts to change pedagogical approaches.

Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers - those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own. The book deconstructs the politics of celebrity, fashion, and conspicuous consumerism and analyzes class-passing as it relates to the American Dream, gender, and marriage.

Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, this collection of poems - seeking spiritual consolation within a material world - continues the trajectory of the author's previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume's tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath.

The first of 4 guides identifying aquatic and standing water plants in the central Midwest, this volume covers the Cyperaceae. It provides descriptions, illustrations and ways to identify any plant in the sedge family in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Habitat, notes and wetland designations are also listed.

With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Orioles rank among baseball's most storied teams. The Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colourful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis chronicles the club's early history and is reissued on the fiftieth anniversary of their first season in Baltimore.

Circle adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context.

Julie Jung augments the understanding and teaching of revision by arguing that the process should entail changing attitudes rather than simply changing texts. Jung analyses feminist texts to identify a revisionary rhetoric that is, at its core, most concerned with creating a space in which to engage productively with issues of difference.

In the process of providing an extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's ""Rear Window"", John Fawell also dismantles many myths and cliches about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women. The text demonstrates just how complex the film ""Rear Window"" really is.

This pedagogical approach to composition is based on the importance of the writer and the act of writing in the history of rhetoric. This paperback edition includes a new introductory chapter in which Miller addresses changes in the field since the first edition, outlines new research, and surveys positions she no longer supports.

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in this fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry.

A remarkable account of nineteenth-century medicine, politics, and personal life that recovers the captivating experiences of a Civil War-era regimental surgeon who was also a president of the Illinois State Medical Society and a United States consul in Mexico. In this first paperback edition, Trowbridge's memoirs are reprinted as they originally appeared.

Responding to contemporary discussion about using personal accounts in academic writing, this book draws on classical and current rhetorical theory, feminist theory, and relevant examples from both published writers and first-year writing students to illustrate the advantages of blending experiential and academic perspectives.

Responding to a growing pedagogical paralysis in debates over the nature and status of composition studies as an academic discipline, Lisa Ede offers a provocative and timely inquiry into the politics of composition's place in the academy.

Nick Tingle investigates the psychoanalytic dimensions of composition instruction to illustrate that mastering academic prose requires students to develop psychologically as well as cognitively.

A biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-20th-century author, poet, and playwright. Theatre historian Robert A. Schanke mines lost archival materials and interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and construct an account of her life and loves on Broadway and in Hollywood.

In Jon Pineda's debut collection Birthmark, loss takes the shape of a scar, memory the shape of a childhood, and identity the shape of a birthmark on a lover's thigh. Like water taking the form of its container, Pineda's poems swell to fill the lines of his experiences.

This text is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. The author asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is a result of the transaction between image and word.

This is a collection of art songs from contemporary African American composers.

A collection of six poignant dramas that strives to correct myths about Mercedes de Acosta.

This volume collects 19 contemporary baseball short stories characterized by the same elements that draw people to the sport itself: the mythologizing of the players; the obsessions and romance of the game; and the bonds between players and fans, parents and children.

Mapping out the relations of literacy and spirituality, Daniell tells the story of a diverse group of women who use reading and writing in order to find spiritual solutions to their problems. The text explores the implications for pedagogy and for empirical research in composition studies.

An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre.

This work argues for a developmental perspective to counter the fantasy held by many college faculty that students should, or could, be taught to write once so that ever after, they can write effectively on any topic, any place, any time.

In ""Fabulae"", Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, turning it over and over in her mind. Her poems find flaws in how we live in the world and suffer from desire but still come back to find delight in it - the language, the objects and the physical body.