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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 of inquiry. Discourse studies, Yarbrough argues, does not support the idea that languages, cultures, or conceptual schemes in general adequately describe linguistic competence.

Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to the US. Thomas P. Miller argues that Witherspoon's career exemplifies the Ciceronian ideal, and the eight selections Miller presents from the 1802 American edition of the Works corroborate that claim.

A reformer who was always provocative and controversial, Dan Walker became a political maverick, winning two tough elections to become governor of Illinois. This work tells the story of Walker's rise from dirt-poor beginnings to successful trial lawyer, business executive, and governor of Illinois and then to the fall that sent him to prison.

Offers a comprehensive auteurist study of the renowned Italian director, Federico Fellini. This book dispenses with a traditional film-career review of the man and instead organizes his discussion of Fellini's films into seven categories. It explores Fellini's narrative form and visual presentation and examines the fictionalized autobiography.

Most people do not realize it, but Chicago is home to many diverse, artistic, fascinating, and architecturally and historically important fountains. In this attractive volume, Greg Borzo reveals more than one hundred outdoor public fountains of Chicago with noteworthy, amusing, or surprising stories about these gems. Complementing Borzo's text are around one hundred fine art colour photos.

From his early years as a smalltown lawyer through his rise to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln respected the rule of law. In this incisive essay collection, scholars from a variety of academic disciplines explore Lincoln's actions as president and identify within his decisionmaking process his commitment to law and order and the principles of the Constitution.

In this collection, poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present. After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her cancer into "these binoculars, / this new way of looking", and uses it as a way of fixing herself firmly within the moment.

The coal mining photographs of C. William Horrell, taken across the southern Illinois Coal Belt over a twenty-year period from 1966 to 1986, are extraordinary examples of documentary photography-so stark and striking that captions seem superfluous. Horrell's photographs, reproduced in fine duotone lithography, capture the varied phenomena of twentieth-century coal mining technology.

Reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century. Examining dramatic works in water and performances at four water parks, Jennifer A. Kokai shows that the evolution of these works and performances helps us better understand our ever-changing relationship with the oceans and their inhabitants.

Focuses on a number of overlooked themes and ideas, such as the importance of literary allusion and the general public's knowledge of the Bible in the age of Abraham Lincoln. This title focuses on a number of themes and ideas, such as the importance of literary allusion and the general public's knowledge of the Bible in the age of Lincoln.

For decades, the creative writing workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. In Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley gather together contributing experts from both creative writing and composition studies to offer innovative alternatives to the traditional creative writing workshop.

Collection of essays that draws on the concept of abductive logic, originally introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce, to imagine new areas of writing studies research.

Shows the interplay between the major groups travelling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830-1860. It's a lively, extensively illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.

Presents the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.

Literacy histories, even those seeking to incorporate greater diversity in race and gender, have tended to focus on academic institutions. Circulating Literacy speaks to, and connects, the topics of rural studies, literacy sponsorship and identity, gender, and professionalization, arguing for value in the study of periodicals as education tools.

Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of resources, craft breweries have proliferated by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft beer as a case study to demonstrate how social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter function to shape stories about craft.

Situated between the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Southern Illinois country is rich in history, folk lore, scenery, and natural resources. The area is the natural terminal boundary for hundreds of plant species reaching out to all points of the compass. It is also the oldest and most sparsely populated part of Illinois, a region of small towns and independent people.

Reveals how identifications with racialized whiteness continue to manifest themselves in American culture. The sixteen essays that comprise this collection not only render visible how racialized whiteness infiltrates twenty-first-century discourses and material spaces but also offer critical tactics for disrupting this normative whiteness.

Despite the importance of the First World War years, this period has not been documented adequately in histories of Chicago. In Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City, Joseph Gustaitis fills this gap in the historical record, covering the important wartime events, developments, movements, and people that helped shaped Chicago.

Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow's latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two communities that speak in very different and often conflicting terms.

The first book to focus solely on the program and its history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), details the organization's greatest moments, from its origins around the beginning of the twentieth century through the extraordinary leadership of head coaches William McAndrew, Rey Dempsey, and Jerry Kill, to the present-day team and its coach, local hero Nick Hill.

The third and final volume in botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock's comprehensive sequence of books on the aster family in Illinois. In this volume, Mohlenbrock identifies 128 species in 49 genera with 11 hybrids and 57 lesser taxa. He provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its uses, if applicable.

Sass Brown's darkly funny debut collection of poems explores both the isolation and the absurdity of twenty-something apartment living. The world Brown creates in USA1000 overflows with infomercials, classic Hollywood films, billboard messages, strip clubs, and fortunetellers, illuminating our complex relationship with consumerism.

Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows is the first comprehensive look at Chicago's horror movie programmes, from their inception in 1957 to the present.

Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre-Civil War American discourse. Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos of poems by Frances Watkins Harper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Julia Ward Howe.