Language Arts & Disciplines
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Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny PressOne of Hyperallergic's Top Ten Art Books for 2021Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York before the Civil War. A majority of these newspapers, even those that proclaimed independence of party, were motivated by political conviction and often local conflicts. Their...
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Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual ConditionbWinner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literaturesr bHonorable Mention for The 2014 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studiesr Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned "mother...
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Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied ListeningIn Sounding Composition Steph Ceraso reimagines listening education to account for twenty-first-century sonic practices and experiences. Sonic technologies such as audio editing platforms and music software allow students to control sound in ways that were not always possible for the average listener. While digital...
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Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical BeingIn Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer...
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Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal InfluenceSince the late 1950s, the idea that hidden, imperceptible messages could influence mass behavior has been debated, feared, and ridiculed. In Swift Viewing, Charles R. Acland reveals the secret story of subliminal influence, showing how an obscure concept from experimental psychology became a mainstream...
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Punctuation: Art, Politics, and PlayIn Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of...
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Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental EducationKnowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief...
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The New Short Story TheoriesThe first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which has enjoyed...
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Granville Sharp's Canon and Its Kin: Semantics and SignificanceGranville Sharp s Canon and Its Kin explains that the semantics of the article-substantive-KAI-substantive construction (TSKS) have been largely misunderstood and that this misunderstanding has adversely impacted the exegesis of several theologically significant texts. This issue is addressed from three angles: historical investigation, linguistic-phenomenological...
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The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's CraftThe Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we...
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Words about Picturesdigital cover files included on CD scan text pages from provided book align text page on 9/16 " head margin and 3/4" gutter marginAuthor: Perry NodelmanPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublished: 08/10/1990Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9780820312712About the AuthorPerry Nodelman...
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Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social ChangeSocial Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume in which editor Mia Long Anderson and various contributors identify and discuss athletes who have been at the forefront of social movements to lead change...
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Starting Your Television Writing Career: The Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop GuideIn this essential guide, Abby Finer and Deborah Pearlman of the Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop reveal insider tips and tricks aimed at paving the way to better scripts by new writers. The book focuses on all aspects of writing for television, from the...
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Data for Journalists: A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted ReportingThis straightforward and effective how-to guide provides the basics for any reporter or journalism student beginning to use data for news stories. It has step-by-step instructions on how to do basic data analysis in journalism while addressing why these digital tools should be an...
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Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of CitizenshipInconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship draws attention to how intersecting networks of power--particularly race and ethnicity, gender, and social class--marginalize transnational subjects who find themselves outside a dominant citizenship that privileges familiarity and socioeconomic and racial superiority. In this study...
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Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic LifeWinner of the Norman Denzin Award for her work from the National Communications Association How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity...
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The Early Christian BookFrom the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and conceptualized in the early Christian centuries (AD 100--600). During this crucial...
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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English LanguageDo you cringe when a talking head pronounces "niche" as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with "and"? Do you think British spellings are more "civilised" than the American versions? If you answered yes to any...
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Some Questions about Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its ObjectsHow do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What is the meaning of the words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to...
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Designing Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod ApproachDesigning Information Literacy Instruction: The Teaching Tripod Approach provides a working knowledge of how instructional design (ID) applies to information literacy instruction (ILI). Its how to do it approach is directed at instruction librarians in all library settings and deals with both face-to-face and...
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