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Composition-Rhetoric is a story of the people who have studied and taught composition in American colleges since the early nineteenth century. It shows where many of the practices and assumptions about writing that today's teachers use come from, and it translates what our theories and techniques of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language, and life.Like all rhetorics through history, Robert J. Connors asserts, American composition-rhetoric derived from human needs, fears, and desires. He locates the beginning of a new rhetorical tradition in the mid-nineteenth century, when America's burgeoning managerial and professional classes demanded increased literacy skills. From there, he discusses the theoretical and pedagogical innovations of the last two centuries as the result of historical forces, social needs, and cultural shifts. Among these are the rise of social classes and the demand for formal correctness, the development of the university system and scholarly fields, the evolution of the textbook, and the establishment of women's colleges and coeducational institutions.Connors breaks the history of composition-rhetoric into several distinct eras. The early American period (1800-1860) taught students both oral and written discourse. In the postwar period (1860-1885), scores of competing new ideas were put forward to solve the problems of teaching writing. The consolidation period (1885-1910) tested those new ideas in the first waves of compulsory writing courses. The post-1910 modern period of composition-rhetoric was a period of relative stasis that is usually associated with the pejorative uses of the term "current-traditional rhetoric". Themodern period lasted through 1960 or so, after which its tenets were challenged and informed by a new discipline, composition studies, the defining characteristic of the contemporary world of composition-rhetoric.This important book proves that American composition-rhetoric is a genuine rhetorical tradition with its own evolving theoria and praxis. As such it will be an essential reference for all teachers of English and students of American education."This book portrays in deft strokes and substantial detail the first formulations of a newly emergent subject area -- 'composition-rhetoric.' Composition theorists and historians will be satisfied that they have a richer, more concrete framework for study than they had before". Cy Knoblauch, State University of New York at Albany

In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation--the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence.

Kaleidoscope of Poland is a highly readable volume containing short articles on major personalities, places, events, and accomplishments from the thousand-year record of Polish history and culture. Featuring approximately 900 compact text entries and 600 illustrations, it provides a handy reference at home, a perfect supplement to traditional guide books when traveling, an aid to language study, or simply browsed with enjoyment from cover to cover by anyone with an interest in Poland. Essentially a "cultural dictionary," it offers a knowledge base that can be referred to time and time again.

Winner of the 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize "There is something in American poetry that might be called the book of the small town or, equally, the tale of the good family; or, if you like, the American Grafitti Suite. Poems that discover life's bonuses in new love, wise parents, old books, venerable nature, and the mysteries of all that endures in the face of the viciousness no life escapes--are, well, worth the wait. That's how I feel about Paper Anniversary. His poems are full of the best news, the kind the soul, as W. C. Williams attested, can get nowhere better than in the life of the lively mind. I think any reader will find this an auspicious, welcome arrival."--Dave Smith

Letters Detailing Highly Productive and Wide-Ranging Research

A Lament for the Casualties of Corporate Destruction, Racism, War, and Personal Loss

Explores Mexico's Long History of State-Influenced Engineering

Traces the Evolution of Radium from a Scientific Object to a Desirable Commodity

A Hard-Hitting and Provocative Rethinking of American Culinary History

A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning Poet

Calls for an Honest Reckoning of the Successes, Failures, and Unanticipated Results of International Developments

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil's Ultraconservative Movement

Examines the Administrative Challenges and Politics Associated with Fracking in Pennsylvania

Letters Showing Tyndall's Widespread Esteem and Increasing Social Status

The First Systematic Academic History of the Study of Biological Rhythms

Death of the Daily News Sounds a Warning for an Unfolding American Crisis

Winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

A Provocative Examination of the Origin of Imagination