Southern Illinois University Press imprint: 153 books
Rewriting Composition
Terms of Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Bruce Horner’s *Rewriting Composition: Terms of Exchange *shows how dominant inflections of key terms in composition—language, labor, value/evaluation, discipline, and composition itself—reinforce composition’s low institutional status and the poor working conditions of many of its...
Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric
Defending Academic Discourse against Postmodern Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In *Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric, *Donald Lazere calls for revival of NCTE resolutions in the 1970s for teaching the “critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the persuasive techniques in political statements, advertising,...
Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism
Literacy, Education, and Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The image of the lazy, media-obsessed American, preoccupied with vanity and consumerism, permeates popular culture and fuels critiques of American education. In Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism, Kelly Susan Bradbury challenges this image by examining and reimagining widespread...
Secret Habits
Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Literacy historians have credited the Protestant mandate to read scripture, as well as Protestant schools, for advances in American literacy. This belief, however, has overshadowed other important efforts and led to an incomplete understanding of our literacy history. In Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy...
Antebellum American Women's Poetry
A Rhetoric of Sentiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
by Brendan Galvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
An endangered right whale attempting to nurse her new calf in the December ocean, foxgloves blooming in different places from year to year, or the rescue of imperiled Kemp’s ridley sea turtles—the bounty and cruelty of nature infuses this latest collection of poems from Brendan Galvin, which takes...
Adapturgy
The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and participate in the process of adaptation for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”—her neologism for the art of adaptation dramaturgy—Barnette redefines the dramaturg’s...
Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893
The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the fair’s 633...
Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
From 1855 until 1863, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians, a professional acting company of approximately thirty children, entertained audiences with their nuanced performances of adult roles on stages around the globe. In Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh...
Ambiguous Borderlands
Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The image of the shadow in mid-twentieth-century America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson...
St. Louis and Empire
250 Years of Imperial Quest and Urban Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
At first glance, St. Louis, Missouri, or any American city, for that matter, seems to have little to do with foreign relations, a field ostensibly conducted on a nation-state level. However, St. Louis, despite its status as an inland river city frequently relegated to the backwaters of national significance,...
Beyond Mammoth Cave
A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
In Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World’ s Longest Cave, James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker provide gripping first-person accounts of the discoveries, including Roppel Cave, that made Kentucky’ s Mammoth Cave three times longer than any other cave in the world.
Borden,...
Working in the Wings
New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre,...