Penn State University Press: 456 books
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes...
Divided Empire
Milton's Political Imagery
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1995
In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as...
by George Sand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to...
Speaking Hatefully
Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term “hate speech” as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűlöletbeszéd, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of...
Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle
The Decisive Decade, 1924–1933
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1992
In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles—love against hate,...
Intimations of Mortality
Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Heidegger’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. “The theme of mortality—finite human existence—pervades Heidegger’s...
The Smile of Tragedy
Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through...
The Platonic Political Art
A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2001
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be...
Language and Love
Introducing Augustine's Religious Thought Through the Confessions Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1994
This is the first work to combine an introduction to Augustine's Confessions with a larger outline of his mature theology. Mallard provides guidance for reading the narrative Confessions (Books I–IX) and at the same time, by certain extensions and comments, reveals the three major topical divisions...
Living Christianly
Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
The pseudonymous works Kierkegaard wrote during the period 1843–46 have been responsible for establishing his reputation as an important philosophical thinker, but for Kierkegaard himself, they were merely preparatory for what he saw as the primary task of his authorship: to elucidate the meaning...
Clarissa on the Continent
Translation and Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
"Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation...
Authority Figures
Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing...
Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics
Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics, Damien Pfister explores communicative practices in networked media environments, analyzing, in particular, how the blogosphere has changed the conduct and coverage of public debate. Pfister shows how the late modern imaginary was susceptible to “deliberation...