Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change: A Critical Companion
A guide to and analysis of the seminal book’s key concepts and methodology Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change, a text … Read more
Rhetoric
Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
“The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert “styles.” Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. … Read more
Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse
Horace’s Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical … Read more
Better Than Great: a Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
A veritable “tko of terminology,” Better Than Great is the essential guide for describing the extraordinary – the must have reference for anyone wishing to … Read more
Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing
Taking a unique approach to building your writing skills, Understanding Rhetoric is the one-and-only composition comic book. After shaking up writing classrooms at more than … Read more
Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
“Histories of communication are still relatively rare birds, but this one is distinctive on several grounds. The two authors are/were undisputed giants in the field. … Read more