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The first book to address the long and significant history--and future--of Jesuit rhetoric as the core of a liberal arts education.

This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present. Much of the history of how Jesuit traditions contributed to the development of rhetorical theory and pedagogy has been lost, effaced, or dispersed. As a result, those interested in Jesuit education and higher education in the...

This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.

Originally published in 1898, "Landlopers" is a timeless story of freedom and mateship on the track. The book describes a four week long journey from Sydney through to the Wombeyan Caves, Southern Highlands and South Coast and back to Sydney. The remarkable thing about the journey is that Mr Knight and his companion Bill (The Boy) undertook it on foot, in swagman fashion. Author John Le Gay Brereton brings to life the landscape and characters of turn of the 20th Century New South Wales in such a manner that the book has been adopted by those hardy folk of the 21st Century who choose to...