Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809330935 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersections between scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies is the first examination of rhetorical practice in the research and teaching of literary study and a detailed assessment of the ethics and efficacy of explicit instruction in the rhetorical strategies and genre conventions of the discipline.Using rhetorical analysis, ethnographic...
Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersecti...
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257,27 zł |
Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies
ISBN: 9780809331147 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research. What does it mean to research writing today? What are the practical and theoretical issues researchers face when approaching writing as they do? What are the gains or limitations of applying particular methods, and what might researchers be overlooking? These questions and more are answered by the writing research field s leading scholars in "Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies." Editors Nickoson and Sheridan gather twenty chapters from leaders in... An essential reference for students and scholars exploring the methods and methodologies of writing research. What does it mean to research writi... |
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257,27 zł |
Alterszäsuren
ISBN: 9783110254785 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der textwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Sammelband stellt den Begriff der 'Alterszasur' als heuristisches Instrument in den Mittelpunkt, um das Problem der Messbarkeit und sinnhaften Strukturierung von Lebenszeit in ihrer historischen Bedingtheit nachzuzeichnen. Die Beitrage untersuchen aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, theologischer und historischer Perspektive Texte von der altorientalischen Zeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert und fragen, wie die Ubergange von Lebensphasen dazu Anlass gaben, uber die individuelle Lebenszeit und die gesellschaftlich-kulturell gepragten Erwartungsnormen fur die... Der textwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Sammelband stellt den Begriff der 'Alterszasur' als heuristisches Instrument in den Mittelpunkt, um das Prob... |
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522,87 zł |
Collective Brightness: Lgbtiq Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality
ISBN: 9780983293194 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Says Rigoberto Gonzalez of National Book Critics Circle, "COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS sheds a shining light on a journey that no longer takes place in the dark. The glory of holding Kevin Simmonds's anthology in one's hands is that it...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the ...
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119,71 zł |
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
ISBN: 9780739142592 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives, in order to portray how Joseph Nye's notion of "soft power" has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence. The book examines four cases - Japan, Venezuela, China, and the United States - to illuminate the particular significance of culture, foreign publics, and communication technologies for the foreign policy ambitions of each country. The book explores the notion of soft power as set of theoretical...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication init...
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236,08 zł |
Centrist Rhetoric: The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency
ISBN: 9780739139813 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What exactly is happening when politicians evoke a center space beyond partisan politics to advance what are unmistakably political arguments? Drawing from an analysis of pivotal speeches surrounding Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and first term in office, Centrist Rhetoric: The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency takes an extended look at this question by showing how the possibility of political transcendence takes form in the rhetoric of the political center. Faced with a divided and shrinking party, and later with a pitched battle against a resurgent...
What exactly is happening when politicians evoke a center space beyond partisan politics to advance what are unmistakably political arguments? Drawing...
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225,35 zł |
Thomas De Quincey : British Rhetoric's Romantic Turn
ISBN: 9780809331482 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging volume gives proper attention to the views on rhetoric and style set forth by British literary figure Thomas De Quincey (1785 1859), whose contributions to the history of rhetoric are often overlooked. Lois Peters Agnew presents an overview of this theorist s life and provides cultural context for his time and place, with particular emphasis on the significance of his rhetoric as both an alternative strain of rhetorical history and a previously unrealized example of rhetoric s transformation in nineteenth-century Britain. This wide-ranging volume gives proper attention to the views on rhetoric and style set forth by British literary figure Thomas De Quincey (1785 185... |
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203,62 zł |
Tend Your Garden: Nuturing Motivation in Young Adolescent Writer
ISBN: 9781845534516 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This teaching guide is based upon the Young Adolescent Motivation Model of Writing (YAMM). YAMM places the young learner, aged 11-14, at its centre, surrounded by the components needed to motivate them to high levels of academic composition or creative writing. The book shows how to develop a writing community, present high-interest lessons, integrate process writing across the curriculum, offer choice, encourage critical thinking and use authentic assessment. Literature, drama, music, drawing and painting are offered as both invitations and responses to writing. These are applied within a...
This teaching guide is based upon the Young Adolescent Motivation Model of Writing (YAMM). YAMM places the young learner, aged 11-14, at its centre, s...
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160,97 zł |
International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context
ISBN: 9780415522540 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries.
Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging...
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433,21 zł |
The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate
ISBN: 9781570037863 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael J. Hyde's pathbreaking study considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to one of the most controversial issues of our time-euthanasia. Hyde investigates how the practice of rhetoric becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of individuals and communities. In doing so, he offers the first extensive treatment of Martin Heidegger's and Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical investigations of conscience and an in-depth analysis of the justifiability and social acceptability of euthanasia. Hyde establishes...
Michael J. Hyde's pathbreaking study considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to one...
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170,88 zł |
Writing in Knowledge Societies
ISBN: 9781602352681 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES helps us conceptualize the ways in which rhetoric...
The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writi...
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215,67 zł |
Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity
ISBN: 9781602584037 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation--a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence--Thomas Lessl traces the evolving role and public identity of science in the West. As the Reformation gave way to the Enlightenment, notions of Providence evolved into progress. History's divine plan could now be found in nature, and scientists became history's new prophets. With Darwin and the emergence of... Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the ... |
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276,13 zł |
Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas
ISBN: 9781610485876 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.
Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective g...
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327,30 zł |
Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
ISBN: 9781611170542 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle Exhortation focuses on one of the most time-honored forms of motivational communication, the encouraging speech of military commanders, to offer a pragmatic and scholarly evaluation of how persuasion contributes to combat leadership and military morale.
In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary loo...
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136,69 zł |
Tend Your Garden: Nuturing Motivation in Young Adolescent Writer
ISBN: 9781845534509 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This teaching guide is based upon the Young Adolescent Motivation Model of Writing (YAMM). YAMM places the young learner, aged 11-14, at its centre, surrounded by the components needed to motivate them to high levels of academic composition or creative writing. The book shows how to develop a writing community, present high-interest lessons, integrate process writing across the curriculum, offer choice, encourage critical thinking and use authentic assessment. Literature, drama, music, drawing and painting are offered as both invitations and responses to writing. These are applied within a...
This teaching guide is based upon the Young Adolescent Motivation Model of Writing (YAMM). YAMM places the young learner, aged 11-14, at its centre, s...
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482,90 zł |
Writing: A Mosaic of New Perspectives
ISBN: 9781848728127 / Angielski / Twarda / 505 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy, unified, and comprehensive source of information to satisfy their interest. The goal of this book is to fill this void by reflecting on the phenomenon of writing from a developmental perspective.
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psycholog...
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790,07 zł |
Erzähltheorie in Mediävistischer Perspektive
ISBN: 9783110240382 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narratology from the Perspective of Medieval Studies systematically compiles research on the "otherness" of medieval narratives. It places a particular focus on the way that narrative forms are always linked to the meaning of narrative content. Key topics include genre, narrative patterns, connections to contemporary world knowledge, models of time and space, plot structure, and narrator concepts. The book is primarily intended for medievalists and advanced students. Narratology from the Perspective of Medieval Studies systematically compiles research on the "otherness" of medieval narratives. It places... |
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Actio
ISBN: 9783110266368 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Reihe Studien zur deutschen Literatur prasentiert herausragende Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Fruhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Offen besonders auch fur komparatistische, kulturwissenschaftliche und wissensgeschichtliche Fragestellungen, bietet sie ein traditionsreiches Forum fur innovative literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung. Alle eingesandten Manuskripte werden doppelt begutachtet. Informationen zum Bewerbungsverfahren und zu Druckkostenzuschussen erhalten Sie beim Verlag. Wenden Sie sich dazu bitte an die zustandige Lektorin Dr.... Die Reihe Studien zur deutschen Literatur prasentiert herausragende Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Fruhen Neuzeit ... |
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522,87 zł |
Die Rhetorik des Spitzensports
ISBN: 9783110274493 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Korperliche Aktion wird erst durch Kommunikation zum Sport. Das Zusammenspiel von dramaturgischen Regeln und rhetorischen Mustern konstituiert sportliches Geschehen als sinnvolles Ereignis. Auf diesem Hintergrund zeigt die vorliegende Studie die Funktion des Sportberichts fur den Sport als Bedingung seiner Moglichkeit. Der Sportbericht erzahlt die Geschichten, deretwegen es den Sport uberhaupt gibt. Besonders im massenmedial vermittelten Spitzensport entstehen dann lehrreiche, amusante oder ergreifende Schauspiele auf den Buhnen physischer und psychischer Leistung. Korperliche Aktion wird erst durch Kommunikation zum Sport. Das Zusammenspiel von dramaturgischen Regeln und rhetorischen Mustern konstituiert spor... |
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501,07 zł |
Vicente Ximenes, Lbj's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780809336395 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three presidential administrations, joining Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and later emerging as one of the highest-ranking appointees in Johnson's administration. One of the most influential government representatives of Mexican American issues in recent history, Ximenes succeeded largely because he could adapt his rhetoric for different audiences in his speeches and writings. In Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil...
Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three...
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262,64 zł |