Phillip Sipiora

James S. Baumlin

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role “timeliness” or “right-timing” plays in human deliberation, speech, and action.

Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

Rhetoric and Kairos

Tita French Baumlin

George H. Jensen

Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.

Theory and Practice

Post-Jungian Criticism

Features 16 original essays by prominent rhetoricians, critical theorists, and composition specialists, many of which offer alternative histories as well as reinterpretations of classic texts, thus expanding the canon, and locating and analyzing competing cultural traditions of ethos and ethical argument. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory

Ethos

William Edgar

Rachel Besara

Lavishly illustrated, Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place anthologizes forty essays¿eight original, by scholars working in diverse fields¿journal articles, book excerpts, and art/photo albums, all themed around the region¿s heritage of nature and culture intertwined.

The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place

Living Ozarks

Recounting the many live vaudeville acts and films that graced the theatre’s stage and screen, The Gillioz "Theatre Beautiful” presents a social history of entertainment through the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Sixties and the Seventies. Of note is the Springfield theatre’s hosting of three movie world premieres--with future U. S. president Ronald Reagan appearing in each.

Remembering Springfield's Theatre History, 1926-2006

The Gillioz "Theatre Beautiful"

Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing “theologies of language,” Baumlin reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Donne’s Songs and Sonets, and Milton’s “Lycidas” within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or “disenchantment” of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed “rhetoric of certitude.” Historians of rhetoric, of Reformation theology, and of renaissance literature will find this a carefully-argued, controversial, ground-breaking study.

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