University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Candice Rai’s Democracy’s Lot is an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing,...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Reclaiming Queer
Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities,...
by Cheryl Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Black examines the roles a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America, demonstrating their influence on 20th-century dramaturgy and culture.
Perhaps most notable for its discovery of two significant American playwrights--Eugene O'Neill and Susan...
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums,...
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects.
With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia,...
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton’s central argument...
by Ronald Berman
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors.
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway came into their own in the 1920s and did some of their best writing during that decade. In a series of interrelated essays, Ronald Berman considers an array of novels...
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal...
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents...
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
Since the 1960s, hostility and mistrust toward the U.S. government has risen precipitously. At the same time, the field of public administration has wrestled with its own crisis of legitimacy. What is at the root of current antigovernment sentiment? Conventionally, two explanations for this problem...
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian...
by Steven C. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both...
The Island Called Paradise
Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.
In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery of the vast,...