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Lillian Hellman: A Life With Foxes And Scoundrels, Deborah Martinson

Deborah Martinson

Presents the first biography of the playwright written with the full cooperation of her family, friends, and inner circle, and discusses the life and career of the controversial writer.

Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher, Robert Bray

Robert Bray

No abstract provided.

Continuing Education In Technical Communication, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

In the November 1995 issue of Technical Communication, Krestas, Fisher, and Hackos described the "dramatic changes" occurring in business and industry. These changes were shifting the focus of continuing education toward topics of leadership and management. Ten years later, our field is evolving more quickly than ever, focused now not on topics such as those described in 1995, but on the very nature of technical communication itself.

The Lone Ranger, Charlie Sweet

Charlie Sweet

The Fifties in America surveys the events and people of all of North America during the 1950's. This three-volume publication, Salem Press's second reference set on a twentieth century decade, is modeled on the award-winning The Sixties in America (1999). The 1950's are often portrayed as an uneventful era in North American history - a period of political and cultural conservatism. The decade was in fact a period of political turbulence, mounting world conflict, and cultural change. The 1950's experienced the Cold War, McCarthyism and a trend toward the suppression of civil liberties.

Visual Synecdoche And Metonymy: Rhetoric For Stage-Setting Images, Russell Willerton

Russell Willerton

The recent trend of incorporating more visuals into communication challenges technical communicators, who must now possess both verbal and visual literacy. Despite all the recent scholarship on visual aspects of technical communication, technical communicators lack thorough guidelines for selecting and composing effective images that convey thematic and conceptual information, or what Schriver calls "stage-setting" images. This article reviews existing literature in visual communication and reports results of a study that assessed readers' opinions of themes conveyed by specific example images. It then suggests that the rhetorical tropes of metonymy and synecdoche can be used to identify images for conveying certain …

Solving The Multilevel Dilemma, Bradley Baurain

Bradley Baurain

No abstract provided.

Masochistic Modernisms: A Reading Of Eliot And Woolf, Eve Sorum

Eve C Sorum

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Kämiks, Thomas Keegan

Tom Keegan

This essay introduces the articles published in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies' "Kämiks" issue and discusses the shared terrain of comics, William Blake, and contemporary film.

Horn Of Plenty, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

Julia Archer had just sat down in the Lexington Opera House lounge when a stranger slipped onto the sear beside her at the bar. He had on black pants and a black shirt like the orchestra's horn section wore, and he was carrying a battered instrument case.

New Variorum Shakespeare Julius Caesar, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

Editor and Webmaster of the New Variorum Shakespeare Julius Caesar. This is the definitive edition of the play based on historical principles and the first Variorum edition since 1913. It includes textual history and historical commentary from 1623 to the present. The Editorship was awarded in 2006, and the website established in 2009.

Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

This monograph argues that images of the widow in the early novel served to express, explore, and construct concepts of appropriate female activity in emerging capitalism during the eighteenth century in England. Drawing on novels published between 1719 and 1818, this study investigates how different classes of widows (affluent, working class, impoverished, and criminal) functioned to challenge and affirm emerging economic values. A concluding chapter on widows in Jane Austen's work shows how changing notions of appropriate female economic activity had settled by the establishment of both the capitalist economy and the novel in the early nineteenth century.

The Temple's Left Column: George Herbert In Acrostick Land, Adele Davidson

Adele Davidson

Turning Water Into Wine: Giving Remote Texts Full Flavor For The Audience Of Friends, Marshall Gregory

Marshall W. Gregory

Embodied Literacies Project, I, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

Do You Believe In Magic? Literary Thinking After The New Left, Sean Mccann, Michael Szalay

Sean McCann

Toward the end of the 1960s, the New Left and the counterculture developed a libertarian theory of politics that emphasized symbolic action and self-realization. A concomitant suspicion of formal political institutions and a turn to cultural politics have since become common to intellectual discourse within the humanities. This essay argues against these attitudes, while tracing them from the protest movements of the late sixties to contemporary fiction and literary theory. The authors conclude by detailing the strong affinities between this vision of radicalism and the interests of professional labor within the present-day university.