Product Description: The author examines the formation of English literary studies, speech communication, and composition, explaining how these fields came to be shaped and separated as they are today.

Product Description: In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences―students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism...read more

Product Description: The skeptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the pre-Socratic Sophists and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey, have attracted new attention in the context of postmodernist thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Parker, Hershel, Hayes, Kevin

Product Description: In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies―distinctions between theory and cultural studies, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics...read more

Product Description: From the Preface:"Contemporary theory has usefully analyzed how alternative modes of interpretation produce different meanings, how reading itself is constituted by the variable perspectives of readers, and how these perspectives are in turn defined by prejudices, ideologies, interests, and so forth...read more

Discusses literary theory, psychological and social reading models, practical criticism, textual analysis, interpretation, and literary history

Discusses literary theory, psychological and social reading models, practical criticism, textual analysis, interpretation, and literary history