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Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible: The Authorized Biography

By Gary A. Olson

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9780809334766 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 21, 2016, cover price $32.50

A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life

Product Description: Drawing on more than three decades of experience as a scholar, teacher, and administrator, Gary A. Olson, a keen observer of higher education and a monthly columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education, explores the intricacies of life in academe...read more

By Gary A. Olson

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9781438445779 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Drawing on more than three decades of experience as a scholar, teacher, and administrator, Gary A.

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9781438445786 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $26.95

Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish And the Critical Enterprise

Product Description: An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

By Stanley Eugene Fish (other contributor), Gary A. Olson (editor) and Lynn Worsham (editor)

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9780791462140 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterpise

Product Description: Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish s work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson (editor) and Lynn Worsham (editor)

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9780791462133 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish s work.

Critical Intellectuals on Writing

Product Description: Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world's leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical intellectual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson (editor) and Lynn Worsham (editor)

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9780791458426 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one.

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Product Description: While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works--and perhaps his most important--are his nonliterary writings. In Justifying Belief, Gary Olson examines Fish's nonliterary work and explains that what unites Fish's interventions in so many seemingly disparate areas of inquiry is his belief in the centrality of rhetoric...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson

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9780791456118 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works--and perhaps his most important--are his nonliterary writings.

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9780791456125 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works--and perhaps his most important--are his nonliterary writings.

Rhetoric and Composition As Intellectual Work

Product Description: In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only a service discipline, editor Gary A. Olsonâs Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work demonstrates that it already is an intellectual discipline, that for at least a quarter of a century the field has developed an impressive tradition of intellectual work in a remarkable assortment of subject areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson (editor)

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9780809324330 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 25, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only a service discipline, editor Gary A.

The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

Product Description: Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sidney I. Dobrin (editor), Gary A. Olson (editor) and Lynn Worsham

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9780791446928 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action.

Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

Using the author s intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, Words in the Wilderness uniquely draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory to make an educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking work." (view table of contents)

By Stephen Gilbert Brown and Gary A. Olson (foreword by)

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9780791444054 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $52.50

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9780791444061 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Using the author s intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, Words in the Wilderness uniquely draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory to make an educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking work.

The Gender Reader

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By Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson (editor) and Merry G. Perry (editor)

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9780205285303 | 2 sub edition (Longman Pub Group, August 1, 1999), cover price $103.80

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Product Description: Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial brings together six scholarly interviews with internationally renowned intellectuals outside of rhetoric and composition whose work has direct implications for scholarship within the discipline...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson (editor) and Lynn Worsham (editor)

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9780791441732 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial brings together six scholarly interviews with internationally renowned intellectuals outside of rhetoric and composition whose work has direct implications for scholarship within the discipline.

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9780791441749 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial brings together six scholarly interviews with internationally renowned intellectuals outside of rhetoric and composition whose work has direct implications for scholarship within the discipline.

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Product Description: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition. The contributors to this book, many of whom are current or past editors of the discipline's most prestigious scholarly journals, undoubtedly have their finger on the pulse of composition's most current scholarship and offer invaluable insight into the production and publication of original research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary A. Olson (editor) and Todd W. Taylor (editor)

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9780791433959 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition.

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9780791433966 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition.

Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition

Product Description: As advanced composition continues to grow as an important sub-area of rhetoric and composition, it becomes increasingly more important for scholars and teachers to have access to key studies produced in the field. Providing a comprehensive overview of significant work on the theory and pedagogy of advanced composition generated between 1980 and 1995, this collection contains 24 essays and articles previously published in major scholarly books and journals...read more

By Julie Drew (editor) and Gary A. Olson (editor)

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9781880393253 | Routledge, April 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: As advanced composition continues to grow as an important sub-area of rhetoric and composition, it becomes increasingly more important for scholars and teachers to have access to key studies produced in the field.

Women Writing Culture

By Elizabeth Hirsch (editor) and Gary A. Olson (editor)

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9780791429631 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $50.50

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9780791429648 | State Univ of New York Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $31.95

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Product Description: "...Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom comes into place at a critical moment. We have worked assiduously to flesh out the ways and means of composition for a new era. This text helps to document our way." --Jones Royster, from the ForewordComposition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade...read more

By Sidney I. Dobrin (editor) and Gary A. Olson

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9780791423059 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: ".

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9780791423066 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: ".

Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literary Criticism

Product Description: Gary A. Olson presents six in-depth interviews with internationally prominent scholars outside of the discipline and twelve response essays written by noted rhetoric and composition scholars on subjects related to language, rhetoric, writing, philosophy, feminism, and literary criticism...read more

By Gary A. Olson (editor)

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9780809319084 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Gary A.

Interviews: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy

Product Description: This book contains interviews with psychologist Mary Field Belenky, linguist and philosopher of language Noam Chomsky, French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, international literacy scholar Paulo Freire, distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz, philosopher Richard Rorty, and cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (all of whose work has influenced the discipline of rhetoric and composition) followed by essay responses from notable scholars in rhetoric and composition...read more

By Irene Gale (editor) and Gary A. Olson

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9780809317370 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This book contains interviews with psychologist Mary Field Belenky, linguist and philosopher of language Noam Chomsky, French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, international literacy scholar Paulo Freire, distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz, philosopher Richard Rorty, and cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (all of whose work has influenced the discipline of rhetoric and composition) followed by essay responses from notable scholars in rhetoric and composition.

The Gender Reader

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By Evelyn Ashton-Jones and Gary A. Olson

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9780205130689 | Allyn & Bacon, March 1, 1991, cover price $35.00

Advanced Placement English: Theory, Politics, and Pedagogy

Product Description: Book by Olson, Gary, Metzger, Elizabeth, Ashton-Jones, Evelyn

By Evelyn Ashton-Jones (editor), Elizabeth Metzger and Gary A. Olson

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9780867092462 | Boynton/Cook Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Book by Olson, Gary, Metzger, Elizabeth, Ashton-Jones, Evelyn

Style and Readability in Business Writing: A Sentence-Combining Approach

By Gary A. Olson

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9780075543794 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill College, October 1, 1984), cover price $16.00

Writing Centers: Theory and Administration

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By Gary A. Olson (editor)

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9780814158784 | Natl Council of Teachers, September 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by

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