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Burke

Kenneth Burke and His Circles

Edited by Jack Selzer and Robert Wess
© 2008 by Parlor Press

Rhetoric/Science

Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse

David J. Tietge
© 2008 by Parlor Press

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Colorado State University

Glassbead Books

Framing Theory's Empire
Edited by John Holbo

Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?
Edited by John Holbo

Visual Rhetoric

Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication << New!
Edited by Carol David and Anne R. Richard

Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real (2007)
Edited by Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Sue Hum, and Linda T. Calendrillo

The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture Delivered in 1858-9
John Ruskin
Edited by Christine Roth

Writing Travel

Eating Europe
A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story
Jon Volkmer

Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams
Jill Knight Weinberger

Free Verse Editions | Poetry

The Flying House
Dawn-Michelle Baude

Verge
Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Child in the Road
Cindy Savett

The Book of the Floating World, Expanded Edition
(Poems & Photographs)
Jon Thompson

Physis
Nicholas Pesquès
Trans. Cole Swensen

2006

Puppet Wardrobe
Daniel Tiffany

These Beautiful Limits
Thomas David Lisk

The Wash
Adam Clay

2005

Winter Journey [Viaggio d’inverno]
Attilio Bertolucci
Trans. Nicholas Benson

A Map of Faring
Peter Riley

Signs Following
Ger Killeen

2004

Poetic Healing: A Vietnam Veteran's Journey from a Communication Perspective
Mark E. Huglen
Basil B. Clark

The Country of Lost Sons
Jeffrey Thomson

Renaissance | Medieval Literature

Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Kenneth Burke
Edited by Scott L. Newstok

Medieval Outlaws
Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation
Rev. and Expanded Edition
Edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren

Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love).
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Newly Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Stanley Ross. Unabridged edition.

Open Access and Creative Commons Content

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics
Elenore Long

Framing Theory's Empire
Edited by John Holbo

Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?
Edited by John Holbo

Writing Program Administration
Susan H. McLeod

Revision: History, Theory, and Practice
Edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition.
Janice M. Lauer

Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little, Lisa Bethel, Teri Chavkin, Danielle Fouquette, and Janet Garufis

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New Media Theory | Internet Studies

The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition
Alexander Reid
* Honorable Mention, JAC / W. Ross Winterowd Award 2008 for best book in composition theory.

Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates
John Logie

Rhetoric & Composition

2008

1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition
Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, and Wendy Sharer

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics
Elenore Long

The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration
Edited by Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman

Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years
Edited by Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard

2007

Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics
Edited by Debra Frank Dew and Alice Horning

Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Helen Foster

Senior Citizens Writing
A Workshop and Anthology, with an Introduction and Guide for Workshop Leaders
Ed. W. Ross Winterowd

2006

Composing a Community:
A History of Writing Across the Curriculum
Edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven

Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse * Winner of the 2006 W. Ross Winterowd, JAC Award for Best Book in Composition Theory
Kevin J. Porter

Search for Latini
Michael Kleine

Teaching and Learning Creatively
Inspirations and Reflections
Edited by Patricia A. Connor-Greene, Catherine Mobley, Catherine E. Paul, Jerry A. Waldvogel, Liz Wright, and Art Young

2005

Rhetoric and Incommensurability
Edited and Introduced by Randy Allen Harris

When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues
Jeffrey Carroll

Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline * Winner, 2004-2005 WPA Best Book Award
Edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo

Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies (Expanded Edition)
James A. Berlin

Effective Writing: A Handbook with Stories for Lawyers
John Phelps Warnock, with Harold C. Warnock

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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Kenneth Burke
Edited by Scott L. Newstok

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955
Kenneth Burke
Selected, Arranged, and Edited by William H. Rueckert

Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987
Kenneth Burke
Edited by William H. Rueckert

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Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics
Elenore Long

Writing Program Administration
Susan H. McLeod

Revision: History, Theory, and Practice
Edited by Alice Horning and Anne Becker

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition.
Janice M. Lauer

Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little, Lisa Bethel, Teri Chavkin, Danielle Fouquette, and Janet Garufis

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Second Language Writing

The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land
Edited by Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Xiaoye You

Fiction | Nonfiction

Moon Dance
Brooke Biaz
© 2008

The Lost Girl
A Novel
James Morrison
Read the press release
(4/19/2007)

2006

Nearer
Essays
Arthur Saltzman

Small Maps of the World
Short Stories
Brooke Biaz

Parlor Press Series

Aesthetic Critical Inquiry
Edited by Andrea Feeser

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

Glassbead Books
Edited by John Holbo

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Patricia Sullivan and Catherine Hobbs

Lenses on Composition Studies
Edited by Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter

New Media Theory
Edited by Byron Hawk

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, edited by Charles Bazerman

The Renaissance
Edited by Charles Ross

Second Language Writing
Paul Kei Matsuda 

Visual Rhetoric and Prospects in Visual Rhetoric
Edited by Marguerite Helmers

Writing Program Administration
Edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

Writing Travel
Edited by Jeanne Moskal

Coming soon . . .

Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber, eds., Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke

Michelle Eble & Lynée Lewis Gaillet, eds., Stories of Mentoring:Theory and Praxis

Carole G. Silver, ed., Sarah Heckford
A Lady Trader in the Transvaal

Richard Leo Enos, Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence
Revised and Expanded Edition

John Ramage, Argument in Composition (Ref. Guides Series)

Boyer Rickel, remanence

Carolyn Guinzio, Quarry

Jennie Neighbors, Between the Twilight and the Sky

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, What Stillness Illuminated

Miguel Hernández, The Prison Poems Translated & Introduced by Michael Smith

Thorstein Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts

Christine Tardy, Building Genre Knowledge

Literary Studies

Faulkner from Within
Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
William H. Rueckert

Now available . . .

Parlor Press is pleased to be the new distributor for these essential resources for teachers, assessors, strategic planners, and writing program administrators:

Teaching and Assessing Writing, Edward M. White, Calendar Islands Publishers, 1998. 331 pages.

Developing Successful College Writing Programs, Edward M. White, Calendar Islands Publishers, 1998. 232 pages.

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