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Barfield, Ray
Publication Date: Friday November 30, 2007

A Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008. Print. Tracing public and critical responses to TV from its pioneering days, this book gathers and gives context to the reactions of those who saw television's early broadcasts—from the privileged few who witnessed experimental and limited-schedule programming in the 1920s and 1930s, to those who bought TV sets and hoisted antennae in the post-World War II television boom, to still more who invested in color receivers and cable subscriptions in the 1960s.


Bennett, Alma
Publication Date: Sunday March 08, 2009

Thomas Green Clemson. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Digital Press, 2009. Digital. Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888) was no ordinary man. He was, in fact, as unique as he was highly educated, skilled, pragmatic, visionary, and complex


Chapman, Wayne
Publication Date: Monday April 01, 1991

Yeats and English Renaissance Literature. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan Press; and New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Print. This book makes extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet, presenting a factual account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based on evidence from his library and elsewhere.


Chapman, Wayne
Publication Date: Tuesday July 15, 2003

The Dreaming of the Bones and Cavalry. Editor. Ithaca, New York and London, England: Cornell University Press, 2003. Print. This book reproduces the complete set of extant manuscripts that preceded publication of both plays.


Chapman, Wayne
Publication Date: Monday March 08, 2010

Edward Dowden: A Critical Edition of the Complete Poetry. Editor. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Digital Press, 2010. Digital. This volume reintroduces Edward Dowden, a significant poet of the nineteenth century, to a modern audience which has forgotten, probably, that this distinguished Irish authority on Shakespeare, Goethe and Shelley thought of himself as a poet first


Chapman, Wayne
Publication Date: Saturday December 08, 2018

An Annotated Guide to the Writings and Papers of Leonard Woolf, Third Edition. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Digital Press, 2010. Digital. The Annotated Guide is an on-going project at the digital press, with plans to publish notes on relevant archives in Sussex, Cambridge, and elsewhere.


Chapman, Wayne
Publication Date: Friday March 08, 2019

The W.B. and George Yeats Library: A Short-title Catalog. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Digital Press, 2006. Digital. This online catalog accounts for every publication that has been a part of the W. B. Yeats Library.


Hilligoss, Susan
Publication Date: Saturday January 01, 1994

Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Co-edited with Cynthia L. Selfe. Modern Language Association of America, 1994. "Literacy and Computers" is an influential early contribution to studies of computers in writing, part of MLA’s series on Research and Scholarship in Composition.


Hilligoss, Susan
Publication Date: Thursday June 26, 1997

Robert Coles. Twayne Publishers, United States Authors Series, 1997. Print. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Award, Robert Coles is author of more than 50 books of on such subjects as psychoanalysis, integration, the social psychology of children and adults, photography, literature, and spirituality.


Hilligoss, Susan
Publication Date: Tuesday January 01, 2002

Originally a supplement to John Trimbur’s innovative composition text "The Call to Write," "Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide" became a textbook on its own, one of the first to focus on the rhetoric of multimodal texts with attention to the complex history of visual communication. Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide. Longman, 1999. Print.


Hilligoss, Susan
Publication Date: Tuesday January 01, 2002

Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide. 2nd ed. Co-authored with Tharon Howard. Longman, 2001. Print. Originally a supplement to John Trimbur's innovative composition text "The Call to Write," "Visual Communication: A Writer's Guide" became a textbook on its own, one of the first to focus on the rhetoric of multimodal texts with attention to the complex history of visual communication.


Katz, Steven B
Publication Date: Thursday January 25, 1996

The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Affect in Reader Response and Writing. Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Arguing for an oral theory of Reader Response Criticism, Steven B. Katz conducts a philosophical investigation into the possibility and desirability of teaching reading and writing as rhetorical music.


Katz, Steven B
Publication Date: Sunday June 20, 2010

Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (with Ann Penrose). 3rd Edition. NY: Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication (Addison Wesley Longman), 2010. Writing in the Sciences gives a guide to scientific writing across disciplines and contexts, from research reports to grant proposals.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Thursday August 01, 1996

Chaucer’s French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition This collection grows out of the Spring 1987 issue of ""Studies in the Literary Imagination"". Along with the original 6 essays, now revised for book publication, this volume adds 8 new examinations of the connections between the authors of medieval France and England.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Friday June 18, 2004

Contemporary Film Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen In Joel and Ethan Coen, R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre also forms a central element in what might be called postmodernist filmmaking.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Wednesday February 15, 2006

Traditions in World Cinema In Traditions in World Cinema brings together a colorful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions--national, regional, and global-- all of which are in need of introduction, investigation, and in some cases, critical reassessment.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Monday March 19, 2007

Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen. The essays in this collection analyze major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison’s Beloved.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Monday March 19, 2007

Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen The fourteen essays collected here provide an up-to-date survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans to Owen Wister’s The Virginian.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Wednesday April 01, 2009

Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar Media Going well beyond the scripts themselves, Hollywood's Tennessee showcases findings culled from poster and billboard art, press books, and other production and advertising material.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Tuesday July 21, 2009

Screen Adaptations: Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird the Relationship between Text and Film This book, by a leading literary and film scholar, shines light on the complex and fascinating adaptation process that brought Lee’s work to the commercial screen.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Wednesday June 30, 2010

Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s. Larger than Life offers a comprehensive view of the star system in 1950s Hollywood and also in-depth discussions of the decade’s major stars, including Montgomery Clift, Judy Holliday, Jerry Lewis, James Mason, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Bing Crosby Gene Kelly, Jayne Mansfield, and Audrey Hepbur.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Friday January 28, 2011

The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh gathers scholars of philosophy, film studies, and English to explore the ideas that form the basis of work of this prominent director who has become one of the most innovative and commercially successful filmmakers of our tie.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Thursday August 11, 2011

A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film. World-renowned film scholars put this myth to rest in A Little Solitaire, which offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre.


Palmer, R. Barton
Publication Date: Thursday September 01, 2011

Hitchcock as the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources has been transformed by one filmmaker into an impressive body of work.


Paul, Catherine
Publication Date: Wednesday November 06, 2002

Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Stein. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. Print. This book explores the relationships among four modernist poets and the museums that helped shape their writing. During the early twentieth century, museums were trying to reach a wider audience, using displayed objects to teach that audience about art, culture, and ecology.


Paul, Catherine
Publication Date: Wednesday September 08, 2010

Writing Modern Ireland. Editor. South Carolina Review, 43.1. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Digital Press, 2010. Digital. This special number of The South Carolina Review guest-edited by Catherine E. Paul, focuses on Irish literature. It includes scholarship on Irish writers as well as contemporary Irish creative writing.


Paul, Catherine
Publication Date: Tuesday February 12, 2013

W.B. Yeats, A Vision: The Original 1925 Edition. Co-edited with Margaret Mills Harper. New York, New York: Scribner, 2008. Print. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the volume presents the "system" of philosophy, psychology, history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George (née Hyde Lees) received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s.


Sparks, Elisa
Publication Date: Friday September 01, 2006

Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Co-editor with Helen Southworth. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2006. Print. The wide range of selected papers explore such topics as Woolf's life; her relationship to nature and to scientific and environmental thinking; her attitudes towards London, America, and the Middle East; and the cultural origins and contexts of her outlook on art and empire.


Sparks, Elisa
Publication Date: Monday October 01, 1990

Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psyco-Sexual Politics. Co-editor with Temma F. Berg, Anna Shannon Elfenbein, and Jeanne Larsen. Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Print. This collection of essays originating from a post-doctoral seminar at the School for Criticism and Theory with Sandra Gilbert examines gender differences in the experiences of reading and writing, in light of psychosexual theories of identity.


Vitanza, Victor
Publication Date: Wednesday March 09, 1994

Writing Histories of Rhetoric. Editor. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. Print. A collection of essays summarizing recent accomplishments in revised traditional histories of rhetoric and theorizing future accomplishments.


Vitanza, Victor
Publication Date: Friday November 01, 1996

Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. Print. Examines the principles of historiography. Focusing on the Sophists Gorgias and Isocrates, and on how each has been received and refigured by historians, the book moves beyond these approaches to postmodernist ones.


Vitanza, Victor
Publication Date: Monday November 24, 1997

Writing for the World Wide Web. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print. This Internet writing guide explores Internet communication with the aim that readers will become better writers in both print-based and electronic formats.


Vitanza, Victor
Publication Date: Thursday December 16, 2004

CyberReader. 2nd ed. New York, New York: Longman, 1998. Print. The impact of technology -- on individuals, society, economy, legal issues such as freedom of expression and copyright, politics and reporting political issues, sexual politics, and education -- is immense and ever-changing.


Vitanza, Victor
Publication Date: Tuesday September 20, 2011

Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print. Focuses on rape scripts and narratives as informed by a sacrificial economy that grounds subjectivity and legitimizes community.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Tuesday April 01, 1975

Shelley and Nonviolence. The Hague, the Netherlands: Mouton, 1975. Print. This book describes the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s nonviolent philosophy as seen through an analysis of his poetry, drama, and prose.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Tuesday June 01, 1982

Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Co-edited with Toby Fulwiler. Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 1982. Republished 2000 by WAC Clearinghouse. Digital. This book offers a rationale and a practical plan for campus-wide cooperation in writing and reading development.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Wednesday April 16, 1986

Writing Across the Disciplines: Research into Practice. Co-edited with Toby Fulwiler. Upper Montclair, New Jersey: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1986. Print. This book reports research and assessment studies to describe the impact of a WAC program on the professional life of a single university department and on the pedagogical life of an entire campus community.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Friday November 10, 1989

Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum. Co-edited with Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1990. Print. This book describes in detail successful WAC programs at fourteen colleges and universities across the nation.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Monday April 18, 1994

Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary Curriculum. Co-edited with Pamela Farrell-Childers and Anne Ruggles Gere. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1994. Print. Contributors to this collection describe and critique various ways the writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been incorporated into schoolwide, districtwide, and statewide programs.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Monday November 20, 1995

When Writing Teachers Teach Literature: Bringing Writing to Reading. Co-edited with Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1996. Print. How does instruction change when teachers apply composition theory and practice to the study of literature? The book confirms the value of diverse theoretical perspectives that merge interactive pedagogical practices, and especially of the emergence of writing along with reading as the central business of English studies.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Wednesday May 01, 1996

Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature: Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy. Co-edited with James F. Slevin. Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 1995. Print. This collection of essays explores the relationships among politics, curriculum, and pedagogy. Critical theory, this book suggests, is generated in and through classroom practice.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Sunday March 08, 1998

Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. Co-edited with Donna Reiss and Richard Selfe. Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 1998. Republished 2008 by WAC Clearinghouse. Digital. This collection of essays explores what happens when proponents of writing across the curriculum use the latest computer-mediated tools and techniques—including email, asynchronous learning networks, MOOs, and the Internet—to expand and enrich their teaching practices, especially the teaching of writing.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Saturday April 22, 2006

Teaching and Learning Creatively: Inspirations and Reflections. Co-edited with Patricia Connor-Greene, Catherine Mobley, Catherine E. Paul, Jerry A. Waldvogel, and Liz Wright. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2006. Print. This book, co-edited by five Clemson University professors from different disciplines and a MAPC graduate student, offers poetry and images composed by students in a variety of disciplines, together with teachers’ reflections on their students’ achievements.


Young, Art
Publication Date: Friday March 08, 1991

Teaching Across the Curriculum. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Resources for Writing, 1994. Second Edition, 1997. Revised Third Edition, 2000. Revised Fourth Edition, 2006. Fourth Edition republished 2010 by WAC Clearinghouse. Digital. Written for college teachers in all disciplines, this monograph provides an introduction to WAC, its theory and practice -— on teaching, on using writing as a tool for learning the subject matter being studied, and as a strategy for improving the confidence and the ability of students to communicate effectively.


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