Southern Illinois University Press imprint: 153 books
Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric
The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Winner, 2018 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature
It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric’s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought...
by Kara van de Graaf
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Kara van de Graaf’s debut collection heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary poetry. Through poems that balance personal recollection with ekphrasis, science, and meditation, Van de Graaf searches for answers in the fluctuating relationship between the body and the self.
Taking...
Levinas's Rhetorical Demand
The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Distinguished Book Award, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Top Book Award, Communication Ethics Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and...
Policy Debate
A Guide for High School and College Debaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In Policy Debate: A Guide for High School and College Debaters, Shawn F. Briscoe introduces educators, coaches, and students at the high school and college levels to the concepts at the foundation of policy debate, also known as cross-examination debate, and uses conceptual analysis and real-world...
Hitchcock's Rear Window
The Well-Made Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women.
Although Rear Window masquerades quite successfully as a piece of light...
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Circulating Literacy
Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Near the dawn of the twentieth century, more than a million Americans had subscriptions to popular magazines, and many who did not subscribe read the periodicals. Far more men and women were learning advanced literacy through reading these magazines than by attending college. Yet this form of popular...
The Black Heavens
Abraham Lincoln and Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient,...
Baseball's Natural
The Story of Eddie Waitkus
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Baseball’ s Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus is John Theodore’ s true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and Phillies in the 1940s and became an immortalized figure in baseball lore as the inspiration for Roy Hobbs in Bernard Malamud’ s The Natural.
The...
by Cyrus Cassells
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize, 2018
Finalist for the Helen C. Smith Award for the Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2019
Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature in Poetry, 2019
Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells’s sixth...
The Stars Are Back
The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Unrest in 1946
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In 1946, as the aftershocks of World War II still trembled across the globe, America returned to its favorite pastime: baseball. In The Stars Are Back, Jerome M. Mileur offers a fascinating account of this storied season and of the backstage battle that would forever transform the game of professional...
by Patricia Roberts-Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. Once it becomes the norm, individuals are more likely to employ it and, in that way, increase its power by making it seem the only way of disagreeing with or about others. When that happens, arguments about...
by Gregory Kimbrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The poems of The Primitive Observatory, set roughly in the Gilded Age, take readers into a dreamy, alluring world where hapless travelers, doomed heirs, and other colorful types grapple with horrors. Within the pages of this book, we find a group of cousins who wager their pets in endless games of...
by Cynthia Huntington
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize, 2017
In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations—through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices and evoking...