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  • Gunlore

    Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

    Edited by Robert Glenn Howard, Eric A. Eliason ...
    Contributions by Sandra Bartlett Atwood, Nathan E. Bender, London Brickley, Eric A. Eliason, Noah D. Eliason, Tim Frandy, Robert Glenn Howard, Jay Mechling, Annamarie O'Brien Morel, Raymond Summerville, Tok Thompson, and Megan L. ZahayGuns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is “gunlore,” which refers to the many folklore genres related to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tradition in the Twenty-First Century

    Locating the Role of the Past in the Present

    by Trevor J. Blank, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Public Modalities

    by Daniel C. Brouwer, Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, John M. Sloop, Sara L. McKinnon, Radha S. Hegde0, Stephen P. Depoe1, Dale Martin Smith2, Eric King Watts, Ph.D.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Gunlore

    Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

    Narrated by Rosemary Benson, Terrence Kidd, Lyle Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    Guns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is "gunlore," which refers to the many folklore genres related to firearms. Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities is the first book to engage with the many narratives, rituals, folk-speech, customs, art, and handicraft encompassed by gunlore.Like most expressive cultures, gunlore emerges from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Digital Jesus

    The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet

    by Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Series Book 5 - New and Alternative Religions
    A fascinating exposition of Christian online communication networks and the Internet's power to build a movementIn the 1990s, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the “End Times”, The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired Stanford physicist, started the website Lambert’s Library to discuss with others online how ... Read more

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    by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Francis de Véricourt ...
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  • The Art of Creative Research

    A Field Guide for Writers

    by Philip Gerard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    A guide to finding and using information that enriches your fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, "filled with anecdotes from a wide range of writers" ( Choice).All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing archives, but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world—when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel ... Read more

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  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

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  • Looking Closer 5

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines, as well as on blogs and Internet journals. Prominent contributors include Milton Glaser, Maud Lavin, ... Read more

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  • The Ambivalent Internet

    Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

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  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

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    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

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