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Sharon Kirsch, “Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric” (U Alabama Press, 2014)
Sharon Kirsch
Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press, 2014

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 17, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Sharon Kirsch (she/hers)–Associate Prof. of English and rhetorical studies in the New College at Arizona State University–on the scintillating and beautifully written Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric from University of Alabama Press (2014). This... Read More
Derek Gaunt, “Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader” (New Degree Press, 2019)
Derek Gaunt
Ego, Authority, Failure
Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader
New Degree Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network June 13, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo—is joined by co-host and recent Geneseo Graduate Haley Wigsten to interview Derek Gaunt (he/his)expert trainer and coach at the Black Swan Group–on his thrilling new book... Read More
Mary Kate McGowan, “Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mary Kate McGowan
Just Words
On Speech and Hidden Harm
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in LanguageNew Books in LawNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 31, 2019 Robert Talisse

We’re all familiar with the ways in which speech can cause harm. For example, speech can incite wrongful acts. And I suppose we’re also familiar with contexts in which a person who occupies a position of authority can harm others simply by speaking – as when a boss announced and... Read More
John Pat Leary, “Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism” (Haymarket Books, 2019)
John Pat Leary
Keywords
The New Language of Capitalism
Haymarket Books, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 28, 2019 Patrick Sheehan

John Pat Leary‘s Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2019) chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators... Read More
Donnel Stern, “The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal” (Routledge, 2019)
Donnel Stern
The Infinity of the Unsaid
Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal
Routledge, 2019

New Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 15, 2019 Eugenio Duarte

Donnel Stern has been a key figure in the advancement of interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis since his initial writings on unformulated experience in the 1980s, in which he offered a fresh perspective on what constitutes the unconscious. Since then, he has consistently been on the cutting edge of theoretical developments... Read More
Christina Yi, “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Christina Yi
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 2, 2019 Ed Pulford

The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone. Questions of guilt, responsibility and atonement continue to bubble below, and occasionally break through, the surface of ties between two countries which otherwise have much in common culturally and in... Read More
A. M. Ruppel, “The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
A. M. Ruppel
The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit

Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 1, 2019 Raj Balkaran

Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? What’s the best way to go about doing so?  Sanskrit is the highly sophisticated language of ancient India which remained in vogue for Millennia as a medium of philosophy, ritual, poetry – indeed every facet of Indian culture. Above and... Read More