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Iconic Sports Venues: Persuasion in Public Spaces
Danielle Johannesen, Mark E. Huglen, and Jason McEntee
Jason McEntee is a contributing author, "The Last Palace Standing: Mitchell's Corn Palace and the Rise of an Iconic Sports Venue.", pp.41-65.
From the Colosseum of Rome to Wrigley Field and Madison Square Garden, iconic sports venues are larger than life. They often exist in a seemingly "sacred" space, outside the hustle and bustle of the everyday. At their most basic level, iconic sports venues are revered and idolized. They emanate a sense of persuasion that contributes to how they become meaningful for those who come into contact with them.
This book examines how and why iconic sports venues acquire meaning. Looking at different venues, chapters address how the material features of a site participate in the construction of messages and meanings, and how they influence those messages and meanings. Each chapter includes a description of the venue in question; an interpretation of its mystique; and a discussion of the implications of the interpretation.
A unique and timely contribution to the fields of composition, persuasion, sport management, sport rhetoric, and communication, the goal of this book is to inspire more scholarly research, essays, and projects focused on the persuasive qualities of sports venues. More broadly, scholars, students, and professionals can use the chapters in this book as models for investigating "iconic" structures both locally and globally.
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Bluewords Greening
Christine Stewart-Nunez
"Bluewords Greening is a book about motherhood—love and family and fear and failure and mini-ninjas. We observe a mother’s bewildering experiences with her son as the poems detail his diagnosis with a rare form of epilepsy and the “bluewords” that result from his aphasia. The speaker is in deep conversation with the son’s frustrated and often surprisingly beautiful lexicon; she’s also in conversation with the work of contemporary visual artists and the craft of printmaking and the twelfth-century visionary, St. Hildegard. Stewart-Nuñez’s music and skilled syntax and stubborn insistence on the beauty of the world—even as the poems explore the heartbreak of recurrent miscarriage—keep the reader rapt and grateful and illuminated. Bluewords Greening is a marvelous book."
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Untrussed: Poems
Christine Stewart-Nunez
Stewart-Nuñez draws upon a number of styles―persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal―to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss. Among Untrussed’s many delights is a series of Wonder Woman poems that reveal a heroine who is as human as she is superhuman. From pleasure to pain to hope of new love, this collection draws readers into the everyday magic of the world.
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Action, Influence, and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women
Meredith Redlin, Christine Stewart-Nunez, and Julie M. Barst
This collaboration presents women's work in the form creative and scholarly writing as well as in original interviews with women leaders. The text is composed to be accessible to a broad audience. This new collection highlights South Dakota's women activists, promotes women's participation on the important issues facing our state, and inspires us all through the diversity of women's creative expression.
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Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction
Danita Berg, Lori May, Rochelle L. Harris, and Christine Stewart-Nunez
Christine Stewart-Nunez (with Rochelle L. Harris) is a contributing author, "Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms."
Book description: For decades theorists have opined that the lines between creative writing and composition need to be lifted, yet little has been written about the pedagogical methods that allow a cohesive approach between the disciplines. This book brings together contemporary authors and well-respected creative writing instructors and theorists to explore ways creativity in composition may be encouraged in student writers. The question in this anthology is not ‘Can writing be taught?’ but ‘How can we inspire students to embrace the creative process no matter what they write?’ This book offers multiple strategies to merge the best practices of teaching writing, regardless of the genre.
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Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nunez
Scope and content: "Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally."-- Provided by publisher.
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The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature
Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, Linda K. Hughes, and Katherine Malone
Katherine Malone is a contributing author, "Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Ward).”
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Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Debbie Olson and Jason McEntee
Jason McEntee is a contributing author, "'The Future’s Not Ours to See’: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies.”, pp.31-46.
Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
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Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives
Mary Wilson, Kerry L. Johnson, and Nicole Flynn
Nicole Flynn is a contributing author, "Clockwork Women: Termporality and Form in Jean Rhys's Interwar Novels.", pp.41-65.
Rhys Matters, the first collection of essays focusing on Rhys's writing in over twenty years, encounters her oeuvre from multiple disciplinary perspectives and appreciates the interventions in modernism, postcolonial studies, Caribbean studies, and women's and gender studies.
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Postcard on Parchment
Christine Stewart-Nunez
Postcard on Parchment is a evocative and emotional collection of finely crafted poems recounting the experiences of the author as a teacher in Turkey. It was selected by David Baker as the prize-winning entry in the 2007 ABZ Poetry Contest
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Unbound & Branded
Christine Stewart-Nunez
These poems are based on a forty-page portfolio of artists photographing, painting, or otherwise responding to supermodel Kate Moss in the September 2003 issue of W magazine.
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The Love of Unreal Things
Christine Stewart-Nunez
This is a chapbook of poetry are based on the life of Caterina Benincasa, or Catherine of Siena, a fourteenth-century Italian saint.
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