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This is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting.

Offers an engaging survey of central metaphysical topics, including truth, universals, the nature of mind, personal identity, free will, time, and the existence of God. The book is pitched at an intermediate undergraduate level and is suitable for students without background knowledge in these areas.

Blending sensational drama with domestic tragedy and comic farce, this complex and multi-layered play by Dekker, Ford, and Rowley emphasizes the mundane realities and interpersonal conflicts that are so often at the heart of sensational occurrences.

This abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke's polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that are of less interest to modern readers. Brian R. Clack's introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke's views.

Offers wide ranging coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; and of writing about literature. Coverage of personal and informal writing is included for the first time - as is a sample literary essay in MLA style (in addition to the sample MLA interdisciplinary essay).

This is the most readable and affordable pocket handbook that is designed specifically for Canadian students. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of academic writing; coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics; helpful advice on how to research academic papers; and much more.

Compact and convenient, The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation includes information on MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of citation and documentation. Based on the "Documentation" chapter in the acclaimed Broadview Guide to Writing, this volume has been expanded with a wide range of additional examples and has been fully updated to cover recent changes.

Offers a selection of five short fictions by Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth - the best-known writers of the moral tale - prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period.

Tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy's central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides' commitment to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing critique of Athenian behaviour.

The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes a number of changes and new additions, including the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H., The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, immunity passports, discrimination against minorities and the disabled, and the myriad issues raised by vaccines.

Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates in The Tempest an uncanny but morally coherent world through the play's genre, design, themes, and characters. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft.

This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology but also new themes such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions, and love.

English drama between the late fifteenth century and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging. This anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period.

With efforts by feminist scholars and theatre artists to rediscover the work of forgotten women writers, Githa Sowerby and her dramas have secured renewed interest. This Broadview edition provides historical contexts for Sowerby's dramas, and demonstrates the ongoing cogency of these dynamic, insightful, and engaging plays.

Leonid Andreyev's Expressionist novella The Red Laugh is an experimental, fragmentary depiction of war and its psychological effects. Translated into English for the first time since 1905, it is here paired with a fresh translation of Andreyev's earlier story The Abyss, which caused scandal when it first appeared in 1902.

Offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. The book is geared to helping students discover the key ethical practices of dialogue - receptivity and responsivity - as they join a research conversation.

Deeply engaged in women's rights debates and discussions of the 'third sex', Are They Women? is about the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. It is one of the first lesbian novels written in German - indeed, in any language.

A work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture Dreams unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem.

Takes a rhetorical approach to technical communication; instead of setting up a list of rules that you should apply uniformly to all writing situations, this book introduces students to the bigger picture of how the words they write can affect the people intended to use them. Assignments and exercises are integrated throughout.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-1902). The novel itself features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists.

Guides the reader through the basics of moral theories, showing their strengths and weaknesses and emphasizing the ways in which competing moral reasons can be collectively employed to guide decision-making. Throughout, the focus is on practical applications and on how each theory can play a role in solving problems and addressing issues.

Agnes Grey was one of a trio of novels that defined the'governess novel' in 1847 and 1848. Alongside Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair, Agnes Grey may be the most radical of the three. This Broadview Edition provides extensive historical documents on the novel's reception.

Provides new translations of Rene Descartes's two most important philosophical works. Discourse offers a concise presentation and defense of Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry; Meditations presents numerous powerful arguments that to this day influence debates in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion.

The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas. This edition includes an introduction to the play, offering discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials.

Recent debates over immigration have given rise to a complex spectrum of opinions, attitudes, and emotions. In fact, these debates have been a hallmark of American history. James Pula provides a selection of primary documents that illuminate immigration as one of the defining features of the American social, cultural, and political landscape.

Designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice. Write Here provides examples that are interesting to students, while allowing them to connect to the subject matter on a more personal level.

Introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Over forty primary source readings are included. Extensive commentaries from the editors are provided to guide student readers through the arguments and jargon and to offer historical context.

Provides an introduction to the history of English that recognises multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book enables students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and to extend and complicate those histories.