This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric.

This approachable text identifies eight theoretical approaches to reading and writing about literature.

The contributors to this volume, including Martin Scorsese, assess Lupino's main strengths as a filmmaker-her treatment of narrative movement, plotting, dialogue, gender roles, and uses of tradition representations of men and women in ...