Richard David Coe

The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre: Strategies for Stability and Change (Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric and Composition)

This book aims to advance a radical reconception of genre and discourse, and to enhance understanding of reading, writing, speaking, and listening as socially situated and motivated activities. The various chapters offer critical methods and conceptual frameworks for understanding the pragmatic and ...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio: (Calder Collection)

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio - Stendhal's first published work - owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a refugee and in desperate need of money. His most abiding passi...

The Floor Plan Book: Veterinary Hospital and Boarding Kennel Planning and Design

Planning to build? Part 1 of this step-by-step guide will help you locate and plan your veterinary facility, with information on demographics, site considerations, and budget concerns. Part 2 discusses floor plan design, including traffic flow and the three "zones" in a modular floor plan. The appen...

Rome, Naples, Florence: (Calder Collection)

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon's armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death. Some of his visits lasted only a few weeks, others continued for ye...

Life of Rossini

Rossini’s popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition.” Stendhal, always an obstinate individualist, was the first of his contemporaries to recognize the ge...

The Vision of Jean Genet, A Study of hIs Poems, Plays and Novels

"In this valuable critical study, the first formal analysis of the evoluation of ideas, art, and imagery in Genet's writing, Professor Coe presents us with a cohesive picture of Genet's vision of the world..."

Process, Form, and Substance: A Rhetoric for Advanced Writers (2nd Edition)

This volume is designed for those who have college-level reading abilities and can already write acceptable 500-word essays, but who are striving to write better.

Samuel Beckett

When the Grass Was Taller: Autobiography and the Experience of Childhood

Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio

Lives of Haydn Mozart and Metastasio

Les Onze Milles Verges

Samuel Beckett

Eugene Ionesco

Between the Dog Kennel and the Apple Tree: An Act of Autobiography

Form and Substance: An Advance Rhetoric