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Mark E. Leib

Image Breaker, 2023

Tristan Wishnasky seems to have it all: a successful career as a cynical novelist in love with the Void, a romantic relationship with a formidable woman, and admission to the parties and revelries of the glitterati. But just when he鈥檚 confident nothing can stop his stupendous rise, he begins to hallucinate mysterious messages telling him he鈥檚 wasting his life. 

But the messages don鈥檛 stop, and he turns to his atheist lover, his oracular psychotherapist, and an ingenious female rabbi for guidance and direction. Where has he gone wrong? How should he be living?

In his search for self-knowledge, Tristan lurches from the art galleries of the famous to the homeless shelters of the abandoned; from the arms of college dean Vanessa to the bed of struggling actress Barbara; from a career that ignores every claim beyond ego to the company of people trying to rescue the imperiled Earth.

As he learns to destroy every false image that鈥檚 ever laid claim to him, he begins to think possible a life that deeply, truly matters.

Jarod Rosell贸

Super Magic Boy: I Am a Dinosaur, 2023

Crash, smash, and transform! An all-new graphic novel chapter book series filled with adventure, friendship, and dinosaurs.

Hugo can do whatever he wants! He can climb a mountain! Smash a table! He can even transform into a dinosaur like his best friend, Dino. When Hugo and Dino are together, they can use their imagination to do anything鈥�even clean up the mess afterward!

Laura L. Runge

Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion, 2023

Aphra Behn (1640鈥�1689), a prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, and translator, has an extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history as the work of a female author. Based upon word counts, Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn chronicles Behn鈥檚 obsession with the mystery and power of love and early modern passions through her entire oeuvre. Love, for Behn, is an external power, sometimes figured as the boy god Cupid or an abstraction, that enters the body with pain and pleasure and leaves the victim searching for understanding. The book follows two threads of argument: one using quantitative measures to indicate passages for significant close reading of preferred language and the other focused upon her use of small words like thou, sir, or said. Situating her writings in the conflicts of early modern discourses on the passions, the book demonstrates that Behn鈥檚 language reveals generic patterns for representing love that include a warning about its potential to destroy the body and condemn the soul. Taken as a whole, Behn鈥檚 literary production is an extraordinary examination of the early modern concept of love at a moment of change in the language and meaning of the passions.

Laura L. Runge is a professor of English at the 黑料网吃瓜爆料, Tampa, specializing in women鈥檚 writing of the long eighteenth century, digital humanities, and book history. She is the author or editor of seven other books, including most recently with Jessica L. Cook, the essay collection The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Tributes to Women (2019).  She is a founding editor of the open-access journal ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640鈥�1830.

Gary Lemons

Liberation for the Oppressed, 2022

Considering the violent and deadly experiences of racism in the United States during this contemporary moment, there remains a critical need for demonstrative dialogues for social justice. Progressive anti-racist allies-across differences of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability-must continue to join together to enact strategies devoted to the eradication of racism. Ways to advocate life survival for Black Indigenous People of Color in the U.S. must be actively engaged. Particularly related to the emotional and physical trauma BIPOC communities are currently experiencing in this day and time, there must be a renewed call for the vision of a "beloved community." It must be envisioned by a unified, collective body of people committed to liberation for all the oppressed. In this day and time, anti-racist solidarity means that these individuals must take on challenging conversations about ways systemic and institutionalized racism continues to be perpetuated.

The mission for Liberation for the Oppressed is boldly to affirm the lives and voices of its contributors. They literally put their lives on the line writing about traumatic experiences each of them has or would face in what it means "to 'talk race'." Becoming critically aware of the self-deadening effects of internalized racism, each of them map the course of their personal, political, and professional journey toward self-recovery. Becoming critically aware of the complicity with racism by not speaking out about its traumatic implications, each of them critically employs personal narrative to speak out in loving resistance to racist colonization.

Lisa Melon莽on

and Catherine Molloy, editors. Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric, 2022

Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collection moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care. With sections that focus on methodological, cultural and legal, and pedagogical interventions, readers will find an engaging discussion of a discrete mental health phenomenon as well as a clear interventional takeaway in each chapter.

Lisa Melon莽on

and Joanna Schreiber. Assembling critical components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication, 2022

How do you explain technical and professional communication? The field has long tried to answer this question, with limited success. Because the field is constantly evolving alongside social, technological, and communication changes, it remains difficult to explain. Assembling Critical Components presents TPC as a collective identity and provides a framework for situating critical components of the field. This collection includes chapters reflecting on topics such as accessibility, professional communication, regulatory writing, socio-technical situation, procedural knowledge, applied rhetoric, and ethics. These topics are contextualized by entries presenting field-wide data on topics including influential texts, key terms, and teaching practices over time. Assembling Critical Components provides students, teachers, researchers, program administrators, and industry professionals a tangible yet flexible approach to explaining TPC.

Susan Mooney

The Making and Mirroring of the Masculine Subjectivities: Gender, Affect, and Ethics in Modern World Narratives, 2022