One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Edited by Colm Tóibín, with forewords by Michael D. Higgins and Colin B.

“A fascinating glimpse into Joyce’s posthumous transformation from novelist into cultural icon, just right for fans and scholars.”—Publishers Weekly

Graphic Public Health

A Comics Anthology and Road Map

Meredith Li-Vollmer

“Effective and colorful. . . . Lay readers can enjoy the dynamic artwork and compassionate perspectives on healthcare, and maybe learn a little in the process.”—Publishers Weekly

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature

With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles

Edited by Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov

“Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature brings a new focus on the sexual violence of the pastourelle genre, which, as the authors note, has often been erased or sidelined in mainstream scholarship. The essays offer a unique contribution by showing how the responses of women to sexual violence in the literature is mirrored by the responses of real women to similar events in our time.”—Alison Gulley, editor of Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts

Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden

Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric

Kyle Jensen

“To Burke scholarship, Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden contributes an original, persuasive answer to questions about the coherence of A Rhetoric of Motives and of Burke’s whole philosophy of symbolic action. To rhetorical studies generally, it rigorously demonstrates the usefulness of genetic rhetorical criticism in understanding a specific text of rhetorical theory and masterfully illustrates the value of mythic images in interpreting rhetorical texts and contexts. For historically oriented cultural studies, it provides an extremely strong case for the major contribution rhetorical theory and analysis can make, especially when it combines scrupulous, detailed archival work with sophisticated, interdisciplinary theoretical speculation.”—Steven Mailloux, author of Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

Richard Mammana says that Paul Peucker’s Herrnhut is: “a magnum opus at just over 200 pages, and it will be the essential book in its field.”

The Ancillary Review of Books calls Robert Zacharias’s Reading Mennonite Writing “an exciting, daring book that anyone interested in North American literary studies should read.”

This article is temporarily free to access in Pennsylvania History: “Pittsburgh’s Urban Renewal: Industrial Park Development, Freeway Construction, and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement.”

The article “Some New Evidence Documenting the Involvement of Da’esh in Syria with the Illicit Trade in Antiquities’ in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies is free to access for a short time.

Journal for the History of Rhetoric published its first issue with Penn State University Press! The article “Excessively Harsh Critique and Democratic Rhetoric: The Enigma of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Riddles in Hinduism” is open access until August 9. Read the article here.

Journal subscription pricing for 2023 will be available by mid-July or sooner. Be on the lookout for changes coming to our PDF price list on the website!

Elephantine Revisited

New Insights into the Judean Community and Its Neighbors

Edited by Margaretha Folmer

The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt.

Assyria

The Imperial Mission

Mario Liverani

New in paper!
In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory and an Oriental trajectory. Assyria, often overlooked or slighted by modern studies of empire, still maintains our interest because it provides an example of the “simple form” of empire and imperialism, before subsequent developments resulted in structures of greater complexity.

Jacob’s Apartment

Joshua Kemble

“An excellent graphic novel that utilizes the unique possibilities of the medium to portray deep emotions in dramatic style.”—Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews

The Pass

Espé

The only way out is through.