Frank L Cioffi

Books

Cioffi, F. (2024). Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style. (p. 273). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2024). Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style. (p. 273). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2018). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2017). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ; Oxford, England, USA and UK, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2015). One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Guide. (p. 355). Princeton, NJ, U.S., Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (1982). Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940.. Westport, CT, London, Westport Ct and London Greenwood Press.

Journal Articles

Cioffi, F. (2015). "La Jetee at Fifty-Two". Raritan, XXXIV(3). 37-56.

(2009). "Junk Sculptors, Fetishists, Cultural Collectees: Don DeLillo's Collectors." . Beyond Philology, 5.

Cioffi, F. (2006). Egghead Blues: The Life in the MInd in the Land of Things. Symploke, 14( 1-2). 7-29.

Cioffi, F. (2005). Argumentation in a Culture of Discord. The Chronicle of Higher Education Review,

(2001). Paradoksy Humanistyki [Paradoxes in the Humanities], Interiority Blurrings in Eraserhead and Pi. University of Gdansk Press,

Cioffi, F. (2000). An Anguish Become Thing: The Disturbing Performance of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Narrative, (Spring 2000).

Cioffi, F. (2000). The (Im) Possible Worlds of Robert Coovers’s The Public Burning. Critique,

Cioffi, F. (1999). Post-Millennial Postmodernism: On the Profession of Literature in the Centrifugal Age.

Cioffi, F. (1999). Style, Postmodernism, Etc.: An Interview with Ihab Hassan. Style, 33(3). 357-71.

Cioffi, F. (1998). The Phenomenology of the Disturbing Text. LIT,

Cioffi, F. (1988). The Audience Within the Object: The Implied Teacher in Composition Textbook Advertisements. Written Communication,

Cioffi, F. (1987). Towards a Deep Structure of the Reading Process. Zeszyty naukowe Wydzatu Humanisticznego Uniwersytety Gdanskiego: Filologia Angielska [Scholarly Publications of the University of Gdansk’s College of Humanities: English Philology], ,

(1984). The Composition Textbook Advertisement and Its Promise of Potency. Oklahoma Historical Society,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Gilbert Sorrentino’s Science-fiction World in Mulligan Stew. Extrapolation,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Teaching Humanities Courses in Prison. Alternative Higher Education,

Cioffi, F. (1980). Across the Great Divide: Breaking Away.

Cioffi, F. (1980). Science Fiction on Campus…and in Prison. Journal of English Teaching Techniques,

“The Polyhedral Character and Ethical Drift in What Mad Universe and Nineteen Eighty-Four.” . Science Fiction Studies, 53(1). 21-56.

Book Chapters

Cioffi, F. L. (2020). Defamiliarizing the Most Familiar of Poets, Robert Frost. In Heuston, S. (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (p. 11 pages). New York, NY,USA. Modern Language Association.

Cioffi, F. (2015). "Solipsism and Utopia: Fredric Brown, Charles Yu, Ludwig Wittgenstein". Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection (pp. 133-148). Farnham, Surrey,UK. Ashgate.

Cioffi, F. (2011). "Teaching, Interpretation, and the 'Potential'". Terra Incognita (p. 27 pages). Gdansk,Poland. Gdansk University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2010). "Graphic Fictions on Graphics Subjects: Teaching the Illustrated Medical Narrative" in S. Tabachnick (ed), Teaching the Graphic Novel. Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel (p. 10 pages). New York, NY,USA. MLA Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Postmodern Return: Theory-Travel Writing - Autobiography, Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow Ontological Hesitation and Biography. In Stierstorfer, K. (Ed.), The Postmodern Return: Theory--Travel Writing--Autobiography Germany. University of Heidelberg Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2001). The Language of Comics: Word and Image, Disturbing Comics: The Disjuntion of Word and Image in the Comics of Adrzej Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, a Art Spiegelmannd. In Varnum, R., & Gibbons, C. T. (Eds.), The Language of Comics (pp. 97-122). Jackson, MS,United States. University Press of Mississippi.

Media Contributions

Cioffi, F. (1979). Teaching Behind the Walls.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Cioffi, F. L. (1970,January 1). Review of Krystyna Wieszczek, George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions . The Polish Review. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Cioffi, F. (2015,September 26). Readers Writing : Strategy Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text. New York, NY,U.S.: Teachers College Record.

Cioffi, F. (1983,October 1). Review of Channels of Desire. Milwaukee, WI,USA: Sub-Stance.