Tim A Ryan: 6 books

Book cover of Calls and Responses

Calls and Responses

The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind

by Tim A. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed...
Book cover of Yoknapatawpha Blues

Yoknapatawpha Blues

Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Roots Music

by Tim A. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

During the 1920s and 1930s, Mississippi produced two of the most significant influences upon twentieth-century culture: the modernist fiction of William Faulkner and the recorded blues songs of African American musicians like Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, and Robert Johnson. In Yoknapatawpha Blues,...
Book cover of The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
Book cover of Skin & Bones
by Dana C. Kabel, Patricia Abbott, Charles Ardai
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018

From a host of bestselling and award-winning authors come the stories from the darkest corners of their imaginations featuring one of the most abhorrent acts of mankind; cannibalism! Throughout history, human beings have feasted on human flesh. Whether it was to survive starvation or to horrify...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of How Television Shapes Our Worldview

How Television Shapes Our Worldview

Media Representations of Social Trends and Change

by Stylés I. Akira, Lane Clegg, Cindy Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
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