The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
by Heather Kirn Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
“Heather Lanier’s The Story You Tell Yourself may be a first book, but Lanier’s firm intelligence and lyrical artistry make poems that are clearly the confident work of an extraordinarily accomplished, even thrilling, poet. Lanier isn’t kidding when she says, auda-ciously, ‘I found a shape...
by Eve Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
“Rare in any age is work which incorporates a passion for experience, a commitment to truth, an ability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and music which can work through all these tangled thickets, but Eve Alexandra does just that. . . . This is true poetry; it immediately...
Evolution and 'the Sex Problem'
American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
A noteworthy investigation of the Darwinian element in American fiction from the realist through the Freudian eras In Evolution and “the Sex Problem” author Bert Bender argues that Darwin’s theories of sexual selection and of the emotions are essential elements in American fiction from the late...
by Patrick M. Garry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Since, 1968, liberalism as a viable political ideology has been under attack, with the most aggressive assault occurring in the 1988 presidential campaign. While conservatives denounced the “L-word” and proclaimed its death as a political ideology, liberals and Democrats failed to defend America’s...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the Purple Cow centers around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh. Goran creates once...
Brainwashing
The Fictions of Mind Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
An examination of the literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era
“Brainwashing: A method for systematically changing attitudes or altering beliefs, originated in totalitarian countries, especially through the use of torture, drugs, or psychological-stress...
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer
A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Praised by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass, who called him...
The Space Between
Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Annie Dillard, a foremost practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a necromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This first full-length study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist...
The Sweet and the Bitter
Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece have a great deal to teach us. From the heroic to the humble, Tolkien draws on medieval concepts...
A Sea of Change
Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream - a Contextual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A fresh perspective on Hemingway's work
Early in his career, when To Have and Have Not was published, Ernest Hemingway's portrayal of themes, setting, and character was often compared to Cezanne's art - abstract. By contrast, in 1952, with the publication of The Old Man and the Sea, his style...
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden
Twenty-five Years of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarship
When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years after Ernest Hemingway's death, it was a watershed event that changed readers' and scholars' perceptions of the famous American author. Following...
No Uncle Sam
Forgotten of Bataan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
On April 9, 1942, Gen. Edward King, commander of the Fil-American forces in Bataan, surrendered to the Japanese. To this day, it remains the largest American army in history to surrender, numbering more than 70,000 Filipinos and Americans. After the surrender the Japanese marched their captives to...
by Jody Rambo
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
“Jody Rambo’s poems push and pull, travel and rest, occupy and set free. Her ‘tether’ both holds her fast to the facts and words that make up our world, but at the same time it liberates her to roam and travel, inclined as she says, ‘to wander off into the green beyond recoverable limits.’...
by Djelloul Marbrook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
“How honored I am—how lucky—to have been able to choose this superb first book by Djelloul Marbrook that honors a lifetime of hidden achievement. . . . Sometimes the poems seem utterly symbolic, surreal; they are philosophical, historical, psychological, political, and spiritual. The genius...