University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
by Sarah Rose Nordgren
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
In Darwin's Mother, curious beasts are excavated in archeological digs, Charles Darwin's daughter describes the challenges of breeding pigeons, and a forest of trees shift and sigh in their sleep. With a keen sense of irony that rejects an anthropocentric worldview and an imagination both philosophical...
Entangled Far Rights
A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today's authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a running thread through the entire history of the long 20th century and present regardless of the changing political character of Russia's regimes.
by Toi Derricotte
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, child abuse, mother hatred, and the physical and psychological ravages of violence. These poems are raw and upsetting in subject matter, yet extremely readable.
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New & Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
In Derricotte’s own words:
“How do you gain access to the
power of parts of yourself you
abhor, and make them sing
with beauty, tenderness, and compassion?
This is the record of fifty years
of victories in the reclamation
of a poet's voice.”
Uncommon Contexts
Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to...
by Lucy Honig
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
These nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic politicians, and "quality-of-life" campaigns as they are prey to grinding poverty, dangerous streets,...
Learning to Become Turkmen
Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life—in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies—reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century. As Victoria Clement shows, the formal...
Science and Eccentricity
Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly...
Domesticating Electricity
Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of...
The Evolution of College English
Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller...
I Would Lie to You if I Could
Interviews with Ten American Poets
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
I Would Lie To You If I Could contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martín Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester, Carolyn Forche, Peter Everwine, and Galway Kinnell) and James Wright’s widow Anne. It presents conversations...
Adjusting the Lens
Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical,...
Teaching Queer
Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning...
by Kevin Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in European and American intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the “average man,” he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation...