University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Appetite is a book that explores our American Mythologies, particularly masculinity and film. Smith investigates our fascinations with the body, gender, and entertainment in poems that are critically observant, darkly funny, darkly angry, and, sometimes, heartbreaking.
Whether he is cataloging...
by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession—how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable.
Smith’s...
by Jennifer Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1995
The stories in this extraordinary collection are set in Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast, the center for more than thirty years of fighting between Roman Catholic nationalists and Protestants loyal to the British crown. Cornell is not preoccupied, however, with the details of the war. Her...
A Responsive Rhetorical Art
Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action—the productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and...
Slick Policy
Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement. It accelerated the advancement of federal government policies and...
by Joydeep Sen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association...
The Animal Who Writes
A Posthumanist Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter—treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor—as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write,...
The Plum Flower Dance
Poems 1985 to 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2007
Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence
"Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.”
—North American Review
by Glenn Shaheen
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
WINNER OF THE 2010 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE
“Glenn Shaheen is claiming new ground for American poetry. His poems are about the nightmares of information overload, collapsing infrastructure, ubiquitous violence, and other ills of late empire. The subjects are not happy, but Shaheen's...
Epidemics, Empire, and Environments
Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites where...
Rhetorica in Motion
Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations...
Remembering Cold Days
The 1942 Massacre of Novi Sad and Hungarian Politics and Society, 1942-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Between three and four thousand civilians, primarily Serbian and Jewish, were murdered in the Novi Sad massacre of 1942. Hungarian soldiers and gendarmes carried out the crime in the city and surrounding areas, in territory Hungary occupied after the German attack on Yugoslavia. The perpetrators believed...
Inevitably Toxic
Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment—be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren’t marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces’ substances and not others? The essays in Inevitably Toxic consider the...
Historicizing Humans
Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek
A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal...