University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
by Rick Hilles
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
The poems that make up A Map of the Lost World range from tightly-wrought shorter lyrics to longer autobiographical narratives to patterns of homage (in several forms) of poets that Hilles admires and emulates (including Richard Hugo, James Wright, James Merrill and Larry Levis) to extended voice-driven...
In Search of the Sacred Book
Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite...
Science as It Could Have Been
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Could all or part of our taken-as-established scientific conclusions, theories, experimental data, ontological commitments, and so forth have been significantly different? Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that contemporary science studies have often neglected: the issue of...
White Spots—Black Spots
Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations, 1918–2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form
of meaningmaking?
Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition...
Thunder In the Mountains
The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1990
The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties...
After Human Rights
Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity...
by Paisley Rekdal
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2007
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the body; failures of science, art and technology; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives...
by Jane McCafferty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1992
The characters in Jane McCafferty’s Director of the World and Other Stories are often distanced, lonely, or displaced from others and the events around them, yet they are almost always ready to act, to become involved with others, and to change. In “Eyes of Others,” a woman, stopping with...
Jackknife
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives to poems that straddle the page in fragments, to lines that sprawl with long lines of train tracks. Always landing in meaning, we are inside the body—not...
by Adria Bernardi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner
Selected by Frank Conroy
In the Gathering Woods contains a cast of characters who hail from the same Italian ancestors, but whose stories come at us unbounded by time and space. The book opens early in the twentieth century, with a narrator’s boyhood...
by Katherine Vaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1997
Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in...
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Twenty Best Of Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2001
The Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the writing and reading of short fiction. Over the past twenty years judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have selected...
by Shauna Barbosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
** “These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.”
—Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music
-- A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 **
The...