University Press Of Mississippi: 979 books
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies)...
Tell about Night Flowers
Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During...
Perils of Protection
Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children’s rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect...
A Vulgar Art
A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they...
A Locker Room of Her Own
Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation...
by John Laudun
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In any given year, the Louisiana crawfish harvest tops 50,000 tons. The Amazing Crawfish Boat chronicles the development of an amphibious boat that transformed the Louisiana prairies into alternating fields of aquaculture and agriculture. In seeking to understand how such a machine came into being,...
King Cotton in Modern America
A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
King Cotton in Modern America places the once kingly crop in historical perspective, showing how "cotton culture" was actually part of the larger culture of the United States despite many regarding its cultivation and sources as hopelessly backward. Leaders in the industry, acting through...
Builders of a New South
Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were...
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
The Making of Roger Rabbit
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over thirty Academy Awards, could stop what appeared...
Bashert
A Granddaughterâ??s Holocaust Quest
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers. On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she makes...
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual...
by Elaine Allen Lechtreck
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a sermon based on the Golden Rule. He pronounced that Jesus Christ was asking Christians to view the bombing from the perspective of their black neighbors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of...
Ain't That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors.
In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper:...