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Tales from the Journey of the Dead
Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate a 120-mile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, flesh-colored sand, and desolation. This is the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead.
So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has...
Russian Formalist Criticism
Four Essays, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory.
Included...
Pitching in the Promised Land
A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach’s suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately...
Opening Acts
Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power...
Blurring the Boundaries
Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring...
Comedy and the Woman Writer
Woolf, Spark, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty—perhaps the impossibility—of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent...
Imagining Kashmir
Emplotment and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir—a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja—became a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has been the focus of international wars and the theater of political and military struggles for self-determination....
by Deborah Toner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810...
Bodily Charm
Living Opera
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Bodily Charm is a passionate defense of opera as a living as well as live art. Written for both the opera lover and the specialist by a physician and a literary critic, it is an accessible and engaging interdisciplinary exploration of the operatic body—both the actual physical bodies of the singers...
Beyond the Fruited Plain
Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have...
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were...
Cather Studies, Volume 10
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century—the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions,...
Should I Still Wish
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife’s violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with his in-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small...