Unp Nebraska: 513 books
Hitchhiking
Twelve German Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
First published in East Germany in 1982 and in West Germany four years later, this collection of short prose firmly established Gabriele Eckart in German literary circles (her poetry had earlier won the critics' praise). Eckart's stories offer a panorama of East German life: sharply drawn vignettes in...
Narrative Complexity
Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary...
The Dust Rose Like Smoke
The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined...
Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction
Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A storyteller’s craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are “strange” first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader...
by Frédéric Brun
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become...
Declared Defective
Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in...
Flight to the Top of the World
The Adventures of Walter Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In his day Walter Wellman (1858–1934) was one of America’s most famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt to cross...
Topoi/Graphein
Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including Code Inconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now, and focusing on...
The Age of Ruth and Landis
The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters...