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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
—George R.R. Martin
The works in this anthology reflect both the myth and the truth about the part of the United States we call the "West." Is there one "true" West? Or have the changes that are overwhelming...
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
Creating an Imperial Commons
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë's...
by Polly Dement
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The seventy stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurscollectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises. Most tell "how they did it" uniquely and in their own words, bringing to life their...
by Arnold Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted book” that first came into public view at Sotheby’s auction house in London in 1982, nearly four hundred years after it was presumably made by Mexican...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
The Empire’s Old Clothes
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s...
by James Applewhite
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his previous books, from the first, published in 1975, through the most recent, published in 2002. Applewhite’s...
Beautiful at All Seasons
Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina,...
by Linda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the...
On Longing
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1992
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the...
by David Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film...
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man
The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers...
Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology
Trees and Toxics in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Environmental problems present democratic dilemmas. The problems are so large and so often pit localities and interest groups against each other that they challenge basic democratic institutions, particularly the ideal of citizen participation in society’s choices. In this book, Daniel Press examines...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...