University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Douglas Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Essential to an understanding of argumentation and logic, Ad Hominem Arguments is a vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse.
In the 1860s, northern newspapers attacked Abraham Lincoln's policies by attacking his character, using the terms "drunk," "baboon,"...
Artistic Liberties
American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications.
Though today, we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American...
Hispanicism and Early US Literature
Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States.
In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements...
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Caribbean Literary Discourseis a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.
Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices...
by Cheryl Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Black examines the roles a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America, demonstrating their influence on 20th-century dramaturgy and culture.
Perhaps most notable for its discovery of two significant American playwrights--Eugene O'Neill and Susan...
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums,...
The Ascent of Chiefs
Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this...
John Steinbeck Goes to War
The Moon is Down as Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
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In March 1942, a desperate period for the allies in World War II, John Steinbeck published his propaganda novel The Moon is Down—the story of ruthless invaders who overrun a militarily helpless country. Throughout the novel,...
Ecosublime
Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime--nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear--profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world,...
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects.
With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia,...
Survival Pending Revolution
The History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
The Black Panther Party (BPP) seized the attention of America in the frenetic days of the late 1960s when a series of assassinations, discontent with the Vietnam War, and impatience with lingering racial discrimination roiled the United States, particularly its cities. The BPP inspired dread among...
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton’s central argument...
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer’s Stepping into Zion considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.
Hatzaad Harishon ("The First Step") was...
by Christian K. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions,...