Syracuse University Press: 176 books
The Muckers
A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account...
Talking through the Door
An Anthology of Contemporary Middle Eastern American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The writers included here are descendants of multiple cultural heritages
and reflect the perspectives of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds:
Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Syrian.
They are from diverse socioeconomic classes and spiritual sensibilities:
Jewish,...
The Road to the Spring
Collected Poems of Mary Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Road to the Spring is the first book publication of Mary Austin’s
(1868–1934) poems. Best known for her prose book The Land of Little
Rain (1903), Austin was in fact a poet from the beginning of her career to
the end, even though she never published a volume dedicated to her own
original poetry....
by Nazli Eray
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"The Emperor Tea Garden" is a vividly engaging fantasy romance told on several different levels that transcend time, place, gender, and even species. In this enchanted space, the boundaries between life and death, dream and reality, and here and there are all blurred. The eponymous tea garden is one...
The Book of Khalid
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
First published in 1911, Ameen Rihani’s Book of Khalid is widely considered the first Arab American novel. The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to find work as peddlers in Lower Manhattan. After mixed...
by Bronwyn Winter
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world’s brutal entry into the third millennium. Nearly all discussions of world politics today include a tacit, if not overt, reference to that historical moment. A decade and a half on, Winter considers the impact of 9/11 on women around...
Revolutionary Damnation
Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom—politically, religiously, and creatively—is Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus. His "non serviam," though, is not just the profound rebellion of one frustrated young man, but, as Brivic demonstrates...
by Kay Richardson, Joseph Trotta, Jean Ann
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences...
by William Loizeaux
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack...
The Salmiya Collection
Stories of the Life and Times of Modern Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
"The Salmiya Collection" stems from the author’s experiences during the past seven years in the rich environment, society, and culture of Kuwait. While in Kuwait, Loomis has written a monthly short story for Bazaar, one of its national magazines, and he has gathered them together for this collection....
The Shi'ites of Lebanon
Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society.
The authors trace the...
Red Shoes for Rachel
Three Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff’s...
by David Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Over the Line is a coming of age tale about a boy’s emotional growth and a set of crises that must be addressed and overcome. This novel explores stresses and fractures in contemporary life in a fictional small town in upstate New York.
Inside the TV Writer's Room
Practical Advice For Succeeding in Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Aspiring writers often ask how they can break into the television writing business. Meyers believes that the answer can be found by asking why people become television writers and what makes them successful. Inside the TV Writer’s Room reveals these insights and much more. This volume, a collection...