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The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This introductory essay uses William Eggleston as the point of entry to preview the entire photography issue and includes striking photographs from Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Susan Harbage Page—as well as exploring the stunning work of Paul Kwilecki. "Photography in its...
"Those little color snapshots": William Christenberry
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Follow the evolution of the vision and career of one of the South's foremost photographers."Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye."...
One Place
Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he...
by George A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion.
Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition...
The Double
A Psychoanalytic Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death--actually the core of human existence. Rank's book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature...
Welcome to Fairyland
Queer Miami before 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has...
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house,...
Choosing Craft
The Artist's Viewpoint
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
Chaotic Justice
Rethinking African American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship....
Thornton Dial
Thoughts on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Thornton Dial (1928-2016), one of the most important artists in the American South, came to prominence in the late 1980s and was celebrated internationally for his large construction pieces and mixed-media paintings. It was only later, in response to a reviewer's negative comment on his artistic ability,...
Iron Confederacies
Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance...
Holding Fast the Inner Lines
Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Committee on Public Information, the major American propaganda agency during World War I, attracted a wide range of reform-oriented men and women who tried to generate enthusiasm for Wilson's international and domestic ideals. Vaughn shows that the CPI encouraged an imperial presidency, urged...
Reality Radio
Telling True Stories in Sound
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Over the last few decades, the radio documentary has developed into a strikingly vibrant form of creative expression. Millions of listeners hear arresting, intimate storytelling from an ever-widening array of producers on programs including This American Life, StoryCorps, and Radio Lab; online through...