University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature
With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth,...
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
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Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions,...
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy,...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Acts of Mind
Conversations with Contemporary Poets
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
“There have been any number of books of interview with contemporary writers, but none precisely like this one. The author/editor has somehow managed to get these very different poets to follow his lead and (in many cases for the first time anywhere) to reveal much about their intellectual habits,...
Gaming Matters
Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
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In his 2004 book Game Work, Ken S. McAllister proposed a rigorous critical methodology for the discussion of the “video game complex”—the games themselves, their players, the industry that produces them, and those who review and market...
After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?
by Marouf Hasian
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing. The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the...
by Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.
This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural...
Plague Among the Magnolias
The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported...
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a “global ecumene,”...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
1777
The Year of the Hangman
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
“A revisionist view of the Revolution’s most crucial year… it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne’s Canadian expedition and Howe’s Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp...
by Robert K. Krick
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
This work fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia. Krick adds to the daily records kept by amateur meteorologists...