University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Ecopoetics
Essays in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume’s essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism, contemporary philosophy,...
Brave New Words
How Literature Will Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The activist tradition in American literature has long testified to the power of words to change people and the power of people to change the world, yet in recent years many professional humanists have chosen to distract themselves with a postmodern fundamentalism of indeterminacy and instability...
Hope Isn't Stupid
Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate...
Truth in Nonfiction
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers’ claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of...
Stanton in Her Own Time
A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Among nineteenth-century women’s rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped her activism and public reception. A wife and mother of seven, she was also a prolific writer, transatlantic women’s rights leader, popular lecturer,...
Poisonous Muse
The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands with gleeful abandon. That story, however, is only half true. While British authorities did indeed round up and execute...
When War Becomes Personal
Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. Alvord White Clements—himself a veteran of the Second World War—introduces his grandfather Isaac N. Clements’s Civil War memoir;...
Race Sounds
The Art of Listening in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
We live in a world of talk. Yet *Race Sounds *argues that we need to *listen *more—not just hear things, but actively listen—particularly in relation to how we engage race, gender, and class differences. Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how...
Questions of Poetics
Language Writing and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten’s major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in...
Mary Jane's Ghost
The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers’ lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary Jane...
by Pimone Triplett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
With their extravagant musicality, Triplett’s poems explore the thinning lines between responsibility and complicity, the tangled “supply chain” that unnervingly connects the domestic to the political, personal memory to social practice, and age-old familial discords to our new place in the...
by Joseph Campana
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana’s poemsattend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat. Shot full of accidental attachments and reluctant transience, Natural Selectionsproduces...
Mad Men Unzipped
Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the show and its fans distinguished themselves in a market where it’s hard to make an impression, not unlike the driven ad execs at the center of the show. In this book, four media psychologists who also just happen to be dedicated Mad Men fans...
by Tessa Mellas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This prize-winning debut of twelve stories explores a femininity that is magical, raw, and grotesque. Aghast at the failings of their bodies, this cast of misfit women and girls sets out to remedy the misdirection of their lives in bold and reckless ways.
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