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Cormac McCarthy's House

Reading McCarthy Without Walls

by Peter Josyph
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how...
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The Absurd Hero in American Fiction

Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger

by David D. Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway’s analysis of the writings of John...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had...
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Voices from the Wild Horse Desert

The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches

by Jane Clements Monday, Betty Bailey Colley
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families....
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Jews in an Arab Land

Libya, 1835–1970

by Renzo De Felice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice’s pioneering study of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major sources of conflict in the modern Middle East. This is the first English translation of Ebrei in un paese arabo, originally published by Il Mulino, Bologna, in 1978.The...
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Postcard America

Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931-1950

by Jeffrey L. Meikle
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic...
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Ryan Adams

Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

by David Menconi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for many people it defined the era. Adams was an...
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Indigenous Aesthetics

Native Art, Media, and Identity

by Steven Leuthold
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics...
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Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles

A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans

by William Spratling, William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

"When Bill Faulkner came to New Orleans he was a skinny little guy, three years older than I, and was not taken very seriously except by a few of us." Thus the late William Spratling, popularly known as the Taxco "Silver King," recalled the mid-1920's, when Faulkner, a young man fresh from Oxford, Mississippi,...
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by Beth E. Jörgensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms...
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Migrant Song

Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature

by Teresa McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

Migration and continuity have shaped both the Chicano people and their oral and written literature. In this pathfinding study of Chicano literature, Teresa McKenna specifically explores how these works arise out of social, political, and psychological conflict and how the development of Chicano literature...
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a dirty hand

The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott

by Winfield Townley Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013

From "a dirty hand": Words are very powerful. You aren't sure of that? Think of all the things you won't say. Wonderful remark in a note I had this week from William Carlos Williams. He spoke of the "disease" of wanting to write poetry; said he had been "off" poetry for many months and—he said—"I...
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The Women of CourtWatch

Reforming a Corrupt Family Court System

by Carole Bell Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Houston was a terrible place to divorce or seek child custody in the 1980s and early 1990s. Family court judges routinely rendered verdicts that damaged the interests of women and children. In some especially shocking cases, they even granted custody to fathers who had been accused of molesting their...
Cover of Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications
by David E. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally...
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