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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Proverbia Septentrionalia Essays on Proverbs in
Book SynopsisProverbia Septentrionalia examines the uses of the proverb in the medieval cultures of northern Europe, and in particular how it is employed in literature and in non-fictional writings. The discipline of paroemiology, or the study of proverbs, recognizes their origins as often preceding the literate stage of societies. In fact, they must have made up a significant element in that formulaic framework by which knowledge and wisdom were fixed and transmitted generationally in the communities of pre-literate humanity. Proverb texts have, and indeed may be defined by, their own generative structure, the presence of which in texts incorporated in poems and stories marks such passages not merely as instructive in themselves, but also as resonating with accepted communal wisdom in ways that can help us understand the works in which they occur.Table of ContentsIntroduction — by Michael Cichon, Richard L. Harris, and Yin Liu 1. Some Paroemiological Approaches to Studies in North Germanic Medieval Literatures and Cultures — by Richard L. Harris 2. Proverbial Thought in Some Early Germanic Poems — by Joseph Harris 3. Traditional Proverbs in the Construction of the Old English Maxims I — by Susan E. Deskis 4. New Thoughts on Old Wisdom: Norse Gnomic Poetry, the Narrative Turn, and Situational Ethics — by Carolyne Larrington 5. Þat hafa gamlir menn mælt: The Proverbs of Egils saga — by Dale Kedwards 6. Talking Cloaks and Hidden Wisdom: A Sapiential Figure in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature — by Damian Fleming and Thomas D. Hill 7. The Use of Proverbs in the Medieval Icelandic Exempla and Related Texts — by Shaun F. D. Hughes 8. The “Sentential Turn” in Sigvatr Þórðarson — by Russell Poole 9. Genteel Sententiousness: The Social Status of Proverbs in Late Medieval England — by Andrew Taylor 10. Proverbs, Authority, and Rhetoric in Pearl and Patience — by Corey Owen 11. Domestic Animals in Låle’s Proverbs — by Janken Myrdal 12. Erasmus’s Political Thoughts: The Adagia as a Breeding Ground for the Institutio principis Christiani — by Jeanine De Landtsheer Bibliography Index
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Literary Speech Acts of the Medieval North
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together examinations of pragmatic meaning and proverbs of the Medieval North. Pragmatic meaning, which relies upon cultural and interpersonal context to go beyond the simple semantic and grammatical meaning of an utterance, has a fundamental connection with proverbs, which also communicate a deeper meaning than what is actually said. Essays in this volume explore this connection by examining the language of generosity, conversion, friendship, debate, dragon proverbs, and saints' lives. These essays are inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey, who has been a pioneer in the study of wisdom poetry and pragmatics in medieval literature.Table of ContentsForeword: An Awareness of Immanence -Tom Shippey Preface -Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames Acknowledgments -Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames Part I: Proverbial Speech Acts The Eddic Wisdom of Hreiðarr the Fool: Paroemial Cognitive Patterning in an Old Icelandic þáttr -Richard L. Harris Beowulf’s Bane, Fáfnir, and the Firedrake of Erebor: Proverbial Dragons and the Implicatures of Pragmatic Discourse -Jonathan Evans Examining The Proverbs of Hendyng for the Essentials: Its Meaning, Authorship, and Readership -Graham P. Johnson The Wisdom of Friendship in Hávamál -Michael Nagy Competitive Cooperation in Old and Middle English Debate Poetry: Solomon and Saturn II and Winner and Waster -Alexander Vaughan Ames Part II: Pragmatic Speech Acts Don’t Kill the Messenger: Felicity Conditions in Old Norse Conversion Narratives -Eric Shane Bryan Repetition, Class, and the Nameless Speakers of Beowulf -Michael R. Kightley Praising and Appraising Heroic Deeds: Generosity as Surplus Giving in Beowulf -Scott Gwara The Fall of the Angels as Apotropaic Weapon in Cynewulf’s Saints’ Lives -Jill M. Fitzgerald “Hwæt!”: Discourse Markers and Orality in Beowulf -Toby R. Beeny Teaching Good Manners: Civil Discourse Patterns in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -A. Keith Kelly Bibliography
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press The Views of Mahlathi Book 2 Writings of a Black
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Earthtones A Nevada Album
Book SynopsisA full-colour guide to understanding Nevada's magnificent but challenging landscape - teal sky and a sea of purple sage, mountain mahogany and a crimson mass of claret cup cactus.Trade Review"Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys and barren mountains glimpsed from a car speeding toward California. Now Ann Ronald, a scholar of nature writing, and Stephen Trimble, a distinguished photographer of the landscapes and native peoples of the West, have combined forces to show us another Nevada. The Silver State they know is full of color and life, rich with history both natural and human, abundant with lessons for the earth-centered traveler eager for wisdom and rejuvenation." - ISLE "Ann Ronald's essays combine beautiful prose with natural, historical, and anecdotal information. The essays compliment Stephen Trimble's rich color photographs that are a celebration of light, shadow, and detail. After studying this work, many readers will find themselves asking when they might next have an opportunity to visit Nevada." - Journal of the West "Earthtones takes the reader from the lowest deserts to the highest mountains of this unusual state that has such an abundance of public lands for the nature lover. This is a wonderful book and one that should be on the shelf of every library, public or private, that aspires to be complete on the subject of the Great Basin and its environs." - The Bloomsbury Review "Earthtones is a wonderful introduction to the mystical, vastly misunderstood, and hidden Silver State." - Small Press
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Cornell University Press Politics Philosophy and the Production of
Book SynopsisLiterary works of the Romantic period have often been viewed primarily as expressions of escapism, disillusionment or apostasy on the writer's part. In contrast, this book argues that political repression had an important effect on the production of romantic texts.
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Getty Trust Publications The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1758, this was the book that brought the wonders of Greek classical architecture to the notice of the Western world. This is a translation of the second, considerably expanded, edition of 1770.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Register of John Morton Archbishop of
Book SynopsisComprehensive records of sede vacanteadministration in the province of Canterbury from 1486-1500, including important financial accounts.Among the most important rights of the archbishop of Canterbury wasthe administration of vacant sees upon the death or translation ofa bishop. Morton's register is remarkable for the proportion of itsfolios which are filled by sede vacantematerial.Trade ReviewThe records are very detailed and contain a wide array of information useful to historians seeking a more complete picture of the late medieval English church... Recent scholarship has broken with the long-held view that the late medieval English church was hopelessly corrupt. According to Harper-Bill, [veteran editor of ecclesiastical records], Morton's register provides evidence to support the newer, more favorable picture of the ecclesiastical establishment in England on the eve of the Reformation... in the light of the records which he has so capably edited, the argument is compelling. A welcome additions to printed primary sources for historians of the early Tudor church. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsVacancy of the see of Coventry and Lichfield, 1490-91; vacancy of the see of Bath and Wells, 1491-92; vacancy of the see of Winchester, 1492-93; vacancy of the see of Lincoln, 1495; vacancy of the see of Exeter, 1492-93; vacancy of the see of Bath and Wells, 1495; vacancy of the see of Coventry and Lichfield, 1496; vacancy of the see of Rochester, 1496; vacancy of the see of Worcester, 1498; vacancy of the see of Salisbury, 1499-1500.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham Bishop
Book SynopsisThese writs, previously largely unstudied, prove a rich source of information on government, law and society, as well as the church.The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The writs collected in this volume touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare. The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry,organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. It also provides a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire toHampshire. An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and offers suggestions for further lines of research. Dr A.K. McHARDY is the author of numerous articles about the relationsbetween crown and church in late medieval England, as well as an edition of the Clerical Poll-Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-1381 (Lincoln Record Society, 1992)Trade ReviewDemonstrates, as the editor rightly points out in a learned introduction, the variety and importance for students of English law of much of the material kept in episcopal archives. * LEGAL HISTORY *
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Harvard University Press The Povest vremennykh let
Book SynopsisThe Tale of Bygone Years (Pověst’ vremennykh lět) is the most important source for the history of early Rus’. This massive undertaking provides scholars and general readers with the first fully legible text that includes all of the known redactions of the Pověst’.
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLVII
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Liverpool University Press Making Global and Local Connections Historical
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Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library A Garland of Satire Wisdom and History
Book SynopsisThis book brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology, previously unavailable in English.
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WW Norton & Co Touch the Future
Book SynopsisA revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch
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Johns Hopkins University Press Timelines of American Literature
Book SynopsisA collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. Early American, antebellum, modern, post-1945such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessaryeven illuminatingpractice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periodsfrom 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of modernism ifTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher HagerPart 1. Prehistories and Transitions2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra GustafsonPrehistories3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared HickmanTransitions7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. LevinePart 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-???? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana LucianoAges13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán14. The Age of Van BurenJustine S. Murison15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu17. The Age of Warhol Bryan WatermanThe Long Present18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan GillmanAppendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Drama of Language
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970. For Sigurd Burckhardt, literary interpretation began with the discovery of an inconsistency in a text. Minimizing the possibility that the writer has unconsciously fallen into an inconsistency in the use of material, the true interpreter, Burckhardt believes, abandons a tendency to correct the writer and seeks instead a new formulation by which the inconsistency can be seen as a part of a work's essential unity. Whether I search for the meaning of a word or for the meaning of my life, he wrote, I am looking for something under which I can subsume the otherwise unrelated and meaningless particular so as to place it in a larger order. That method, so characteristic of Burckhardt's criticism, underlies his studies of Goethe and Kleist and unifies the essays of this volume. Prior to his death in December 1966, Professor Burckhardt had considered the possibility of collecting his writings on Goethe and Kleist. One essay had never been published; others had appeTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Of Order, Abstraction, and Language Chapter 1. Language as Form in Goethe's Prometheus and Pandora Chapter 2. "The voice of truth and of humanity": Goethe's Iphigenie Chapter 3. The Consistency of Goethe's Tasso Chapter 4. Die natiirliche Tochter: Goethe's Iphigenie in Aulis? Chapter 5. Egmont and Prinz Friedrich van Homburg: Expostulation and ReplyChapter 6. Heinrich von Kleist: The Poet as Prussian Chapter 7. Kleist's Hermannsschlacht: The Lock and the Key Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Love
Book SynopsisPhiladelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the affectionate collection Love. This volume of personal essays and photographs celebrates the intersection of memory and place. Kephart writes lovingly, reflectively about what Philadelphia means to her. She muses about meandering on SEPTA trains, spending hours among the armor in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and taking shelter at Independence Mall during a downpour. In Love, Kephart shares her loveof Reading Terminal Market at Thanksgiving: This abundant, bristling market is, in November, the most unlonesome place around. She waxes poetic about the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, the mustard in a Salumeria sandwich, and the coins slipped between the lips of Philbert the pig.Kephart also extends her journeys to the suburbs, Glenside and Ardmoreand beyond, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Stone Harbor, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware. What emerges is a valentine to theTrade Review"In her new book Love, Beth Kephart has beautifully captured the heart and soul of our city. She captures its complexity by writing eloquently about its beauty, the respect for the past, the resilience of its citizens and an embrace of creativity and innovation unfolding at the speed of light. Set against an extraordinary backdrop of some of our city and region's most beloved sites, Kephart, paints a picture of an area where the past, present and future come together to create a unique and wonderful place that is exciting for those of us who live here and a great treat for those who travel here from across the county and the globe."--Jane Golden, Executive Director, Mural Arts Program“Love is a lovely literary tour of places and spaces in and around Philadelphia…. When seen through Kephart’s eyes and words – Philadelphia is a place of new beginnings.”-- Siobhan A. Reardon, President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia
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University of Toronto Press Beyond Sambation
Book SynopsisThe broad range of A.M. Klein’s interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials, and reviews – a selection that also displays the qualities that distinguished all his creative writing and the highly idiosyncratic nature of his style.The writings in this volume span a most critical juncture in human affairs; a period that witnessed the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, Nazism, and communism, the Second World War, and the emergence of the State of Israel. As a journalist, Klein did more than record the events – he gave expression to the feelings of his people and helped shape their responses. His wide reading, sensitivity, and intelligence made him a perceptive observer and keen analyst, while his command of language, his passion, rhetoric, and wit, made him an eloquent spokesman. These qualities enabled him to carry out the responsibilities, as he saw them, of chronicler and champion. Though Klein’
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O'Reilly Media Book a Futurists Manifesto
Book SynopsisWith widespread consumer demand for digital devices, the book publishing industry is undergoing profound change. Book: A Futurist's Manifesto is your guide to what comes next, when all books are truly digital, connected, and ubiquitous.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Every True Pleasure LGBTQ Tales of North
Book SynopsisSome of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume are stories and essays that view the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens.
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The University of North Carolina Press A Question of Value Stories from the Life of an
Book SynopsisIn this collection of compelling, compassionate essays, Bob Brunk considers specific items and remarkable situations he encountered in his long and successful work as an auctioneer and appraiser. He presents objects as invitations to consider personal and collective histories often related to unresolved social inequities.Trade ReviewDeeply thoughtful and elegant in its forthright simplicity, A Question of Value is one of the best books on collecting in many years."—Antiques and the Arts Weekly In his new memoir . . . the gavel-wielding philosopher shares wisdom gleaned from his many years on the road and in the salesroom. [Brunk's] empathetic tales capture the comedy, pathos, joy, and ultimate mystery that is collecting."—The Magazine Antiques
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University of Texas Press From a Limestone Ledge
Book SynopsisNow back in printthe third volume in the acclaimed Brazos Trilogy by John Graves, who is widely acknowledged as Texas's most beloved writer.Table of Contents Foreword by Bill Wittliff Preface Coping Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences Building Fever Meat Vin du Pays Trash as Treasure Kindred Spirits Creatures Nineteen Cows A Few Words in Favor of Goats Of Bees and Men Blue and Some Other Dogs Some Chickens I Have Known Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments Noticing Weather Between East and West Coronado’s Stepchildren Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers One’s Own Sole Ground A Loser
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University of Texas Press A Love Letter to Texas Women
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Above the East China Sea and The Yokota Officers Club celebrates the uniqueness of Texas women in this beautifully designed gift bookTrade ReviewNow here’s an old Second Wave feminist’s unbiased, fair and balanced review of Sarah Bird’s new book A Love Letter to Texas Women. It’s a hoot! A laugh-out-loud 80-page personal history with heart, grit and a galaxy of stars. -- Jane Sumner * The Austin American-Statesman *This teeny book by Austin writer Sarah Bird is a must for any proud Texas woman (and any Texas man proud to love a Texas woman.) In her trademark bitingly funny style, Bird talks about her journey from granola hippydom in New Mexico to the Aqua-Netted friendliness of Texas, and how she learned to love it. Great stories and quotes from greats such as the late Ann Richards and Lady Bird Johnson to everyday ladies getting their hair set in small towns. * San Antonio Express News *Bird brings her characteristic brand of unflappable humor to reflect on strong women—from the confident, colorfully named ladies of the Hyde Park Beauty Salon (“Eddie Faye, Peninah, Waynette, Permelia Lynn, Dicy”) to the grace and grit of first ladies and Distinguished Alumnae Lady Bird Johnson and Laura Bush. * The Alcalde *
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University of Texas Press Blood Orchid
Book SynopsisThe first book in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of the United States sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.Trade ReviewWithin pages [of Blood Orchid], I was mad for Bowden's style. His ferocity and pace of storytelling inspired me…to not shy away from infusing reportage with emotion. * High Country News *[Bowden's] writing style has been compared to the Old Testament in its prophetic fury, and nowhere is that better on display than in Blood Orchid, a book that carries the reader on a journey through both natural and urban wildernesses to uncover the brutal roots of American society. * The Manual *Bowden’s anger is delicious . . . [He] believes that the environmental crisis . . . is caused by the fact that ‘we have lost the fire and belief and courage to act.’ [Blood Orchid] is ironic proof that the embers of that fire still glow. * Outside *Bowden is no conventional theologian, but he has written the best religious book on the subject of soul-death of any writer of our generation. -- Bill Holm * Hungry Mind Review *
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University of Texas Press Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Book SynopsisThe third book in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of the United States sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity's destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.
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University of Texas Press Recent Studies Indicate
Book SynopsisIn her first nonfiction collection, the beloved, award-winning Sarah Bird showcases four decades of wise yet riotously entertaining essays and articles on womanhood, Texas, motherhood, and her weird, wondrous journey as a writer.Trade ReviewThese essays are a pleasure; Bird makes her readers feel smart, urbane, and in on the joke, and that their own stories are worth sharing too. * Publishers Weekly *Bird brings her signature no-nonsense wit to topics ranging from motherhood and politics to, of course, the Long Star State. * Austin Monthly *Recent Studies Indicate is a treasure chest brimming with Bird's distinctive voice: bold, thought-provoking, stitch-in-your-side funny, acerbic when called for, and, in the end, full of joy. * Lone Star Literary Life *Delightful…you can open the book to just about any story and enjoy a few minutes of good reading and, more likely than note, a hearty laugh. * Abilene Reporter-News *In her first collection of nonfiction that encompasses over four decades of work, Bird shows off her wit and wisdom on subjects ranging from motherhood to making Texas her adopted home...After reading these entertaining essays, a reader might feel like she’s put in a satisfying visit with an old friend. * Texas Highways *Table of Contents Introduction Womanhood: The Secret Delta A Question of Gender (Austin Sun, 1976) Ready, Set, Go-Go! (Texas Monthly, June 2009) My Surprise Wedding (Modern Bride, December 2009) Princess of the Oil Rigs (Campus Voice, April–May 1986) Silver Pins and Golden Tresses (Third Coast, 1987) Take a Strutting, Stomping Twelve-Day Vacation from Your Life (Oprah, November 2002) Buy, Buy Birdie (Texas Monthly, April 2006) Neck and Neck (Texas Monthly, November 2006) Is This Really What Meemaw Had in Mind? (Annie’s List/Texas Tribune, April 26, 2017) Texas: So Many Ways for a Girl to Lose Her Virginity Clouds (from Between Heaven and Texas by Wyman Meinzer, University of Texas Press, 2006) Unlike a Virgin (Third Coast, 1985) From the Archives of the Heartbroken and Spiritually Bereft (Moth Radio Hour, recorded December 12, 2012, Paramount Theater, Austin, Texas) Road Coma (Southern Magazine, July 1987) Bumfuzzled (Texas Co-op Power magazine, date unknown) Talkin’ Trash (Third Coast, August 1982) Knocking on Heaven’s Door (Third Coast, July 1983) The Furs Were Flying (Texas Monthly, May 2006) Step Lively (Texas Monthly, June 2006) Horn ‘em, Hookers (Texas Monthly, January 2007) Goodbye, Mrs. Chips (Texas Monthly, March 2007) Hog Wild (Texas Monthly, July 2007) Motherhood: Two Seconds after the Stick Turns Pink Mombo (Austin American-Statesman, May 9, 1993) Nurse Bird (Good Housekeeping, November 2009) Lactation Nation (Texas Monthly, August 2008) The Q Gene (New York Times Magazine, May 1, 1994) Going Private (Texas Monthly, October 2006) Pedal to My Mettle (Texas Monthly, August 2006) Tour de Farce (Texas Monthly, February 2007) Craigslust (Texas Monthly, December 2007) Ranch Blessing (Texas Monthly, August 2009) The Goodbye Boy (Texas Monthly, December 2008) Writing: Use It in Your Work For Keith (For AIDS Benefit “Queer Voices,” September 1998) Flash Back (The Alcalde, May/June 2011) Shrines to a Common Good (Speech to the Texas Library Association, July 2017) Passion Victim (Texas Monthly, May 2005) Read ‘em and Weep (Texas Monthly, October 2005) Say Cheesy (Texas Monthly, January 2006) Meat, My Maker (Texas Monthly, July 2012) The Big Sleep (Texas Monthly, October 2013) Paisano (Texas Highways, November 2018) Acknowledgments
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University of Texas Press More City than Water
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University of Texas Press Trillin on Texas
Book SynopsisA remarkably perceptive portrait of the Lone Star State, this collection of pieces from the New Yorker, the Nation, and other publications presents highlights of bestselling author Calvin Trillin’s classic writing on Texas subjects. 'Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so''s you''d know it.' So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he''s ostensibly writing about something else. Whether reporting on the American scene for the New Yorker, penning comic verse and political commentary for the Nation, or writing his memoirs, Trillin has bumped into Texas again and again. He insists that 'this has not been by design . . . there has simply been a lot going on in Texas.' Astute readers will note, however, that Trillin''s family immigrated to the United States through the port of Galveston, and, after reading this book, many will believe that the Lone Star State has somehow imprinted itself in the family''s imagination. Trillin on Texas gathers some of Trillin''s best writing on subjects near to his heart—politics, true crime, food, and rare books, among them—which also have a Texas connection. Indulging his penchant for making 'snide and underhanded jokes about respectable public officials,' he offers his signature sardonic take on the Bush dynasty and their tendency toward fractured syntax; a faux, but quite believable, LBJ speech; and wry portraits of assorted Texas county judges, small town sheriffs, and Houston immigration lawyers. Trillin takes us on a mouthwatering pilgrimage to the barbecue joint that Texas Monthly proclaimed the best in Texas and describes scouting for books with Larry McMurtry—who rejects all of his 'sleepers.' He tells the stories of two teenagers who dug up half a million dollars in an ice chest on a South Texas ranch and of rare book dealer Johnny Jenkins, who was found floating in the Colorado River with a bullet wound in the back of his head. And he recounts how redneck movie reviewer 'Joe Bob Briggs' fueled a war between Dallas''s daily newspapers and pays tribute to two courageous Texas women who spoke truth to power—Molly Ivins and Sissy Farenthold. Sure to entertain Texans and other folks alike, Trillin on Texas proves once again that Calvin Trillin is one of America''s shrewdest observers and wittiest writers. Trade ReviewWhatever the subject—whether "high" or "low"—Trillin writes exquisitely. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] rare treat...There’s a lot to like here: larger-than-life tales of the book dealer Johnny Jenkins and Jekyll-and-Hyde movie critics John Bloom and Joe Bob Briggs, micro-histories about cheerleaders and ethnic identity in Crystal City, and a mysterious load of cash intercepted in Waco...What's not to love? * Texas Monthly *Table of Contents Introduction By Meat Alone The Dynasticks Mystery Money Bad Language Scouting Sleepers Confessions of a Speechwriter/And Especially to Pickens, S.C. Knowing Johnny Jenkins If the Boot Fits . . . New Cheerleaders Whose Mines Are They? Not Super-Outrageous Three Texans in Six Lines Making Adjustments Presidential Ups and Downs: Washington Pundits Take Their Analytical Skills to the Ranch The Life and Times of Joe Bob Briggs, So Far One Texan in Eight Lines Reformer Molly Ivins, R.I.P. Credits
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University of Texas Press Pastures of the Empty Page
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary lifeTrade ReviewA conclave of writers gathers to consider the late Larry McMurtry (1936-2021). . . . Sprinkled with surprising revelations, this is a good collection for every McMurtry fan’s library. * Kirkus *The elegiac remembrances offer intimate glimpses into McMurtry’s life (collaborator Diana Ossana recalls the “emotional breakdown” he suffered after a heart attack), with no shortage of surprises. . . . McMurtry’s fans will want to track this down. * Publishers Weekly *More than three dozen writers contemplate the legacy of Texas’s most beloved author. . . a moving tribute. -- Andrew Graybill * Texas Monthly *McMurtry, who died in 2021, famously referred to himself as a 'minor regional writer.' In this Festschrift, a host of authors and close friends, including his longtime screenwriting partner Diana Ossana, argue the opposite in essays that celebrate the author’s talents, contributions to literature, and mentoring of other writers. * Alta *This book is part eulogy, part memoir, part literary criticism. All of it is absorbing . . . Among the pleasures of Pastures of the Empty Page are the short biographical sketches of the contributors dangled like literary gifts at the end of each piece. * Austin-American Statesman *The essays in Getschow's book consider McMurtry's position in the pantheon of great literature — along with a critical take on how he wrote about minority groups. * Axios Dallas *In Pastures of the Empty Page, Getschow defines how each writer, by various avenues, was dealt an education in storytelling by McMurtry, the sensitive but formidable master of chronicling this region’s built and behavioral vernaculars. * Patron Magazine *On the whole, the quality of the [contributed] pieces is gratifyingly high. Some of the richest essays are evocative reminiscences by intimates, among them Ossana, Gregory Curtis, Mike Evans, and Beverly Lowry, all of whom served as sources for Daugherty. * The Times Literary Supplement *Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry (University of Texas Press) edited by George Getchow, contains essays from a who’s who list of Texas writers about Larry McMurtry’s influence on Texas culture and their lives. It includes an array of reflections on history and the writing process as well as anecdotes about McMurtry’s off-beat and innovative life. * Texas Observer *Table of Contents George Getschow, Acknowledgments Stephen Graham Jones, Foreword George Getschow, Introduction Native Ground Charlie McMurtry, In Awesome Wonder Paulette Jiles, The Boy with the Lamp Skip Hollandsworth, The Larry McMurtry I Knew Erik Calonius, The Master Geologist of Archer County Joe W. Specht, Larry’s Oil-Patch Legacy Teacher and Apprentices William Broyles, Leave His Saddle on the Wall Gregory Curtis, McMurtry’s Mild Discouragement Mike Evans, “Mike, It’s Larry. I’m in Trouble.” Myth Buster and Myth Maker Geoff Dyer, Ranging across Texas Doug J. Swanson, Gus, Call, Danny, and the Rangers Oscar Cásares, Snakes in a River Sarah Bird, Finding Home Reader and Bookman Bill Marvel, Larry McMurtry, Reader Greg Giddings, An Afternoon with Larry Brandon Kennedy, On Book Scouting and Ghostwritten Erotica Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Runaways Kathryn Jones, Bonding over Books Collaborators and Confidants Diana Ossana, Stirring the Memories Michael Korda, The Moby-Dick of the Plains Carol Flake Chapman, My Long Trail to Lonesome Dove Susan Freudenheim, An Unlikely Bond Sherry Kafka Wagner, Not So Silent Women Beverly Lowry, Scenes from a Friendship Katy Vine, Road Trip Tips from Larry McMurtry Critic and Champion John Nova Lomax, To Hell with the Sunny Slopes Jim Black, Writer, Pass By Elizabeth Crook, Loving Gus Workshopper Kathy Floyd, Somewhere, a Writer . . . Eric Nishimoto, McMurtry’s Rebuff Dianne Solis, At the Intersection of Aspiration and Asphyxiation Cathy Booth Thomas, Reckoning at Idiot Ridge Dave Tarrant, “Furthur” Legacy Stephen Harrigan, Writing Plainly and Unforgettably Alfredo Corchado, The Borderlands: A Home for Misfits Like Me and McMurtry’s Danny Deck W. K. Stratton, All My Friends Are Going to Be Larry Lawrence Wright, McMurtry Passes By
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New York University Press Good Eats
Book SynopsisA collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real peoplereal bellies, real bodiesincluding the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming Trade ReviewA wonderful starting place to think about how to eat ethically. * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *While mindful eaters will find many familiar concepts, the engaging first-person narratives gently remind us not to turn a blind eye to these edible dilemmas while also cutting ourselves some slack. * Booklist *Good Eats explores people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. It argues that, in its purest form, food is about security, with love learned through recipes, people healing from grief through sweet food memories, and reconnecting with the land. * Foreword Reviews *It’s easy to think about ethical eating as a diminishment, to think that we need to reduce our lives in order to save the planet. As anybody who has ever attempted change on ethical grounds in their lives knows, it can be hard; it can be awkward; it can be frustrating. It can also be singularly gratifying and joyous. While we don’t have a definitive solution to “How do we eat ethically?”, the voices brought together in Good Eats begin the work of piecing together an answer. * Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals *In Good Eats, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice. Their accounts of these struggles are sometimes funny, always moving, and entirely recognizable by anyone trying to eat ethically. * Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *
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New York University Press Clio among the Muses
Book Synopsiswill capture the attention of everyone who cares about the study of history.Trade Review"Hoffer successfully argues that no matter the discipline, history remains vital, supported and enriched by these connections much as the mythological Clio was linked to each of her fellow Greek muses." * Publishers Weekly *"With broad learning, stout argument, and common sense, Peter Charles Hoffers newest book enters into a discussion about historys place within the humanities . . . . [T]his is a lively, useful, thought-provoking, and distinctive book." * The Journal of American History *"This short engaging volume opens up some important questions concerning the relationship between history and other academic disciplines. In doing so, Hoffer shows very well why those questions are not simply of academic interest." * The Journal of the Historical Association *"Clio among the Muses is a dazzling work of mature scholarship. Only a senior scholar of great self-assurance and soaring ambition would even attempt to map the vast landscape that Hoffer surveys here: literally, every field of inquiry on which historians have ever drawn consequentially to advance their endeavor over a span of two millennia and more. Yet he never just covers the ground, never settles for mere pedantic survey, never lapses into dry academic exercise. Despite his extraordinary erudition, he offers his own quirky take on every relationship between history and its diverse 'companions,' as he calls them. No other historian thinks as Hoffer does, and few command a prose as pungent, either. He makes his every chapter matter in humane and poignant ways. I cannot imagine a reader of this book who will not learn from it and be provoked to a new level of thoughtfulness by it." -- Michael Zuckerman,University of Pennsylvania"An updated pantheon is certainly implied in Peter Charles Hoffer's Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities. Clio, demigoddess in charge of history, is traditionally depicted with a scroll or a book. But as portrayed by Hoffera professor of history at the University of Georgiashe is in regular communication with her peers in philosophy, law, the social sciences, and policy studies. I picture her juggling tablet, laptop and cellphone, in the contemporary manner." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"In Clio among the Muses, Hoffer offers a humane and learned, yet brief and accessible, meditation on the often troubled relationship between the study of History and other ways of seeking knowledge about the human condition. Students and general readers will find no more engaging guide to the value and distinctiveness of what historians do." -- Daniel K. Richter,University of Pennsylvania"Intimate and irreverent at times, Clio among the Musessynthesizes a remarkable array of information. Clear and concise in its review of the companionship between history and its coordinate disciplines, fair-minded in its assessment of the contributions of history to other disciplines' contributions to history, Clio among the Museswill capture the attention of everyone who cares about the study of history." -- Karen Tani * Legal History Blog *"Peter Hoffer has done it againwritten an appealing book about History that is aimed at the intelligent general reader. Hoffer writes concisely and elegantly about the relation of History to its sister disciplines with the aim of explaining what it is we historians do best. His examples are drawn from across time and geography, and they are concrete enough to be easily grasped. This is a wise, accessible book for the reader who wants to know why he likes History so much." -- Stanley N. Katz,Princeton University"Peter Hoffer has written a learned, lively, and witty review of the history of historical writing from the ancient world right up to the present day. It is a deeply insightful analysis of the never-ending challenge that historians face in getting their story right, and, in the process, reminds us of the vital importance that history plays in shaping our present and future lives." -- Richard R. Beeman,John Welsh Centennial Professor of History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania"[A]n engaging book of enormous intellectual breadth and insight. Hoffer has read widely and made a strong case that history 'should stand at the center of our quest for a truly humane spirit.'" * American Historical Review *"Hoffer masters the extensive subject matter by applying the same analytical pattern to all chapters: brief remarks on the relationship between history and the other disciplines; texts that illuminate the different approaches to truth finding; and history's contributions to and gains from the debate. The author's expertise and lucid writing have enabled him to produce an informative small book on a vast topic." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Problem with History 1. History and Religion 2. History and Philosophy 3. History and the Social Sciences 4. History and Literature 5. History and Biography 6. History and Policy Studies 7. History and the Law Conclusion: An Answer? Notes A Very Short Bibliography (with Annotations) Index About the Author
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New York University Press Civility Unbound
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University of Toronto Press Towards a World of Plenty
Book SynopsisHere is a vivid account of global economic development at a time of extraordinarily rapid change. Barbara Ward, the well-known economist, delivered the Falconer Lectures at the University of Toronto in 1963. In them she makes an expert and timely assessment of the role that the West must assume in order to make effective use of the astonishing plenty which is concentrated today in the control of less than 20 per cent of the world's population. In the first part of the book Miss Ward deals with growth in the developed economy, describing the course of European economic development from Ricardo and Malthus through Karl Marx to Jean Monnet; within a brief compass we are given a brilliant and exciting account of this progression of events, with a lucid exposition of the way that challenges have been met and the economy kept moving. The author assesses the role of the extension of the franchise and the growth of trade unionism in the creation of the first mass market, and goes on
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare 1971
Book SynopsisLeading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971. This volume presents a carefully selected edition of twenty of the papers presented at the Congress, including all available papers in the plenary sessions, a few of the pecial sessions papers, 'an address at a banquet,' and the reports of the chairmen of the Investigative Committees. The contributors focus on eight general themes: C. Walter Hodges and Herbert Berry on the Elizabethan playhouse; M.C. Bradbrook, Charlton Hinman, and Fredson Bowers on text and canon; Jonas A. Barish and G.R. Hibbard on verse and prose; Norman Rabkin on critical approaches to Shakespeare; David Bevington and Wolfgang Clemen on Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries; H.D.F. Kitto and Michel Grivelet on Shakespeare and the dramatists of other ages; Jean Jacquiot and R.W. Ingram on Shakespeare and other arts, and Grigori Kozintsev and Bernard Beckerman on Shakespea
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University of Toronto Press Twelfth Night and Shakespearian Comedy
Book SynopsisProfessor Leech examines here the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic art, from its early forms in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where delight predominates, to later developments in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, where elements of the playwright's tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from being wholly comic. He illuminates the nature of comedy not by considering it as an isolated genre, but by defininig its relationship to tragedy and by providing a perceptive analysis of the comic characters and they contrast with tragic forms and as they relate to the conventions of the Elizabethan comic theatre. Twelfth Night is seen as a key part in the sequence of Shakespeariean comedies, for in it, while delight is at its height, there are disturbing hints of a transience and fragility that are resolved with the more sober and penetrating view of human nature found in the later comedies. T
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University of Toronto Press The Seed of Wisdom
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume have as their centre the Ancient Near East, the special field of interest of the distinguished scholar of the University of Toronto whom they honour. The authors, specialists in the languages, history, and culture of the Near, Middle, and Far East, are a group of orientalists, classicists, and mediaevalists from among the membership of the Oriental Club of Toronto. T.J. Miik was himself actively concerned with the founding of the Oriental Club, and served as its first president. Theological studies are represented here by W.G. Lambert's discussion of the role of Nebuchadnezzar I in Babylonian religion, by D.K. Andres' inquiry into the origin of the title "Yahweh, the God of the Heavens," and its significance for post-exile Judaism, by J.W. Wevers' evaluation of contributions to Proto-Septuagini studies, by F.W. Beare's description of the concepts of Zeus in the Hellenistic age, by the examination by John M. Rist of the famous literary fraud which led
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University of Toronto Press Toward Unification in Psychology
Book SynopsisThe first Banff Conference on Theoretical Psychology, which led to the establishment of the University of Alberta’s Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, was held 9-12 April 1965, at the university’s mountain retreat in the Canadian Rockies. The aim of the conference was to take the first steps toward defining areas of common ground among diverse theories of psychology, with a view to making more integrated and comprehensive statements about behaviour. The meeting was the first phase of long-range commitment which the Center proposes to make the advancement of theoretical psychology. This was a working conference – a manifestation of the kind of activity on which the Center will focus in the years ahead. The papers presented ranged from the general-theoretical-metatheoretical statements of Royce, Rozeboom, and Galanter, through the biological viewpoint of Bartley and the systems orientation of von Bertalanffy and Frank, to the phenomenology of Ma
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University of Toronto Press Diderot the Satirist
Book SynopsisIn this highly original and provocative contribution to Diderot scholarship, Professor O’Gorman analyses Diderot’s three satirical works: Le Neveu de Rameau, Satire première, and Lui et Moi. A brillant satire in dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau is Diderot’s masterpiece. Subjected to intense critical scrutiny since it first appeared in a German translation by Goethe in 1805, it remains one of the most enigmatic works in French literature. Although it is universally recognized as one of the outstanding literary monuments of the French 18th century, there is no agreement among scholars as to its structure, its literary form, or the author’s meaning in the dialogue. Professor O’Gorman proposes a radical new theory of the overall meaning of the dialogue. His careful analysis of the text traces Diderot’s ideas to sources in ancient literature and discloses several levels of meaning hitherto unsuspected. The discussion of Satire première is supplemente
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University of Toronto Press Canadas Past and Present
Book SynopsisThis fifth volume continues the dialogue between the present and the past begun in 1957 in this series of public lectures sponsored by the Institute of Canadian Studies of Carleton University. The theme of French-Canadian nationalism appears, directly or indirectly, in most of these lectures: it is present in George Stanley’s account of Louis Riel, the “martyr of the French-Canadian nation”; and in John Matthews’ discussion of the long life of Charles Mair, who is studied today mainly by historians because of his participation in the first Riel Rebellion. Mair was a poet too, and Matthew finds in his life and work a dichotomy which he believes reflects the dichotomy of Canada itself.Blair Neatby’s tribute to the skills of Mackenzie King as a party leader includes a reminder that King’s severest test as a party leader was in the task of keeping English and French Canada together in time of war. Jean Ethier-blais considers that Paul Emile
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University of Toronto Press The Prison and the Pinnacle
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together five papers read at the University of Western Ontario in 1971 to mark the tercentenary of the publication of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. It commemorates what tradition has regarded as Milton’s final poetic communication.In the first essay, Arthur Barker describes Milton’s progress towards his last two poems, placing his ideas and ideals within a seventeenth-century context. Closely argued, the essay relates Paradise Lost to Samson Agonistes, and both works to Milton’s earlier poetry and prose. Barbara Lewalski, in a seminal essay, explores the complex ways in which the ideas of time and history contribute to Paradise Lost: to develop its thematic subtleties, advance its dramatic action, and assist in the characterization of the principal personages. The editor’s essay reveals how in Samson Agonistes Milton dramatized his idea that an ethic of self-reliance must be made to join hands with a theology of depende
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University of Toronto Press Adventures in Blogging
Book SynopsisIn this collection of selected blog essays, Stoller models good writing while sharing his insights on politics, higher education, social science, media, and well-being.Table of ContentsPrologue: Blogging Bliss and Public Anthropology Part One: Blogging Politics in the Age of Trump 1. Politics in a Culture of Ignorance (March 2011) 2. Anti-Anti Science (March 2011) 3. Class Illusions (September 2011) 4. Social Engineering and the Politics of Ignorance (July 2012) 5. Racing Away from Ferguson and the Challenge of Education (December 2014) 6. Big Man Bibi (March 2015) 7. The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion, and Celebrity Culture (March 2016) 8. The Return of the Plague: An Open Letter to Our Students (November 2016) 9. Revisiting the Anthropology of Trump: Anthropology and the Power of Culture (November 2016) 10. Going Public: Resistance in the Age of Trump (January 2017) 11. Who Is the Enemy of the People? (March 2017) 12. Budgeting Social Darwinism (March 2017) Part Two: Blogging Social Science: The Challenge of Going Public 13. The Limited Good of Rick Scott’s Anthropology (October 2011) 14. The Face of Poverty in America (February 2012) 15. The Social Life of Music—in Mali (May 2013) 16. Narrative and the Future of the Social Sciences (December 2013) 17. Welcome to the Anthropocene (November 2014) 18. Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography (June 2015) 19. In Defense of Ethnography (August 2015) 20. Terrorism: A Challenge for the Social Sciences (December 2015) 21. Fast Culture in the Age of Trump (June 2017) 22. Slow Anthropology in the Age of Trump (June 2017) Part Three: Blogging Higher Education: A Public Defense of Scholarship 23. Winter Break (December 2011) 24. Waging War on Higher Education (May 2012) 25. Higher Education’s Train to Nowhere (September 2013) 26. A 2014 Challenge for the Social Sciences (January 2014) 27. Kafka on Campus (March 2014) 28. The Brave New World of Campus Life (April 2014) 29. Magical Mentors (May 2014) 30. We’re Number One (August 2014) 31. A Letter from the Underground of The Castle (September 2014) Part Four: Blogging Media in the Era of Fast News 32. Media Matters in Africa (January 2012) 33. Joseph Kony and the Other Africa (March 2012) 34. Media Myopia and the Image of Africa (August 2013) 35. Message from Mali (March 2015) Part Five: Blogging Well-Being: Finding Your Way in Troubled Times 36. Living with Cancer (February 2011) 37. Remission Rites (February 2014) 38. Remiss About Remission (April 2015) 39. Well-Being in the World (February 2015) 40. A Path Toward Well-Being (February 2016) Epilogue: Anthropology and Popular Media Works Cited Index
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University of Nebraska Press Disparates
Book Synopsis15 Bytes Book Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner In English disparatemeans different or miscellaneousapt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparatemeans nonsense, folly, or absurdity,words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essayswhich slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Trade Review"If you love the personal essay, or are open to learning to love it, the freewheeling, luminous, disparate Patrick Madden is well worth the time."—David Kirkham, Lit Pub"Disparates honors the futile and the essential in both content and form. Don’t read this collection if you hate essays, especially lyric essays, or dislike being reminded that you are reading an essay. Nor should you read this book if you demand a point and feel slighted to learn that 'life doesn’t always happen in the best order or with the best details.' This is a book for those who appreciate amusement and 'raucous play.' As for me—a life-long student of essays, and a teacher of them—I’ll be turning to Disparates as a model for a long time to come."—Rachel Rueckert, Tupelo Quarterly"Madden’s essays offer relief—they offer laughter, provoke pondering, and delight in playfulness. . . . Disparates delights in the world and celebrates the essay. It was a joy to read."—Natalie Johansen, Brevity"The writing is playful and marked by humility, with Madden often inviting readers—and other writers—into the narrative. A capable collection of writing that continually reviews itself."—Kirkus Reviews"'Disparates' are 'things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.' There is surely no basis for comparison of these essays to any other book I've read."—Linda Marshall, Pop Matters “Patrick Madden has made a career championing the essay—its traditions, its tenets, and its opportunities. In this, his third collection, Madden masterfully demonstrates a crucial (and often overlooked) element of the form—raucous play—in each smart, active piece. Disparates plays constantly: with shape, with subject, with language; it even plays well with others in several lively collaborations. I savored this collection over several days like it was a sampler of fine candy . . . and then I found twenty bucks.”—Elena Passarello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses“You’re in for a treat picking up Pat Madden’s Disparates, a book that doubles down so hard on its disparity it ends up holding together in surprising ways. Madden is maniacal in his fidelity to found forms (eBay auction listing, OED definition, literary translation, wordfind puzzle, etc.) and seemingly bad ideas (composing an essay by machine-learned predictive text, writing pangram haiku, discussing the band Rush), but due to his prodigious enthusiasm and intelligence he lands more jumps than not. My favorite feature of Disparates seems at first like the book’s worst idea: most of these essays feature other writers in guest spots. The overall effect is that of a perforated, collaborative self, manifesting exactly the kind of generosity and playfulness we could use a lot more of in literary nonfiction.”—Ander Monson, author of I Will Take the Answer“Disparates is a generous romp of a book. Patrick Madden’s essays open windows onto glee and silliness as well as grief and love. In forms as wide-ranging as Balderdash, wordsearch, Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, and James Brady’s bygone Parade feature “In Step With…,” Madden shows us again, as in his previous books, that the daily stuff of life sings out for examination and play. Read with an eye peeled for: Dr. Demento, the Jackalope, pahoehoe lava, and the important reminder that ‘Laughter is a taste of your own medicine’. ‘Whenever I fix/ my quips to the jazzy world,/ I come back agape,’ he writes. After reading Disparates, I feel the same: changed, alive to surprise, comforted, dazzled.”—Joni Tevis, author of The World Is on Fire“You cannot help but read Madden’s essays and grin at his deadpan maniacal love for detail and life and kids and anecdotes and wrinkles in the fabric of nominal reality. The guy is obsessed with nominal reality and all the shimmers and windows in it. A terrific essayist, and even better, wholly and utterly unique—there really isn’t an essayist today who writes like this, I think, and for all Madden’s worshipping of Montaigne, Madden’s more interesting and absorbing and funny. Heresy! But it’s true.”—the late Brian Doyle, author of One Long River of SongTable of Contents/disparate/ Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water: Imbibe literary genius (dozens of authors) in one swig! Nostalgia (feat. Lawrence Sutin) Insomnia (feat. Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas) Unpredictable Essays Laughter (feat. Jericho Parms) Order Memorizing the Lyrics Repast Happiness (feat. Amy Leach) Memory Alfonsina y el Mar Mea Culpa Expectations (feat. Desirae Matherly) Freewill (feat. Joe Oestreich) In Step with . . . Montaigne (feat. David Lazar) Timing Inertia Thumbs (feat. Elena Passarello & Wendy S. Walters) Smells (feat. Stephen Haynie) The Proverbial __________ Poetry Old Time Rock and Roll (feat. Michael Martone) The Arrogance of Style Distance (feat. Joni Tevis) Beat on the Brat Against the Wind Pangram Haiku Plums (feat. Matthew Gavin Frank) Solstice Listening (feat. Mary Cappello)
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University of Nebraska Press All I Feel Is Rivers
Book SynopsisAll I Feel is Riversis a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took up a deep study of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the religious order that performs the now-famous dervish dance. Vivian's fascination seeped into his writing, and his newly conceived dervish essays reflect the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of the ritual dance with wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling. Utterly fearless in their passionate avowals of life's many manifestations, these essays showcase the surprising connectivity between the sacred and profane, uncovered by associative drifting. Vivian's essays take on grief and loss, the natural world and climate, spirituality and ecstasy, all while pushing the boundaries of what prose can do. Trade Review"In quick blocks of text that amount to ecstatic prose poetry or a kind of flash nonfiction, Vivian celebrates the living moment, 'the hum and thrum and love of it.'"—New York Times Book Review“Line by line, image by image, essay by spiraling essay, Vivian awakens us to the grace of the infinite moment: the shaft of morning light, the teaspoon of honey, the spider on the north-facing wall. All I Feel Is Rivers is a wondrous, transcendent book. Let its currents take you.”—Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams“This is the work of a Sufi master of rapturous prose, who dances until his feet do not touch the ground.”—David Wojahn, author of From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry“There is a wild innocence in Vivian’s headlong rush to get the language right, but don’t be fooled. These are words spoken by a man who has seen the whole spectrum and who chooses—is it even choice?—to be immersed and re-watered again and again, to make each sentence feel like class V rapids through which we readers, boatless but safe, feel transported, not just from one place to another but from one realm to another. These essays are an exhilarating achievement.”—Barbara Hurd, author of Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies“The dervish dance spins us, via Vivian, into yes. Yes to the world. Yes to joy. Yeses as homages to what brings us peace: rain, rivers, vodka, Mandelstam. Yes to the letter O. Yes to sorrow too, and oh yes, to ‘this book of flesh turned on its back . . . to gaze up . . . stars wheeling in the wake of so much dark silence.’”—Nance Van Winckel, author of Our ForeignerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments How Precious Still Even Then All the Rivers of My Days Yes Soul Ink Water Is My Name Other Darks O After O Bell To Beg Mercy of a Shadow I Who Wake Beside You Ordering a Book of Poems Dear Syllables Fish Me Let a Poem Plea Because of What My Brother Told Me Any Word Bright Windowsill the Wondering Another Kind of Waking Dovelike Essay Transparent Almost to Midnight The Woman in Me Even If Dithyramb Essay as the World’s Worst Jeweler Maybe Fall to My Knees I Write With the River How Shall I Owl the Sound Bring the River Pen The Waft-Away World Light Upon Lightly A Kind of Inner Russia Because There Are Ghosts Come Earthward Essay by the Black Sea Gobsmack Essay Ink of River Keeper Bees Letter to Neruda Mother Forever Play Read to You Somewhere a Siren Some Kind of Holiness When Water This Earth Tell Me Flower The Most Woke So Wild Beloved Gaze of a Child All I Feel Is Rivers God-Husks Becoming Less So
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University of Nebraska Press To Hell with It
Book SynopsisDante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante’s fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in. Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-sTrade Review"Unstrap your backpack of guilt and sit down for a laugh."—Kirkus Reviews"If you've even wondered why the hell we came up with hell, this is the book for you. Dinty W. Moore knows of hell well, and in all sorts of ways."—George Yatchisin, California Review of Books"It's probably safe to say don't read this book if you're heavy into orthodoxy and prefer to understand with certainty how the world works. But if like most of the contemporary world you're struggling to understand our collective Christian history and indoctrination more broadly, or even just how some things are more grey than black and white, you'll enjoy the descent into Dinty's mind. To hell with anyone else that tells you differently."—Emily Dillon, Hippocampus Magazine"In To Hell With It: On Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, Moore sketches, howls, gorges, and guffaws his way through internal and external landscapes of guilt and excess to present an everyman’s critique of Dante’s Inferno. He both laments and lampoons the Inferno and its death grip on our collective and individual consciences. The result is part memoir, part travelogue, part journal left under the bed of a vacated freshman dorm at a Catholic university."—David Gottlieb, Another Chicago Magazine"Moore's humor, combining intellect with pop culture knowledge, shines throughout the book."—Rev. Elizabeth Felicetti, Good River Review"In Italy they're celebrating seven centuries of Dante . . . but I doubt anyone there has whipped up a carnival so wild as Dinty Moore's."—John Domini, Vol. 1 Brooklyn“Dinty W Moore might say, ‘to hell with it!’ But he doesn’t mean it. He’s too good for that, and too funny—Kurt Vonnegut funny—and even with his head in a bucket of county fair chicken, too wise to tempt the fates. To Hell with It is a madcap, deep, hopeful, absurd, learned, solemn, silly, and somehow redeeming look at the hell we make for ourselves, the hell the world offers, and the heaven to be found if only we look in the heart of each of our hearts, plus cartoons!”—Bill Roorbach, author of Life among Giants“I don’t dare say that Dinty’s Inferno is better than Dante’s. But it is a hell of a lot funnier. It’s so funny that you don’t realize how smart it is until it’s too late: you’ve suffered Deep Thoughts. You realize you’ve been not only entertained but enlightened. Okay, okay, to hell with it: Dinty’s is better.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs“Moore’s mashup of classic texts and pop culture, the personal and the spiritual, is creative nonfiction as its quintessential best. To Hell with It is a fascinating, humorous, and compelling cosmology to revel to. This is stand-up theology at its finest.”—Sue William Silverman, author of How to Survive Death and Other InconveniencesTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Prologue: The Hole 1. Cantos I–III: Dinty’s Inferno 2. Canto IV: Pudgy, Smiley, Jughead, and Fritz 3. Canto V: The Burning Bush 4. Canto VI: Gobbets of Chicken 5. Canto VII: Some Precious Blood, a Speck of Bone 6. Canto VIII: Into the Pickling Swill 7. Cantos IX–XI: The Little Heretic’s New Baltimore Catechism 8. Cantos XII–XVII: The Hell Hole 9. Cantos XVIII–XXX: Bring on the Ass Trumpets 10. Cantos XXXI–XXXIV: Beyond Goode and Evil Epilogue: My Paradiso (With Basil and Tomato Cream) Acknowledgments Index
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Cornell University Press Euripides Revolution under Cover
Book SynopsisIn this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies. The driving force behind this program is Euripides's desire to subvert the traditional anthropomorphic view of the Greek godsa belief system that in his view strips human beings of their independence and ability to act wisely and justly. Instead of fatuous religious beliefs, Athenians need the wisdom and the strength to navigate the challenges and difficulties of life. Throughout his lifetime, Euripides found himself the target of intense criticism and ridicule. He was accused of promoting new ideas that were considered destructive. Like his contemporary, Socrates, he was considered a corrupting influence. No wonder, then, that Euripides had to carry out his reTrade Review"Like the revolutionary and resolutely demystifying Euripides he puts before the reader, Pietro Pucci has been a pioneer in bringing intertextual and deconstructive readings to the major Greek poets. And the Euripides depicted here, like his learned and humane critic, brings to bear an acute sensitivity to the artifice of language to produce a poetry that not only dispels illusions but also fortifies the reader." -- Andrew Ford, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University"Reading these texts through Pietro Pucci's exacting and precise critical lens is an exhilarating experience that transforms our understanding of the nature of Euripides’s tragic theater." -- Phillip Mitsis, A. S. Onassis Professor, New York University
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Cornell University Press Professor at Large
Book SynopsisAnd now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty years as professor-at-large has led to many talks, essays, and lectures on campus. This collection of the very best moments from Cleese under his...Trade ReviewA fascinating insider look at the mind behind Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. Cleese's lectures are, expectedly, equal parts entertaining and thoughtful. * Vanity Fair *Professor Cleese is often funny, frequently perceptive and, unlike many professors, never dull. * The New York Times *An entertaining collection.... Informative and engrossing with expert insights. * The Times Literary Supplement *Cleese is a lively, quirky enlightener, always zipping between—or bringing together—the ridiculous and the sublime.... Professor Cleese, may I audit your next course? * The Weekly Standard *Cleese's observations on human nature and scientific topics stand the test of time.... Fans of the Monty Python sketches and films, the sitcom Fawlty Towers, the film A Fish Called Wanda.... and more know that he's clever, quick and funny. The Cornell lectures demonstrate those traits as well as his wide range of interests, his expertise in a variety of fields, and his humanity. * Columbus Dispatch *This collection of speeches and conversations with Monty Python alum Cleese is not unlike the man himself: hilarious, always clever, and a little off-kilter. * Publishers Weekly *Cleese reveals a sharp but humane sensibility as well as a wicked sense of humor when it comes to human frailty. What surprises is the depth of his understanding. As provocative as it is amusing—an edifying journey through the mind of a major talent. * Kirkus Reviews *Brilliant.... As with a really fine magazine that makes you want to keep reading even as one piece ends and a completely unrelated one begins, Cleese provides an appealing sensibility amounting to a connecting thread that makes you eager to see where he'll go next.... It's a delight to learn along with him. * National Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Stephen J. Ceci 1. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: JOHN CLEESE • APRIL 4, 1999 2. Screenwriting Seminar: JOHN CLEESE AND BILL GOLDMAN • OCTOBER 14, 2000 3. Sermon at Sage Chapel: JOHN CLEESE • APRIL 22, 2001 4. The Human Face: JOHN CLEESE AND STEPHEN J. CECI • APRIL 28, 2001 5. What Is Religion? Musings on Life of Brian: JOHN CLEESE • OCTOBER 22, 2004 6. Creativity, Group Dynamics, and Celebrity: JOHN CLEESE AND BETA MANNIX • APRIL 19, 2009 7. A Conversation with John Cleese: JOHN CLEESE AND DEAN JOHN SMITH • SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 Index
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Cornell University Press The Paradise Notebooks
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Setting Out Part I: Stone, Water, Fire Granite Obsidian Roof Pendants Brokenness Clouds Snow Glacier River Forest Fire Part II: Range of Life Bighorn Aspen Paintbrush Whitebark Pine and Clark's Nutcracker Pileated Woodpecker Belding's Ground Squirrel Mountain Chickadee Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Western Tanager Sierra Nevada Parnassian Wolf Lichen Epilogue
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Fordham University Press Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and
Book SynopsisAlbion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the first collection focused on Tourgée’s literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested in the rights of African Americans, Tourgée was committed to developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in this volume are grouped around three large topics: race, citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface, Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we view Tourgée by highlighting his contributions as a writer and editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements, Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée reveals a new Tourgée for our moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of Reconstruction.Table of ContentsForeword Carolyn L. Karcher | xi Introduction: Literary Tourgée Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine | 1 Part I: Race 1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman Robert S. Levine | 19 2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism John Ernest | 32 3 “Queer Synecdoche”: Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship Nancy Bentley | 44 4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime DeLisa D. Hawkes | 57 5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée Tess Chakkalakal | 70 6 “Their Position Must Be Mined”: Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s Career-Long Engagement with White Readers Jennifer Rae Greeson | 84 Part II: Citizenship 7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship Sandra M. Gustafson | 97 8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction Kenneth W. Warren | 110 9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw Christine Holbo | 124 10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn Molly Ball | 138 11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice Almas Khan | 151 12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance Brook Thomas | 165 Part III: Nation 13 “I Don’t Care a Rag for the Union as It Was”: Amputation, the Past, and the Work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bricks without Straw Sarah E. Chinn | 181 14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don Annemarie Mott Ewing | 194 15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent Mary B. Hale | 207 16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels Gregory Laski | 223 17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War Alex Zweber Leslie | 236 Afterword Mark Elliott | 251 Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology | 259 Acknowledgments | 263 Selected Bibliography | 265 List of Contributors | 269 Index | 273
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces
Book SynopsisIn Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death and other perilous experiences during his time as a handyman and guide at the Profile House, a hotel named for the nearby Old Man of the Mountain rock formation. A popular destination, the hotel attracted myriad guests, and Swett's tales of rugged endurance are accompanied by keen observations of the people he meets. Confident in his identity as a Deaf "mute," he notes with wry humor the varied perceptions of deafness that he encounters. As a signing Deaf person from a prominent multigenerational Deaf family, he counters negative stereotypes with generosity and a smart wit. He takes pride in his physical abilities, which he showcases through various stunts and arduous treks in the wilderness. However, Swett's writing also reveals a deep awareness of the fragility and precariousness of life. This is a portrait of a man testing his physical and emotional limits, written from the vantage point of someone who is no longer a young man but is still very much in the prime of his life. This collection also includes "Mr. Swett and His Diorama," an article from 1859 in which Swett describes his miniature recreation of the Battle of Lexington, as well as Manual Alphabets, a pamphlet published in 1875 on the history of manual alphabets that includes short biographies of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc, two pioneers of Deaf education in the United States. The work is accompanied by a new introduction that offers a reflection on Swett's life and the time in which he lived.
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