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Disturbing Indians - The Archaeology Of Southern Fiction

de Annette Trefzer

25,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Argues that not only have Native Americans played an active role in the construction of the Southâ€™s cultural landscape - despite a history of colonization, dispossession, and removal aimed at rendering them invisible - but that their under-examined presence in southern literature provides a crucial avenue for a post-regional understanding of the American south.
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The Jackson County War - Reconstruction And Resistance In Postâ€“Civil War Florida

de Daniel R. Weinfeld

31,08€

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 Offers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida. The Jackson County War focuses on the role of the Freedmenâ€™s Bureau, the emergence of white â€˜Regulatorsâ€™, and the development of African American political consciousness and leadership.
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Salleyland - Wildlife Adventures In Swamps, Sandhills, And Forests

de J. Whitfield Gibbons

22,97€

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 An exercise in learning to learn about a patch of nature, thereby opening our eyes to the complexity and wonder of the natural world.
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Omnicompetent Modernists - Poetry, Politics, And The Public Sphere

de Matthew Hofer

41,91€

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 â€œIt is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found thereâ€, as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. Matthew Hofer examines, through a multilayered literary critique of interwar modernist poetry, what it might mean to get the news, and more, from a poet.
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The Species Maker - A Novel

de Kristin Johnson

31,08€

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 An historical novel about the role of science in modern life, set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Although set a hundred years ago, The Species Maker wrestles with many issues that continue to confront scientists and science watchers in the present day.
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Debt, Investment, Slaves - Credit Relations In East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885

de Richard Holcombe, Jr. Kilbourne

25,67€

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Patterson For Alabama - The Life And Career Of John Patterson

de Gene L. Howard

31,08€

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F. Scott Fitzgerald At Work - The Making Of ""The Great Gatsby

de Horst H. Kruse

28,38€

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 F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work probes the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing of the novel, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby.
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Other Letters To Milena

de Reina Maria Rodriguez

18,92€

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 Original spanish-language edition of Otras cartas a Milena published by Ediciones UNION in Havana, 2003.
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The Voyage Of The Css Shenandoah - A Memorable Cruise

de Jr Whittle

31,08€

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From Conciliation To Conquest - The Sack Of Athens And The Courtmartial Of Colonel John B. Turchin

de George C. Bradley e Richard L. Dahlen

36,49€

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 In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama.
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The Metaphysics Of Sound In Wallace Stevens

de Anca Rosu

25,67€

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 Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role of language as a means of representation. Rosu demonstrates that Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language.
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The Domesticated Penis - How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood

de Loretta A. Cormier e Sharyn R. Jones

31,08€

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 Challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection made to the attributes of the modern male form.
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Jeffrey'S Latest 13 - More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition

de Kathryn Tucker Windham

32,43€

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 Jeffreyâ€™s Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts is a deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windhamâ€™s home state of Alabama.
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Ain'T Nothin' But A Winner - Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, And A Chance Of A Lifetime

de Barry Krauss e Joe M. Moore

25,67€

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 No university has won more football championships than Alabama, and Barry Krauss played a key role in one of them. Ainâ€™t Nothinâ€™ But a Winner offers an insiderâ€™s look at how a team is built, tested, and becomes a national champion - and how that process sometimes calls upon an individual to rise to the challenge presented by his own personal gut check.
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Everybody'S Autonomy - Connective Reading And Collective Identity

de Juliana Spahr

25,67€

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 While reader-centred texts have been criticized as undemocratic and exclusionary, the author instead argues that they empower readers, granting them equal authority with the author. She shows that reading these texts is a communal activity, anti-hierarchical and resolutely democratic.
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Syncopations - The Stress Of Innovation In Contemporary American Poetry

de Jed Rasula

31,08€

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 An analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the 2003, these 12 essays examine both exemplary innovators and the social context in which innovation is resisted, acclaimed, or taken for granted.
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Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free - How To Decrease Cost And Increase Quality At American Universities

de Robert Samuels

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This Is Called Moving - A Critical Poetics Of Film

de Abigail Child

36,49€

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 As a writer, director, producer, and cinematographer, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. In these essays, Child draws on her career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work.
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Wildlife In The Anthropocene - Conservation After Nature

de Jamie Lorimer

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 In Wildlife in the Anthropocene
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The Obligation Toward The Difficult Whole - Postmodernist Long Poems

de Brian Mchale

64,89€

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 Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spenser's Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines.
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Chesapeake Gold - Man & Oyster On The Bay

de Susan Brait

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 The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society.
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Reimagining National Belonging - Post-Civil War El Salvador In A Global Context

de Robin Maria Delugan

63,03€

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 Reimagining National Belonging offers the first sustained critical examination of post-civil war El Salvador, describing how one nation took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. An ethnography of the state, it highlights the practices and the complexities of nation-building in the 21st century."
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Extraordinary Measures - Afrocentric Modernism And 20th Century American Poetry

de Lorenzo Thomas

25,67€

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 African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial history of the United States.
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