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Identity and the Failure of America. From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror

Identity and the Failure of America. From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror


John Michael



Identity and the Failure of America. From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror...
Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Tradition, Forms, Poetic Structure (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Tradition, Forms, Poetic Structure (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)


Karl Reichl



Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Tradition, Forms, Poetic Structure (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)...
Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications

Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications


Alan Macgillivray



Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications...
Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem

Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem


Anthony Bozza



From Publishers Weekly The demand for all things Eminem is big, and rock journalist Bozza aims to fill in the gaps with s...
Islam and Postcolonial Narrative

Islam and Postcolonial Narrative


John D. Erickson



Review "Recommended for graduate literature programs focusing on the Middle East, romance languages, and comparative stud...
Schumann

Schumann


Eric Frederick Jensen



Review "The reader is left not only educated musically, but saddened, mesmerized, horrified, and disgusted by the treatme...
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake


Northrop Frye



Review A magnificent, extraordinary book. . . . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to ...
Rain forest literatures: Amazonian texts and Latin American culture (Cultural Studies of the Americas)

Rain forest literatures: Amazonian texts and Latin American culture (Cultural Studies of the Americas)


Lúcia Sá



About the Author Lúcia Sá is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. ...
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon

A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon


David Leedom Shaul, Roy Albert



A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon...
The farm on the North Talbot Road

The farm on the North Talbot Road


Allan G. Bogue



About the Author Allan G. Bogue is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served p...
Criticism and Truth

Criticism and Truth


Roland Barthes



From Library Journal Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's Sur Racine , this polemic answers many of the ...
Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)


Joseph Coleman Carter



Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)...
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America

A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America


Craig Werner



From Publishers Weekly An ambitious and comprehensive look at the deep connection between race and music in America, Wern...
Illness and the Limits of Expression (Conversations in Medicine and Society)

Illness and the Limits of Expression (Conversations in Medicine and Society)


Kathlyn Conway



Illness and the Limits of Expression (Conversations in Medicine and Society)...
Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin (Tracking Pop)

Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin (Tracking Pop)


Theodore Gracyk



Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin (Tracking Pop)...
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)

Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)


Reginald Shepherd



Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)...
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives)

Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives)


Andy Hamilton



Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives)...
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets on Poetry)

Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets on Poetry)


Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey



Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (Poets on Poetry)...
Strangers at home: American ethnic modernism between the World Wars

Strangers at home: American ethnic modernism between the World Wars


Rita Keresztesi



About the Author Rita Keresztesi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. ...
Spaces of the mind: narrative and community in the American West

Spaces of the mind: narrative and community in the American West


Elaine Jahner



Review “Storytelling as survival is at the core of Elaine A. Jahner’s sophisticated Spaces of the Mind: Nar...
Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War

Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War


Tabea Alexa Linhard



About the Author   Tabea Alexa Linhard is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.  ...
Regionalism and the humanities

Regionalism and the humanities


Timothy R. Mahoney, Wendy Jean Katz



Review "There is grist here for everyone''s mill, and the University of Nebraska Press is to be commended for producing t...
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (The New Middle Ages)


Bonnie Wheeler, Mary Martin Mclaughlin



Review “Heloise and Abelard have been extraordinarily well served by this latest translation of their celebrated c...
Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire


Frenchy Lunning



Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire...
American Indian food (Food in American History Series)

American Indian food (Food in American History Series)


Linda Murray Berzok



Review "Relatively few titles have been written covering American Indian Foods; much less in depth: this fact makes all the...
Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity

Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity


Jeffrey Walker



Review "Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity is an excellent book...Walker has provided an important, original, and insightf...
Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard

Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard


Sam Adams



Review "...Sam Adams' account of the life and works of this Welsh writer makes for entertaining and fascinating reading.....
Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)


Patricia J. Johnson



Review “A new and stimulating reading of three central episodes of Ovid’s brilliant Metamorphoses: the arti...
Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art

Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art


Michael C. J. Putnam



Review "In this lucid, appreciative study, Putnam revindicates the Carmen Saeculare as a 'neglected masterpiece' of Aug...
Ambiguities of domination: politics, rhetoric, and symbols in contemporary Syria

Ambiguities of domination: politics, rhetoric, and symbols in contemporary Syria


Lisa Wedeen



About the Author Lisa Wedeen is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicag...
Imagining the African American West

Imagining the African American West


Blake Allmendinger



About the Author Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the c...
Identity politics of the captivity narrative after 1848

Identity politics of the captivity narrative after 1848


Andrea Tinnemeyer



Review “The book’s great strengths are its close readings of understudied materials pertaining to an unders...
Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)

Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)


Craig A. Gibson, Libanius



Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Writings from the Greco-Roman World)...
Art and Thought (New Interventions in Art History)

Art and Thought (New Interventions in Art History)


Dana Arnold, Margaret Iversen



Review "Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art histor...
Forever fat: essays by the Godfather

Forever fat: essays by the Godfather


Lee Gutkind



From Publishers Weekly The godfather in question is the author, who was credited as a major advocate of "creative nonfict...
Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)

Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)


Debbie Lewer



Review "This is a neat little collection of textual sources that will prove invaluable to students and teachers of high m...
College Korean (대학 한국어)

College Korean (대학 한국어)


Clare You, Kyungnyun K. Richards, Michael C. Rogers



Language Notes Text: English, Korean About the Author Michael C. Rogers is Professor Emeritus, and Clare You and ...
Female & male voices in early modern England: an anthology of Renaissance writing

Female & male voices in early modern England: an anthology of Renaissance writing


Anne Lake Prescott, Betty Travitsky



Review "Travitsky (archivist, Staten Island College, CUNY) and Prescott (literature, Barnard College) have put together a f...
Culture and consciousness: literature regained

Culture and consciousness: literature regained


William S. Haney



About the Author William S. Haney II, a University of California, Davis, Ph.D., is Professor of English and has taught at...
Heuretics: The Logic of Invention

Heuretics: The Logic of Invention


Gregory L. Ulmer



Review Here is offered a scheme for creating multileveled texts that are both creative and critical and infinitely generati...
The Book as Artefact: Text and Border (Variants 4: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship)

The Book as Artefact: Text and Border (Variants 4: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship)


A. M. Hansen, C. Urchueguía, P. Shillingsburg, R. Lüdeke, W. Streit



The Book as Artefact: Text and Border (Variants 4: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship)...
Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)


James H. Johnson



Review "In a fascinating new book . . . Johnson traces the evolution of audience silence in the concert halls and opera...
Architecture for Islamic Societies Today

Architecture for Islamic Societies Today


James Steele



Architecture for Islamic Societies Today...
Schrijvende vrouwen. Een kleine literatuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen (1880-2000).

Schrijvende vrouwen. Een kleine literatuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen (1880-2000).


Jacqueline, Thomas, Bel, Vaessens



Schrijvende vrouwen. Een kleine literatuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen (1880-2000)....
Het hoge woord: beschouwingen en boutades

Het hoge woord: beschouwingen en boutades


August Willemsen



Language Notes Text: Dutch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the ...
The Search For Selfhood in Modern Literature

The Search For Selfhood in Modern Literature


Murray Roston



About the Author Murray Roston is Professor of English, Bar Ilan University, and Adjunct Professor, University of Califor...
A James Joyce chronology

A James Joyce chronology


Roger Norburn



About the Author Roger Norburn is a James Joyce Lecturer. ...
New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (The American Novel)

New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (The American Novel)


Patrick O'Donnell



New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (The American Novel)...