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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0809314339ISBN 13: 9780809314331
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. In this cock to Aesculapius, a distinguished pathologist shows how simple medical analyses can be applied centuries later to reconstruct the scene and assign a more probable cause of disability or death.The tenessays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswells repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Platos account of Socrates death in the Phaedo, subjects both ancient and modern. Other essays include studies of the ailments of two medical doctors-William Carlos Williams and Chekhov-and the disabilities of Swinburne, Lawrence, Rochester, Shadwell, Keats, Collins, Cooper, and Smart.Documenting a wealth of physical and psychological symptoms that bear directly upon the writers work-when there is a medical question, Dr. Ober writes, consult a doctor-Dr. Ober diagnoses Swinburnes masochism and penchant for writing flagellatory verse and facetiae as the combined results of anoxic brain damage at birth, sexual impotence, and the exposure to flagellation at public school. D. H. Lawrences dirty words, he finds, stemmed from Lawrences psychological needs. Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterleys Lover while tuberculosis was weakening him physically, and the combination of his repressed homosexual tendencies and sexual impotence distorted his view of sexual relations. Rochesters bisexuality and double life were at the root of his experience, celebrated in his poetry, of premature ejaculation, Dr. Ober shows. Dr. Ober also shatters two legends by proving that Shadwell did not die of self-administered laudanum and that Socrates death was not reported accurately by Plato.A pathologist by training and practice, more specifically a histopathologist, Dr. Ober has spent most of his life trying to diagnose diseases by looking through a microscope at pieces of tissue removed from the human body by biopsy, at surgery or autopsy. By applying medical analyses, and evidence from other disciplines as well, Dr. Ober scrutinizes selected literary subjects and brings to their mind-body problems new and often astonishing interpretations.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0809312999ISBN 13: 9780809312993
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The electric church is composed of independent, entrepreneurial, evangelical ministers working to save souls. There is, however, another side to its work, namely the creation of many large, complex organizations adept at using modern mass technology and market-oriented techniques to stir religious enthusiasms and sell a political ideology.-Razelle FranklWhen the Reverend Jerry Falwell makes foreign policy statements and the Reverend M. G. Pat Robertson can consider running for the presidency, it is evident that the leaders of the electric church have mastered a powerful medium from which to sell their new term of fundamentalism-television. Their programming is slickly produced, smoothly packaged, commercially successful, and ranges from talk-show formats to the more traditional gospel broadcasts. Estimates of the audience for this programming have soared in the past ten years, and as a result more religious programs are being produced than ever before in the history of electronic media.Frankl traces the history of this new form of evangelism from its roots in urban revivalism. She finds that The revivalists role was more akin to that of an entrepreneur than to that of a minister or churchman. Beginning with urban revivalists such as Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody, Frankl discusses the development of urban revivalism into the electric church, which she describes as a new social institution.In her description of this process of institution building, Frankl highlights the possible political mobilization of the televangelists as well as the growing commercial investment involved in the programming of the electric church. Analyzing forty-eight programs of the most prominent members of the electric church, Frankl shows the change this new social institution has undergone from its beginnings in urban revivalism to its present incarnation, especially in the nature of the traditional ritual of fundraising.The commercial and political implications of the electric church are important issues in which Razelle Frankl has initiated formal study in this timely book. She has laid the foundation for much additional work in communication, religion, and sociology.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0809312972ISBN 13: 9780809312979
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Product Description In a style reminiscent of the master storytellers of yore, Charless Caraway recounts the story of his life, as a man and a boy, on small farms in Saline and Jackson counties, particularly around Eldorado, Makanda, and Etherton Switch. He makes no bones about the hardships of those "old days," first helping his father eke out a living from the land, then scrambling for a living as a sharecropper and fruit picker, as he scrimped and saved for the day when he and his young wife, Bessie Mae Rowan Caraway, could buy a piece of land of their own.The one-room school, the general store, the trips by wagon over roads that choked you in summer and swallowed you in winter, the home that burned: all are described in a matter-of-fact yet moving way. Many of the locations, buildings, and people are represented in equally unromanticized photographs from the familys collection. Some of the stories and photos recall the common disasters of the frontier: drought, flood, and the tornado of 1925.It is clear from these stories that each aspect of life exacted a price, but the Caraways paid that price without regret and rallied to go on their way. Charless and his family and friends fill this book with courage, strength, and an unshakable faith in the value of human endeavor. Review "This real story about real people captures the flavor as well as the facts of life in Southern Illinois in the early days of the century."Ben Gelman About the Author Born in 1888 at Raleigh, near Eldorado, in Saline County, Illinois, Charless Caraway lived his whole life in Southern Illinois.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0809317060ISBN 13: 9780809317066
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. "Faint though the voices of the women of Greek and Roman antiquity may be in some cases, their sound, if we listen carefully enough, can fill many of the gaps and silences of womens past."-from the ConclusionBeginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.and ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century A.D., Jane McIntosh Snyder listens carefully to the major women writers of classical Greece and Rome, piecing together the surviving fragments of their works into a coherent analysis that places them in their literary, historical, and intellectual contexts.While relying heavily on modern classical scholarship, Snyder refutes some of the arguments that implicitly deny the power of womens written words-the idea that womens experience is narrow or trivial and therefore automatically inferior as subject matter for literature, the notion that intensity in a woman is a sign of neurotic imbalance, and the assumption that womens work should be judged according to some externally imposed standard.The author studies the available fragments of Sappho, ranging from poems on mythological themes to traditional wedding songs and love poems, and demonstrates her considerable influence on Western thought and literature.An overview of all of the authors Snyder discusses shows that ancient women writers focused on such things as emotions, lovers, friendship, folk motifs, various aspects of daily living, children, and pets, in distinct contrast to their male contemporaries concern with wars and politics.Straightforwardness and simplicity are common characteristics of the writers Snyder examines. These women did not display allusion, indirection, punning and elaborate rhetorical figures to the extent that many male writers of the ancient world did.Working with the sparse records available, Snyder strives to place these female writers in their proper place in our heritage.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 080930743XISBN 13: 9780809307432
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0809327562ISBN 13: 9780809327560
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A reformer who was always colorful, provocative, and controversial, Dan Walker became a political maverick, taking on Mayor Richard J. Daleys vaunted Chicago machine and the powerful incumbent Richard Ogilvie to become the governor of Illinois. The Maverick and the Machine tells the dramatic story of Walkers rise from dirt-poor beginnings to the pinnacle of power in Illinois and his conviction on charges of bank fraud that landed him in federal prison. This frank volume also probes the inner sanctum of the governorship and reviews the investigations of Governor Blagojevichs administration and the criminal trial of former governor George Ryan.Best Memoir of 2008, San Diego Book AwardsIllinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence, 2008.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 080930452XISBN 13: 9780809304523
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The first detailed account of the works of the Royal Historiographer whose name marks a period in Russian literature.The present work is primarily devoted to a study of Karamzins literary career, specifically to the work he produced between 1783,the date of his first published translation, and 1803,at the end of which year he completed his editorship of the influential Messenger of Europe and, in his own words, entered the temple of history, following his appointment as Royal Historiographer.In this far-ranging work Mr. Cross gives a detailed account of Karamzins formative years, his extensive travel, his influence on his contemporaries, his philosophy, and his literary achievements, thus providing a well-rounded portrait of a remarkable man in relation to his time and, perhaps especially important, providing also an unmatched contribution to Russian literary studies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.An appendix to the book provides a list of the works Karamzin reviewed for the Moscow Journal and a bibliography of Karamzin studies published in this century, to 1968.
Verlag: Brand: Distributed by Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0962104507ISBN 13: 9780962104503
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Book by Gordon P. Bugbee.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0809308835ISBN 13: 9780809308835
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. This important new work brings a fresh and carefully elaborated theory of the literary work of art to the current rediscovery of the reader-that of the concept, based on the transactional point of view, of the two-way process involved in eliciting a literary work of art from a text. Dr. Rosenblatt draws on her long experience as a scholar and teacher of English and Comparative Literature. Amply illustrating her theoretical points, she provides contrasting interpretations of a number of varied texts, discusses other critical approaches, and makes reference to recent philosophical developments.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0809317680ISBN 13: 9780809317684
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This informative guide thoroughly discusses the legal powers of Indian tribes; civil and criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations; Indian hunting, fishing, and water rights; taxation in Indian country; the Indian Civil Rights Act; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0809314908ISBN 13: 9780809314904
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Product Description John Deweys Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925.Irwin Edman wrote at that time that with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes. In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that Deweys Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings.The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953spans that entire period in Deweys thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the books history: Deweys unfinished new introduction written between 1947and 1949,edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Deweys unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word experience understood. He wrote in his 1951draft for a new introduction: Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term experience because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of experience are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term culture because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience. About the Author Sidney Hook, protégé, colleague, and friend of John Dewey, is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809319144ISBN 13: 9780809319145
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd. This revised and updated edition of The Rights of Employees and Union Members is actually two books in one, combining two earlier ACLU handbooks, one dealing with the rights of employees and the other with the rights of union members. Utilizing a simple question-and-answer format, the authors examine in detail such topics as the employment relationship, compensation and benefits, discrimination (including discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, disability, AIDS, sexual orientation, and veteran and reservist status), the union workplace, and workplace protections. The handbook provides particularly relevant information regarding the hiring process, the right to privacy, and disability discrimination and includes appendixes on federal antireprisal statutes and legal resources for employees.Written for every working American, this book sets forth individual rights under present law and offers suggestions on how citizens can take steps to protect themselves. Like others in the series, this volume was developed in the hope that Americans, informed of their rights, will be encouraged to exercise them.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968
ISBN 10: 0809303388ISBN 13: 9780809303380
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Book by Scouten, Arthur H.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0809312913ISBN 13: 9780809312917
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. This is the first-hand account of a young couple who in 1936 challenged Wright to produce a decent house for $5,000. Wright responded with the innovations-floor heating, flat roof, concrete floor, solid walls, grouping of utilities, carport, seclusion from the street but openness to a garden through banks of door windows-that made their house the revolutionary Usonia Number One.Within five years the Jacobs moved to the country, where Wright designed the Solar Hemicycle, which featured a windfoil design and the passive solar construction that became the prototype for such buildings. The 89 illustrations show the construction and important details of both houses.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0809319888ISBN 13: 9780809319886
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Stetter, Christine (illustrator). Henry David Thoreau earned immortality for his eloquent prose in Walden, the masterpiece that resulted from his communing with nature at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.Less widely known are the journals Thoreau kept for twenty-four years as he walked at least four hours a day in the Concord area. From 1837 until 1861, he carried a homemade notebook as he explored the woods, fields, ponds, and rivers of the area. He took notes as he traveled, revising them at home for his journal, which became his major literary project.First published posthumously in 1906, the fourteen-volume Journal of Henry D. Thoreau shows Thoreaus close relationship with nature, but the Journal runs to a formidable two million words. Taming this daunting literary landmark, Mary Kullberg selects from the Journal, and from Thoreaus other books, essays, and letters, excerpts that create a typical year of Thoreaus nature excursions, clearly illustrating how Thoreau recognized the importance of each natural entity and its relationship to the total habitat, the earth. Thus, the Thoreau who emerges from Wood-Notes Wild is the Thoreau his closest friends knew, Kullberg notes, "brother to the trees, the sun and stars, the rocks, the ponds and rivers, the birds and animals-an exuberant man who felt such a kinship with the earth that he could be no other place but with nature."In Thoreaus eulogy, Emerson said: "It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own. He knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken the path before him. His power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses. . . . One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great."Only a privileged few walked with Thoreau, but Wood-Notes Wild gives the reader the opportunity to join Thoreau on his excursions. Kullberg lights the way through these contemplative walks with an epigraph from the master himself: "I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful."These words provide a hint as to why Kullberg compiled this fascinating collection. Like Thoreau, she has a close relationship with the natural environment and she has observed nature in many habitats throughout the United States.Placed throughout the book and enhancing the words of Thoreau are nature drawings by Christine Stetter.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0809309580ISBN 13: 9780809309580
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No child of this century, womens liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence. These early rebels-called widows because they left their husbands for the church-refused absolute subservience to the male hierarchy of the church.The three parts of Daviess study include an investigation of the magical world view of late 2nd-century Christendom; a close look at the people the Acts describe as new Christian converts; and a summary and analysis of the nature of the authors of the Acts. These women, like their sisters today, were seeking equal standing with men in the Christian church.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0809306417ISBN 13: 9780809306411
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. This is the first complete and comprehensive book in English on the important postwar German writers known as Group 47. The group, established in 1947 after the newspaper Der Ruf was banned, was inspired by a belief in the effectiveness of literature to change society, and for two decades served as initiator of new trends and barometer of changing literary tastes and social conditions.There are so many important writers connected with the group that Mandel had divided his book into chapters covering the various genres produced, but has considered in detail the works of major writers while discussing many lesser ones.Mandels book is, therefore, a history of German postwar literature and its ideology, and also a critical encyclopedia of individual authors.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 080931102XISBN 13: 9780809311026
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Smith, Larry.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0809311240ISBN 13: 9780809311248
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. To establish the issues that must be considered by evaluators of college writing programs, Witte and Faigley review major evaluation studies conducted at the University of Northern Iowa, the University of California San Diego, Miami University, and the University of Texas.For each study the authors devise a series of questions that probe every aspect of theory, pedagogy, and research: What do we presently know? What assumptions are we making and how do those assumptions limit our knowledge? Are those limitations necessary or desirable? What do we still need to know?Such questions demand much of program evaluators, who also must face additional difficult questions as they evaluate a writing program. Do the instructors conducting the writing classes share common assumptions that are reflected in their assignments, evaluative procedures, teaching procedures, and course content? How stable will the program prove to be over time? Will the writing program have a lasting effect? Do students leave the program with increased confidence in their ability to write?As Witte and Faigley urge program evaluators to pose these questions, they also bring to the problem a new comprehensive conceptual framework that both necessitates such queries and provides an opportunity to answer them.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809309831ISBN 13: 9780809309832
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Product DescriptionIn this pioneering analysis of the influence exerted by modernization and socioeconomic evolution on patterns of crime, criminologist Louise I. Shelley asserts, Society gets the type and level of criminality its conditions produce.Shelley investigates crime patterns in undeveloped capitalist countries, in developed capitalist countries, and in Socialist countries. Her study is unique in that she alone synthesizes historical accounts of crime and civil disorder with the literature of modern urban studies and contemporary criminality. Through her cross-cultural and historical approach she demonstrates that contrary to what seems apparent, the global profile of crime is not that of a maniacal pillaging monster. The monster is sane. Crime patterns are predictable. By analyzing the criminal population, recent crime trends, the impact of the criminal justice system, and the predominant values of society, Shelley makes informed predictions concerning the future state of criminality.Shelley addresses six issues. She considers ways in which modernization has affected rates of crime during the initial and later stages of a societys development. She asks how modernization affects the rates of occurrence of fundamental forms of crime. Another question is whether development changes the relationship between crimes against property and crimes of violence against people. Does the speed of the transition from undeveloped to developed society alter observable patterns of behavior? And finally, does modernization change the nature of the criminal population?In this book Shelley provides both historical and contemporary perspectives from which to view the impact of the developmental process on levels and forms of criminality. She synthesizes the large body of literature aimed at measuring the extent to which socioeconomic development produces similar changes in culturally distinct and geographically separated nations.ReviewShelleys findings are that the observed crime patterns in any country are a logical response to changing social conditions. Thus the future state of criminality can be predicted. This valuable analysis of significant criminological theories will be useful for academic and large public libraries.-Library JournalAbout the AuthorLouise I. Shelley is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the School of Justice, American University.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 0809307219ISBN 13: 9780809307210
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Product Description Now largely out of print and inaccessible, and overshadowed since his death in 1931 by the Frank Harris legend and by his reputation as the author of the notorious My Life and Loves,the stories nevertheless bear witness to the combination of diverse qualities that has distinguished Harriss work at its best. This extraordinary collection is designed to serve todays readers as an introduction to the work of the controversial, gifted, and flamboyant writer. To the stories themselves, Mr. Gertz, Harriss first biographer and lifelong student of his work, has added a Preface and an Afterword on the writer, his life, and his influence. About the Author Elmer Gertz has been practicing law since 1930 and is an Adjunct Professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0809323206ISBN 13: 9780809323203
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. In Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing, Jim Henry analyzes eighty-three workplace writing ethnographies composed over seven years in a variety of organizations. He views the findings as so many shards in an archaeology on professional writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century.These ethnographies were composed by either practicing or aspiring writers participating in a Masters program in professional writing and editing. Henry solicited the writers' participation in "informed intersubjective research" focused on issues and questions of their own determination. Most writers studied their own workplace, composing "auto-ethnographies" that problematize these workplaces' local cultures even as they depict writing practices within them.Henry establishes links between current professional writing practices and composition instruction as both were shaped by national economic development and local postsecondary reorganization throughout the twentieth century. He insists that if we accept basic principles of social constructionism, the text demonstrates ways in which writers "write" workplace cultures to produce goods and services whose effects go far beyond the immediate needs of its clients.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969
ISBN 10: 0809303590ISBN 13: 9780809303595
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Miss Cunards memories of her Hours Press and of the period in which it existed, 1928-31, will be especially valuable to persons interested in contemporary English and American literature for the first-hand accounts of the authors published by the Press, among them Norman Douglas, Richard Aldington, Alvaro Guevara, and Louis Aragon. The book contains a complete bibliography of books published by the Hours Press and illustrations of the Presss book production.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 0809307243ISBN 13: 9780809307241
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This third volume in the definitive edition of Deweys early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morriss death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy chairmanship and led to Deweys returning to fill that post after a years stay at Minnesota.Appearing here, among all his writings from 1889 through 1892, are Deweys earliest comprehensive statements on logic and his first book on ethics. Deweys marked copy of the galley-proof for his important article ?The Present Position of Logical Theory, recently discovered among the papers of the Open Court Publishing Company, is used as the basis for the text, making available for the first time his final changes and corrections.The textual studies that make The Early Works unique among American philosophical editions are reported in detail. One of these, ?A Note on Applied Psychology,documents the fact that Dewey did not co-author this book frequently attributed to him. Six brief unsigned articles written in 1891 for a University of Michigan student publication, the Inlander,have been identified as Deweys and are also included in this volume. In both style and content, these articles reflect Deweys conviction that philosophy should be used as a means of illuminating the contemporary scene; thus they add a new dimension to present knowledge of his early writing.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0809319772ISBN 13: 9780809319770
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Relying on primary sources- oral history interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters- E. R. Milner cuts through myth and legend to create this startling portrait of the real Bonnie and Clyde.In his prologue, Milner introduces Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, showing them as they drive along a rural Louisiana lane toward the ambush that would put a dramatic end to their turbulent lives of crime. Milner then traces their backgrounds, noting the events that bring the two outlaws together. The ensuing adventures of Bonnie and Clyde featured gun battles, narrow escapes and captures, frequent moves, and, of necessity, several shifts in personnel over a short period of time. It was a life of wild action, betrayal, and sometimes even gallantry. In the abstract, an aura of romance surrounded this violent pair.Although the mythology surrounding Bonnie and Clyde is charged with drama and fascination, Milner reveals the truth behind the bloody legend, carefully gleaning materials from obscure locally published accounts, previously untapped court records, and archived but unpublished oral history accounts from some sixty victims, neighbors, relatives, and police who were involved in the exploits of the infamous duo. And the truth proves to be sufficiently exciting. Romance aside, the Barrow gang carved a grisly swath through Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. The string of deaths was long- and real: Akota, Oklahoma, sheriff severely wounded, deputy killed; Sherman, Texas, grocery clerk killed; Temple, Texas, man killed as gang attempts to steal his car; Joplin, Missouri, two officers killed; Alma, Arkansas, police officer killed; Crockette, Texas, prison guard killed; Miami, Oklahoma, police officer killed.Milner traces this violent path until 23 May 1934, when Bonnie and Clyde die in an ambush. Even dead, they draw crowds and are buried in a circus-like atmosphere. In death they continue to intrigue us in ways few criminals had before or have since.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 080931312XISBN 13: 9780809313129
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship between the music and poetry of the Symbolist movement, tracing it from its inception in Baudelaire s verse and Wagner s music to its final transformation into Modernism in the works of Schoenberg. Hertz begins by examining the concept of the period, the well-rounded phrase of verse or music, which was attacked first in Wagner s use of the leitmotif and unusual intervals such as the tritone.Such musical elements created a feeling of emotion directly expressed, unhampered by convention. This approach was further developed by Mallarmé , who stripped his verse of its conventional framework in an attempt to create images of pure emotion. Mallarmé in turn influenced Debussy. Hertz shows that in setting Mallarmé s verse, Debussy moved further away from the standard harmonic structures of the nineteenth century, particularly in his use of tonal ambiguity.Hertz explores the aesthetic of the Symbolist movement as embodied in the unique forms that characterized the era, the tone poem and the lyric play. He dem- onstrates the particular importance of Maeterlinck s Pellé as et Mé 1isande, which was scored by Debussy. A revolutionary work difficult to characterize, it speaks gracefully of the transformation of Romanticism into Modernism.Citing examples of art, literature, and music, Hertz finds ultimately that the Symbolist aesthetic came to encompass the entire artistic world. Only a scholar thoroughly at home in both the literary and musical realms and possessing a sovereign command of the cultural climate and currents of the period would be able to deliver exactly what his subtitle promises: a musico- literary poetics of the Symbolist movement.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809310007ISBN 13: 9780809310005
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Allies scored a spectacular victory when they invaded the French Riviera on August 15, 1944,but even today, three and a half decades later, British and American historians continue to debate whether the campaign represented brilliant strategy or meaningless waste of men and materials.Churchill and the British, explains Alan F. Wilt in this first full-length account of that controversial invasion, consistently opposed the Riviera assault (code named Anvil, later Dragoon). Churchill saw Italy, not southern France, as the logical target for a major offensive action. Barely two weeks before Dragoon was to begin, Churchill tried to divert the assault from the Riviera to the Brittany peninsula. By this time America made all command decisions, however; the Allies launched Dragoon in spite of Churchills many machinations against it.Roosevelt and the Americans staunchly favored the Riviera campaign. In their view Dragoon would engage large numbers of Axis troops , release numerous French formations for combat on French soil , open up the possibility of capturing major ports , and increase pressure even more on Germany from the West.In this study, Wilt strikes a balance between the military and the diplomatic aspects of the Riviera campaign. Because he bases his study on German as well as British and American archival sources-including the important Ultra intelligence documents-Wilt presents his subject from the perspective of both the Allied and the Axis powers. He describes and documents a spirited exchange between British and American leaders, an amphibious invasion of considerable proportions, a swift allied advance led by colorful, yet competent commanders, and a German retreat led by capable, imaginative officers.
Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0809322730ISBN 13: 9780809322732
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Jamie Barlowe finds it bitterly ironic that in literary criticism of The Scarlet Letter, a major American novel about a woman, the voices of female critics have been virtually excluded.Barlowe examines the causes and consequences of the continuing disregard for women's scholarship. To that end, she chronicles The Scarlet Letter's critical reception, analyzes the history of Hester Prynne as a cultural icon in literature and film, rereads the canonized criticism of the novel, and offers a new reading of Hawthorne's work by rescuing marginalized interpretations from the alternative canon of women critics.Despite the fervent protestations of scholars that women and minorities are no longer excluded from the arena of academic debate, Barlowe's investigation reveals that mainstream scholarship on The Scarlet Letter-studied as models by generations of students and teachers-remains male-dominated in its comprising population and in its attitudes and practices, which function as the source of its truth-claims. Rather than celebrating the minimal handouts of the academy to women and minorities-and of the culture that nurtures and supports the academy's continuing discrimination-Barlowe constructs a case study that reveals the "rather pitiful state of affairs at the close of the twentieth century."By interrogating canonized assumptions, Barlowe charts new directions for Hawthorne studies and American literary studies. Through this exposé of ingrained institutional bias, perpetuated myths, and privileged critics, Barlowe provides a refigured perception of the field and state of contemporary literary scholarship.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0809322412ISBN 13: 9780809322411
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film and radio to the early years of television.As Paul M. Levitt tells us, Joe Frisco in his day was so famous for his jazz dance that F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions him when describing one of Gatsbys parties: "Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform."Seeking to reintroduce this spontaneous and original wit to us, Levitt transforms the manuscript left by Friscos fellow entertainers Ed Lowry and Charlie Foy into a book as entertaining as the great comic himself. It follows Friscos career from his beginnings in Chicago on the midwestern circuit, through his New York heyday in vaudeville theatres and nightclubs, to his final years in Los Angeles when first film and then television came to dominate show business. Lowry and Foy, both vaudeville insiders, describe Friscos world, with its hotels, theatres, restaurants, clubs, racetracks, and, not least, its famous people-Flo Ziegfeld, W. C. Fields, Walter Winchell, George Jessel, Bing Crosby (who contributed the foreword to this book), even William Randolph Hearst.Ed Lowry bought a mail-order course at fourteen, taught himself to dance, and launched a half-century career in theatre. Charlie Foy, the second child in the family troupe known as "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," shared an apartment and the stage with Joe Frisco for several years.
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Verlag: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971
ISBN 10: 0809305291ISBN 13: 9780809305292
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. An enquiry into the histories and nature of the great living religions.