＜p＞＜em＞Found Anew＜/em＞ is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library. In their eclectic approach to ekphrasisーtextual response to the visualーeditors R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus have recruited an impressive group of poets and fiction writers, including National Book Award-winning poets Terrance Hayes and Nikky Finney (who provides the foreword); their fellow South Carolina Academy of Authors honorees Gilbert Allen, John Lane, Bret Lott, George Singleton, and Marjory Wentworth; Lillian Smith Award-winner Pam Durban, and others.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These thirty-one pairings of archival images with original creative responses illustrate the breadth and richness of the diverse talents of South Carolina writers. While the digital collections are a much-valued resource for researchers and educators, Found Anew encourages a wider use as a source of inspiration for writers and artists inventing narratives set in and about South Carolina. In coupling the poems and short stories with the images that inspired them, the anthology shows writers gauging unlikely depths in curious photographs that other eyes might pass over without a second glance, conjuring perfect words for the emotion evoked by a particular image, and rendering and reimagining the visual in seemingly disparate but ultimately linked narratives. An instructive model for active, collaborative engagement between creative writers and culturally significant visual prompts, this collection also serves to demonstrate the accessibility and scope of archival photography available through South Caroliniana's digital collections. Through these creative responses, the images are not recovered or explainedーbut, rather, found anew.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributors: Gilbert Allen, Sam Amadon, Laurel Blossom, Darien Cavanaugh, Phebe Davidson, Pam Durban, Julia Eliot, Worthy Evans, Richard Garcia, Will Garland, Linda Lee Harper, Terrance Hayes, Thomas L. Johnson, R. Mac Jones, Julia Koets, John Lane, Brett Lott, Ed Madden, Jonathan Maricle, Terri McCord, Janna McMahan, Ray McManus, Susan Laughter Meyers, Mark Powell, Michele Reese, Mark Sibley-Jones, George Singleton, Charlene Spearen, Daniel Nathan Terry, Jillian Weise, Marjory Wentworth, William Wright＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞The first book of literary criticism to examine this Pulitzer Prize winner's entire body of work＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a renowned novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, speaker, aspiring politician, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Norman Mailer was one of the most prominent American literary and cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of his expansive sixty-year career, Mailer published nearly forty original works of fiction and nonfiction, served as a counterculture activist, and was cofounder of the Village Voice. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer also received the National Book Award and the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to Arts and Letters, a lifetime achievement award granted by the National Book Foundation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Understanding Norman Mailer＜/em＞ is the first book of literary criticism to address Mailer's impressive body of work in its entirety, from his first publication to his last. Situating these volumes in their historical and cultural context, Maggie McKinley traces the major themes and philosophies that pervade Mailer's canon, analyzing his representations of gender, sexuality, violence, technology, politics, faith, celebrity, existentialism, and national identity. McKinley moves chronologically through Mailer's career, illuminating the many genres, styles, and perspectives with which Mailer experimented over time, demonstrating his remarkable artistic reach. McKinley also addresses Mailer's reputation as a combative public figure who, amid controversy surrounding his personal life and public persona, remained committed to lively intellectual debate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through ＜em＞Understanding Norman Mailer,＜/em＞ an accessible introduction to Mailer's life and work, McKinley offers a unique retrospective, articulating the development and changes within Mailer's ideas over time while highlighting concerns that remained at the center of his work for decades.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in ＜em＞Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A high-society Southern satire about an heir's battle with his domineering mother, society's expectations, and his own mental health＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Ex-Suicide,＜/em＞ Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living across the street from the Birmingham Country Club. The house happens to be where the writer Walker Percy lived as a child with his family until his father committed suicide in the attic with a shotgun. The only son of the current residents, Hamilton "Ham" Whitmire has several Ivy League degrees as well as a generous trust fund but is striving mainly to be an "ex-suicide," as defined by Percy's writings. As a result of Ham's intellectual aspirations and philosophical principles, and thanks to his trust fund, he has succeeded only in figuring out what he does ＜em＞not＜/em＞ want to do with his life. Unfortunately this comprises just about all known occupations, but especially any involving the family business, which his imperious, society-matron mother insists he take over from his aging father.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the novel opens, the thirty-seven-year-old son has recently returned to his hometown and taken a teaching position at a historically black college in the "other" Birminghamーnot the one where he grew up. As an anxiety-ridden, panic-attack-prone depressive in a perpetual state of existential crisis, Ham must plan carefully how to get through each day without putting his life in the hands of the mental-health-care professionals. But, according to his mother, he must also take over the reins of the family business, get married, and carry on the family name.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ham isn't in Birmingham long before he learns his college is also in an existential crisis and fighting to keep its doors open. Even worse, circumstances force him to take at least an interest in the family business. While seeking refuge and stability in the waiting room of his therapist's office, he finds himself in the emotional thrall of a beautiful old flame who is in the midst of a devastating divorce. She is anxious to have Ham back in her life, at least as an escort, but probably more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Will Ham buckle under all the pressuresーas Percy's father famously did in the attic of what is now his parents' home? Or will he be able to pull himself together and live up to society's (and his mother's) expectations? Fortunately Ham is one of Norman Laney's former pupils, and Laney never gives up on a student. In the midst of Ham's crisis, Laney steps into the breach in hopes that Ham chooses life as an ex-suicide.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞"＜strong＞Jon passed and yet, here are his words, his heart still beating＜/strong＞." Jack Grisham, Author Director Musician＜/p＞ ＜p＞This collection of poetry is the love child of two creative minds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jon Vreeland, the author of ＜em＞The Taste of Cigarettes＜/em＞, was a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Hemingway and highly influenced by Bukowski's crude humor and womanizing grit. He claimed writing poetry gave his brain a respite from his struggle with drug addiction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alycia Vreeland's illustrations and photos are a visual representation of Jon's words.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The manuscript of this book was discovered and resurrected by Alycia Vreeland, Jon Vreeland's wife, after Jon's unexpected death on September 15, 2020.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A pictorial and narrative tour of a historic landmark at the center of the university's original campus＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 on a modest parcel of land now called the Horseshoe. While the campus has grown well beyond its original borders, the oak-lined and gated historic Horseshoe remains the heart of campus life. ＜em＞At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe＜/em＞ pays tribute to the handsome regency-style structure at the midpoint of the historic Horseshoe. Constructed in 1854 to house faculty families, then used for sororities, the residence ultimately became the official President's House in 1952. Through the stories and images in this beautiful book, Patricia Moore-Pastides provides a window into life at the University of South Carolina President's House from her perspective as First Lady.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through these pages readers will discover the ways in which the house has become a central location for enriching and celebrating the university community. Beginning with Mrs. Russell's famous senior dinners in the 1950s, the tradition of entertaining continues. From small formal dinners to garden receptions for several hundred, the President's House is alive with celebration. A multitude of thoughtfully planned festivities embrace the entire university community, honoring students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, donors, legislators, and national and international leaders.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe＜/em＞ is the first book to feature the workings of the President's House and gardens. A pictorial tour through all the public rooms calls attention to the provenance of special antiques and works of art. Presidential events are described and illustrated in charming photographs, and delectable recipes and novel flower-arrangement ideas are shared.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Perhaps most compelling are the stories from family members who have lived in the President's House. Through interviews with wives and childrenーand in one case a grandchildーof former university presidents, readers are privy to their most vivid memories of life in the house and recollections of campus happenings. Experiencing the house as her home, Moore-Pastides shares highlights of her years as First Lady, including the most poignant times as well as the lighter moments.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From thieving pets to helpful ghosts, panty raids to Vietnam War protests, and visits from brownie scouts to Pope John Paul II, the tales shared here will warm the heart and in a few cases make readers laugh aloud. And the more than two hundred personal and archival images will reveal not only the evolution of this beautiful historic structure but also the people who made the house a home.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Ecodesign wordt bij de implementatie van de circulaire economie gezien als een van de cruciale hefbomen voor succes. Met dit boek bieden de auteurs inzicht in het vakgebied ecodesign en de relatie met de circulaire economie en moedigen ze ontwerpers aan om duurzame producten te ontwikkelen.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ecodesign staat voor het integreren van ecologie in het ontwerpproces van alle mogelijke producten, gaande van speelgoed, verpakkingen, huis-tuin-en-keukenproducten tot technische producten zoals vorkliften of medische scanners. De rode draad bij ecodesign is levenscyclusdenken: voor elke fase van de levenscyclus van producten, van het ontginnen van de grondstoffen tot het afdanken van het product, streeft de ontwerper ernaar om de milieu-impact te minimaliseren.＜/p＞ ＜p＞De ecodesign-hulpmiddelen die ingezet worden tijdens het ontwerpproces worden in dit boek grondig besproken. Deze hulpmiddelen dienen enerzijds om bestaande producten te screenen op hun milieu-impact en anderzijds om de ontwerper te gidsen om milieuverantwoorde producten te ontwerpen. Verder komen ook actuele trends aan bod zoals biomimicry en de vierde industri?le revolutie, die gericht zijn op de transitie naar een duurzame maatschappij en die de ontwerper kunnen inspireren.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dit is een herwerkte, ge-peer-reviewde editie.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜em＞Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad＜/em＞ is a collection of essays directed to both new and experienced readers of Conrad. The book takes into account recent developments in literary theory, including the prominence of ecocriticism, ecopostcolonial approaches, and gender studies. Editor Agata Szczeszak-Brewer offers a comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to Conrad's most popular texts, also addressing the most recent academic debates as well as the conversations about narrative and genre in Conrad's canon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Students and scholars of Conrad, twentieth-century literature, and modernism will appreciate the clear, accessible prose by nineteen internationally recognized contributors who approach Conrad in different ways, from postcolonial and ecocritical perspectives, through explorations of gender, to psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and political analysis. Beginning with a biographical introduction by Szczeszak-Brewer, the collection offers an essay outlining the cultural and historical contexts that influenced Conrad's fiction and an essay on reception of Conrad's work.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Following that, contributors provide critical approaches to ＜em＞Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer,＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Under Western Eyes.＜/em＞ In these sections scholars offer insights about complex issues in Conrad's fiction, ranging from the study of specific literary tools and narrative development in his books to the political theories in Conrad's portrayal of the threat of terrorism and violent revolutions.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A complete overview of an innovative and analytical author who rose from poverty＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. His analytical mind can turn almost any topic into an intellectual adventure, whether it is playground basketball, the blues, the prison experience, father-son relationships, or the stories he lived or heard growing up in the impoverished section of Pittsburgh known as Homewood. In ＜em＞Understanding John Edgar Wideman＜/em＞, D. Quentin Miller offers a comprehensive overview of Wideman's writings, which range from the critically acclaimed books of the Homewood Trilogy to lesser known writings such as the early novels ＜em＞A Glance Away＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Lynchers＜/em＞. Notably Miller includes the first scholarly analysis of ＜em＞Writing to Save a Life＜/em＞, Wideman's recently published meditation on the military trial and execution of the father of civil rights martyr Emmett Till.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In his fiction, nonfiction, and works that artfully combine both forms, Wideman has employed a multilayered and often difficult writing style in order to explore a wide range of topics. Miller tackles such topics as African American folk history, the intersection of personal and public history, the confluence of oral and written traditions, and the quest for meaning in nihilistic urban settings where black families struggle against crime, poverty, and despair. Miller also shows how Wideman's singular personal history is interwoven into his writings. His impressive accomplishments, including an Ivy League education and numerous literary honors, have come alongside family tragedies. By the time his sixth novel was published, both his brother and son were serving life sentences for murder, a source of anguish that he wrestled with in Brothers and Keepers and Fatheralong.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wideman writes with such authority on so many subjects that readers frequently have no idea what to expect with a new publication. Understanding John Edgar Wideman is thus a necessary guide to a prolific, varied, and essential oeuvre.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A Southern-born poet's journey of reflection and pilgrimage to the streets of Harlem＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this new collection of poems, ＜em＞Weary Kingdom,＜/em＞ D?Lana R. A. Dameron maps a journey across emotional, spiritual, and geographic lines, from the familiarity of the honeysuckle South to a new world, or a new kingdomーHarlem. Her poems traverse the streets of this Black mecca with a careful eye cast toward the intimacies of the exterior. Still, as the poems move throughout the built environment, they navigate matters of death, love, love loss, and family against the backdrop of a city that has yet to become home. Indeed what looms over this weary kingdom is a longing for the certainties of a lover's touch, the summer's sun, and the comforts of a promised land up North. And as the poet longs, so do readers. Ultimately they grow aware of Utopia's fragility.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞The story of the extraordinary life and art of a renowned female sculptor of realistic animal statues＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Dreaming with Animals＜/em＞ is the first children's biography of celebrated sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens cofounder Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her remarkable life serves as an inspiration not only because of the greatness of her art but also because of her courage and perseverance. L. Kerr Dunn highlights how Anna overcame society's expectations of women and survived a life-threatening illness to become a prolific sculptor and an important benefactor of art and wildlife until her death at age ninety-seven.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a young woman, Anna moved to New York City at a time when American women of her class rarely lived alone or worked outside the home. Although she studied briefly under famous sculptors, she soon felt restless and left art school and began to teach herself to sculpt animals by watching them closely, trying to see the animal's true spirit and then representing that spirit in her work. Over time Anna established herself as an important animalier, an artist specializing in realistic portrayals of animals. By 1915 she was one of only ten American women artists earning enough money from the sales of her art to support herself. Later, with her husband, Archer Huntington, Anna founded South Carolina sculpture garden and wildlife preserve Brookgreen Gardens, the country's first public sculpture garden and the world's largest collection of figurative sculpture by American artists in an outdoor setting.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This biography provides engaging details of Anna's life, such as her tendency as a child to lie in pastures studying horses; her travels around the country with her husband in a trailer full of monkeys, dogs, and birds; and the couple's purchase of a zoo. In Dreaming with Animals, Dunn has provided us with an affecting portrait of a strong, capable, talented, and innovative woman＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robin R. Salmon, vice president for collections and curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, provides a foreword.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Mit der Suche nach dem im elterlichen Garten vergrabenen Gorilla beginnt Val?rie Favres Reise in die Welt der Imagination, der Fantasien, Alptr?ume, Erinnerungen und Werke der Kunstgeschichte. Eine Welt, die sie auf ihrem Umweg ?ber Theater und Film lebendig und dann als Malerin, die die Abgr?nde menschlicher Existenz erkundet, sichtbar werden l?sst.＜br /＞ Woher kommt die Dringlichkeit dieser gemalten Bilder, was ist ihre Verbindung zur Biografie, zu politischen und k?nstlerischen Diskursen? In ihrem Gespr?ch verlieren sich die Malerin Val?rie Favre und der Schriftsteller Axel Ruoff im Labyrinth der Fragen ?ber Malerei, dieser einzigartigen Praxis, die in einer vom Digitalen bestimmten, von Klimawandel und Krieg bedrohten Welt zu einem Akt des Widerstands wird.＜/p＞ ＜p＞VAL?RIE FAVRE (*1959, Evilard, Schweiz) ist bildende K?nstlerin und Professorin f?r Malerei an der UdK Berlin, ging nach Paris ? erst als Schauspielerin, dann um in der zeitgen?ssischen Kunst mitzumischen. 20 Jahre sp?ter mischte sie die Karten neu und lebt seit 1999 in Berlin. Ihr malerisches Werk findet seit den fr?hen 1990er-Jahren gro?e Beachtung und wird in zahlreichen internationalen Ausstellungen in Museen und Galerien gezeigt.＜/p＞ ＜p＞AXEL RUOFF (*1971, M?nchen) studierte Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte in Berlin und Aix-en-Provence. Er schreibt Romane und Essays, dreht Filme und arbeitet als Lektor. 2020 war er als DAAD Writer in Residence in Birmingham. 2021 erschien sein Roman ＜em＞IRRBLOCK＜/em＞. Ruoff lebt in Berlin.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Zit je even door je entertainmentinspiratie heen? Geen paniek: dit boek staat barstensvol EHBV*-idee?n! (*Eerste Hulp Bij Verveling)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Je eigen hindernissenbaan. Een crazy katapult. De leukste spelletjes met stoepkrijt. Maak je eigen boek. organiseer een griezelfeest met oneindig veel griezelige idee?n. Ontdek hoe je prachtige meesterwerken maakt.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Amusement voor verveeldagen, lange ritten, overvolle wachtkamers en drukke restaurants. Het wordt moeilijk kiezen uit de vele originele spel- en knutselidee?n voor kinderen vanaf 3 jaar.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In ＜em＞Understanding Susan Sontag＜/em＞, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as ＜em＞Against Interpretation＜/em＞ and ＜em＞On Photography＜/em＞, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontag's biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections ＜em＞Against Interpretation＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Styles of Radical Will;＜/em＞ her films; her major mid-career books, ＜em＞On Photography＜/em＞ and its sequel, ＜em＞Regarding the Pain of Others＜/em＞; and ＜em＞Illness as Metaphor＜/em＞ and its sequel, ＜em＞AIDS and Its Metaphors,＜/em＞ together with her groundbreaking short story, "The Way We Live Now." Sontag's later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in ＜em＞Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls＜/em＞, and ＜em＞At The Same Time: Essays and Speeches＜/em＞, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing ＜em＞I, etcetera＜/em＞; two historical novels, ＜em＞The Volcano Lover＜/em＞ and ＜em＞In America＜/em＞; and her plays, ＜em＞A Parsifal, Alice in Bed,＜/em＞ and her adaptation of Ibsen's ＜em＞The Lady from the Sea＜/em＞. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An illustrated biography celebrating the life and legacy of a renowned Italian artist＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this illustrated biography of the late Italian artist, Livio Orazio Valentini: An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey, Robert E. Alexander and John A. Elliott celebrate the life and legacy of the renowned painter and sculptor while acknowledging his special relationship with the people of Aiken, South Carolina.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Born to a poor family in 1920, Valentini lived most of his life in Orvieto, Italy. With no money for a formal education, he became a self-taught artist. At the age of twenty, Valentini was called into military service during World War II. After being captured by the Germans, he was confined in Buchenwald and other concentration camps, where he endured two years of physical labor. For Valentini the confinement was life-changing; he experienced a spiritual awakening that became a lifelong odyssey reflected in his art and teaching.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Valentini's art and even his existence centered on his efforts to find freedom. His paintings, charcoal sketches, and sculptures formed from terracotta, forged iron, tile, or stone are often a statement on the human condition, germination and rebirth, and the negativity and violence of humanity. Valentini often spoke about injustice and oppression through the metaphor of a caged bird, explaining how compassion could overcome cruelty and art could bring healing and hope to conquer fear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Valentini's art was well known in Italy and other European countries, it was relatively unknown in the United States until the 1990s, when Aiken, South Carolina, and Orvieto, Italy, became linked after a chance meeting between Valentini and a fellow Rotary Club member who was vacationing in Orvieto. The connection blossomed into a multifaceted exchange program for students and citizens that celebrates culture and art, including Valentini's.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Erika Pauli Bizzarri, who offered editorial assistance on this volume, has worked as a research and translation assistant on countless volumes including McGraw Hill's English edition of Encyclopedia of World Art. She taught art history at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a "typical American" writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, ＜em＞Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife,＜/em＞ and ＜em＞World and Town＜/em＞; a collection of short stories, ＜em＞Who's Irish?＜/em＞; and a collection of lectures, ＜em＞Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self.＜/em＞ Jen writes with an engaging, sardonic, and imaginative voice illuminating themes common to the American experience: immigration, assimilation, individualism, the freedom to choose one's path in life, and the complicated relationships that we have with our families and our communities. A second-generation Chinese American, Jen is widely recognized as an important American literary voice, at once accessible, philosophical, and thought-provoking. In addition to her novels, she has published widely in periodicals such as the ＜em＞New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly,＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Yale Review.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ho traces the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice. In the process she shows why Jen's observations about life in the United States, though revealed through the perspectives of her Asian American and Asian immigrant characters, resonate with a variety of audiences who find themselves reflected in Jen's accounts of love, grief, desire, disappointment, and the general domestic experiences that shape all our lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Following a brief biographical sketch, Ho examines each of Jen's major works, showing how she traces the transformation of immigrant dreams into mundane life, explores the limits of self-identification, and characterizes problems of cross-national communication alongside the universal problems of aging and generational conflict. Looking beyond Jen's fiction work, a final chapter examines her essays and her concerns and stature as a public intellectual, and detailed primary and secondary bibliographies provide a valuable point of departure for both teaching and future scholarship.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞The first study that traces the career of an author who pushes against formal and thematic boundaries＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Understanding Chang-rae Lee＜/em＞, Amanda M. Page provides the first critical survey of the work of one of America's most acclaimed contemporary novelists. Chang-rae Lee, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English at Stanford University, has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, an American Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lee is the author of five novels, including The Surrendered, which was a named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011. In considering the novelist's oeuvre, Page examines Lee's evolving use of narrative perspective and how it attests to the power of voice by showing that storytelling can reveal hidden truthsーwhether intended or not.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After a brief biography, an overview of Lee's critical reception, and a discussion of his nonfiction essays, Page traces the trajectory of Lee's career to illustrate the ways his work continues to push against formal and thematic boundaries with each new novel. In her exploration of Lee's first and best-known novel, ＜em＞Native Speaker,＜/em＞ Page introduces many of Lee's recurring themes, including the pains of cultural assimilation, the significant role of language in identity, and emotional alienation as a result of constructs of masculinity. Page then argues that Lee's second novel, ＜em＞A Gesture Life,＜/em＞ uses evasive narration and the guise of a suburban novel to conceal a meditation on war trauma and contemporary isolation. Aloft, the last of Lee's novels told in the first person, plays with expected conventions of American suburban fiction to critique the white privilege at the heart of this familiar form.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Page also explores ＜em＞The Surrendered,＜/em＞ Lee's ambitious historical epic that deploys third-person perspective to show the variety of ways historical trauma reverberates in the present. Page's final chapter focuses on Lee's dystopian novel ＜em＞On Such a Full Sea.＜/em＞ In his most bold experiment with narrative voice to date, this novel is told from the collective perspective of an entire community, reflecting on the experiences of a lone girl as she navigates a highly stratified social hierarchy. Page argues that this work shows the culmination of Lee's interest in the relationship between the individual and the community and the power of a single voice to speak truth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞The first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's unique literary career＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explore the history, experience, and identity of Chinese Americans. This is exemplified in her first book, The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, a bestseller, and a staple on college and university syllabi. Although ＜em＞The Woman Warrior＜/em＞ is by far her most celebrated book, Kingston has penned a wide range of essays, fiction, and poetry, including ＜em＞China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai'i One Summer, To Be a Poet, The Fifth Book of Peace, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life＜/em＞, and the edited volume ＜em＞Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston＜/em＞ is the first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston's literary career, from The Woman Warrior to her most recent volume of poetry. Julia H. Lee weaves together scholarly assessments, interviews, biographical information, and her own critical analysis to provide a complete and complex picture of Kingston's works and its impact on memoir, feminist fiction, Asian American literature, and postmodern literature.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lee examines the influence that previous generations of Asian American authors, feminism, and antiwar activism have had on Kingston's work. Offering important contextual information about Kingston's life, Lee shows how it has so often served as a starting point for Kingston's writing. Also studied are her complex attitudes toward genre, and her ever-evolving identity as a novelist, essayist, memoirist, and poet. A comprehensive bibliography of critical secondary sources will be an invaluable resource for readers and critics of Kingston's works.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Als het knutselen niet (meer) in je vingers zit! Met wel 100 knutselwerkjes waaronder net die klassiekers waarvan veel jonge mama's (of papa's) niet (meer) precies weten hoe het moet: knutselen met strijkkralen, eieren uitblazen en beschilderen, stempelen, een papieren hoedje of bootje vouwen, scoubidous of pompons maken, papier weven, zoutdeegfiguurtjes kneden, popcorn of marsepein maken, etc. Voor uren nostalgisch knutselplezier!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An introduction to the uncompromising artistic vision of the internationally acclaimed writer＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, ＜em＞V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer＜/em＞ introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers. Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look at Naipaul's literary career, from ＜em＞Miguel Street to Magic Seeds.＜/em＞ From readings of his fiction, nonfiction, travel books, and volumes of letters, she elucidates the connections between Naipaul's personal experiences as a Hindu Indian from Trinidad living an expatriate life and the precise, euphonious prose with which he is synonymous.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dooley assesses each of Naipaul's major publications in light of his stated intentions and beliefs, and she traces the development of his writing style over a forty-year career. Devoting separate chapters to three of his chief works, ＜em＞A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State,＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Enigma of Arrival,＜/em＞ she analyzes their critical reception and the primacy of Naipaul's specific narrative style and voice. Dooley emphasizes that it is, above all, Naipaul's refusal to compromise his vision in order to flatter or appease that has made him a controversial writer. At the same time she sees the integrity with which he reports his subjective response to the world as essential to the lasting success of his work.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A thorough examination of the author's deeply personal and often-controversial poetry＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Understanding Sharon Olds＜/em＞ explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these difficult and complex topics with pathos and intimate, sometimes provocatively private, details through poetry that not all her critics appreciate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Olds has never shied away from difficult subject matter. Her first award-winning book, Satan Says, is a feminist exploration of gender politics and adolescent discovery. The Father comprises a book-length elegy about cancer. Stag's Leap, Olds's Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, is a surprisingly tender look at divorce in modern American culture. Extremely personal, her poems often deal with the victories and contradictions of being a woman in the United States during a time when the country is often involved in racial upheavals and military conflicts overseas. She investigates the victories and contradictions of being a wife and mother during the era of feminism, as one of our most honest, most overt poets of female sexuality and its relationship to family life and its place within the history of humanity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brickey organizes each chapter around a theme or a persona within Olds's cast of characters. These include poems dedicated to mothers, fathers, children, and the arc of history. Through his close readings, Brickey shows how and where Olds has expanded the tradition of confessional poetry (literature that deals with psychology, family, love, and sexuality), a term Olds disdains but nevertheless expanded into commentary about the human condition in all its paradoxes.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A compendium of profiles, interviews, and reviews published by the South Carolina book review editor＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Art and Craft＜/em＞ presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's ＜em＞Post and Courier.＜/em＞ Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, ＜em＞Art and Craft＜/em＞ also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A foreword is written by South Carolina novelist Josephine Humphreys, who is author of ＜em＞Dreams of Sleep＜/em＞ (winner of the 1985 Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction), ＜em＞Rich in Love＜/em＞ (made into a major motion picture), ＜em＞The Fireman's Fair,＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Nowhere Else on Earth.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Featuring: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞The story of how a summer job spawned a long and rewarding career as an artist＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world's most recognized and popular American products. In ＜em＞The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison,＜/em＞ the artist traces his lifelong love affair with the Coca-Cola trademark that began during his childhood in rural South Carolina.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Harrison enjoyed drinking the sweet and effervescent beverage, but he also was attracted to the Coca-Cola trademark that was blazoned on buildings and signs in his home town. After years of marveling at the work of local sign painter J. J. Cornforth, Harrison approached the seventy-year-old for a summer job. During several summers Cornforth taught Harrison the craft. When the young artist climbed atop the scaffold in the summer of 1952 to paint his first Coca-Cola sign, little did he know that he was launching a career as one of America's foremost landscape artists.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1975 Harrison created a painting of a country store that featured a fading Coca-Cola sign he and Cornforth had painted twenty years earlier. The painting, titled "Disappearing America," was offered as one of the first limited-edition Coca-Cola collector prints for $40 by Frame House Gallery. All 1,500 copies sold out quickly, propelling him into the national spotlight through the publisher's network of 600 dealers. Harrison soon became the undisputed leader in rural Americana art, with this and many of his other prints appreciating up to 3,000 percent of their original value.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since entering into a licensee relationship with the Coca-Cola Company in 1995, Harrison has continued developing limited-edition prints, including his popular annual Coca-Cola calendar. Not surprisingly, Harrison has become an avid collector of old Coca-Cola signs. His studio is lined with a vast array of this collection, which serves as inspiration for new works of art.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as ＜em＞House of Blue Leaves,＜/em＞ winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and ＜em＞Six Degrees of Separation,＜/em＞ recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In ＜em＞Understanding John Guare,＜/em＞ William W. Demastes provides a concise biography and analyzes the playwright's career from his earliest works produced off-off Broadway in the 1960s to his most recent Broadway play, ＜em＞A Free Man of Color,＜/em＞ a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Often compared to his contemporaries Sam Shepard and David Mamet, who have distinctive voices tied to their mastery of realistic, idiomatic American English, Guare has a style that is perhaps more varied, Demastes speculates, the result of his formal training in theater. After earning a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, Guare earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He then polished his theater craft in New York City during the exciting and turbulent 1960s, breaking from realist conventions and creating an unlikely blend of comedy, burlesque, stand-up comedy, and absurdly incongruous plotlines. The result has been a theater of surprise that is rich in stage action and experimentally invigorating.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Demastes examines Guare's tools and techniques such as mixing serious with comic, creating characters who break into song and dance, inserting stand-up comedy routines, and drawing from the most absurd incongruities of everyday life. In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional ideals.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞Uwe Fleckner n?hert sich dem ≫politischen≪ Picasso aus unterschiedlichen Richtungen: Von der Beschlagnahme seines fru?hen Gem?ldes ＜em＞Die eingeschlafene Trinkerin＜/em＞ durch die Nationalsozialisten bis zur Ikonisierung von ＜em＞Guernica＜/em＞ durch die zeitgen?ssische Kunst und die aktuelle Protestkultur. Fleckner interpretiert das Jahrhundertwerk als Antwort des Ku?nstlers auf franquistische Propagandalu?gen, analysiert Picassos Theaterstu?ck ＜em＞Wie man Wu?nsche am Schwanz packt＜/em＞ als Reaktion auf die deutsche Besatzung von Paris und beleuchtet die wichtige Retrospektive im Haus der Kunst in Mu?nchen 1955. Mit dieser Ausstellung sollte internationale Kunst in das ehemals nationalsozialistische Ausstellungshaus einziehen: Werke wie ＜em＞Guernica＜/em＞ oder das ＜em＞Massaker in Korea＜/em＞ provozierten ein neues Betrachterverhalten und trugen so zum Demokratisierungsprozess der deutschen Bev?lkerung bei.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in ＜em＞Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature＜/em＞ by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial-era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern efforts of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-created the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Moore grounds her account in studies of Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimk?, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In these nine writers' construction of feminine imagesーreal and symbolicーMoore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A foreword is offer by Andrew Billingsley, a pioneering sociologist and a leading scholar in African American studies.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An inviting, detailed analysis of the work and characters created by this Pulitzer Prize?winning writer＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Best known for his Pulitzer Prize?winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award?winning screenplay for ＜em＞Brokeback Mountain＜/em＞, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven Frye considers a broad range of McMurtry's most important novels and offers detailed textual analyses of works such as ＜em＞Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Moving On＜/em＞, and ＜em＞Lonesome Dove＜/em＞ to reveal the manner in which McMurtry engages the human condition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Characters are at the heart of McMurtry's fiction, whether they are nineteenth- or twentieth-century ranchers, modern rodeo men, or women grappling with the angst and confusion of life in the suburbs of Houston. He has created characters rich in texture, such as Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, not only to encourage an understanding of the persistent force of American mythology but also to transcend type so that they emerge as quintessentially human figures grappling with circumstances beyond their control.＜/p＞ ＜p＞McMurtry portrays with depth and insight the conundrums of the modern moment and its relation to heritage, and he deals as well with the intensities of the human mind as it negotiates with a complex and sometimes indifferent world. In ＜em＞Understanding Larry McMurtry＜/em＞, Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most important living authors, one who has emerged as a central figure in a rich and compelling contemporary canon.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An introduction to the fictions of the＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Fight Club＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞author, who is both loved and loathed＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ever since his first novel, ＜em＞Fight Club＜/em＞, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan favorite, Palahniuk has been loathed and loved in equal measure for his dark humor, edgy topics, and confrontational writing style. In close readings of Fight Club and the thirteen novels that this controversial author has published since, Douglas Keesey argues that Palahniuk is much more than a "shock jock" engaged in mere sensationalism. His visceral depictions of sex and violence have social, psychological, and religious significance. Keesey takes issue with reviewers who accuse Palahniuk of being an angry nihilist and a misanthrope, showing instead that he is really a romantic at heart and a believer in community.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this first comprehensive introduction to Palahniuk's fiction, Keesey reveals how this writer's outrageous narratives are actually rooted in his own personal experiences, how his seemingly unprecedented works are part of the American literary tradition of protagonists in search of an identity, and how his negative energy is really social satire directed at specific ills that he diagnoses and wishes to cure. After tracing the influence of his working-class background, his journalistic education, and his training as a "minimalist" writer, ＜em＞Understanding Chuck Palahniuk＜/em＞ exposes connections between the writer's novels by grouping them thematically: the struggle for identity ＜em＞(Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke＜/em＞); the horror trilogy ＜em＞(Lullaby, Diary, Haunted＜/em＞); teen terrors (＜em＞Rant, Pygmy＜/em＞); porn bodies and romantic myths (＜em＞Snuff, Tell-All, Beautiful You＜/em＞); and a decidedly unorthodox revision of Dante's ＜em＞Divine Comedy＜/em＞ (＜em＞Damned, Doomed＜/em＞).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing on numerous author interviews and written in an engaging and accessible style, ＜em＞Understanding Chuck Palahniuk＜/em＞ should appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞An overview of a canon influenced by military service, faith, and a life-changing accident＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Andre Dubus (1936?1999), the author of short stories, novellas, essays, and two novels, is perhaps best known as the author of the story "Killings," which was adapted into the film ＜em＞In the Bedroom,＜/em＞ a nominee for five Academy Awards in 2001. His work received many awards, including the PEN New England Award, the PEN Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Jean Stein Award. In ＜em＞Understanding Andre Dubus,＜/em＞ Olivia Carr Edenfield focuses on the major influences that span Dubus's canonーhis Catholic upbringing, Marine Corps service, and turn to fiction at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, as well as the influence that a life-threatening accident had on his work.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Edenfield traces how Dubus's experiences serve as a backdrop for the major themes that run through his work: faith, family, and infidelity. His marriages, the complex relationships with his children, and his difficult recovery from a car accident exerted a powerful influence on his work. Dubus also took up the complicated themes of love and marriage, fatherhood and faith, and despair and spiritual healing; his subjects and style were influenced significantly by Ernest Hemingway.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After Dubus's novel ＜em＞Broken Vessels＜/em＞ was named a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, he returned to writing short stories, the genre for which he is still renowned. He focused on a character much like himself who had to learn to navigate the world while afflicted with physical and spiritual disability. In 1996 he published his critically acclaimed short story cycle ＜em＞Dancing after Hours,＜/em＞ an appropriate ending to a career that celebrated the healing power of the human heart.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Damned Don't CryーThey Just Disappear,＜/em＞ literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries,and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view to the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first century readers can decipher them easily.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Greene also discusses Hervey's travel books and successful Hollywood scriptwriting, as well as his use of exotic elements from Asian cultures. The iconic film Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, was based on one of his original stories. He also wrote some of the first travel books on Indochina, with descriptions of male and female prostitution and allusions to his own sexual adventures, which still make for sensational reading today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Despite Hervey's output and his perseverance in presenting gay characters and themes as openly as he could, he has not been included in any survey of twentieth-century gay writers. Greene now rectifies this omission, providing the first book-length study of Hervey's life and work and the first scholarly attention to him in more than fifty years. It furthers our understanding of gay life in the South, as well as the impact of gay artists on popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

＜p＞＜strong＞A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Damned Don't CryーThey Just Disappear,＜/em＞ literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries,and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view to the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first century readers can decipher them easily.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Greene also discusses Hervey's travel books and successful Hollywood scriptwriting, as well as his use of exotic elements from Asian cultures. The iconic film Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, was based on one of his original stories. He also wrote some of the first travel books on Indochina, with descriptions of male and female prostitution and allusions to his own sexual adventures, which still make for sensational reading today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Despite Hervey's output and his perseverance in presenting gay characters and themes as openly as he could, he has not been included in any survey of twentieth-century gay writers. Greene now rectifies this omission, providing the first book-length study of Hervey's life and work and the first scholarly attention to him in more than fifty years. It furthers our understanding of gay life in the South, as well as the impact of gay artists on popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。