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A Place That's Known: Essays
1994Michael Pearson
Following Imagined Places, Pearson continues exploring place and writing as he mentally revisits locations that have influenced him through his life—childhood home, family vacations, the various places he’s taught, etc. [Amazon.com]
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In Search of the Corn Queen
1994Greta Pratt
Greta Pratt returns to the county fairs of her childhood to present a vision of American Midwest communities largely unfamiliar to millions of urban dwellers. In this book she has created a visual anthology of fairgoers and fair participants of all shapes and sizes. For five summers, she traveled the Midwest chronicling the rural life of the region - parades of civic pride, displays of exemplary harvests, and heifers and swine groomed by the Future Farmers of America. The photographer's journey takes us to North Dakota, Minnesota, Tennessee, Kansas, Mississippi, among other states. She stops along the way at peculiar, yet somehow familiar, communities. … [Amazon.com]
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Hitler’s Japanese Confidant: General Ōshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945
1993Carl Boyd (Author) and Peter Paret (Contributor)
In 1940 the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service broke the Japanese diplomatic code. In 1975 Oshima Hiroshi, Japan's ambassador to Berlin during World War II, died, never knowing that the hundreds of messages he transmitted to Tokyo had been fully decoded by the Americans and whisked off to Washington, providing a major source of information for the Allies on Nazi activities.
Resurrecting Oshima's decoded communications, which had remained classified for several decades, Carl Boyd provides a unique look at the Nazis from the perspective of a close foreign observer and ally. He uses Oshima's own words to reveal the thought and strategies of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis, with whom Oshima associated.
In addition to providing illuminating insight into Nazi activities and attitudes--military buildup in North Africa, the unwillingness to accept a separate peace with the Soviets--Boyd illustrates the functions of MAGIC. He demonstrates how that intelligence, gathered by teams of American cryptographers, influenced Allied strategy and helped bring about the downfall of Hitler and his Japanese confidant. [From the publisher]
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Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism
1993Imtiaz Habib
This book studies the changing dualities and polarities of Shakespearean characterization as a way of examining the playwright's basically pluralistic concept of character and of its function in his art. Illustrated. [Amazon.com]
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Central and Eastern Europe: The Challenge of Transition
1993Regina Cowen Karp (Editor)
The challenges and dilemmas posed to stability in the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe by the collapse of Communist rule are undisputedly wide-ranging. Recognizing the need to adopt an approach that does justice to a momentous process of change, this book focuses on the security implications of continuing developments in the political, social, economic, and military spheres. The heart of the book is a set of case studies examining in detail the situation in a number of countries: Hungary, Poland, the Czech and Slovak republics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, the Balkan region, and the former Yugoslavia. As an introduction to the case studies, a section of essays astutely assesses recent developments in Central and Eastern Europe from a broader thematic perspective, focusing on the role of European organizations in the ethnic conflicts currently prevalent throughout the region. [From Amazon.com]
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Alligator Dance: Stories
1993Janet Peery
With the same piercing vision that distinguishes her novel The River Beyond the World, Janet Peery unveils a stunning collection of stories. Settled mostly in the American Southwest, her characters-men and women caught between two places, literal and figurative-try to understand the mysteries that overarch or undergird their lives. [Amazon.com]
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Security Without Nuclear Weapons?: Different Perspectives on Non-Nuclear Security
1992Regina Cowen Karp (Editor)
This book examines the question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons feasible? Individual chapters address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in the design of a non-nuclear security regime. Other chapters explore more specialized issues as they relate to the feasibility of the elimination of nuclear weapons: elite perceptions and the decision-making process, verification, nuclear proliferation, fissile materials and warheads, alliance and regional hegemonies, and deterrence.
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Hurdy-Gurdy
1992Tim Seibles
Poetry. African American Studies. "From the 'sweet scat' and 'jump rope hymns' of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, Hurdy-Gurdy earnestly explores the differences between what we want, what we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any cost. This is an exciting book—at once fluid, shapely, and steady as stone—whose tensions lead us to an authentic meditative wholeness."—Mark Cox [Amazon.com]
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Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America
1991Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri. [Amazon.com]
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Rethinking Canada the Promise of Women's History
1991Veronica Strong-Boag (Editor) and Anita Clair Fellman (Editor)
The Promise of Women's History presents readings on the key developments in Canadian, and more generally, women's history. A detailed introduction to the volume notes that society must know about the past in order to understand the present and to confront the future. Once we learn, for example, that the nation's constitutional arrangements have, since their beginnings, disadvantaged women as citizens; that knowledge can become the basis for demands of redress. Once we discover that women routinely have been paid less than men for comparable labor, the case for negotiating a new deal has begun. In this third edition there are 27 readings, 8 of which have been retained from the previous second edition. There are 19 new selections which focus on a range of issues including race and ethnicity, work, sexual orientation, and disability. The readings are also organized into 4 sections: Pre-Confederation, Post-Confederation, Post-WWI, and Post-WWII. Each selection is introduced by the editors, who place the reading within its historical and historiographical contexts.
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Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
1990Nancy Topping Bazin (Ed.) and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (Ed.)
This volume collects three decades of interviews with Nadine Gordimer. In the interviews, she presents her attitudes toward her art and its interconnection with the oppressive, volatile politics in her native land. She has traveled extensively to other countries only to discover that no matter how white her skin she is indeed African and the only country she can call home is South Africa. "If you write honestly about life in South Africa, apartheid damns itself," she says. She is ruthlessly honest, and her fiction has played the vital role of communicating in detail to the rest of the world the effects of apartheid upon the daily lives of the South African people. To maintain her integrity, she writes as though she "were dead," without any thought of how anyone will react to what she has written. She remains heroically undaunted both by the banning of three of her novels by the white government and by the protests of radical blacks who assert that whites cannot write convincingly about blacks. She is concerned neither with the image of blacks nor with the image of whites, only with revealing the complexity, the full truth. This truth condemns the racism upon which apartheid is built. In her nine novels and eight volumes of short stories, Gordimer digs deeper and deeper until she has "thematic layers." These include "betrayal-political, sexual, every form" and "power, the way human beings use power in their relationships." Her accounts in these interviews of how she works and of which writers she admires will fascinate readers, scholars, teachers, and students alike.
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The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures
1990Dana Heller
The Feminization of Quest-Romance proposes that a female quest is a revolutionary step in both literary and cultural terms. Indeed, despite the difficulty that women writers face in challenging myths, rituals, psychological theories, and literary conventions deemed universal by a culture that exalts masculine ideals and universalizes male experience, a number of revolutionary texts have come into existence in the second half of the twentieth century by such American women writers as Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Anne Moody, Marilynne Robinson, and Mona Simpson, all of them working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests. They work, in part, by presenting questing female characters who refuse to accept the roles accorded them by restrictive social norms, even if it means sacrificing themselves in the name of rebellion. In later texts, female heroes survive their "lighting out" experiences to explore diverse alternatives to the limiting roles that have circumscribed female development. [Amazon.com]
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Cordillera Tales
1990Luisa A. Igloria
This is a collection of stories about the different tribes in Cordillera and the myths of the indigenous people of the Mountain Provinces. [From the publisher]
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Max Frisch: "Stiller", "Homo faber" und "Mein Name sei Gantenbein"
1990Frederick Alfred Lubich
Work provides a an introduction to Max Frisch's three most important novels and explores the themes of narrative experimentation, ego loss, the experience of the "New World," and the discussion of technology and myth.
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Don't Grieve after Me: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986
1986Phillip David Morgan, Michael Hucles, and Sarah S. hughes
Three chronological essays present an historical overview of the African-American experience in Virginia from 1619-1986.
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The Life and Works of Otto Dix: German Critical Realist
1981Linda F. McGreevy
A revision of the author's thesis, University of Georgia, 1975. From the series, Studies in Fine Arts, No. 12.
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The Extraordinary Envoy: General Hiroshi Ōshima and Diplomacy in the Third Reich, 1934-1939
1980Carl Boyd
Ōshima approved of the militarism and totalitarianism evident in the Third Reich when he arrived in Berlin as the Japanese military attaché in 1934. Ōshima’s personal ability and initiative sub rosa greatly enhanced his importance in German-Japanese relations. Scenes between the spirited military attaché and National Socialist functionaries soon followed, the like of which are often enacted in higher places and by more important people. Ōshima’s behavior was exceptional. He would become Japan’s Ambassador to Germany in 1938 when the military gained greater influence in the Japanese government. Though many Japanese army officers admired the German military, Ōshima represented an extreme military point of view, and he was infatuated particularly with the armed forces of Hitler’s Third Reich. [From the “Introduction”]
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Old Dominion University: A Half Century of Service
1980John R. Sweeney
Dr. James R. Sweeney has written an informative account of the university's first half-century. It is a history of growth from a small two-year branch of the College of William and Mary to a state-supported university that has gained its own national reputation.
[From the "Introduction," by Alfred B. Rollins Jr, Aug. 14, 1980]
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McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers
1970Harold S. Wilson
McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American scene (Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle) and fearlessly championed the important causes of the day (from betterment of conditions in the coal mines to antitrust measures).
This is the story of McClure's lifespan, beginning in Ohio when Samuel McClure gathered around himself a talented group of editors and writers (among them Willa Cather. Frank Norris. Stephen Crane, O. Henry. Hamlin Garland) and continuing to the magazine’s last days in New York City. The growing concern of the staff about American urban and commercial life led to such exposes as Ida Tarbell's History of Standard Oil and Lincoln Steffens' Shame of the Cities. McClure's was a channel for those determined to combat the ills of society, and one of the first voices of the emerging Progressive Party. [From Amazon.com]
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