Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
by Kevin J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1995
Herman Melville’s reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the past century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville’s use of folklore has been slow in developing. This ground-breaking study brings to the forefront...
by Frederick B. Artz
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This is an introduction to the principle writers of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century France. French thinkers of this century made a long series of devastating attacks on old ideas, usages, and institutions that had been handed down from the past. And, at the same time, these thinkers proposed...
by F. Daniel Rzicznek
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
“F. Daniel Rzicznek’s Cloud Tablets presents to us prose poems as they’re meant to be—chock full of surprising images and compelling music. Where else would we find sheep in a library and a seraphim at a nightclub other than in a prose poem? Rzicznek presents these moments and others with...
A New Book of the Grotesques
Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspective
Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence on...
Under the Shadow
The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In Pat Frank’s 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: “All their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve lived under the shadow of war—atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal.” The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of...
by Joe Bonomo
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
"Something spiritual, as weel as actual, is broken in the world Joe Bonomo offers us, in this his first sustained collection. His response to what he is left with is to remake what he can in figures of comprehension and compassion. The size of his world is local and familiar, but that hardly...
For Dear Life
And Selected Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The republication of this novel reintroduces readers to a strong southern writer, an interesting female voice, and a compelling story. This realistic portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early twentieth century shows the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome...
Bloody Versicles
The Rhymes of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining verse relating to specific crimes; and a small encyclopedia of select criminals...
by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Miloxz’s dictum that “the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” Peopled with such diverse characters as Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, Kafka’s father, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos...
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with...
The Lincoln Assassination Riddle
Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The...
The Alternate History
Refigurng Historical Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time examines alternate history science fiction using the eschatological, genetic, entropic, and teleological historical models. Hellekson’s original approach explains much of the appeal of alternate history and distinguishes among the many varieties...
Broken Glass
Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century
“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America’s renaissance figures....
Trilateralism and Beyond
Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma During and After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint
The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear...