University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and...
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of...
by Stephen P. Depoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is a historian and political advocate whose ideas and activities have significantly influenced the shape and direction of American liberalism during the past fifty years. A central feature of Schlesinger’s ideological perspective is his belief that American history...
by Emily J. Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority.
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially paintingas a...
Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduces thirteen of...
Epistolary Responses
The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by...
Jazz in the Time of the Novel
The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture’s understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices.
Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time...
by William March
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
“March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. . . . Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal, here is vitriol without venom. richard Brough catches the full flavor in his illustrations.” —New York Times Book Review
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography.
Critic...
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era,...
The Text and Beyond
Essays in Literary Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
This book demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language.
Presidents and Protestors
Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance...
Hart Crane
After His Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work—White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Yet, Crane’s poetry was championed and debated publicly by many of the most eminent literary...
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.
Recent protests around the...