University Of Iowa Press imprint: 216 books
by Clary Illian
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In A Potter's Workbook, renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a way to see, to make, and to think about the forms of wheel-thrown vessels; her information and inspiration explain both the mechanics of throwing and finishing...
by Noelle Morrissette
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes provides an evocative and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least understood authors of the New Negro Renaissance era. Johnson, familiar to many as an early civil rights leader active in the National Association for the Advancement...
Mythical River
Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of...
Framing Fan Fiction
Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from...
by Paul L. Errington
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
“I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.” With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his expertise in...
Hog Wild
The Battle for Workers' Rights at the World's Largest Slaughterhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
When Smithfield Foods opened its pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, in 1992, workers in the rural area were thrilled to have jobs at what was billed as “the largest slaughterhouse in the world.” However, they soon left in droves because of the fast, unrelenting line speed and high...
by John Blair
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line...
The Phantom Unmasked
America's First Superhero
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Before Superman, before Batman, there was—the Phantom! Making its debut as an American newspaper comic strip in 1936, The Phantom was the forerunner of the comic-book superhero genre that today animates vast billion-dollar franchises spanning print, film, television, video games, and licensed merchandise....
Ghostly Figures
Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From Sylvia Plath’s depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering “bits” to AIDS elegies’ assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe’s insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed “scraps,” the condition of being too late...
by Michael V. Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they...
Athenian Tragedy in Performance
A Guide to Contemporary Studies and Historical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century...
by Carolyn Sachs, Mary Barbercheck, Kathryn Braiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture—they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. The authors draw on more than a decade of research to document and analyze the reasons for the transformation. As their sense of identity...
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge
The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post–World War II...
See You in the Streets
Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation
In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women and girls. Their deaths galvanized a movement for social and economic justice then, but...