University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Losing Trust in the World
Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Am�ry went on to write a series of essays...
by Melissa Kwasny
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series�one of linked prose poems called �Another Letter to the Soul� and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and...
Paper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of highcomedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional...
by Eugene Webb
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe....
Forest Under Story
Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem’s trees, wildlife, water, and nutrients with an eye toward understanding change...
The Dark Dove
The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb analyzes works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden, and Ibsen. He demonstrates the connection between modern literature and religious tradition,...
Natural Grace
The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
From the interactive clockwork world of geology, tides, Northwest weather, and snow, to the hidden roles of dirt, stream life, and mosses and lichens, Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Dietrich explores the natural splendors of the Pacific Northwest. His topics include alder and cedar; jellyfish,...
Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a “labyrinth” of gendering, the practice...
Icons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period...
Symptoms of an Unruly Age
Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores...
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient �queendom� on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese...
Migrating the Black Body
The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media�from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels�has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the...
Fire
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
"The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it�the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before. If one wants to understand just how completely the story of the human past is also the story of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival material. The printed book presents some of the most compelling stories of these five important storytellers along...