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  • Infowhelm

    Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data

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    How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? In Infowhelm, Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Infowhelm

    Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data

    Series series
    How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? In Infowhelm, Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

    Environment and Affect

    Series series Literature Now
    The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of threat and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness.Tracing the development of ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19

    Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually. Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education reckoning as institutions around the world were forced to shut their physical doors and open up their online ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

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  • Still Wild

    Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre

    Larry McMurtry—the preeminent chronicler of the American West—celebrates the best of Western short fiction in this anthology that represents the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier, featuring authors such as Jack Kerouac, Annie Proulx, and more.Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of the century’s most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Hemingway Log

    A Chronology of His Life and Times

    Click here to read Revisions, Corrections, and Additions to The Hemingway Log.Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer’s life... ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Sensational Modernism

    Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America

    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem

    In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • The Oracle and the Curse

    A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

    by Caleb Smith ...
    Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Edited by Ezra Tawil ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD