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“jason puskar”

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  • The Switch

    An Off and On History of Digital Humans

    by Jason Puskar ...
    From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agencyThe Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Accident Society

    Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

    by Jason Puskar ...
    This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents." During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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  • Salvage Work

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

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  • The H.D. Book

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    This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A ... Read more

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  • American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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  • Empire’s Proxy

    American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

    by Meg Wesling ...
    Series Book 1 - American Literatures Initiative
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesIn the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the ... Read more

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  • Rough Draft

    The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937

    Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks ...
    Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England. During her time abroad, Coleman developed as a surrealist writer, publishing a novel, The Shutter of Snow, and poems in little ... Read more

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  • Searching for Jim

    Slavery in Sam Clemens's World

    by Terrell Dempsey ...
    Series Book 1 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens’s remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revealing that Clemens’s life, from the ages of twelve to seventeen, was intertwined with the lives of the slaves around ... Read more

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  • 101 Insults By Donald Trump

    A How to Guide on Twitter Warfare.

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    Edited by Dawn Keetley, Matthew Sivils ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    First Published in 2017. The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit. ... Read more

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  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

    Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

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    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.Rosenthal ... Read more

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