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Talking to Myself
A collection of essays written by gifted high-school students attending a Stanford EPGY course in expository writing--a brilliant read and a potentially useful teaching resource!
The New Walt Whitman Studies
Highlights the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman's work transforms discussions in literary studies.
A Broken Thing
In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology. The authors included here, emerging and established alike, write from a range of perspectives, in terms of both aesthetics and identity. Together, they offer a dynamic hybrid collection that captures a broad spectrum of poetic practice in the...
Pinelandia
Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century.
Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry
Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Looking at how Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, and C. Dale Young use structures such as meter, rhyme, and line break, this study identifies a poetics of formalist Latino poetry.
Biography Between Structure and Agency
While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling "life-and-letters" biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations, or-more recently-with the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volume-all well known senior historians-offer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with topics specific to Central Europe, such as the challenges of writing about the lives of both victims...
Een oord van bang wachten
Tijdens de Duitse bezetting werd het grootseminarie bij Haaren, tussen Tilburg en ’s-Hertogenbosch, als gijzelaarskamp en ‘Polizeigefängnis’ gebruikt. Er zaten onder anderen verzetsstrijders, agenten van het beruchte Englandspiel en joodse burgers. Onder de gijzelaars waren de latere premier Jan de Quay en industrieel Frits Philips. De gijzelaars hingen represailles boven het hoofd, de gevangenen waren in bange afwachting van hun verhoor, proces, vonnis en wegvoering. Van verschillende gedetineerden zijn de verhalen bekend, maar het ‘grote verhaal’ wordt nu voor het eerst gepresenteerd. Haaren was een kamp van levensgrote tegenstellingen: terwijl gijzelaars in de zon zaten, stapten joodse gevangenen in vrachtwagens die naar Westerbork reden. Van de drieduizend gevangenen zijn meer dan zeshonderd in een concentratiekamp omgekomen. Dit boek laat zien dat het gebouw als ‘plaats van herinnering’ – het is grotendeels nog in oorspronkelijke staat – een duidelijke plaats verdient op de historische kaart van Nederland.
