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Liberal Epic
In Liberal Epic, Edward Adams examines the liberal imagination’s centuries-long dependence on contradictory, and mutually constitutive, attitudes toward violent domination. Adams centers his ambitious analysis on a series of major epic poems, histories, and historical novels, including Dryden’s Aeneid, Pope’s Iliad, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Byron’s Don Juan, Scott’s Life of Napoleon, Napier’s History of the War in the Peninsula, Macaulay’s History of England, Hardy’s Dynasts, and Churchill’s military histories—works that rank among the most important publishing events of the past three centuries yet that have seldom received critical attention relative to their importance. In recovering these neglected works and gathering them together as part of a self-conscious literary tradition here defined as liberal epic, Adams provides an archaeology that sheds light on contemporary issues such as the relation of liberalism to war, the tactics for sanitizing heroism, and the appeal of violence to supposedly humane readers. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Blockchain Foundations
While there are many books on blockchains, this guide focuses on blockchain applications for business. The target audience is business students, professionals, and managers who want to learn about the overall blockchain landscape — the investments, the size of markets, major players and the global reach — as well as the potential business value of blockchain applications and the challenges that must be overcome to achieve that value. We present use cases and derive action principles for building enterprise blockchain capabilities. Readers will learn enough about the underlying technologies to speak intelligently to technology experts in the space, as the guide also covers the blockchain protocols, code bases and provides a glossary of terms. We use this guide as the textbook for our undergraduate and graduate Blockchain Fundamentals course at the University of Arkansas. Other professors interested in adopting this guide for instructional purposes are welcome to contact the author for supporting instructional materials.
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
A landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination thro...
Reading Epic
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.
Epic Encounters
Examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. Author McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This book skillfully weaves readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history.--From publisher description.
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Reconstructed
College junior Andrea Ward is haunted by her younger brother's vanishing without a trace--presumed to be a victim of a ruthless child murderer, the West Allertown Bogeyman. New information about another unsolved case suggests that everything Andrea knows about her brother's disappearance might be wrong. Questions force Andrea to dig deep into the most painful part of her past in a quest to put her brother's ghost to rest. Reconstructed is from Killers, an EPIC Press series.
Punch Line
All her life, Kayla has played by her parents' rules, but everything changes when she arrives at Swimmer College in Boston. She starts to party and rebel against her old, strict upbringing, creating a new life for herself. But when she goes too far, she finds her whole college career at risk. As she makes and breaks friendships and grades, will she find a place for herself in college, or will she be forced to leave it all behind? Punch Line is from Freshmen, an EPIC Press series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
Bad Connection
Eddie Spieglman thought he could be anyone he wanted to be once he got to college--but most importantly, he thought he wouldn't have to be himself. That was before Eddie's mom sold the house and moved to Thailand. Now Eddie must navigate the college world with a roommate he can't stand; a professor he wants to impress, but who never remembers Eddie's name; a girl intent on ignoring him; and a squirrel who seems to be stalking him around campus. Bad Connection is from Freshmen, an EPIC Press series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
Dialogues between Media
Comparative Literature is changing fast with methodologies, topics, and research interests emerging and remerging. The fifth volume of ICLA 2016 proceedings, Dialogues between Media, focuses on the current interest in inter-arts studies, as well as papers on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. "Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume; various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions, comics adaptations, TV series, theatre, and opera. Essays on the interplay of media beyond adaptation further show many of the strands that are woven into dialogues between media, and thus the expanding range of comparative literature.
