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Guard the mysteries
The fourth book in Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series presenting the cerebral voice of Native American poet Cedar Sigo.
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Haunted by the civil war
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other...
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How literatures begin
A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in f...
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The century
“This book is our textbook for the education we most need.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICK
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The dictionary wars
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English The Dictionary Wars recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson’s 1...
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The flood year 1927
A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half a million people across seven states. It was also the first environmental disaster to be experienc...
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The medical imagination
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuit...
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Worlds apart
Worlds Apart explores the ethics of representation by reading the works of twentieth-century writers who use the techniques of literary fiction to depict survival in concentration camps, ghettos, and besieged cities.
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Writing backwards
Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.
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