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Featuring a diverse array of writings from prominent Jewish authors in Germany, this anthology encourages a deeper understanding of the experiences of Jews. The writings deal with the many challenges to modern Jewish identity in Germany, including the vicissitudes of gender roles, and the experience of intergenerational conflict and sexuality.

Includes essays on Cather's response to the cultural pessimism of Oswald Spengler, her affinities to Alphonse Daudet, and aspects of her art in "My Antonia", "The Professor's House", and "Shadows on the Rock".

Discusses topics ranging from Cather's pictorial sources to her familiarity with Dante and Russian literature.

Tells the story of the Civil War at sea in the context of three campaigns - the blockade of the southern coast, the raiding of Union commerce, and the projection of power ashore.

For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West.

An epic tale of exploitation, development, and often unwitting degradation.

Explores the relationships between Mexicans, their environment, and one another, as well as their negotiation of the cultural values of everyday life. By examining the value systems that governed Mexican thinking of the period, Lipsett-Rivera examines the ephemeral daily experiences and interactions of the people and illuminates how gender and honour systems governed these quotidian negotiations.

The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such. Pictures into Words explores how this proliferation of graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France.

A social, cultural, and economic history of the Mexican and Mexican American community in agricultural California, focusing on the community of Oxnard.

After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place - amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a ""mostly medical"" marijuana farm in California. Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous goings-on at Weckman Farm.

Offers a western interpretation of Modernism as a critical tool and proposes a variety of readings and interpretations designed to emphasize the relationship between cultural production in the West and modernism. This book encourages readers to reappraise Walker's work and to undertake further studies of their own.

Analysing historical and psychoanalytic work on the Caribbean, this title reveals both the biases of these disciplines, and the possibilities they hold when brought into dialogue with one another and with literature.

A collection of Polish Jewish writings since WWII. This book brings together the works of several Jewish writers, most of whom remained in Poland. Although the Nazi genocide wiped out nearly all of the Jewish population in the country, the aftermath of the war has not stifled Jewish writing in Poland but has given it a different direction.

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. This book offers accounts of Arikara ritualism.

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. This book offers accounts of Arikara ritualism.

Brings to the table an illustrious gathering of thirty midwestern writers with something to say about the gustatory pleasures and peculiarities of the region.

A giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem's honoured Righteous Among the Nations) and yet so little known.

At 1887 council when his people were told to learn farming in the semidesert region east of the Wind River Mountains, the Shosone chief Washakie exploded with "God damn a potato!" His instincts were all against the cultivation of semiarid land.

Examines Baconian utopias-blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the 17th century.

Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it's always been - in the Minor Leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history continues to play out in the four teams profiled in this book.

Conveys the irrepressible spirit of a man whose passion would give us a firsthand look at the men and women who settled the Great Plains

Questions about Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust remain contemporary and controversial in Switzerland. Talking about Jewish life in Switzerland, this anthology features an eclectic mix of eighteen modern works from Switzerland's heterogeneous Jewish writers.

A time of great changes after nearly a century of foreign wars and civil strife, the Tudor era witnessed a significant transformation of dramatic art. This book examines Tudor plays performed between 1485 and 1558, a time when drama reached beyond popular and religious contexts, culminating in the emergence of comedy and tragedy as major genres.

Coming four years after The Dawn Builder (1910), John G. Neihardt''s second novel portrays the lives of Black Hills miners and of those who preyed on them. Life''s Lure takes up a theme that runs throughout Neihardt''s work: the consequences of an inordinate desire for wealth. The protagonists come in sets of three. On one hand there are Samuel Drake, a hapless thirty-year-old who has just squandered his inheritance in a Deadwood card game; his fickle wife Joy; and Louis Devlin, a smooth-talking, fast-fingered gentleman gambler. Devlin is not above talking about philosophy; he even paraphrases Nietzsche. On the other hand are Monte Joe, a drunken scoundrel, Punkins, a young man fresh off the farm, guileless and easy pickings; and Nellie, a mining-camp prostitute. Women and gold lure men to go on living, but Fortune is "a capricious jilt." Neihardt puts a lot of colorful characters in motion and then, along with the reader, watches them collide.

Originally published just months after his marriage to Mona Martinsen, the poems collected in Man-Song celebrate passionate love and offer many personal glimpses of the young John Neihardt. Unashamedly erotic, they reveal his capacity for love at age twenty-eight. Poems like "A Vision of Woman" and "Women-Wine" show the lover''s prejudices and greedy need for caresses and strong embraces. Those like "To Volney Streamer" are addressed to male friends and anticipate the theme of male bonding that runs throughout his work. Because passion takes various forms, Man-Song also include lyrics of the warrior little like the war chants Neihardt later learned from Plains Indians. "Battle Cry," a poem that was recited by Clarence Darrow and Samuel Gompers, is an example of the fighting songs current in the European avant-garde preceding World War I. Neihardt was beginning his struggle to reconcile the demands of the robustly physical life with spiritual insight. His love poems for the American West were still to come, but in Man-Song he is already exploring the vast tract between the essentially erotic and the divine that would be cultivated in his later work. This edition is the first complete reprinting of the work since 1909.

The Dawn Builder, originally published in 1910, was John G. NeihardtΓÇÖs first novel. At the center of it is a one-eyed, peg-legged man named Waters. He comes to Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Territory, in 1862 and drinks himself into a hole when he isnΓÇÖt setting type on the town newspaper. Because his thirst is metaphysical as well, he only temporarily loses sight of the possibility of happiness, of building his own dawn. Like all memorable characters, Waters canΓÇÖt be contained on the page. Isolated by his physical ugliness, marked by loneliness not yet deadened by silence, compromised by his own excessive energy, he reaches out to a young woman farther outside society than he is and to a kindly widow and her son. The Dawn Builder is reminiscent of Twain in its frontier humor, of Poe in its bizarre adventures, and of Dickens in its casting of some busybodies who belong to the Needle Club. Its return to print will be welcomed by John G. NeihardtΓÇÖs many admirers.

The creative energy that would in time produce A Cycle of the West and Black Elk Speaks is apparent in his first book, The Divine Enchantment, published in 1990 when he was nineteen years old. It can be viewed as an early version of the philosophy of spiritual awareness that Neihardt articulated twenty-five years later in Poetic Values. They are reprinted together for the first time in this Landmark Edition. A narrative poem bursting with youthful enthusiasm, The Divine Enchantment reveals Neihardt not as an ordinary poet but as a visionary bard. Inspired by his reading of Eastern philosophy, it is a Hindu myth with Christian parallels. The virgin heroine, Devanaguy, fulfills prophecy in bearing Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, in spite of imprisonment by a jealous and fearful king. NeihardtΓÇÖs vision of the union of spirit and matter, of reason and higher consciousness, introduces themes he was to expand on in his later writings.Poetic Values, a series of lectures published in 1925, speaks of the common need for self-enlightenment. Drawing on sources ranging from the Upanishads to psychology textbooks, Neihardt argues that poetry can provide a balanced philosophy to live by in bridging the gap between Western materialism and Eastern otherworldliness. Poetry links the objective with the subjective, the real with the imaginary, and for the reader of Poetic Values, as for the heroine of The Divine Enchantment, the highest self-enlightenment comes with self-forgetfulness. Blair Whitney writes that, in comparing these two works, ΓÇ£one can see [NeihardtΓÇÖs] strong, consistent development from a boy who loved words and had big dreams to a mature poet who found ways to realize his ideals and to communicate them to a large audience of readers.ΓÇ¥

A comparative study that demonstrates clearly the intellectual debt of the South American officers to their European mentors.

How have prose poems been identified as such, and why have similar works been excluded from the genre? How have prose genres such as the novel affected prose poetry and modern poetry in general? This title offers perspectives on modern poetry, and on genre itself, challenging theories of genre with a test case that asks for yet eludes definition.