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A sequel to the author's ""Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties"". This account begins from when he leaves the farm and is drafted into the... Læs mere
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The ""Roman de la rose"" has given rise to highly divergent readings since Jean de Meun completed it in the 13th century. This book interprets... Læs mere
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Documenting the connotations of James's phrase ""intensely family"", this text examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and its impact on James's literary career. It draws on a collection of James's unpublished correspondence with his sister-in-law and nephew.
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This work offers an analysis of the way in which the phenomenon of ""not in my backyard!"" operates in the United States. The author takes the situation further by offering hope for a heightened public engagement with the pressing environmental issues of the day.
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By examining names and naming patterns from ""Stephen Hero"" and ""Finnegans Wake"", this text discusses what they reveal about Joyce's character and practice as a writer and... Læs mere
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A collective biography of a prominent American political family, the La Follettes of Wisconsin, whose lives were inexorably linked with the Progressive movement.
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This poem commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition.
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A comprehensive examination of the impact of single motherhood on the physical and mental health of women and their children in... Læs mere
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Walter Blair, this book claims, almost single-handedly, gave the study of American humour significance in the academic world by categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into different styles (Local Colour, Old Southwest and Literary Comedian humour).
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Surveying three decades of land reform efforts in Latin-America, Dorner draws upon his experience as both a policy maker and a researcher specializing in land tenure systems. He argues that failures of Latin American land reforms are due to lack of political will and commitment.
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Portraits of key American thinkers of the Right in the last 20 years, include William F.Buckley, Will George, Robert Nisbet, Irving Kristol, Hilton Kramer, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, R.Emmett Tyrrell and Michael Novack. The book traces the decline of liberalism in the late 1960s.