Placing the South offers a selection of work published between 1985 and 2005 by one of the most incisive historians and literary critics of the South. The pieces seek to situate the South in a variety of contexts and offer a compelling defense of what Kwame Anthony Appiah has called -rooted cosmopolitanism.- This is a mode of understanding based on respect for what is local and an awareness that regionalism is not enough. Hybridity, in both culture and literature, is inescapable and desirable.
The first section of the book (-Placing-) contains three comparative analyses that look...
Placing the South offers a selection of work published between 1985 and 2005 by one of the most incisive historians and literary critics of ...
This book discusses and explores common spine injuries and procedures, in addition to breakthroughs in gene therapy, tissue engineering, and complex operations. It features rich color and black-and-white figures to further understanding.
This book discusses and explores common spine injuries and procedures, in addition to breakthroughs in gene therapy, tissue engineering, and complex o...
Poetry. The final book by a master of compression.
"Very few significant American poets called as little attention to themselves in their lifetimes as Michael O'Brien, who died last November at the age of 77. Much as with Lorine Niedecker--whose 'silences', he wrote, 'derive from an intellectual conviction that art, like science, demands total concentration on the object of attention'--his poetry was all about paying attention, in his case to the smallest, most fleeting details in the world at hand. The world in nearly all of O'Brien's city poetry is Manhattan: the Upper West...
Poetry. The final book by a master of compression.
"Very few significant American poets called as little attention to themselves in thei...
