Standing in long lines in the shops, coaxing clean laundry from an outdated washing machine, traveling despite unpredictable train schedules, and being without hot water, fruit, and vegetables through the gray winter months failed to dull Paul Gleye's perceptions during the year he lived in Weimar, East Germany. Day by day Gleye documented his ......
Balloons to Jets: A Century of Aviation in Illinois, 1855-1955, written by historian Howard L. Scamehorn, was originally published in 1957 by the Illinois State Historical Society and distributed only to the society's membership and to select libraries in the state. Scamehorn offers a wealth of information not only on one hundred years of aviation ......
Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Friendship, 1934 - 1937
"At Taliesin," a series of newspaper columns written by Frank Lloyd Wright and his early Taliesin apprentices, craftsmen, and workers, was featured in several southern Wisconsin newspapers from 1934 through 1937. The newspaper column first appeared in February 1934, shortly after the Taliesin Fellowship had been formed by Wright in 1932. ......
Armin Landeck, an American realist whose graphic career spanned more than half of the twentieth century, was trained as an architect but devoted his life to etching, creating his first print in 1927. A brief period of study under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York City introduced Landeck to copper engraving, establishing his ......
In the past decade, philosopher Bernard Rollin has pointed out, we have "witnesed a major revolution in social concern with animal welfare and the moral status of animals." Adopting the stance of a moderate, the author of this text attempts to provide an unbiased examination of the paths and goals of the members of the animal rights movement and ......
Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson's editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carson's recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson's life and outlines the attention that Carson's ......
Throughout the 1980s, scholars debated Alexander Pope's attitude toward women by applying such critical methods as Marxist or deconstructionist theories to his texts. In this book, Claudia N. Thomas instead adopts reader-response theory in order to present what she regards as a more accurate analysis, mindful of the historical reception of Pope's ......
African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an introduction to fundamental concepts and a systematic integration of historical and contemporary lines of inquiry in the study of African American rhetorics. Edited by Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II, the volume explores culturally and discursively developed forms of ......
"Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation's famous icon with societal changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac's "wild form" - writing that is free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum ......
