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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 /
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Roma, recepta : a topography of the imagination / David H.J. Larmour and Diana Spencer -- Rome at a gallop : Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void / Diana Spencer -- 'In the name of the father' : Ovid's Theban law / Micaela Janan -- 'I get around' : sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal / Paul Allen Miller -- Holes in the body : sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. …”
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Writing Tangier
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Tangier at the crossroads: cross-cultural encounters and literary production / Allen Hibbard -- Publishing Tangier: twenty-five years / Jeffrey Miller -- Localized identity, universal experience: celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan writer / Salah Moukhlis -- Forbidden territory: Juan Goytisolo's maps of Tangier / Andrew Hussey -- Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri's The flower freak / Abdellatif Akbib -- Paul Bowles' Tangier: an ambiguous compromise / Khalid Amine -- The writers/storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: some observations and afterthoughts / R. …”
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