Visiting Wallace

Visiting Wallace
Author: Dennis Barone
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1587298112

A collection of seventy-six poems inspired by poet Wallace Steven's life and work, written by a variety of modern poets.

Living History Museums

Living History Museums
Author: Scott Magelssen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2007
Genre: Historic sites
ISBN: 0810858657

Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of living museum performance.

The Wallace Effect

The Wallace Effect
Author: Marshall Boswell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501344919

The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating “The Wallace Effect”-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries. A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach and the limits of Wallace's legacy.

The Inspirationists, 1714–1932 Vol 3

The Inspirationists, 1714–1932 Vol 3
Author: Peter Hoehnle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351543482

The Community of True Inspiration, or Inspirationists, was one of the most successful religious communities in the United States. This collection offers a broad variety of Inspirationist texts, almost all of them translated from German and published here for the first time.

Liars

Liars
Author: Glenn Beck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1476798885

Politicians may be sleazy and spineless, but they're not stupid. The candidate who tells the people what they want to hear is usually the one who wins -- facts be damned. The only way to break the cycle is to understand why Americans fall for the deception over and over again. Beck reveals the startlingly simple answer: fear. Progressives from both parties exploit this by offering solutions that are based on two things: lies, and an unrelenting hunger for power and control.

The Laws of the State of Kansas

The Laws of the State of Kansas
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368176021

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

The Notorious B.I.G.

The Notorious B.I.G.
Author: Holly Lang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1567207359

Over ten years since his death, Biggie Smalls, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., is considered one of the most influential rappers of all time, a credit continually given by numerous hip-hop artists. Raised in Brooklyn during the crack-cocaine boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Smalls (born Christopher Wallace) worked as a drug dealer before ultimately deciding to become a rapper. With Sean Puffy Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment, Biggie rocketed to fame as one of hip hop's most popular artists. But with the success came controversy: the friendship-turned-feud between Biggie and Tupac fueled the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast hip hop, a gangsta-rap battle that many believe led to the murder of both rappers. While still unsolved, the murder of Biggie in 1997 sparked numerous investigations, litigation, and the dismantling of a Los Angeles Police Department task force in what is considered the largest scandal in LAPD history. Ten years later, Biggie is celebrated as the King of East Coast hip hop. In this biography author Holly Lang recounts the life, music, and legacy of Biggie and investigates the events surrounding his murder.

Poetry and Poetics After Wallace Stevens

Poetry and Poetics After Wallace Stevens
Author: Bart Eeckhout
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501313487

"This collection of essays examines the different lines that may be drawn between the work of Wallace Stevens and a wide range of poetry from the second half of the twentieth century up to the present moment"--