Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P730
ISBN: 9780881469967
Price: $35.00
SINCLAIR LEWIS: THE 1920s AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN IDENTITY argues the importance of words, ideas, and values in sculpting twentieth-century identity. Here, Agran encourages literary scholars and all students of American culture to recognize that Lewis's reception in the twenties was formidable because of his sensitivity to the nation's history, its promise, and at points its troubling trajectory.
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Product Code: HH1062
ISBN: 9798897360185
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THE BIOGRAPHER'S QUEST, based on fifty years of experience, explains how life-writers do archival research, find new sources, and experience the thrill of constant discoveries; it also discusses how to conduct interviews by establishing confidence, asking the right questions, and persuading people to reveal what they know. Meyers describes how to create a chronology, interpret often conflicting written and spoken evidence, organize material into a meaningful pattern, and show how the author's life illuminates his work.
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Product Code: P733
ISBN: 9798897360079
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This is the story of Everett Moon, a white man who returns to his hometown in north Georgia after a teaching career at a historically black college, which has dismissed him for cause after almost thirty years. This is a story of a solitary and troubled man, now unwell and living out his last days, who searches in a somewhat haphazard way for perspective and understanding, and for forgiveness.
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Product Code: P734
ISBN: 9798897360093
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Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye yearns to escape Good Hope, the remote Georgia coastal barrier island where she resides. Leontyne's heritage is bleak. Leontyne soon realizes her birthright extends beyond the business of making Redemption, while the acceptance of her destiny as the Great Redeemer threatens her very existence. Her refusal: irrevocably shattering the fragile balance between the living and the dead.
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Product Code: P735
ISBN: 9798897360116
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In the foothills of the Ozarks, seventeen-year-old Thea is stitched into a life she never chose. After losing her mother and best friend, and with no path forward beyond marriage and motherhood, Thea finds unexpected kinship in her unconventional stepmother and her infamous grandmother.
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Product Code: P736
ISBN: 9798897360130
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Sarah Carey's second full-length poetry collection traces the arterial pathways of the poet's past, mapping the vital currents that pulse between memory, perception, and identity. Anchored in place yet mindful of time's fluidity, the poems in BLOODSTREAM traverse Carey's Southern roots in Florida and North Carolina, moving through Alaska and beyond as the poet cycles between past and present, faith and doubt, while exploring the power of language to illuminate such contrasts.
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Product Code: P737
ISBN: 9798897360147
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This book is not what you think it is. Or rather, it is more than you think it is. Here you will find stories not just about living on a small farm in the Georgia Piedmont but about life on that small farm. This is a book about attention. It is a book about communion.
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Product Code: P738
ISBN: 9798897360154
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Weaving essay, memoir, and natural history with biography, STARS AT NOON delivers a meditation on art and beauty, themes that have informed the author's visual artmaking for more than thirty years, and a paean to time and silence and what is found, and lost, in both.
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Product Code: P741
ISBN: 9798897360239
Price: $28.00
In his 1771 letter to Robert Skipwith, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written." It is in this spirit that the Thomas C. and Romona E. McDonald Center at Mercer University collected these twelve essays based on papers presented at the 2024 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the theme of which was Shakespeare's Politics.
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Edited and translated by: Matthew Wells
Product Code: P742
ISBN: 9798897360246
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Aristotle's ALLEGATIONS provides a new, literal translation of the text traditionally called Aristotle's CATEGORIES, which was once the introductory text not only to Aristotle's corpus but also to philosophy as such. Most ambitiously, this book wishes to encourage readers to learn from Aristotle on the grounds that his teaching in the ALLEGATIONS might be true and to defend its worthiness as an introduction to philosophy proper.
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Product Code: P743
ISBN: 9798897360260
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Flannery O’Connor's WISE BLOOD is a text full of rich symbolism, a metaphoric landscape which is best understood using an integration of literary and depth psychological hermeneutics. Applying an anagogical framework to the novel, an interpretive approach meant to reveal spiritual meaning, makes it possible to see through the world of O'Connor's Taulkinham, the fictional setting for the novel, to that of the biblical.
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Product Code: P744
ISBN: 9798897360277
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A great amount of ink has been spilled attempting to understand and make sense of Henry David Thoreau. Some people dismiss Thoreau as a mere Romantic nature poet or writer of travel narratives. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore the multifaceted ways in which Thoreau's thought could be considered philosophical. He wanted to create a distinctive American identity that sought to venerate nature by trying to overcome our anthropocentric bias and place the value of wild spaces before the utilitarian needs of human civilization.
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