Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P666
ISBN: 9780881468793
Price: $20.00
These seven river stories, written after the author canoed the Ocmulgee and its tributaries, draw on European American, Native, and African American traditions and relationships with the upper river between the confluence of the Yellow, Alcovy, and South Rivers under Jackson Lake and Macon, Georgia. Set from the 1810s to the present, the stories follow characters as their inherited or adopted perspectives on the river--and their ignorance of it--are altered by their personal experience of the watershed's danger, power, and life.
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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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Translated by: David Bolotin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1038
ISBN: 9780881469899
Price: $49.00
For those who wish to study ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS with care, this translation offers access that has hitherto been unavailable in English to the meaning of Aristotle's treatise.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P688
ISBN: 9780881469189
Price: $20.00
All manner of ghosts haunt the poems in Jack Bedell's new collection, GHOST FOREST. From memories of lost loved ones, to the ghosts of heroes, to the remnants of an eroding coastline, these spectres fill Bedell's lines with beauty and wisdom to help us all move into the future.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P744
ISBN: 9798897360277
Price: $35.00
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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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P707
ISBN: 9780881469448
Price: $20.00
Holly Haworth "trace[s] the moon through the traceless sky" in a meditation on time's cyclical nature and how it slips away--and on writing as a way of time-keeping, poetry a tool for etching memory. Mournful lament and exuberant praise, THE WAY THE MOON compels us to stop in our tracks and savor even the losses.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P647
ISBN: 9780881468526
Price: $20.00
Ann Hite takes her readers back to Black Mountain with this haunted short story collection. An array of new characters on the mountain experience ghostly encounters. The collection took inspiration from her beloved readers, who provided writing prompts.
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By author: Aristotle Translated by: David Bolotin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P727
ISBN: 9780881469905
Price: $20.00
For those who wish to study ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS with care, this translation offers access that has hitherto been unavailable in English to the meaning of Aristotle's treatise.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P639
ISBN: 9780881468311
Price: $19.00
With its broad range of vision and mastery of poetic technique, ARM IN ARM shows again why Catharine Savage Brosman is, as Claude Wilkinson wrote, one of America's finest poets. Her wit, powers of observation, and depth of feeling are displayed on page after page, as she looks at the world personally, phenomenologically (in food and flower poems, for instance), and spiritually.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P698
ISBN: 9780881469400
Price: $20.00
WOFFORD'S BLOOD, an epic family saga saturated in Cherokee and North Georgia history, is based on the true history of James Daugherty Wofford, who led a detachment on the Trail of Tears and was one of the main informants for Smithsonian ethnologist James Mooney.
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Product Code: P760
ISBN: 9798897360543
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $25.00
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOPHOCLES explores the relationship between the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Greek philosophical, tragic, and epic traditions. The text investigates this relationship by examining both the influence of these traditions on O'Connor and also their expression in her work. Included are chapters on the kinship between O'Connor's fiction and Sophocles, Homer, Euripides, Aristotle, and German political philosopher Eric Vogelin.
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Product Code: HH1068
ISBN: 9798897360536
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $45.00
In the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, we witness two extraordinary thinkers in action. Political philosopher and philosophic classicist share ideas with an immediacy that complements their carefully crafted published works. The exchange, which continues until close to Strauss's death, begins with Benardete writing his dissertation in Athens and Rome, while Strauss is established as a professor in Chicago, publishing some of his most influential books.
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