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Song of the North Country

A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan

By: David Pichaske

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A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan

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1441197664

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9781441197665

The Farmers' Game

Baseball in Rural America

By: David Vaught

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The Farmers' Game

Baseball in Rural America

By: David Vaught

A journey through the national pastime’s roots in America’s small towns and wide-open spaces: “An absorbing read.” —The Tampa Tribune In the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers’ Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes—presenting the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. Vaught does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but he sees the history of the game and the rural United States as related and mutually revealing. His subjects include nineteenth-century Cooperstown, the playing fields of Texas and Minnesota, the rural communities of California, the great farmer-pitcher Bob Feller, and the notorious Gaylord Perry. Although—contrary to legend—Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball in a cow pasture in upstate New York, many fans enjoy the game for its nostalgic qualities. Vaught’s deeply researched exploration of baseball’s rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421408333

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9781421408330

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

By: David R. Pichaske

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The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

By: David R. Pichaske

Pichaske’s stories take us from the halls of academe to small-town Minnesota to a little village on the edge of the Bavarian National Forest. Speaking in voices of a farmer right out of Deliverance, a disgruntled Professor of English, and his dog Harley, Pichaske says what many people think, but few have the courage to say. While he is especially strong on details of history, place, and language, the hard-nosed wisdom his narrators offer transcends place and even time. From "Daisy": Look—there are always dreams. And in dreams the ultimate purity: by now she may be fat and forty, stretch marks, grey hair, three kids. The ravages of time, you know? Look at you and me: not exactly the bright and rising stars we were twenty years ago, eh? But in dreams, the years are invisible. People never age in dreams.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680030728

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9781680030723

Rooted

Seven Midwest Writers of Place

By: David R. Pichaske

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Rooted

Seven Midwest Writers of Place

By: David R. Pichaske

David Pichaske has been writing and teaching about midwestern literature for three decades. In Rooted, by paying close attention to text, landscape, and biography, he examines the relationship between place and art. His focus is on seven midwestern authors who came of age toward the close of the twentieth century, their lives and their work grounded in distinct places: Dave Etter in small-town upstate Illinois; Norbert Blei in Door County, Wisconsin; William Kloefkorn in southern Kansas and Nebraska; Bill Holm in Minneota, Minnesota; Linda Hasselstrom in Hermosa, South Dakota; Jim Heynen in Sioux County, Iowa; and Jim Harrison in upper Michigan. The writers' intimate knowledge of place is reflected in their use of details of geography, language, environment, and behavior. Yet each writer reaches toward other geographies and into other dimensions of art or thought: jazz music and formalism in the case of Etter; gender issues in the case of Hasselstrom; time past and present in the case of Kloefkorn; ethnicity and the role of the artist in the case of Blei; magical realism in the case of Heynen; the landscape of literature in the case of Holm; and the curious worlds of academia, best-selling novels, and Hollywood films in the case of Harrison. The result, Pichaske notes, is the growing away from roots, the explorations and alter egos of these writers of place, and the tension between the “here” and “there” that gives each writer's art the complexity it needs to transcend provincial boundaries. Quoting generously from the writers, Pichaske employs a practical, jargon-free literary analysis fixed in the text, making Rooted interesting, readable, and especially useful in treating the literary categories of memoir and literary essay that have become important in recent decades.

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University of Iowa Press

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158729673X

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Rooted

Seven Midwest Writers of Place

By: David R. Pichaske

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Seven Midwest Writers of Place

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The Political Art of Bob Dylan

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: David Boucher,Gary Browning

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The Political Art of Bob Dylan

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: David Boucher,Gary Browning

Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art. They address Dylan's career as a whole, dealing with such themes as alienation, protest, non-conformity, the American Dream, modernity and postmodernism and pivotal moments of Dylan's career such as the ‘Judas’ accusation at the 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall concert and Dylan’s comments on the need to aid American farmers at Live Aid, 1985. Dylan’s songs are analysed for their political meaning and for the songs in contemporary American political and popular culture. As notable specialists in the fields of political theory, literary criticism and popular culture the authors examine Dylan’s work from a variety of perspectives—aesthetic theory, Kant, Adorno, Lyotard, Lorca and Collingwood. Collectively, they question how Dylan’s work relates to the theory and practice of politics. In this second revised and expanded edition, the chapters have been revised and rewritten, with a new introduction exploring the enigma of Bob Dylan throughout the whole of his career and with a completely new Bob Dylan Timeline integrating Dylan’s life, songs and actions into the historical events that shaped his views. Two new chapters have been added, one focusing on the late Dylan, Masked and Anonymous and Love and Theft and another on Dylan at Live Aid and his stance on Farm Aid. This book is a must for anyone seriously interested in the legendary Bob Dylan.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845406524

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9781845406523

Song of the North Country

A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan

By: David Pichaske

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Power Misses

Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

By: David E. James

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Power Misses

Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

By: David E. James

David James insists that popular resistance to domination by the culture industry must intervene at the point of production rather than consumption. In its most resolute instances, from the poetry of William Blake to the British Miners' Campaign Tape Project, alternative culture has fused with radical politics. Authoritatively mapping the terrain of cultural resistance under capitalism, James examines the material contradictions and the utopian potentials articulated in John Berger's fiction, Dada, rock music, the films of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas, and the poetry of punk.

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1859841015

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9781859841013

Leaders from the 1960s

A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

By: David De Leon

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Leaders from the 1960s

A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

By: David De Leon

The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence. With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313029172

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9780313029172

Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales

By: David Biggs

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Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales

By: David Biggs

An annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802008747

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9780802008749

Oneota Flow

The Upper Iowa River and Its People

By: David S. Faldet

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Oneota Flow

The Upper Iowa River and Its People

By: David S. Faldet

Whether profiling the chief of the last hunter-gatherers on the river, an early settler witnessing her first prairie fire and a modern wildlife biologist using fire to manage prairies, the manager of the Granger Farmer’s Co-op Creamery, or a landowner whose bottomlands are continually eaten away by floods, Faldet steadily develops the central idea that people are walking tributaries of the river basin in which they make their homes. Faldet moves through the history of life along the now-polluted Upper Iowa, always focusing on the ways people depend on the river, the environment, and the resources of the region. He blends contemporary conversations, readings from the historical record, environmental research, and personal experience to show us that the health of the river is best guaranteed by maintaining the biological communities that nurture it. In return, taking care of the Upper Iowa is the best way to take care of our future.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587298368

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Who Runs the University?

The Politics of Higher Education in Hawaii, 1985-1992

By: David Yount

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Who Runs the University?

The Politics of Higher Education in Hawaii, 1985-1992

By: David Yount

The author describes with unusual candor the behind the scenes activity, the give and take, and the decisions of high-ranking university officials responsible for exercising authority at the University of Hawaii, including regents, administrators, deans and directors, and faculty. The actions of non-university officials who influence Hawaii's higher education policy and funding are also described; federal officials, state officials, and powerful legislators.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818210

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9780824818210

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

By: David R. Pichaske

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By: David R. Pichaske

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680030728

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Writing Sense

A Handbook of Composition

By: David R. Pichaske

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Writing Sense

A Handbook of Composition

By: David R. Pichaske

Demonstrates the need for organization and development of style and provides instruction in grammar, punctuation, and the procedures for producing a coherent research paper.

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0029251702

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Book's by David Pichaske

Song of the North Country

Song of the North Country

The Farmers' Game

The Farmers' Game

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

Rooted

Rooted

Rooted

Rooted

The Political Art of Bob Dylan

The Political Art of Bob Dylan

Song of the North Country

Song of the North Country

Power Misses

Power Misses

Leaders from the 1960s

Leaders from the 1960s

Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales

Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales

Oneota Flow

Oneota Flow

Who Runs the University?

Who Runs the University?

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories

Writing Sense

Writing Sense

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