Download or read book Winesburg Indiana written by Michael Martone and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of remembered pasts and unexplored presents told to the reader by as interesting a cast of characters as one is likely to find in small town America. Brought to life by a lively group of Indiana writers, Winesburg, Indiana, is a place to discover something of what it means to be alive in our hyperactive century from stories that are deeply human, sometimes melancholy, and often damned funny.
Download or read book Winesburg Ohio written by Sherwood Anderson and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1947 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio. Set in a fictional small town in Ohio modeled after Anderon's hometown, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life is a short-story cycle centered around one protagonist -- George Willard -- and his life in Winesburg, from his time as a child to his eventual adulthood when he abandons the town. Winesburg, Ohio is considered one of the greatest and most influential works of American fiction, one of the landmark works of early American modernism and a quintessential portrait of pre-industrial small town America.
Download or read book Plain Air Sketches from Winesburg Indiana written by Michael Martone and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana, Michael Martone places steady fingers on the arrhythmic pulse of the Flyover as he conjures Winesburg, Indiana, a fictional town and all of its inhabitants' lyric philosophies, tales of the mundane, and the sensation of being "lost" in the heart of the heart of the country. But here, in over one-hundred and thirty short fictions, even as there is much sadness, the citizens continue to tinker and create, marvel and wonder in the midst of ruin and rust. These stories may capture lives of quiet desperation, but in so doing, they create a kind of hobbled poetry in the spontaneous sketches of the ordinary made extraordinary, the regular irregularities, the familiar knocked off-balance with a glancing blow. From the overly overworked City Manager, to Margaret Wigg's obsessively collected collection of library stamps, to Blanche's air-filled aluminum ice cube tray, the town is a community of everyday odd-balls rife with isolation and idiosyncrasy. They are people trying to get by; that question loss as well as passion, devotedness, childhood wonder, and kinship in their observations and daily routines. With undeniable humor, intelligent quirk, and earnest longing for a pastoral passing into the annals of deep Midwestern time, Michael Martone crafts an unforgettable panoply of characters whose perspectives invite us to alternatively interpret our own commonplaces.
Download or read book Creating Nonfiction written by Jen Hirt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner for Anthologies, 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards With a title that suggests both the genre and the process of composing it, Creating Nonfiction is a collection of essays and interviews that aims to open readers' and writers' eyes to the formal possibilities of creative nonfiction. Included are memoirs, personal essays, literary journalism, graphic essays, and lyric essays, and the content is equally diverse, with topics ranging from childbirth to child labor, from dandelions to domestic violence. Whereas most anthologies leave readers to speculate about the evolution of each contribution, Creating Nonfiction provides companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process that produced the essays. Cheryl Strayed talks about how working as a reporter for her hometown newspaper influenced her later writings. Dinty W. Moore reflects on the delicate balance between observation and judgment when writing about subjects whose values differ from your own. Kristen Radtke explains how she decides between textual and visual images when creating a graphic essay. Although they offer an eclectic mix of voices and styles, what these essays all have in common is that ultimately, as contributor Faith Adiele observes, "truth becomes art."
Download or read book Old Fashioned Modernism written by Andy Oler and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the “heartland,” a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture. Alternatively, the Midwest can represent “flyover country,” part of an expansive, undifferentiated mass between the coasts. In Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature, Andy Oler challenges both views by pairing fiction and poetry from the region with cultural and material texts that illustrate the processes by which regional modernism both opposes and absorbs prevailing models of twentieth-century manhood. Although it acknowledges a tradition of Midwestern urban literature, Old-Fashioned Modernism focuses on representations of life on farms and in small towns that generate specific forms of rural modernity. Oler considers a series of male protagonists who both fulfill and resist conventional American narratives of economic advancement, spatial experience, and gender roles. The writers he studies portray the onset of socioeconomic and mechanical modernity by merging realist and naturalist narratives with upwellings of modernist form and style. His analysis charts a trajectory in which Midwestern literature depicts experiences that appear dependent on nostalgic pastoralism but actually foreground the ongoing fragmentation and emerging anxieties of the countryside. In detailed readings of novels by Sherwood Anderson, William Cunningham, Langston Hughes, Wright Morris, and Dawn Powell, as well as the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Oler highlights images of men from the rural Midwest who face the tensions between agricultural production and mass industrialization. These works of literature, which Oler examines alongside pieces of material culture like advertisements for farm implements and record labels, feature communities that support self-made as well as corporate identities. As portraits of the Midwest that resist the totalizing trajectory of industrialization, these texts generate spaces that meld rural and urban economics, land use, and affective experiences. Old-Fashioned Modernism reveals how Midwestern regionalism negotiates the anxieties and dominant narratives of early- and midcentury rural masculinities, as regional literature and culture alter the forms and spaces of literary modernism.
Download or read book Two Weeks in June written by Martin McSweeney and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting Personal written by Laura Gray-Rosendale and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members. Silver Medalist, 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Education (Commentary/Theory) Category At a time when Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Instagram, and other social media dominate our interactions with one another and with our world, the teaching of writing also necessarily involves the employment of multimodal approaches, visual literacies, and online learning. Given this new digital landscape, how do we most effectively teach and create various forms of “personal writing” within our rhetoric and composition classes, our creative writing classes, and our community groups? Contributors to Getting Personal offer their thoughts about some of the positives and negatives of teaching and using personal writing within digital contexts. They also reveal intriguing teaching activities that they have designed to engage their students and other writers. In addition, they share some of the innovative responses they have received to these assignments. Getting Personal is about finding ways to teach and use personal writing in the digital age that can truly empower writing teachers, writing students, as well as other community members. Laura Gray-Rosendale is President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Director of S.T.A.R. English, and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of seven books, including College Girl: A Memoir and Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation (coedited with Gil Harootunian), both also published by SUNY Press, and Rethinking Basic Writing: Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction.
Download or read book The Town of Whispering Dolls written by Susan Neville and published by F2c. This book was released on 2020 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville, the author creates stories that inhabit the rust belt of the early twenty-first century United States, where residents dream of a fabled and illusory past even as new technologies reshape their world into something new and deeply strange"--
Download or read book My Name Was Never Frankenstein written by Bryan Furuness and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know the names and the stories, but you've never seen them like this before! My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Reanimated brings your favorite characters back to life in new and exciting escapades. In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the mystery of his existence. By turns wry and haunting, My Name Was Never Frankenstein upends old territory and classic characters to reclaim them for a new generation.
Download or read book Yearbook of the State of Indiana written by Indiana. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions.
Download or read book Yearbook of the State of Indiana written by Indiana and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana written by Indiana and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana written by Indiana. Executive Department. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions.
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana written by Indiana. General Assembly. House and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana Being the Session of the General Assembly written by Indiana. General Assembly. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year written by Indiana. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards, and commissions.
