1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001207920403321

Titolo

Algebra and its applications : Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the Departement of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, December 21-25, 1981 / Edited by H.L. Manocha, J. B. Sriva strava

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [etc.] : Marcel Dekker, 1984

Collana

Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics ; 91

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-7-(91

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459597903321

Titolo

Conversations with Kentucky writers / / L. Elisabeth Beattie, editor ; photographs by Susan Lippman ; with a foreword by Wade Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8131-9043-6

0-8131-5716-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Kentucky Remembered

Disciplina

810.9/9769

Soggetti

American literature - Kentucky - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Kentucky

Authors, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; General Editor's Preface; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Wendell Berry; Billy C. Clark; Michael Dorris; Leon Driskell; Sue Grafton; James Baker Hall; Wade Hall; Fenton Johnson; Barbara Kingsolver; George Ella Lyon; Bobbie Ann Mason; Taylor McCafferty; Ed McClanahan; Jim Wayne Miller; Sena Jeter Naslund; Marsha Norman; Chris Offutt; Lee Pennington; Betty Layman Receveur; James Still; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris and Barbara Kingsolver, they have one connection: Kentucky has influenced their writing and their lives. L. Elisabeth Beattie explores this influence in twenty intimate interviews. Conversations with Kentucky Writers was more than three years in the making, as Beattie traveled across the state an