1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453926703321

Autore

Jackson Harvey H

Titolo

Inside Alabama [[electronic resource] ] : a personal history of my state / / Harvey H. Jackson III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8199-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Alabama Fire Ant

Disciplina

976.1

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Alabama History

Alabama Politics and government

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 (p. [309]-320) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Back when it belonged to the Indians -- Frontier Alabama -- Becoming a state -- Antebellum Alabama -- Stumbling toward secession -- Secession and Civil War -- After the war that never ended -- A world made by Bourbons, for Bourbons -- White man's Alabama -- Depression and war -- Alabama after the war: "Big Jim" and beyond -- Old times there should not be forgotten -- The age of Wallace -- The age of Wallace and after -- Epilogue : To sum it up.

Sommario/riassunto

An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the ""Heart of Dixie."" This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapologetically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for its colorful past, told by one of the state's most noted historians and educators, whose family came to the territory before statehood. A native and resident Alabamian, Harvey Jackson has spent a lifetime discovering and trying to understand his state. Expressing deep love for its people and culture, he is no less cr



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457386003321

Titolo

Detecting texts [[electronic resource] ] : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism / / edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999

ISBN

1-283-21237-4

9786613212375

0-8122-0545-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MerivalePatricia

SweeneySusan Elizabeth <1958->

Disciplina

809.3/872/0904

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism

Experimental fiction - History and criticism

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Metaphysics in literature

Fiction - Technique

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 (p. [273]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Games Afoot -- Chapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading -- Chapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths -- Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection -- Chapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics -- Chapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer -- Chapter 6. “The Question Is the Story Itself” -- Chapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman -- Chapter 8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries” -- Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal -- Chapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space -- Chapter 11. ”Premeditated Crimes” -- Chapter 12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases” -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—



the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world.Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452625603321

Autore

Brown Charles Brockden <1771-1810.>

Titolo

Collected writings of Charles Brockden Brown [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 1 Letters and early epistolary writings / / editors, Philip Barnard, Elizabeth Hewitt, Mark L. Kamrath ; assistant editor, William Dorner ; consulting editors, John R. Holmes, Fritz Fleischmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Md., : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013

ISBN

1-299-40286-0

1-61148-445-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (973 p.)

Collana

Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnardPhilip <1951->

HewittElizabeth <1965->

KamrathMark

DornerWilliam

HolmesJohn R

FleischmannFritz

Disciplina

813/.2

Soggetti

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; THE LETTERS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1788-1809); EARLY EPISTOLARY WRITINGS: HENRIETTA LETTERS 1790 / 1792; 1790/1792; EARLY EPISTOLARY WRITINGS: GODOLPHIN FRAGMENT 1793; EARLY EPISTOLARY WRITINGS: ELLENDALE FRAGMENT 1793; Historical Essay; Textual Essay; Census of the Letters of Charles Brockden Brown; Description of Provenance; Biographies of Correspondents; Genealogies of the Brown and Linn Families; Selected Bibliography; End-Line Hyphenation List; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown gathers and presents, for the first time, the complete extant correspondence of a key American author, along with early manuscript fictions never before published and new scholarly work contextualizing and exploring the writings and their context. The volume is edited to highest scholarly standards and bears the seal of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions.   </sp

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162780903321

Titolo

Reverse mortgages : elements, considerations and market developments / / Meghan Galloway and Richard Kantor, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : nova publishers, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-62257-966-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Housing issues, laws and programs

Economic issues, problems and perspectives

Disciplina

332.7220973

Soggetti

Mortgage loans, Reverse - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.