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Geoffrey Green
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Voices
in a Mask - Based on images of disguise in literature, theater, and
opera, this short-story cycle explores themes of identity and subterfuge in
a fictional fugue that ranges from comic to poignant. Into the librettos of
Don Giovanni, Tosca, Rigoletto, and other operas, Green weaves the authentic
biographies of their singers and composers, modern-day settings, and his own
imaginative twists. Throughout Voices in a Mask, characters obscure
and reveal themselves as art mimics life and life, art. Ultimately the very
acts of masking and projecting reveal a truth about the power of art and its
inherent deceptions.
"This is a wonderful
book... The combination of artistic skill and critical acumen involved is
astonishing, and the historical research involved is seriously done and superbly
deployed in a creative manner." --Robert Scholes, Brown University
Geoffrey Green's
Voices in a Mask is an operatic tour de force of a 'novel' involving
(among other things) grand opera--a subject on which the author is impressively
and entertainingly knowledgeable."--John Barth
Patrick Barron
Editor, Translator
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The
Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: a bilingual Edition
(University of Chicago Press, 2007). The first comprehensive collection in
thirty years for an English—speaking audience, the book gathers the very best
poems from fourteen of Zanzotto’s major books of verse and a selection of
thirteen essays.
“Just
as Stephen Mitchell’s renderings of Rilke and David Hinton’s of Wang Wei have
done so much to enhance interest in those artists, these translations by Patrick
Barron and his colleagues will make Zanzotto indispensable to English-speaking
lovers of poetry”-- John Elder, Middlebury College
Stephen Husarik
Husarik's
paper "The impact of Digitalization Upon the Arts and Humanities"
was published in The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.
5, Issue 7 (December, 2007), pp. 119-126. Husarik also presented a
paper entitled "Teaching and Assessing Digital Film-and Image-based Projects:
Student Presentation via Web Sites, Movies and Power Points" at the Higher
Learning Commission Conference, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, April 2006.
Alma Bennet
Editor
Women
and Clemson University, 2006
Mark Blum
Continuity,
Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic The Foundational Logics of Western Historical
Thinking
(Peter Lang, 2006) Continuity, quantum,
continuum, and dialectic are foundational logics of Western historical thought.
The historiographical method to discern them is a critique of historical reason.
Through 'stylistics' Mark E. Blum demonstrates how the inner temporal experience
of the person shapes both judgment and historical action. Blum's work augments
the epistemology of Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Edmund Husserl.
" In this
book, Mark E. Blum shows the connection between the formal structure of time
and the formal structures of syntax and grammar. This book discusses many
authors, both classical and contemporary, with special attention given to
Kant, Dilthey, and Husserl. It covers diverse fields of knowledge: philosophy
and science as well as painting, music, literature, and politics. . . His
work is intricate, original, and impressive in its depth and range."
--Robert Sokolowski, Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy,
School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
David Jenemann
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“An exalting portrait of Adorno as a defender of intellectual democracy, as well as an intriguing portrait of mid-twentieth century cultural shifts, Adorno in America is highly recommended for philosophy and cultural criticism shelves as well as biography shelves.” —Midwest Book Review
Cerena Caeser
Byzantium
15 (California Polytechnic State University), 2005.
Gloria K. Fiero
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The book is enjoying success in one-semester humanities courses at universities and junior colleges.
LANDMARKS in Humanities survey of global culture is designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence, LANDMARKS highlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination--those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost in shaping the world's cultures.
Adeline Johns-Putra
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John Lawson
Generations
(St. Andrews College Press, 2007)
Award Winning Members
Dacia
Charlesworth
2005
Outstanding New Teacher, Central States Commuication Association; 2005 Distinguished
Teaching Award, Robert Morris University Student Government.
James
Chichetto
2006
"Professional Development Grant" for Teaching and Research by Stonehill
College.
Raymond
Clines
2006
"Who's Who Among American Teachers"
Annmarie
Kent-Willette
2006
Faculty Excellence in Community Service.
Melissa
Kizina
2006
Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching First Year Composition.
Kristen
Pursley
2006
C.C.A.E. Teacher Excellence
Theresa
Tomaszek
2005
Michigan Campus Compact Community Service Learning Award.
Mary
Ann Wilson
2006
named "Friends of the Humanities BORSF Endowed Professor," University
of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Samuele F.S.
Pardini
Editor
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This collection of essays from National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner Leslie Fiedler reveals a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today.
“No other student of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say.” —Washington Post
Kate Reavey
Landscapes
of Home: A Natural History of the Elwha Watershed
(Port Angeles, Peninsula College, 2006).
Ona Russell
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Ona Russell - www.onarussell.com
For inclusion submit your website address to: d_ripley@netvista.net.
Russell
recently published The Natural Selection (Sunstone Press), the second
in her Sarah Kaufman historical mystery series. Set against the backdrop of
what was deemed the "Trial of the Century," this socially and politically
relevant blend of fact and fiction includes actual courtroom excerpts and
vividly portrays the Scopes trial's central figures: John Scopes, William
Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and especially H. L. Mencken.
"Russell crafts
a vinegar divide between science and fundamentalism, reason and racism, change
and convention, and intelligence and insecurity. This book is the more fascinating,
indeed distressing, by its relevance to today’s social and political climate....fast
flowing, elegantly written, and keeps one hooked until the end."—Philadelphia
Stories
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further information please visit: www.onarussell.com
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Robert K. Wallace
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"This fluid, eloquent tribute to the joys and sorrow often associated with the learning process offers a variety of life lessons for everyone, especially young adults searching for identity and purpose, through the grace and powers of thirteen student-athletes who grow physically, emotionally, and intellectually on nearly every page."--Ron Ellis, editor of Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader
Anthony Wilson
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"Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture is a very rare book in that it brings together a lot of things that I wondered about now and then but never saw as being that connected; it brings in a new way of seeing the environment around us via the rich lens of literature and is, far more than a guide or review of such literature, a work of fine and engrossing non-fiction which reads like literature itself."--Mike Walker, North Florida News Daily
