Author: Ralph Kirshner
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: west, point, classmates, ames, custer, class
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-12-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0809320665
ISBN-13: 9780809320660

George Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates at West Point recall their Civil War experiences through letters, journals, and published writings.

Author: William Van LennepAssistant Professor Charles Bee
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: casts, together, reciepts, contemporary, comment, afterpieces, amp, part, stage, calendar, plays, entertainment, london
Number of Pages: 968
Published: 1970-08-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0809304376
ISBN-13: 9780809304370

Author: Associate Professor D. Thomas Benediktson A.B. M.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: antiquity, poet, modernist, propertius
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0809314533
ISBN-13: 9780809314539

An examination of Propertius in light of nonclassical, modernist literary techniques, especially internal monologue or stream of consciousness and imagism.Classical writers typically try to order or shape disparate experiences while modernists seek to present the complexity and disarray of human experience. Failing to realize that Propertius is in the modernist camp has led previous textual critics to divide and reorganize his poems. A. E. Housman, for example, unsuccessfully tried to reorder the lines in one Propertian poem into a logical and chronological sequence.On the contrary, Propertius

Author: Natalia Maree Belting
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: classics, shawnee, regime, french, kaskaskia
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2003-08-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0809325365
ISBN-13: 9780809325368

"The Illinois Habitant," writes Natalia Maree Belting, "was a gay soul; he seemed shockingly carefree to later, self-righteous puritans from the American colonies. He danced on Sunday after mass, was passionately attached to faro and half a dozen other card games, and played billiards at all hours. He gossiped long over a friendly pipe and congenial mug of brandy in the half-dusk of his porch or in the noisy tavern." First published in 1948, Kaskaskia under the French Regime is a social and economic history of French Kaskaskia from 1703 to 1765. Using a readable, journalistic style, Belting

Author: Professor Eugene R. KintgenAssociate Professor Ba
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: literacy, perspectives
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1988-05-23
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0809314576
ISBN-13: 9780809314577

The 28 essays reprinted here are arranged in four sections that offer theoretical, historical, educational, and community perspectives on the whole topic of literacy. In addition to their substantial introduction, the editors provide an exhaustive bibliography based on the citations to the essays.Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose see literacy as an extremely complex area of inquiry in which all aspects are interrelated, and they hope to avoid creating or perpetuating false boundaries within the field.The book’s first section contains articles dealing with various psychological and economic consequenc

Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: ice, twilight
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2003-05-20
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0809325063
ISBN-13: 9780809325061

The newest novel from acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis, Twilight of the Ice is a dramatic tale of revelation and redemption set against the backdrop of the 1950s Chicago rail yards. In a classic yarn expertly balancing the realistic with the mythic, Petrakis chronicles the life of Mike Zervakis, a Greek immigrant and the last in the line of the strong, skilled railroad car icemen, in a profession becoming obsolete with the advent of modern refrigeration. After fleeing from the despotic Turkish occupation of his homeland of Crete, and then escaping from boyhood servitude in his un

Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: hour
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0809328623
ISBN-13: 9780809328628

Revisiting a revolution. In 1821, in the geographically small but culturally and historically rich country of Greece, a revolution began to overturn four terrible centuries of slavery the Greeks had endured under the Ottoman Turks. Harry Mark Petrakis’ historical novel "The Hour of the Bell" recalls the first year of the revolt. Petrakis provides a panoramic view of the conflict through the stories of a variety of characters, including a village priest grief-stricken over the killing of his Turkish neighbors; a guerilla captain leading a band of wild mountain fighters against the Turkish