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Author : Frank Paluka
Publisher : Iowa City : Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126992762
Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
Author : Clarence A. Andrews
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587290084
Originally published in 1972, A Literary History of Iowa, which features writers published in book form between 1856 and the late 1960s, returns to print. One of Iowa's native sons, Ellis Parker Butler, once said that in Iowa 12 dollars were spent for fertilizer each time a dollar was spent for literature. Many readers will be surprised to learn from this book the extent of Iowa's distinguished literary past---the many prizes and praise received by her authors. To those already familiar with Iowa's credits, A Literary History of Iowa will be a nostalgic and informative delight. During the 1920s and 1930s, Iowa had good claim to recognition as the literary capital of the country. Clarence Andrews says that as he grew up he knew a host of Iowa writers. "I also knew that Iowa was winning a diproportionate share of the Pulitzer Prizes---Hamlin Garland, Margaret Wilson, Susan Glaspell, Frank Luther Mott, "Ding" Darling, Clark Mollenhoff. It was winning its share or more of prizes offered by publishers---and its authors' books were being selected as Book-of-the-Month and Literary Guild books. I knew too about Carl Van Vechten as part of that avant-garde group of midwest exiles---including Fitzgerald, Anderson, and Hemingway."A Literary History of Iowa looks at Iowans who knew and cared for the state---people who wrote poetry, plays, musical plays, novels, and short stories about Iowa subjects, Iowa ideas, Iowa people. These writers often have dealt with such themes as the state's history, the rise of technology and its impact on the community, provincialism and exploitation, the problems of personal adjustment, and the family and the community. John T. Frederick, whose own books are paramount in Iowa's literary history, has pointed to Iowa's special contributions to the literature of rural life in saying that no other state can show its portrayal in "fiction so rich, so varied, and so generally sound as can Iowa."
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 0674367618
Author : Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska,Bárbara Ozieblo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807848689
Celebrates the life and work of Susan Glaspell who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1931 and who is recognized for her groundbreaking feminist dramas.
Author : Barbara Wiedemann
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 1575910071
A native of Iowa and long-time resident of Pennsylvania, Josephine Herbst (1892-1969), well known and highly regarded in the 1930s, was the author of seven novels, twenty-seven short stories, a biography, and numerous journal and newspaper articles. In the current study, the first on Herbst's short fiction, the author provides a critical discussion of each of Herbst's stories, including relevant biographical and historical data.
Author : Duane A. Schmidt
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781591601340
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357326
Author : Betty Jo Buckingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858060399544
Author : David Hudson,Marvin Bergman,Loren Horton
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587297243
Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation’s affairs. Iowa’s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject’s name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it. From Dudley Warren Adams, fruit grower and Grange leader, to the Younker brothers, founders of one of Iowa’s most successful department stores, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is peopled with the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State. The histories contained in this essential reference work should be eagerly read by anyone who cares about Iowa and its citizens. Entries include Cap Anson, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, William Carpenter, Philip Greeley Clapp, Gardner Cowles Sr., Samuel Ryan Curtis, Jay Norwood Darling, Grenville Dodge, Julien Dubuque, August S. Duesenberg, Paul Engle, Phyllis L. Propp Fowle, George Gallup, Hamlin Garland, Susan Glaspell, Josiah Grinnell, Charles Hearst, Josephine Herbst, Herbert Hoover, Inkpaduta, Louis Jolliet, MacKinlay Kantor, Keokuk, Aldo Leopold, John L. Lewis, Marquette, Elmer Maytag, Christian Metz, Bertha Shambaugh, Ruth Suckow, Billy Sunday, Henry Wallace, and Grant Wood. Excerpt from the entry on: Gallup, George Horace (November 19, 1901–July 26, 1984)—founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, better known as the Gallup Poll, whose name was synonymous with public opinion polling around the world—was born in Jefferson, Iowa. . . . . A New Yorker article would later speculate that it was Gallup’s background in “utterly normal Iowa” that enabled him to find “nothing odd in the idea that one man might represent, statistically, ten thousand or more of his own kind.” . . . In 1935 Gallup partnered with Harry Anderson to found the American Institute of Public Opinion, based in Princeton, New Jersey, an opinion polling firm that included a syndicated newspaper column called “America Speaks.” The reputation of the organization was made when Gallup publicly challenged the polling techniques of The Literary Digest, the best-known political straw poll of the day. Calculating that the Digest would wrongly predict that Kansas Republican Alf Landon would win the presidential election, Gallup offered newspapers a money-back guarantee if his prediction that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win wasn’t more accurate. Gallup believed that public opinion polls served an important function in a democracy: “If govern¬ment is supposed to be based on the will of the people, somebody ought to go and find what that will is,” Gallup explained.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5182404
Author : Robert B. Slocum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020262553
Author : Robert Balay
Publisher : Kws Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124183208
Prairies and Plains is an analysis of the reference sources--encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries--that readers and researchers will need to prepare class papers, resolve queries, and develop strategies for investigating questions regarding the history and culture of the Prairies and Plains region.
Author : Richard P. Horwitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816641838
From Charlotte's Web to Porky Pig and Babe, Americans betray a curiously deep regard for pigs. Hog Ties looks at this phenomenon, its relation to American culture, and the way in which themes of life and death are played out in the care, feeding, slaughter, and eating of pigs. Intermingling silly asides with serious subjects, existential concerns with environmental issues, the book considers the ways that pigs might help Americans address powerful human concerns.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082911820