Bøger udgivet af University of Texas Press

A new translation of a best-selling novel about love, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

A "e;comprehensive and enlightening"e; study of Cormac McCarthy's literary influences, based on newly acquired archival materials (Times Literary Supplement).Though Cormac McCarthy once told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "e;books are made out of books,"e; he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors.The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences-impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive-vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.

An archival study of Ida Lupino's work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.

A study of Denis Villeneuve's genre-transcendent film.

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women's reproductive roles and rights.

A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city's workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.

Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.

A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran's Khuzestan province.

An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family's desperate wait for a miracle that never came.

An exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures.

A multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.