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Recent U.S. literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, disciplines like neuroscience and evolutionary biology have increasingly recast the human self as a malleable construct produced by physiological processes. In a parallel development, literary authors have created their own conceptions of somatic subjectivity in conjunction or contrast with scientific and medical discourses. Subjects of Substance examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in selected memoirs and novels. Authors discussed include Michael W. Clune, Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, Elyn R. Saks, and David Foster Wallace.

American literature --- History and criticism. --- America. --- American Studies. --- Body. --- Brain. --- General Literature Studies. --- Human. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Materialism. --- Neuroscience. --- Philosophical Anthropology. --- Self. --- 20th-Century American Literature; Neuroscience; Self; Brain; Materialism; Literature; America; Human; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Body; Philosophical Anthropology; Literary Studies

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This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment-the new postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and others. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 will stand together with The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2000 as essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry.

American poetry --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- Creeley, Robert, --- Works. --- 20th century american literature. --- 20th century american poetry. --- avant garde poetry. --- black mountain poetry. --- black mountain poets. --- complex. --- counter tradition. --- echoes. --- engaging. --- hello a journal. --- if i were writing this. --- later. --- life and death. --- memory gardens. --- mirrors. --- on earth. --- page turner. --- poems. --- poetry collection. --- poetry. --- postmodern poetry. --- postmodernism. --- postmodernity. --- projectivist poets. --- unpublished poems. --- windows.

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This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export-the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry-how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. That industry put up billboards in cities across the nation and placed enticing pictures of sun-kissed fruits into nearly every American's home. It convinced Americans that oranges could be consumed as embodiments of pure nature and talismans of good health. But, as this book shows, the tables were turned during the Great Depression when Upton Sinclair, Carey McWilliams, Dorothea Lange, and John Steinbeck made the Orange Empire into a symbol of what was wrong with America's relationship to nature.

Orange industry --- Citrus fruit industry --- History. --- California --- Alta California (Province) --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Calif. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Economic conditions. --- Environmental conditions. --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american literature. --- advertising. --- american labor. --- american literature. --- california. --- californian culture. --- californian history. --- californian oranges. --- californian society. --- carey mcwilliams. --- corporations. --- democracy. --- diplomacy. --- dorothea lange. --- environmental justice. --- food. --- government and governing. --- grapes of wrath. --- great depression. --- john steinbeck. --- labor. --- nature. --- orange industry. --- oranges. --- the epic campaign. --- the sunkist campaign. --- upton sinclair.

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Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion. Using his "End Poverty in California" movement (more commonly called EPIC) as a springboard, Sinclair ran for governor as a Democrat, equipped with a bold plan to end the Depression in California by taking over idle land and factories and turning them into cooperative ventures for the unemployed. To his surprise, thousands rallied to the idea, converting what he had assumed would be another of his utopian schemes into a mass political movement of extraordinary dimensions. With a loosely knit organization of hundreds of local EPIC clubs, Sinclair overwhelmed the moderate Democratic opposition to capture the primary election. When it came to the general election, however, his opposition employed highly effective campaign tactics: overwhelming media hostility, vicious red-baiting and voter intimidation, high-priced dirty tricks. The result was a resounding defeat in November. I, Candidate tells the story of Sinclair's campaign while also capturing the turbulent political mood of the 1930s. Employing his trademark muckraking style, Sinclair exposes the conspiracies of power that ensured big-money control over the media and other powerful institutions.

Governors --- Mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Kings and rulers --- Public officers --- Election --- History --- Political aspects --- Sinclair, Upton, --- Stirling, Arthur, --- Sinkler, Ėpton, --- Fitch, Clarke, --- Garrison, Frederick, --- Sinclair, Upton Beall, --- Sinḳler, Eypṭon, --- סינקליר, אייפטאן --- סינקליר, אייפטאן, --- סינקלער, אופטאן, --- סינקלער, אייפטאן --- סינקלער, אייפטאן, --- סינקלער, אפטאן --- סינקלער, אפטאן, --- סינקלער, אפטון --- סינקלער, אײפטאן --- סינקלער, א. --- סינקלער, עפטאן --- סינקלער, ע. --- סינקלר, אופטון --- סינקלר, אפטון --- סינקלר, אפטון, --- 辛克萊, --- California --- Alta California (Province) --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Calif. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Politics and government --- 20th century --- 1865-1950 --- 20th century american literature. --- 20th century american politics. --- american politics. --- california. --- democrat. --- dirty tricks. --- elections. --- end poverty in california. --- epic clubs. --- epic movement. --- governor. --- great depression. --- gubernatorial. --- journalist. --- leftist politics. --- media hostility. --- muckraker. --- political election. --- political literature. --- political movement. --- political science. --- politics. --- powerful institutions. --- primary election. --- red baiting. --- run for governor. --- the jungle. --- unemployment. --- united states of america. --- utopia. --- voter intimidation.