Bücher veröffentlicht von West Virginia University Press

In this ambitious study of contemporary poetics, Joe W. Moffett deciphers the twentieth-century long poem. He focuses on issues like postcolonialism, nation, modernism, and postmodernism, and conceptualizes his theories by using what he calls "originiary moments", historical periods or specific events from which a poet contends our culture descends.

Shows how the excesses of the Gilded Age and the latitude accorded industrialists of the time created an impact on the fragile economy of West Virginia that accounts for much of the political and economic landscape of the modern state. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, West Virginia and the Captains of Industry is a classic work of West Virginia history.

A border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. By examining and interpreting long-ignored documents of the times and the personal accounts of the people who were there, Clash of Loyalties offers a startling new view of America's most bitter hour.

Ths is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines - history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion - providing vital insights into how symbols function within society.

Examines the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings. Eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, authorship and translation, and editorial standards and obligations. This work also features a scholarly exchange of ideas and photographs of the original Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

With the immersion method dominating contemporary language learning, the knowledge of traditional grammar is at a low ebb, creating real barriers to any student wanting to learning dead or historical languages. This revised edition of Reading Old English aims to equip readers (advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and autodidacts) with the necessary tools to read the oldest recorded forms of the English language by explaining key language features clearly and methodically, without simplifying any of the core grammatical concepts. It includes a number of helpful exercises, a variety of interesting and unusual Old English texts to translate, as well as appendices covering the basics of traditional grammar and sound changes in Old English, along with an introduction to poetic structure.