university of south carolina press apr 2022 (3 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A panoramic and accessible guide to one of the most celebrated--and controversial--authors of the twentieth century.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'The inside story of South Carolina's favorite band-- In 1995, Hootie & the Blowfish were at the top of the Billboard charts, playing soldout stadiums, subject of a subplot on FRIENDS. They had a loyal following from a decade of frat shows and touring in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, but emerging from the era of grunge, they were far from what the music industry wanted to sell. In Only Wanna Be with You, Tim Sommer--the A&R rep who signed Hootie to Atlantic in 1993--takes readers inside the rise, fall, and rise again of Hootie & the Blowfish. Drawing from extensive interviews with the band, their associates, and music industry insiders, Sommer tells the story of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Soni Sonefeld, from their days of dorm room rehearsals to sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen to Rucker's groundbreaking country career and all of the ups and downs along the road'.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Philip Roth (1933-2018) was one of the most prolific, prominent, and controversial writers of his generation. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner awards, and many others; his work is the subject of Philip Roth Studies, a journal published by Purdue UP in cooperation with the Philip Roth Society since 2005; his novels are frequently taught in undergraduate literature courses. In Understanding Philip Roth, Matthew Shipe offers one of the first single-authored critical overviews of Roth's complete oeuvre, aimed at undergraduates and general readers of Roth's works. By emphasizing the connections between Roth's early and later work, Shipe aims to offer a more complete portrait of how Roth's fiction evolved over the course of his career and how it engaged its historical moment(s). Seven chapters cover Roth's biography and major themes (Jewish identity, male sexual desire, American exceptionalism) and his novels in thematic, roughly chronological groups (the first fifteen years; the Nathan Zuckerman novels, writing, and identity; the Kepesh trilogy and intersections between art, sex, and gender politics; Roth as a character in his own work; Roth's exploration of American history; later works and essays)'.