Bøger af Bryan Giemza

"The first book on Cormac McCarthy's engagement with the natural sciences, paving the way for discussions on both McCarthy's collected works to date and the intersections of the humanities and science"--

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections as well as a range of primary sources and interview subjects, including those close to McCarthy, Giemza places McCarthy's work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism. Timely and innovative in both content and structure, the volume includes a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute and offers a rare look behind its closed doors.The book probes the STEM subjects - with chapters focused on technology, engineering, and math - within and throughout McCarthy's fictional universe and biography. The final chapter explores McCarthy's friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy's essays and most recent literary projects, The Passenger and Stella Maris. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, Giemza confirms the profound truth of McCarthy's unwavering belief that "There's a beauty to science" and a language of human understanding that transcends words.

Brings together historians, art critics, and literary scholars to provide a new social and cultural history of the Great Depression American South that moves beyond common stereotypes of the region.

Offers a riveting collection of 150 photographs that capture this pivotal time in Louisiana's history. Organised by photographer, parish, and date, the revealing images reflect an era when extreme poverty exacerbated the divide between classes and races.

In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the US South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their interrelationships within both transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts.

A Depression-era comic masterpiece, E. P. O'Donnell's The Great Big Doorstep centers on the Crochets, a Cajun family who live in a ramshackle house between the levee and the Mississippi River. It has remained a literary and cultural classic since its publication in 1941.