Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940sRieger studies the ways that nature is conceived of and portrayed by four prominent Southern writers of the era: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner. Specifically, he argues that these writers created new versions of an old literary mode—the pastoral—in respon...

The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories.Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner's fiction. Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writer's use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner's works. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing...

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant over time. Comple...

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, argues that mor...

Um das Menschenrecht auf Bildung zu betonen und Chancengerechtigkeit im Bildungswesen einzufordern, hat die UN-Vollversammlung 2018 einen »Internationalen Tag der Bildung« ausgerufen. Doch was man jeweils unter Bildung versteht, erscheint einigermaßen disparat oder gar diffus. Zugleich bevölkern Zauberworte und Heilsversprechen aller Art den Diskurs über Wissen und Wissenschaft. Evaluierung, Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz und neuerdings Diversität sind solche Begriffe, die in Schu...

The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.This dictionar...