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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What
We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with
unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the
knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his
pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents.
Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful
for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars
of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or "dirty
realism," a movement whose wide influence continues to this day.
Carver's stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the
oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different
sort of sensibility at work. In books such as Cathedral and the
later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I'm
Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer
than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian
sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical
effects. In gathering all of Carver's stories, including early
sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of
America's Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of
Carver's career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You
Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk
About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos
of the late stories. But it also prompts a fresh consideration of
Carver by presenting Beginners, an edition of the manuscript of
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that Carver submitted to
Gordon Lish, his editor and a crucial influence on his development.
Lish's editing was so extensive that at one point Carver wrote him
an anguished letter asking him not to publish the book; now, for
the first time, readers can read both the manuscript and published
versions of the collection that established Carver as a major
American writer. Offering a fascinating window into the complex,
fraught relation between writer and editor, Beginners expands our
sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about
his achievement. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit
cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's
literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print,
America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America
series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative
editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers,
sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium
acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate presents excavations and
analysis of material remains at Vagnari, in southeast Italy, which
have facilitated a detailed and precise phasing of a rural
settlement, both in the late Republican period in the 2nd and 1st
centuries BC, when it was established on land leased from the Roman
state after Rome's conquest of the region, and when it became the
hub (vicus) of a vast agricultural estate owned by the emperor
himself in the early 1st century AD. This research addresses a
range of crucial questions concerning the nature of activity at the
estate and the changes in population in this transitional period.
It also maps the development of the vicus in the 2nd and 3rd
centuries AD, shaping our understanding of the diversity and the
mechanics of the imperial economy and the role of the vicus and its
inhabitants in generating revenues for the emperor. By
contextualising the estate in its landscape and exploring its
economic and social impact on Apulia and beyond, archaeological
research gives us extremely valuable insight into the making of a
Roman imperial estate.
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration
through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical
world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and
commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience,
and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving
memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and
burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific
sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical
connections that highlight important facets of death and
commemoration significant to the larger Classical world. Living
through the dead investigates the subject of death and
commemoration from a diverse set of archaeologically informed
approaches, including visual reception, detailed analysis of
excavated remains, landscape, and post-classical reflections and
draws on artefactual, documentary and pictorial evidence. The nine
papers present recent research by some of the leading voices on the
subject, as well as some fresh perspectives. Case studies come from
Thermopylae, the Bosporan kingdom, Athens, Republican Rome, Pompeii
and Egypt. As a collected volume, they provide thematically linked
investigations of key issues in ritual, memory and
(self)presentation associated with death and burial in the
Classical period. As such, this volume will be of particular
interest to postgraduate students and academics with specialist
interests in the archaeology of the Classical world and also more
broadly, as a source of comparative material, to people working on
issues related to the archaeology of death and commemoration.
The two German provinces of the Roman Empire, Germania Superior and
Germania Inferior, which included modern Germany, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, and parts of France and Belgium, formed a vital link
between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Maureen Carroll's
synthesis of past and recent archaeological research introduces
readers to the main features of the Roman Empire in these
provinces. It deals with the pre-Roman societies and their
landscapes, which were to be changed by the Romans after the
conquests of Caesar and Augustus. The book also explores the
concept of frontier and assesses the role of the German provinces
as border zones of the Empire.
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