08/24/2012
There is one question that is the bane of every hopeful English major’s existence: What are you going to do with that degree? It is not a question at all really, but rather a warning in disguise presuming we will all waste away in a life long attempt to write the next great American novel.
08/16/2012
Before I began my internship, I hadn’t considered the extremely obvious fact that a lot of paper gets passed around in a press (blame my place in the digital generation). However, even as my fingers have become increasingly shredded, I’ve come to appreciate traditionally printed work more and more.
08/03/2012
Now in Paperback “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana”: Two Plays of Captivity Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika 208 pages… READ MORE
08/01/2012
In the August Penn Press podcast, John P. Spencer, Associate Professor of Education at Ursinus College and author of In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American… READ MORE
07/31/2012
"Every Thursday a man comes in and takes stories from the children. . . This man is a very weird man."–Maynard, ten-years-old. This weird man was part of a team… READ MORE
07/20/2012
The following excerpts look at the world through the eyes of a Jet, a pot, and grandfather who has a lot to say about Richard Nixon.
07/13/2012
Once there was a tiger
he was in the zoo
someone said “can I buy that tiger?”
“no you can’t, know why? because he’s wild”
and the end
–Garrett, four-years-old
07/09/2012
C. Dallett Hemphill, Professor of History at Ursinus College, is the new editor of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
07/06/2012
In the introduction to the collection, Sutton-Smith wrote, “Part of the function of this book is to show that when given the opportunity, children are inveterate tale tellers, and the tales they tell have considerable similarity to traditional folktakes.” Hence, the title.
06/12/2012
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 Hilary E. Wyss 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4413-7… READ MORE
