A Faculty Book Gallery has been developed that showcases the book publications authored and edited by faculty and staff at the University of Northern Iowa. Individual department pages have Faculty Book Galleries that list the books authored and edited by faculty and staff from the particular department.
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Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, “content” does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today’s novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz’s focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, and, by thus “structuring the void,” have created a new form of fiction. Among the writers Klinkowitz discusses are Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Susan Quist, Gerald Rosen, Rob Swigart, and Grace Paley. He shows how, in the absence of subject matter, these writers persist in the act of structuring—by organizing autobiography as a narrative device, ritualizing national history and popular culture, or formalizing a comic response to a new imaginative state, the state of California. Klinkowitz also considers subjects such as gender and war, which, though they cannot be represented, nevertheless exercise contraints on a writer’s intention to structure. What emerges from Klinkowitz’s analysis is a clear sense of what today’s fiction—and fiction writing—is about. As such, Structuring the Void will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary literature. -- Provided by publisher
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Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition
Jerome Klinkowitz
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme’s work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times. -- Provided by publisher
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Support Networks for Inclusive Schooling: Interdependent Integrated Education
William Stainback and Susan Stainback
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Literarischer Nominalismus im Spätmittelalter: Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Geoffrey Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde
Richard Utz
Innerhalb der philologischen Deutungen von Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde existieren eine Reihe kontrovers diskutierter Problemstände, etwa die proverbiale Redeweise des Pandarus, die Charakterzeichnungen der Criseyde und des Troilus oder die Spannungen zwischen der Haupthandlung und dem sogenannten Epilog. Bisherige methodische Ansätze, die meist auf Beobachtungen früh- und hochmittelalterlicher oder gar antiker Sprach- und Denktheorien basierten, konnten die erkannten Widersprüchlichkeiten keiner befriedigenden Lösung zuführen. Die diagnostizierte Defizienz vor allem allegorisch-exegetischer beziehungsweise boethianischer Erklärungsversuche wird in der vorliegenden Untersuchung durch die Konfrontation des literarischen Werkes mit einer ihm synchronen spätmittelalterlichen Kulturkonstituente, der philosophischen Denkbewegung des Nominalismus, überwunden. Das Einbringen dieser Folie des bestimmenden philosophischen Superstrats des 14. Jahrhunderts erhellt die spezifisch spätmittelalterliche Eigenart von Chaucers Werk. Die genannten Aporien der Forschung hinsichtlich Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur werden als Ausprägungen eines originellen, literarischen Nominalismus des Dichters erklärbar. -- Provided by publisher
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Educating All Students in the Mainstream of Regular Education
Susan Stainback, William Stainback, and Marsha Forest
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Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Adolescents/Grades 7-12
Ann Vernon
This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy. It helps students learn to overcome irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result. The curriculum consists of two volumes -- one for grades 1-6 and one for grades 7-12. Each volume contains 90 field-tested activities that are carefully arranged by grade level. The activities include simulation games, stories, role plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities. -- Provided by publisher
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Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Children/Grades 1-6
Ann Vernon
This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy. It helps students learn to overcome irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result.The curriculum consists of two volumes -- one for grades 1-6 and one for grades 7-12. Each volume contains 90 field-tested activities that are carefully arranged by grade level. The activities include simulation games, stories, role plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities.The activities are organized into five categories: 1 Self-Acceptance2 Feelings3 Beliefs and Behavior4 Problem Solving/Decision Making5 Interpersonal RelationshipsThinking, Feeling, Behaving is designed for use in the classroom or in small-group settings and can also be adapted for use in individual counseling.A sampling of the activities from grades 1-6: I'm Afraid, It's OK to Goof Up, Like 'Em or Not, Goal for It, I Have to Have It My Way, Multiple Solutions, Talking It Out, Glad to Be Me, Put-Downs, How Might They Feel, Rose-Colored Glasses. -- Provided by publisher
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Short Season and Other Stories
Jerome Klinkowitz
Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with "no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days." Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions. -- Provided by publisher
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The Book of the Moon: A Lunar Introduction to Astronomy, Geology, Space Physics, and Space Travel
Thomas A. Hockey
Presents a nontechnical overview of intriguing information about our natural satellite, from the dawn of time to the day Neil Armstrong set foot on its surface, to 2001 and beyond. Fully illustrated with charts and photographs that clarify scientific points. Also explores exciting possibilities in years ahead--for the mining, colonization, and whatever its compelling, silvery presence inspires! - Provided by publisher
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Applied Photography
Ervin A. Dennis
This book should be of interest to introductory courses in photography. -- Provided by publisher
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The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane
Jerome Klinkowitz
In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth—coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism—became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America’s modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us—the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the décor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live. -- Provided by publisher
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The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz
“The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the creative process, a narrative that is not about something but is something. Klinkowitz first characterizes the “modern” fiction of the earlier 20th century wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is “self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes “self-apparent.” -- Provided by publisher
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Peter Handke and the Postmodern Transformation: The Goalie's Journey Home
Jerome Klinkowitz and James Knowlton
In 1966, Peter Handke disturbed the world of German letters with the publication of his first novel and with his attacks on the complacency of German-language writers and their audiences. Since then, Handke—an Austrian whose works include drama, poetry, and critical theory as well as fiction—has become a leading European figure in the internationally established postmodern movement. Klinkowitz and Knowlton survey Handke’s progress as a writer, concentrating on his novels, to determine whether his creativity has been exhausted by his persistent assault on the systems that underlie conventional fiction, drama, and poetry. By placing Handke’s work in the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism and Donald Barthelme’s innovative fictions, the authors demonstrate that postmodern writers can create works of art in which content is effaced and the process of composition assumes increasing importance. Indeed, in so doing, Handke has made that process as humanly interesting and as fictionally dramatic as any stories of The Great Tradition: he has learned to address the human condition within the limits of a rebellious aesthetic. The lesson of the postmodern transformation, Klinkowitz and Knowlton argue, is that the abstraction of content is not a loss; instead, it leads directly to the most essential human concerns. -- Provided by publisher
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The Life of Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz and Roy R. Behrens
"Applying a radiacally new style of criticism to the 'new fiction' of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Donald Barthelme, Hunter S. Thompson, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, Gilbert Sorrentino, and others." -- Provided by publisher
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Juvenile Victimization: The Institutional Paradox
Clemens Bartollas, Stuart J. Miller, and Simon Dinitz
