Meet the writers! Check here for more information on upcoming events.Tuesday, November 16, 7:00 p.m. | Anjanette Delgado and Patricia Engel at the Doral YardSaturday, November 20, 6:00p.m. | Anjanette Delgado, Richard Blanco, Jennine Capó Crucet, Ariel Francisco, Ana Menéndez, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Achy Obejas, and Isvett Verde at the Miami Book Fair “Shimmering … Continue reading Home in Florida
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2019
Acquisitions editor Stephanye Hunter attended the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in Atlanta, GA last weekend. We displayed some of our new and bestselling literature and literary criticism books, and it was great to meet with everyone who visited us at our booth! Here are a few books we brought to the conference: The … Continue reading South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2019
Modernist Studies Association 2018
UPF acquisitions editor Stephanye Hunter recently traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to attend the Modernist Studies Association annual conference. It was great to display some of our new modern literature books and meet with UPF authors and scholars attending the conference! Angela Frattarola, author of Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel Amanda Golden, editor of … Continue reading Modernist Studies Association 2018
A Victorianist’s Take on the Graphic Novel
Written by Catherine J. Golden, author of Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book My sons introduced me to graphic novels. When they were teens, their bookshelves overflowed with the latest issues of Shonen Jump (a Japanese manga series), Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Alan Moore’s Watchmen, and DC Comics books about … Continue reading A Victorianist’s Take on the Graphic Novel
Exiles
"Joyce's one play finally gets the critical attention it deserves."--Sam Slote, coeditor of Renascent Joyce "Carefully selected discussions illuminate both Joyce's Exiles and Joyce's exile--and, as well, the sense of exile throughout Joyce's work."--Morris Beja, coeditor of Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses "A major contribution to Joyce studies: a fine introduction, a critical text of Exiles that faithfully … Continue reading Exiles
Joyce’s Allmaziful Plurabilities
. "A brilliantly collaged snapshot of the variety and wealth of literary criticism, and Joyce studies, today."—Tony Thwaites, author of Joycean Temporalities "Celebrates the multiplicity and sheer rampant excess of Joyce's prodigally polysemous text with seventeen different scholars employing a likewise prodigal range of critical methodologies."—Patrick O'Neill, author of Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes "Each of … Continue reading Joyce’s Allmaziful Plurabilities
Holiday Book Sale!
Find the perfect gift for all the important people in your life this holiday season with University Press of Florida’s holiday book sale! Click below to view our 2015 Holiday Catalog. From travel to photography, art, cooking, gardening, fishing, sports, literature, history, and more, you’ll find books for every reader. Visit http://www.upf.com and order before December … Continue reading Holiday Book Sale!
Mary Edwards Bryan
“Sheds new light on one of the nineteenth century South’s most accomplished yet understudied writers. Brown and River’s study of Mary Edwards Bryan presents some of her best writings within the context of her time.”—James M. Denham, coeditor of Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters’ Correspondence from Antebellum Florida “A lost writer of … Continue reading Mary Edwards Bryan
Impossible Returns
“Soulfully researched and elegantly written, the personal and the critical converge into a reading of Cuban American memoirs by ‘one-and-a-halfers,’ those in a generation who left the island in childhood and early adolescence.”—Eliana S. Rivero, author of Discursos desde la diáspora “Timely and salient. In addition to tracing the trajectory of narratives of return, this … Continue reading Impossible Returns
These Truly Are the Brave
“Powerfully connects the history of war and peace with the long black freedom struggle in the United States, illuminating as never before the relationship between war and citizenship in the African American experience.”—Timothy Patrick McCarthy, coeditor of The Radical Reader “A rich, provocative compilation that will stimulate important discussions on African Americans’ fraught relationship with … Continue reading These Truly Are the Brave
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