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Folklore Rules
A Fun, Quick, and Useful Introduction to the Field of Academic Folklore Studies
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Stories of Our Lives
Memory, History, Narrative
Utah State University Press
The social importance of personal narratives, family saga, and communal legends are well-established in ethnographic and folkloristic literature, but their value for individual self-knowledge is less often demonstrated. Both a memoir and a research project, Stories of Our Lives considers the stories from Frank de Caro’s personal life, as well as the stories he has collected in his years of field research as he explores how the stories we tell, listen to, and learn play an integral role in constructing our temporal selves.
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy
The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853
By Merina Smith
Utah State University Press
In Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy, historian Merina Smith explores the introduction of polygamy in Nauvoo, a development that unfolded amid scandal and resistance. Smith considers the ideological, historical, and even psychological elements of the process and captures the emotional and cultural detail of this exciting and volatile period in Mormon history. She illuminates the mystery of early adherents' acceptance of such a radical form of marriage in light of their dedication to the accepted monogamous marriage patterns of their day.
- Copyright year: 2013
Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
Utah State University Press
In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and economic interdependence, have complicated these pursuits. Tradition is thoroughly embedded in both modern life and at the center of folklore studies, and a modern understanding of tradition cannot be fully realized without a thoughtful consideration of the past’s role in shaping the present.
Twenty-One Genres and How to Write Them
Utah State University Press
In this classroom-tested approach to writing, Brock Dethier teaches readers how to analyze and write twenty-one genres that students are likely to encounter in college and beyond. This practical, student-friendly, task-oriented text confidently guides writers through step-by-step processes, reducing the anxiety commonly associated with writing tasks.
- Copyright year: 2013
Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers
Utah State University Press
Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on their writing—McKinney shines light on other representations of writing center work.
After the Public Turn
Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur
By Frank Farmer
Utah State University Press
In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy.
Folk Culture in the Digital Age
The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Edited by Trevor J. Blank
Utah State University Press
Presumed Incompetent
The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
National Healing
Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition
Utah State University Press
Warrior Ways
Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Tad Tuleja
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Books, Bluster, and Bounty
Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Great Basin National Park
A Guide to the Park and Surrounding Area
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Composing Media Composing Embodiment
Edited by Kristin L Arola and Anne Wysocki
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
A Mountain of Paper
The Extraordinary Diary of Leonard James Arrington
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
- Copyright year: 2012
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