Books published by Indiana University Press

More than merely a study of one animated film or a biography of its creator, Kitson's investigation encompasses the Soviet culture from which this landmark film emerged and sheds light on creative influences that shaped the work of this acclaimed filmmaker.

This darkly comic memoir ';reveal[s] much about the poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, anti-Semitism, and fundamental absurdity of rural life in the Soviet 1960s' (Deborah A. Fieldauthor of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev's Russia). Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, home to a large, collective farm and to the most oddball and endearing cast of characters possible. For three years in the 1960s, Vladimir Tsesisinestimable Soviet doctor and irrepressible jesterwas stationed in a village where racing tractor drivers tossed vodka bottles to each other for sport; where farmers and townspeople secretly mocked and tried to endure the Communist way of life; where milk for children, running water, and adequate electricity were rare; where the world's smallest, motley parade became the country's longest; and where one compulsively amorous Communist Party leader met a memorable, chilling fate. From a frantic pursuit of calcium-deprived, lunatic Socialist chickens to a father begging on his knees to Soviet officials to obtain antibiotic for his dying child, Vladimir's tales of Gradieshti are unforgettable. Sometimes hysterical, often moving, always a remarkable and highly entertaining insider's look at rural life under the old Soviet regime, they are a sobering expose of the terrible inadequacies of its much-lauded socialist medical system. ';To understand the confusing reality of Russia today, it helps to recall the ';bad old days' of the late, unlamented Soviet Union. This warm, touching and occasionally hilarious book can assist those recollections.' Michael Medved,nationally syndicated radio show host

Presents a number of the basic principles for the study of folklore. This translation offers English readers the 'rules' which became the foundation of not only every folklore program in Scandinavia but also most of the programs in the rest of the Western world. It aims to develop a methodology for the study of folk narrative.

The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the 20th century, from a glottocentric enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Tom Sebeok, a thinker in the field, shows how this progression took place.

Presents the story of an independent and creative nineteenth-century Indiana businessman, William Riley McKeen, and the railroad that he built based in Terre Haute - the Terre Haute & Indianapolis. This title contributes to the railroad history of Indiana, to the story of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and to the history of Terre Haute.

A study that considers the ways playwrights draw meaning from emptiness. It examines drama associated with non-realistic movement known as theatre of the absurd, focusing on the ways dramatists create an impression of emptiness not only on the stage but also in the body and mind of the central character.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's keystone once ranked among America's most widely-recognised corporate logos. This book captures the history of the Pennsy and its Indiana predecessor lines. It helps us meet its famous passenger trains, the empire-builders who put down track later acquired by the Pennsy, its impact upon the state's economy, and more.

A brilliant critique of "medical futility" and the debate over who has the right to cease or refuse medical treatment.

Describes the perpetration of the Holocaust in the USSR and probes the political and social consequences of the mass destruction of Soviet Jews.

A biography of Marguerite Long (1874D1966), the most important French woman pianist of the twentieth century. A virtuoso performer and a demanding pedagogue, she was fiercely devoted to furthering the careers of young artists.

';Accessible... Engaging... May well be our fullest account to date of what Bleikasten calls Faulkner's ';energy for life' and ';will to write.'' Theresa Towner, author of The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his booksbut his wish would not come true. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to unveil and dissect the unhappy life of ';the little man from Mississippi.' Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his life and career, it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned critic Andre Bleikasten revisits Faulkner's biography through the author's literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner's life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry the reader through the major events in Faulkner's life, emphasizing those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight of his multi-generational family history in the South; the formation of his oppositional temperament provoked by a resistance to Southern bourgeois propriety; his creative and sexual restlessness and uncertainty; his lifelong struggle with finances and alcohol; his paradoxical escape to the bondages of Hollywood; and his final bent toward self-destruction. This is the story of the man who wrote timeless works and lived in and through his novels.

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style similar to contemporaneous Castilian, Olga Borovaya makes a strong argument for including them in the corpus of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) literature. Borovaya suggests that the history of Ladino literature begins at least 200 years earlier than previously believed and that Ladino, like most other languages, had more than one functional style. With careful historical work, Borovaya establishes a new framework for thinking about Ladino language and literature and the early history of European print culture.

A comprehensive history of intercity passenger service in Indiana, from the mid-19th century through May 1, 1971, when Amtrak began operations in the state. Each chapter summarizes the history and development of one railroad, discussing the factors that shaped that railroad's service.

Traces the way in which the altered view of the End shaped the foreign missions movement, the social gospel, and ecumenical endeavour. This book, in chronicling changing views of the last things, also traces the emergence of some of the central dynamics - and discontents - of mainstream Protestantism in the twentieth century.

Presents a study of the women imprisoned for alleged anti-patriotic crimes during the early years of the 20th century. This book focuses on the arrests, trials, and defences of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the United States entered World War I.

Offers an account of the very public confrontation between President Harry S Truman and General Douglas MacArthur over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. This book explores partisan politics in Washington and the political power of military officers in an administration too weak to carry national policy on its own.

Exploring the organization and contents of five houses at Halieis, this book is based on the structure of each house and its contents and includes detailed room-by-room analyses of the excavated finds. From this it expands into a general consideration of the Greek household and domestic economy, topics of growing interest among archaeologists.

Presents an encyclopaedic study of the Louisville & Nashville's Steam Locomotives. With hundreds of vintage photographs, this title offers a resource for railroad buffs and historians. It traces the growth and diversification of the L&N as it grows and expands through and ambitious building plan and the acquisition of numerous independent lines.

U.S. Department of Defense analyst Mark Silinsky reveals the origins of the Islamic State's sinister obsession with the Western world. Once considered a minor irritant in the international system, the Caliphate is now a dynamic and significant actor on the world's stage, boasting more than 30,000 foreign fighters from 86 countries. Recruits consist not only of Middle-Eastern-born citizens, but also a staggering number of "e;Blue-Eyed Jihadists,"e; Westerners who leave their country to join the radical sect. Silinsky provides a detailed and chilling explanation of the appeal of the Islamic State and how those abroad become radicalized, while also analyzing the historical origins, inner workings, and horrific toll of the Caliphate. By documenting the true stories of men, women, and children whose lives have been destroyed by the radical group, Jihad and the West presents the human face of the thousands who have been kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered by the Islamic State, including Kayla Mueller, who was kidnapped, given to the Caliphate's leader as a sex slave, and ultimately killed.

Beverly B. Mack is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is author (with Jean Boyd) of One Woman¿s Jihad: Nana Asma¿u, Scholar and Scribe (IUP, 2000).

Offers a reading of Martin Heidegger's youthful thought leading up to "Being and Time" (1927) and its subsequent development in his later writings. This work examines Heidegger's student years, showing the influences of Scholasticism, medieval mysticism, Neo-Kantianism, and phenomenology on his thinking during this period.

a pleasure to read." -Slavic Review

Early American Methodists described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. This book explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. It exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life.

Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, this title explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups. It presents an analysis that uncovers provocative attitudes and insights on a subject of controversy.