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cover of Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker

Yardbird Suite

A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker

Lawrence O. Koch

University of Wisconsin Press, 1988

A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical material arranged chronologically and linked with Parker’s recordings. The “Bird Stories” are all here, from Parker’s Kansas City roots to his untimely death, as well as the seminal journal article on Parker’s music, “Ornithology” that appeared in the Journal of Jazz Studies.
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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 1

Glory Figures

Robert Sampson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment.
    This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.
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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 2

Strange Days

Robert Sampson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1984

The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907–1939 pulps—scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters—Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers—became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists.
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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

From the Dark Side

Robert Sampson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1987

More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more!
The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn’s, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.
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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4

The Solvers

Robert Sampson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1987

For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of the detective. Included here are both the amateur and professional detective, female investigators, deducting doctors, brilliant amateurs, and equally brilliant professional police. There are private detectives reflecting Holmes and hard-boiled cops from the parallel traditions of realism and melodramatic fantasy. Characters include Brady and Riordan, Terry Trimble, Glamorous Nan Russell, J. G. Reeder, plus many others.
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Yesterday's Faces, Volume 5

Dangerous Horizons

Robert Sampson

University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

In this fifth volume of the Yesterday’s Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903–1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa—and much, much more.
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You Are a Ghost

Katherine Guinness

University of Minnesota Press, 2027

A ghost story where you are the ghost

What if the ghost haunting the present is you? In You Are a Ghost, Katherine Guinness offers a provocative new theory of “negative hauntology,” arguing that ghostliness is not a metaphor but the defining condition of life under late capitalism. Through compelling readings of films such as The Sixth Sense, Ghost, Beetlejuice, and The Others, alongside television, immersive performance, and contemporary art about platform surveillance and automated intelligence, Guinness reveals how today’s culture reflects a world where futurity, agency, and even humanity have already been lost.

Yet, rather than ending in nihilism, You Are a Ghost imagines a new form of collective consciousness grounded in our shared condition. Bold, accessible, and deeply original, this book rethinks social death, capitalism, and political solidarity, offering readers a new way to understand contemporary culture—and how to haunt it.

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You Know My Method

Science of the Detective

J.K. Van Dover

University of Wisconsin Press, 1994

You Know My Method surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the fictional detective in 1841. The same century saw the development of the idea of the scientist as a person who defined himself by his use of a disciplined method of inquiry. By 1940, the detective had established himself as the most popular figure in literature, and science had become the custodian of truth in the modern world. These two developments were not unrelated.
    The four principal writers covered are Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, and Arthur B. Reeve. Another dozen more writers are treated somewhat more briefly: Gaboriau, Pinkerton, Green, Morrison, Futrelle, and Leroux, among others.
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