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7 books match the query 'Window'
"The Girl in the Window" and Other True Tales
An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction NarrativesLane DeGregory
University of Chicago Press, 2023
This book—part anthology, part craft guide—provides a forensic reading of twenty-four of DeGregory’s singular stories, illustrating her tips for writers alongside pieces that put those elements under the microscope. Each of the pieces gathered here—including the Pulitzer Prize–winning title story—is accompanied by notes on how she built the story, plus tips on how nonfiction writers at all levels can do the same. Featuring a foreword by Beth Macy, author of the acclaimed Dopesick, this book is sure to delight fans of DeGregory’s writing, as well as introduce her to readers and writers who have not yet discovered her inspiring body of work.
The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore
Alan Brown
University of Alabama Press, 1996
True voices, real places, and unforgettable chills: Alabama’s ghost stories, gathered with scholarly care, reveal how memory, history, and belief linger—whispering from bridges, homes, cemeteries, and courthouses statewide today still.
The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore is a landmark collection that preserves and brings to life Alabama’s rich tradition of supernatural storytelling. Rather than offering fictional retellings, this book presents ghost stories as they are told—by neighbors, families, students, and elders—rooted firmly in real places and lived experience. Alan Brown captures the voices of Alabamians across generations, revealing how belief, memory, humor, and fear continue to shape the state’s cultural landscape.
The collection is organized by geographic region, spiraling across the state so readers can explore local lore county by county and town by town. Many stories were gathered directly through fieldwork, lectures, and interviews, while others draw on previously unpublished Works Progress Administration materials from the 1930s. Dialect and storytelling style are preserved to maintain authenticity, and scholarly notes are placed at the back to keep the narratives accessible. Brown, a folklorist and former lecturer for the Alabama Humanities Foundation, brings both academic rigor and deep respect for oral tradition to the collection.
This collection will delight readers interested in folklore, Southern history, oral culture, and the supernatural. It is invaluable for scholars and students, irresistible to ghost-story enthusiasts, and especially meaningful for Alabamians eager to see their communities and traditions thoughtfully recorded and remembered.
The God Behind the Window
Michael Krüger
Seagull Books, 2018
The thirteen stories of Michael Krüger’s The God behind the Window capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic old men full of the mixture of wisdom and melancholy that so often accompanies old age. In Krüger’s stories, world-weary characters seek—and only temporarily find—solace in nature and culture, rendering their search for a better life simultaneously comedic and heart wrenching. From a solitary hiker in the Swiss Alps to the book’s eponymous shut-in, these aging malcontents are continually surprised by the unexpected interventions of a world that has come to seem predictable. Krüger captures this stage in life masterfully, contrasting the deeply personal emotions of affection, melancholy, and longing with an indifferent world. The resulting stories are lyrical, philosophical, and tender despite their cynicism.
The Woman in the Window
Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian NovelRussell Scott Valentino
The Ohio State University Press, 2014
With chapters on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well as Pasternak and Nabokov, The Woman in the Window argues that Russian authors worked through this question via their depictions of “mixed-up men.” Such characters, according to Valentino, reveal that in a world where social reality and personal identity depend on consensual fantasies, the old masculine figure loses its grounding and can easily drift away. Valentino charts a range of masculine character types thrown off stride by the new commercially inflected world: those who embrace blind confidence, those who are split with doubt or guilt, and those who look for an ideal of steadfastness and purity to keep afloat—a woman in a window.
Through the Window, Out the Door
Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and DidionJanis P. Stout
University of Alabama Press, 1998
This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.
An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political.
Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Stout views these five writers within a spectrum of narrative engagements with issues of home and departure—a spectrum anchored at one end by Sarah Orne Jewett and at the other by Marilynne Robinson, whose Housekeeping posits a vision of female transience.
Through the Window, Out the Door ranges over an expansive territory. Moving between texts as well as between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two. Stout concludes with a personal essay on the dilemmas of domesticity and the ambivalence of departure.
Through the Window
Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-HerzegovinaKeith Doubt
Central European University Press, 2014
This book is not about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, evil, or the killing of a society. It is about a cultural heritage, something vital to a society as a society, something that was not killed in the previous war, something that is resilient.
Through the Window brings an original perspective to folklore of Bosnians at a certain period of time and the differences and similarities of the three main ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It examines the transethnic character of cultural heritage, against divisions that dominate their tragic recent past.
The monograph focuses in particular on customs shared by different ethnic groups, specifically elopement, and affinal visitation. The elopement is a transformative rite of passage where an unmarried girl becomes a married woman. The affinal visitation, which follows, is a confirmatory ceremony where ritualized customs between families establish in-lawships These customs reflect a transethnic heritage shared by people in Bosnia as a national group, including Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.
as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window
Friederike Mayröcker
Seagull Books, 2023
Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during her lifetime, as mornings and moosgreen I. Step to the window is an elliptical and, if at times cryptic, deeply personal, playful, and highly poetic collection of experiences, memories, dreams, desires, fears, visions, observations, and peregrinations through landscapes both real and imagined. The volume bears witness to her unique late lyrical style of pyrotechnical cut-up. Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayröcker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.