Literature
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Depictions of Home in African American LiteratureIn Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a...
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Spring and AllSpring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All,...
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Ernest Hemingway: A Literary LifeErnest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and...
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Philp Pullman's His Dark Materials: A Multiple AllegoryWheats intriguing interpretation of Pullmans work is the first to point out the many allegorical features of the His Dark Materials trilogy and to highlight the ingenious ways in which Pullman subtly attacks religious institutions and superstitions.Author: Leonard F. WheatPublisher: PromtheusPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 338Binding Type:...
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Teaching Research Data ManagementArmed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty.The usefulness of research data management skills...
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The Etiquette of Early Northern VerseIn The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets.This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a...
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Dante's Other Works: Assessments and InterpretationsProminent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante's "other works."Rather than speak of Dante's "minor works," according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to...
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Venus in FursVenus in Furs (1870) is a novella by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Intended as an installment in his Legacy of Cain cycle, Venus in Furs has far surpassed the author's other works in cementing his reputation. The work, which inspired Kraft-Ebing to define...
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The Norton Anthology of American LiteratureThe Shorter Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts--from Civil War songs to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of...
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When There Were No BordersRaúl Sánchez's long-awaited 2nd book is a gift, a gateway, a harvest. These poems present and re-present our "tongue," our "language," our "culture and pride." Steeped in history and "blood blood blood" unforgotten and dignified, these poems are never what you expect yet are...
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The Us Graphic NovelThis book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art...
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Modernism, Empire, World LiteratureAuthor: Joe ClearyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/17/2021Pages: 326Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.80w x 0.90dISBN: 9781108492355Review Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2022About the AuthorCleary, Joe: - Joe Cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier books include Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and...
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Evolutionary SocialismEvolutionary Socialism was Bernstein's most significant work, and it set the stage for the Democratic Socialism of today. In Evolutionary Socialism, Bernstein was principally concerned with refuting Karl Marx's predictions about the imminent and inevitable demise of capitalism. Bernstein warned that a violent proletarian...
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Lorca After LifeA reflection on Federico García Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not...
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The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six Shakespeare playsThis book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays."Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, 'a great observer, ' able to see and depict patterns of...
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Ancient Wisdom: An Introduction to Sayings CollectionsThis book surveys and analyzes twenty-seven major collections of wisdom sayings from antiquity, including texts from ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, ancient Israel and early Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world. Through the diversity of these selections, readers are exposed to wisdom...
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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other EssaysIn his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play...
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Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern EnglandRace, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between...
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal BookPerceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers...
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Note book: Notebook: Blue, Loving Notebook / Journal / Diary / Composition book - 8.5 x 11 inches .127 pagesIf you need a simple notebook to write down your thoughts, this one is just for you. Plain, large, with a blue cover and a minimalist design, it will serve a multitude of purposes: random writings, journaling, personal thoughts, Size, 8.5 x 11 inches...
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