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Save the Cat! Blake's Blogs: More Information and Inspiration for WritersFrom 2005 until his death in 2009, Blake Snyder wrote his 3 best-selling Save the Cat!(R) books along with 209 blogs on the Save the Cat!(R) website. The 112 blog posts in this book have been carefully curated and edited from Blake's originals. We...
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Siddhartha - Bilingual Edition, German & EnglishHermann Hesse's Siddhartha is a literary classic. It continues to be the most popular of the many novels by the prolific Nobel Prize laureate. The touching story of one man's search for the meaning of life, for enlightenment and knowledge is related with a...
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Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon: Siberian Folk TalesSiberia. From this strange and beautiful land comes an oral tradition that has altered little in two thousand years. Here is a true spiritual democracy and purity of folk art rarely found in traditional tales.Author: James RiordanPublisher: Interlink BooksPublished: 12/31/1990Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize:...
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A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and PoeticsOne of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, and Sandra McPherson, among others--have become classics. This...
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Ecopoetry: Critical IntroductionThe burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions...
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A Reader's DelightOne of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.Author: Noel PerrinPublisher: Dartmouth College PressPublished: 03/01/1988Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.57dISBN: 9780874514322This title is not returnable
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Blues Vision: African American Writing from MinnesotaA rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions...
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic PoetryA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty yearsAuthor: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-QasimPublisher: Saqi Books - Saqi BooksPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 165Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.37dISBN: 9780863565243
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic BooksJews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the...
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August Wilson's FencesFences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist,...
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The Short StoriesFor the first time in many years, Langston Hughes's published collections of stories are now available in a single book. Included in this volume are: Ways of White Folks, originally published in 1934; Laughing to Keep from Crying, originally published in 1952; and additional...
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What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World LiteratureIn What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of...
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The Weather in ProustThe Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation...
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On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the CollectionMiniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain...
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Perceval or the Story of the GrailIn this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately...
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Mythology of the Lenape: Guide and TextsThe Lenape, or Delaware, are an Eastern Algonquian people who originally lived in what is now the greater New York and Philadelphia metropolitan region and have since been dispersed across North America. While the Lenape have long attracted the attention of historians, ethnographers, and...
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Moroccan FolktalesDrawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied,...
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Practice! Practice!: A Latin Via Ovid Workbook (Revised Ed.)Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises. Drills in grammar and vocabulary, combined with innovative directions for practice, facilitate the student's acquisition of Latin. Teachers:...
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The Sorrows of Young WertherAuthor: Johann Wolfgang Von GoethePublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 02/08/2005Pages: 149Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.39dISBN: 9780812969900About the AuthorJOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and scientist. He wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was just twenty-four....
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The Doctor StoriesThe Doctor Stories collects thirteen of Williams's stories (direct accounts of his experiences as a doctor), six related poems, and a chapter from his autobiography that connects the world of medicine and writing, as well as a new preface by Atul Gawande, an introduction...
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