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Ghost Stories from the Pacific NorthwestAwarded title of Bowker Best Books for Young Teen ReadersThough ghosts from the Pacific Northwest can be as mean as the next ghost--breaking glass, waking sleepers, and scaring people out of house and home--they are generally a pretty jolly bunch. One ghost in Ellensburg,...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"Wole Soyinka, translator and Nobel...
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Hemingway: Up in Michigan PerspectivesIn October 1991, the Michigan Hemingway Society convened in Petoskey, Michigan, to pay tribute to the famous writer. Hemingway: Up in Michigan Perspectives is a selection of the insightful scholarship and research presented at the conference. The collection begins with essays that examine the...
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Writers in Politics: A Re-Engagement with Issues of Literature and SocietyThis book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre. Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays,...
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One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to EnglishNo other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well...
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Besides the BibleHow do you decide what to read? Dan Gibson, Jordan Green and John Pattison have created this tool to make your choices easier. Besides the Bible is a guide to the wide array of great books that they believe every Christian should read--the ones...
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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena PoniatowskaElena Poniatowska is recognized today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. Lilus Kikus, published in 1954, was her first book. However, it was labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown...
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Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life FormThis book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which...
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Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German RomanticismThe scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy,...
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Woman Of The River: Bilingual editionIn Woman of the River one of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. Many of the poems are political, direct, and condemnatory of the United States' presence in Latin America, and they are rich, human...
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Chicano Controversy: Oscar Acosta and Richard RodriguezChicano Controversy takes a unique approach to two colorful and controversial Chicano writers: Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez. Paul Guajardo argues that Acosta's involvement with the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was somewhat opportunistic as Acosta was always uneasy about his...
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Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American MemoryHospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular...
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Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from 1655 to 2000Of Women and the Essay brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. The contributions of these essayists prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century....
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The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon"This girl is a real novelist," wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood. "She is already a rare phenomenon: a Catholic novelist with a real dramatic sense, one who relies more on...
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Deep Enough for IvorybillsDeep Enough for Ivorybills is a powerful, thoughtful collection of autobiographical writings about James Kilgo's hunting and fishing excursions in the woods, fields, and swamps of South Carolina and Georgia. Portraying a world both visceral and majestic, Deep Enough for Ivorybills establishes Kilgo not...
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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black TechnopoeticsInvestigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fictionThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the...
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Zither & AutobiographyA reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of...
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From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès ReaderThe first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabès, including pieces previously unpublished in English."To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms,...
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Isherwood on WritingIn the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme "A Writer and His World." During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the...
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My LanguageIt has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects...
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