Literary Criticism
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Strght Tlk Abt ReadingToday's parents are increasingly concerned about the reading and spelling skills taught in schools and are taking charge of their children's education. Full of ideas and suggestions----from innovative preschool exercises to techniques that older children can use to increase reading speed and comprehension----Straight Talk...
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Study Guide to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the best-selling of Twain's work. As a novel written in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows the antics of a young boy during his...
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Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature: Wax WorksThis book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist's studio...
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An Analysis of Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsMichael E. Porter's 1980 book Competitive Strategy is a fine example of critical thinking skills in action. Porter used his strong evaluative skills to overturn much of the accepted wisdom in the world of business. By exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the accepted...
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Barack Obama: Invisible ManLiterary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BARACK OBAMA: INVISIBLE MAN is a provocative examination of President Barack Obama and his legacy. Masciotra contends that most Americans, frightened over the loss of white authority, were unable to deal with the historical,...
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Mastiffs of the PlateauA Man and His Horse is the story of a young intellectual, Wen Bo, who is forced to flee Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. Exiled to a remote area of Inner Mongolia, he finds solace in a unique kind of love that he establishes...
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Beka LambSet in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The politics of the small colony, the influence of the matriarchal society and the dominating presence of the Catholic Church are woven into the...
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Handbuch Lyrik: Theorie, Analyse, GeschichteDie Neuauflage des Standardwerks bringt neue Kapitel zu den Themen Lyrik und Komik, Lyrik und Bibel, Lyrik und Emotion, zum Verlegen und zum Unterrichten von Lyrik sowie zur aktuellen Gegenwartslyrik. Das komparatistisch ausgerichtete Handbuch stellt die Poetiken der Lyrik seit der Antike und die...
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An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's the Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book...
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker"It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" --Los Angeles Times The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in...
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JourneysAuthor Karl Hicken has entitled each of his hauntingly evocative poems a 'Journey' followed by a number. By so doing, he takes the reader along a paint by number tour through life, capturing bittersweet moments of experience in vivid snapshots of memory. The sum...
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Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel Volume 16The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehensive critical discussion of the form has been available in a Western language. Masao Miyoshi offers an intensive reading of several outstanding...
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Metaphysical EmergenceBoth the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic properties) which depend on, yet are distinct from and distinctively efficacious with respect to, lower-level physical configurations...
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Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to NowNo book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives--tales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklore--with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Wright's multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition:...
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The Stuff of Life'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why...
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Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first CenturiesThe King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller's time and values. The chapters in this book look at...
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The Bible and PoetryA fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there are the...
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NarratologyThis volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and...
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Poetry Lib/E: A Very Short IntroductionPoetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognize it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far...
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World Lib/E: And 5 Others That Didn't HelpAuthor: Benjamin Wiker, PhDPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 09/08/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200133147About the AuthorWiker, Benjamin: - Benjamin Wiker received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary's University, Thomas Aquinas College, and Franciscan University. He now writes full-time as a senior...
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