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Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture #16: Conversations with Texas Writers
by Francis Leonard  Publisher Comments Larry McMurtry declares, Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did. Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, I've just never had a desire to write about any place else. In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of...
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Tolkiens Lord Rings and Hobbit (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Gene B. Hardy Publisher Comments Join the journey through Middle-earth in the study guide of these two epic fantasies suggestive of life in medieval days, a classical battle between good and evil and the quest for a magical ring. This guide covers all four volumes of this unforgettable...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric
by I A Richards Publisher Comments Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application...
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No Mans Land Volume 1
by Sandra M Gilbert Publisher Comments With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In...
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Reading Group Handbook Rev Edition
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Twelfth Night (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by J. L. Roberts Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities, #10: Elmer Diktonius.
by George Schoolfield Publisher Comments The poems of Elmer Diktonius place him in the forefront of literary expressionism. His idylls and his novel give him high rank among Northern Europe's greatest literary innovators in the twentieth century. He has an unusual drama because of his ambiguous...
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A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer (Suny Series, Italian/American Studies)
by Anthony Julian Tamburri Publisher Comments Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally...
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The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
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Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism
by Joyce Ann Joyce Publisher Comments This book is the seminal work in literary criticism of African American writers. It was given the American Book Award for Literary Criticism in 1995. An important work for all students of Black literature....
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (Harvest Book)
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Literary Lovers: the Private and Public Passions of Famous Writers
by John Booth Publisher Comments Literary Lovers takes a light-hearted look at what authors have written on the expansive arena of love. Each writer is featured with a suitable quote from his or her work, accompanied by an illuminating analysis of that writer's love life....
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Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments The collapse of communism, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order, the nature of war, Holocaust denial, and virtual reality are among the many topics covered by Baudrillard, "a sharp-shooting, lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left" ("New York...
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Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications
by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for...
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Bronte's Jane Eyre (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Karin Jacobson Publisher Comments Question Victorian - and present-day - society as you study Charlotte Bronte' s popular novel with CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre. What is women' s position in society? What is the relationship of dreams and fantasy to reality? What is the basis of an...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (MAXnotes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Christopher A. Hubert Synopsis MAXnotes. . . - offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature - present material in an interesting, lively fashion - are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects - are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various...
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On Signs
by Marshall Blonsky Publisher Comments "Blonsky has grouped numerous original and newly translated works by those who have been highly visible forces in semiotic circles... His book functions as a unified voice proclaiming the power of semiotics to reveal the hidden practices and secrets of...
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Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish
by Myles Weber Publisher Comments An exploration of literary celebrity and the cultural place of authors who do not publish....
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