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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narratthe Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Ive (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Audrey A. Fisch  Publisher Comments The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American...
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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
by Helen Vendler Publisher Comments The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms,...
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The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
by Oxford Publisher Comments Many of the anecdotes in this volume offer revealing insights into writers' personalities, their frailties and insecurities. Some are funny, often explosively so, while others are touching, sinister, or downright weird. They show writers in the English...
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Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 (90 Edition)
by Friedrich A. Kittler Publisher Comments This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between...
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A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life
by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404) and index....
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The Wizard of Oz Catalog: L. Frank Baums Novel, Its Sequels and Their Adaptations for Stage, Television, Movies, Radio, Music Videos, Comic Book
by Fraser A. Sherman Publisher Comments This book provides synopses and basic bibliographical information for the 40 Oz books in the original series and a number of related books by the Royal Historians of Oz; synopses and credits for live performances, radio shows, performances on audiobook...
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Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner
by Merrill Magu Skaggs Publisher Comments "Axes" traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962. When those texts are juxtaposed and examined carefully, the two writers seem intensely conscious of, and responsive to, each...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Oxford Publisher Comments With over 1,000 entries, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms contains all of the most taxing literary terms that readers may come across. Clear and entertaining explanations are given for words such as multi-accentuality, postmodernism, and...
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John Irving: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers,)
by Josie P. Campbell Publisher Comments One of America's most noted contemporary novelists, John Irving has created a body of fiction of extraordinary range, moving with ease from romance to fairytale to thriller. Although his fiction follows in the tradition of the great 19th-century world...
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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (Material Texts)
by Meredith Mcgill Publisher Comments The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary...
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Five Faces of Modernity
by Matei Calinescu Publisher Comments The author discusses with remarkable insight and subtlety the complex relationships among concepts which are commonly used but rarely precisely defined...in doing so, he makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship and criticism....
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Understanding Flannery O'Connor (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
by Margaret Earley Whitt Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-247) and index....
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Poetry : Pocket Anthology (5TH 07 Edition)
by R. Gwynn Publisher Comments This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology features more than 250 poems, presenting a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to Cathy Song and Sherman Alexie. Chronologically organized within each genre, the diverse...
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The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed
by John Ray Knott Publisher Comments A collection of prose and poetry that celebrates the river and our...
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Lectures on Literature (80 Edition)
by Vladimir Nabokov Publisher Comments For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and...
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Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
by Deena Metzger Publisher Comments Chapter One What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us. -- Gaston Bachelard There was a little girl who, when she was three years old...
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Any Day
by Henry Mitchell Book News Annotation Mitchell, who died in 1993, was a columnist for the Washington Post and author of two gardening books. This collection of whimsical general interest columns and feature stories ranges broadly over subjects both ridiculous and sublime. Includes b&w...
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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction
by Dale Peck Publisher Comments Since the publication of Hatchet Jobs, the groves of literary criticism have echoed with the clatter of steel on wood. From heated panels at BookExpo America in Chicago to contretemps at writers' watering holes in New York, voices--even fists--have been...
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Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream: Contemporary Cowboy Writing
by Robert Mcdowell Synopsis In his groundbreaking essay "Can Poetry Matter?" (reprinted here), Dana Gioia suggested that many types of poetry, assumed by some readers to be marginal art, should not so easily be deleted from mainstream American literature. Throughout the twentieth...
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Jane Austen Miscellany (06 Edition)
by Lesley Bolton Publisher Comments Jane Austen is the most popular author in the English language....
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