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Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Approaches to Writing)
by Greg Fraser  Publisher Comments Writing Poetry combines an accessible introduction to the essential elements of the craft, with a critical awareness of its underpinnings. The authors argue that separating the making of poems from critical thinking about them is a false divide and...
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Twayne's Masterworks Studies #174: Atlas Shrugged
by Mimi Reisel Gladstein Publisher Comments Author and Rand scholar, Mimi Gladstein, brings the novel sharply into focus in this "Twayne Masterworks" volume. She explores Rand's personal history and the development of her unique philosophy, and takes a look at the critical reception of "Atlas...
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The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois (Cambridge Companions to American Studies)
by Shamoon Zamir Publisher Comments W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century
by Raymond Macdonald Alden Publisher Comments 1917. This volume undertakes to give a sufficient body of prose readings for the use of those engaged in the general study of English literature in the period in question. In the nineteenth century, however, the mass of material is so great that it...
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Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum
by Rachel Feldhay Brenner Publisher Comments In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain their faith in humanity while aware of intensifying...
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The Bnctp: Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher Comments Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter explores the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek...
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The Outside Child in and Out of the Book
by Christine Wilkie-stibbs Publisher Comments EM The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book /EM is situated at the intersection between children's literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children...
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The Plants of Middle-Earth: Botany and Sub-Creation
by Dinah Hazell Publisher Comments Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-earth connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. Tolkien's use of...
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Lawrence at Tregerthen
by C. J. Stevens Publisher Comments An examination of a little-known period in D. H. Lawrence's career when, during World War I, he and his wife were suspected of spying for the German crews operating off the Cornish coast. Complimented by several previously unpublished photographs....
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Appalachia Inside Out Volume 2: Culture and Custom
by Robert J. Higgs Publisher Comments The two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors-fiction writers, poets, scholars in disciplines such as history...
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Langston Hughes and the Blues
by Steven C. Tracy Publisher Comments Drawing on a deep understanding of the shades and structures of the blues, Steven C. Tracy elucidates the vital relationship between this musical form and the art of Langston Hughes, preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Tracy provides a cultural...
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The Holy Grail: History, Legend and Symbolism
by Arthur Edward Waite Publisher Comments The Grail quest is the centerpiece of Arthurian literature — and here is the legend's most informative and profound exploration. The famed scholar and occultist draws upon Malory's Morte D'Arthur and other medieval sources to reveal the myth's true...
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Dostoevsky's "The Devils": A Critical Companion (Northwestern/Aatseel Critical Companions to Russian Literature)
by William J. Leatherbarrow Publisher Comments The Devils is one of Dostoevsky's four major novels -- and the most openly political of his works. Known by several names, including The Demons and The Possessed, this novel often anchors courses on Dostoevsky's works. This critical companion contains...
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A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Historical Guides to American Authors)
by Shelley Fis Fishkin Publisher Comments Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A...
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Lightsleep
by Matthew S. Batham Synopsis Lightsleep is the first book fr children by Matthe Batham. It is about Damon Dodge who is a brat. One Saturday, bored and looking to create trouble, he lights a match and learns the hard way that matches can be dangerous. Rescued by a strange man wearing...
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Longfellow Redux
by Christoph Irmscher Publisher Comments The time has come to take another look at Longfellow. Christoph Irmscher's new book overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food. Examining his unpublished papers alongside letters written by Longfellow...
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Latin Literature (Dodo Press)
by John William Mackail Synopsis John William Mackail (1859 -1945) was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer. He was born in Ascog on the Isle of Bute, Strathclyde. In his early career he...
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Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
by Mark A. Wollaeger Publisher Comments Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the...
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Boundaries in Medieval Romance (Studies in Medieval Romance)
by Neil (edt) Cartlidge Publisher Comments Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also...
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Jane Austen and the Theatre
by Penny Gay Publisher Comments Jane Austen was fascinated by theater from her childhood, but the myth remains that she was anti-theatrical. Contemporary film and television have shown how naturally dramatic her stories are. Penny Gay's book describes for the first time the rich...
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