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Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal
by Rob Riemen  Publisher Comments In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit...
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The Richard Wright Encyclopedia
by Jerry W., Jr. (edt) Ward Publisher Comments Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. He is also one of the most prolific. Best known as the author of Native Son, he wrote 7 novels; 2 collections of short fiction; an autobiography; more than 250 newspaper articles, book...
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What Is Honor?: A Question of Moral Imperatives
by Alexander Welsh Publisher Comments What is honor? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behavior? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honor and dismisses the idea that we...
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The Art of Being Human
by Richard Janaro Synopsis Perfect for anyone interested in the ways the Humanities can broaden perspectives, enhance one's ability to think critically, and enrich one's life. This book is organized by themes: religion; morality; happiness; love; death and life affirmation...
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Psychoanalytic Responses to Childrens Literature
by Lucy Rollin Publisher Comments With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism has taken its place alongside other forms as an important contribution to literary interpretation. Despite its tendency to make readers uncomfortable, it offers insights...
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Book Lover's Page-A-Day Calendar
by Workman Publishing Synopsis Packed with hundreds of great reads, Book Lover's is the calendar that keeps you reading. So many books to choose from: "In a Dry Season," Peter Robinson's beautifully crafted mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales. From Diane Ackerman, a fascinating probe...
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The Poems of Mao Zedong
by Zedong Mao Synopsis Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition...
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Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
by La Vinia Delois Jennings Publisher Comments Toni Morrison's fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work. Based on extensive research into West...
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Cicero: Catilinarians (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Cicero Publisher Comments Commentary for students on the four speeches delivered by Cicero during the crisis of 63 BC....
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Das Ende Des Anthropozentrismus: Anthropologie Und Geschichtskritik in Der Deutschen Literatur Zwischen 1930 Und 1950 (Quellen Und Forschungen Zur Literatur- Und Kulturgeschichte)
by Gregor Streim Synopsis In German literature and philosophy of the 1930s and 1940s we encounter recurrent images and modes of thought of an ahistoric existence. There were attempts to turn away from modern rationalism and re-think Man as a being not determined by intellect...
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Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Susan Bernstein Publisher Comments In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into...
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Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative)
by Hilary Dannenberg Publisher Comments In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least...
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The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation
by Brad Hooper Publisher Comments As a short-story writer, Alice Munro has achieved high critical and popular regard in both her native Canada and in the United States. Indeed, Munro has been adopted by the entire English-speaking world as one of its own, and her work has received many...
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The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region
by Ron Mcfarland Publisher Comments The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have revealed themselves as a respectable literary genre, distinct with an inimitable literary voice and a unique capacity to intersect narration...
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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
by Daphne Lamothe Publisher Comments It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the...
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Loeb Classical Library #505: The Learned Banqueters: Volume IV: Books 8-10
by Athenaeus Publisher Comments In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a...
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Middle Ages)
by Sahar Amer Publisher Comments Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a...
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A History of the Munster Anabaptists: Inner Emigration and the Third Reich: A Critical Edition of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Bockelson: A Tale of
by George B. Von Der (trn) Lippe Publisher Comments A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Münster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime. This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays...
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A Companion To Narrative Theory
by James (edt) Phelan Publisher Comments The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field Includes contributions from...
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer
by Isobel Hurst Synopsis Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied...
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