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Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte
Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte
by Maureen Adams
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“Youll call this sentimental—perhaps—but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this... (read more)

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Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
by Catriona Kelly
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Catriona Kelly takes an enlightening and nontraditional approach to exploring Russia's unique literary traditions. Rather than proceeding chronologically, she uses Pushkin as the central figure in Russia's literary genesis and analyzes how this “... (read more)

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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
by Eugene Walter
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“I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.” -- Eugene Walter Eugene Walter was the best-known man you’ve never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of “the ripened heart of life,”... (read more)

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The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West
The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West
by Dale W Nelson
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This biography follows the career of Swallow (1915-1966) from his early days as a poet, to his pioneering work as a publisher in Colorado. Nelson, a reporter with the Associated Press for forty years and the author of numerous books, argues that... (read more)

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From Birdwomen to Skygirls: American Girls' Aviation Stories
From Birdwomen to Skygirls: American Girls' Aviation Stories
by Fred Erisman
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Close on the heels of the American public’s early enthusiasm over the airplane came aviation stories for the young. From 1910 until the early 1960s, they exalted flight and painted the airplane as the most modern and adventuresome of machines. Most... (read more)

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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
by Robert B Silvers
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Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more)

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Image in Outline: Reading Lou Andreas-Salom (New Directions in German Studies)
Image in Outline: Reading Lou Andreas-Salom (New Directions in German Studies)
by Gisela Brinker Gabler
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This new study introduces the reader into Lou Andreas-Salomé's critical and creative engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines Andreas-Salomé's unique... (read more)

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The Rhetoric of English India
The Rhetoric of English India
by Sara Suleri
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Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a... (read more)

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The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
by Edmund Wilson
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This is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties and it is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade.... (read more)

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
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A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this story of race, identity, and the American dream. Broyard tries to make sense of her father's choices and the impact of his revelation on her own life.... (read more)

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Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists
Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists
by H Nigel Thomas
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Poetry. Fiction. Essays. In WHY WE WRITE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AFRICAN CANADIAN POETS AND NOVELISTS, fifteen leading African Canadian writers interview with editor H Nigel Thomas, discussing the complexities of the writing experience and revealing their... (read more)

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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
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A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael... (read more)

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The Devil Kissed Her
The Devil Kissed Her
by Kathy Watson
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Kathy Watson explores Mary Lamb's famous crime and her remarkable relationship with her brother Charles. Author Mary Lamb, long considered by historians a mere adjunct to her brother Charles, was a woman of contradictions: fiercely domestic yet unmarried;... (read more)

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Cinematograph of Words: Literature, Technique & Modernization in Brazil
Cinematograph of Words: Literature, Technique & Modernization in Brazil
by Flora Sussekind
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A study of the relationship between literature , technology and professionalism in Latin American literature.... (read more)

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Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002
Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002
by Melanie R Benson
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In Thomas Wolfes Look Homeward, Angel, Margaret Leonard says, “Never mind about algebra here. Thats for poor folks. Theres no need for algebra where two and two make five.” Moments of mathematical reckoning like this pervade twentieth-century... (read more)

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Cavalier History of Surrealism
Cavalier History of Surrealism
by Francois Dupuis
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Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. What was living and what was dead in Surrealism? This collection responds to this question unequivocally, examining not only the artistic aspects of surrealism, but its political aspects. If there is any truth to the... (read more)

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Uses of Literary History
Uses of Literary History
by Marshall Brown
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In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary specialties and approaches, these essays illustrate and debate... (read more)

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Contributions in American Studies #33: New World Journeys: Contemporary Italian Writers and the Experience of America
Contributions in American Studies #33: New World Journeys: Contemporary Italian Writers and the Experience of America
by Angela M. Jeannet
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It is always fascinating to read what Europeans think of us, and this highly perceptive collection of short, sharp, candid Italian reactions--primarily from the 1930s, 1950s, and early 1960s--indicates that America's mythic and cultural impact is still... (read more)

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History of Japanese Literature #02: World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
History of Japanese Literature #02: World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
by Donald Keene
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The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's... (read more)

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Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
by Edgard Sankara
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Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-section of postcolonial francophone writing from Africa and the Caribbean in order to examine and compare for the first time their transnational reception.... (read more)

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