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A reader's guide to Gary Soto's Taking sides A reader's guide to Gary Soto's Taking sides Jen Jones "An introduction to Gary Soto's novel Taking sides for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literar… OL11733173W
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
The Cambridge history of the American novel The Cambridge history of the American novel Leonard Cassuto "This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. I… OL15456711W
Political issues in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series Political issues in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series Dedria Bryfonski The overwhelming popularity of the Harry Potter books has prompted many people to ask: Why are they so popular among children? In addition, many of those who have probed the Harry Potter books for de… OL17763873W
The feminine "no!" The feminine "no!" Todd McGowan "The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon. Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated c… OL18317547W
Portals of power Portals of power Lori M. Campbell "This critical work explores the role of the portal in fantasy, investigating ways in which magical nexus points, and movement between worlds, are used to illustrate real-world power dynamics. Throug… OL18352801W
The short story The short story Paul March-Russell An introduction to the history, culture, aesthetics and economics of the short story. The book pays attention to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-America… OL18708404W
Kim Stanley Robinson maps the unimaginable Kim Stanley Robinson maps the unimaginable William J. Burling "These essays examine Robinson's use of alternate history and politics, both in his many novels and in his short stories. This collection, drawn from writers on four continents, includes five new ess… OL18760870W
This world is not conclusion This world is not conclusion Lisa MacFarlane vi pages, 293 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm OL18959191W
A reader's guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god A reader's guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god Laura Baskes Litwin "An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices an… OL1942324W
Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume Jennifer O'Connell Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of es… OL19939819W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
Science Fiction Rebels Science Fiction Rebels Michael Ashley This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines.The period saw the emergence of … OL20134384W
Republic of Imagination Republic of Imagination Azar Nafisi Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she tau… OL21101437W
A reader's guide to Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street A reader's guide to Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street Ann Angel "An introduction to Sandra Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and tech… OL4093373W
Taylored lives Taylored lives Martha Banta Scientific management: Technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries pride… OL4310373W
Scene of the crime Scene of the crime David Geherin "Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. After an introductory chapter dealing with general conside… OL4638538W
Johnny Tremain and the American Revolution Johnny Tremain and the American Revolution Corona Brezina Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Esther Forbes' novel, Johnny Tremain, for which she won a Newbery Award in 1943--just a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her first nov… OL5702583W
The word rides again The word rides again J. David Stevens "With much recent scholarship polarizing frontier novels into "popular" and "literary" camps, The Word Rides Again challenges the critical orthodoxy that such works have little in common, arguing ins… OL5836678W
The Secret Garden The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. OL69612W
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