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Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902 Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902 Theodore Dreiser "Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. In this volume, liberally seasoned with period… OL100193W
Irony Irony D. C. Muecke Nature of irony - Sarcasm - Impersonal irony - Self-disparaging irony - Ingenu irony - Irony of self-betrayal - Irony of simple incongruity - Dramatic irony - General irony - Romantic irony. OL10472449W
Essai sur la langue de la reclame contemporaine Essai sur la langue de la reclame contemporaine Marcel Galliot Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own a… OL1161514W
Rhyming reason Rhyming reason Michelle Faubert During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto little -known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical c… OL12642887W
L' epica perduta L' epica perduta Andrea Debiasi 311 pages : 24 cm OL13074354W
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
Seven arrows Seven arrows Hyemeyohsts Storm Heavily illustrated with photographs of Plains Indians and animals, diagrams of religious symbols, drawings of medicine belts, and color plates and drawings of shields. OL15151794W
Smoke rising Smoke rising Joseph Bruchac,Sharon Malinowski,Janet Witalec In Smoke Rising, Abenaki author and editor Joseph Bruchac has brought together an impressive sample of the work of some of the most important voices in contemporary Native literature. The key to a… OL15833222W
Imagined London Imagined London Anna Quindlen "This book is a tale of three cities: the fictional London that lives in the pages of writers from Shakespeare to P. D. James and Martin Amis; the historical metropolis where so many immortal authors… OL15854409W
Renegade Poetics Renegade Poetics Evie Shockley Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s <em>Renegade Poetics</em> separates what we think … OL15916935W
Afterimages of slavery Afterimages of slavery Marlene D. Allen,Seretha D. Williams "Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The essays in this coll… OL16531669W
The Oxford classical dictionary The Oxford classical dictionary Simon Hornblower "Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerou… OL16558440W
Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H. "During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar… OL16939783W
The slave's narrative The slave's narrative Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Charles T. Davis The autobiographical narratives of black ex-slaves published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constitute the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. Black slaves in … OL16944053W
Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature David Patterson,Alan L. Berger "This encyclopedia presents the lives and works of 128 writers whose contributions lend significant first-generation understanding to the Holocaust. Arranged by author, entries provide a biographical… OL18169130W
Encyclopedia of Latin American literature Encyclopedia of Latin American literature Verity Smith "Invaluable for translators as well as scholars, students, and teachers. Bibliography following each entry includes information about work in translation; numerous lesser-known writers and countries … OL18302715W
Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century Donald Keene This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems. OL18398235W
Beyond adaptation Beyond adaptation Phyllis Frus "Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their so… OL18653290W
Believing again Believing again Lundin, Roger. In Believing Again Roger Lundin explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking… OL18685988W
Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany Sheila Delany "Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination thr… OL18923307W
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