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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
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
A Woman of No Importance A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is an… OL14877870W
Refashioning myth Refashioning myth Jessica L. Wilkinson ix, 311 p. : 22 cm OL16179366W
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
Death in literature Death in literature Robert F. Weir This book will show the richness and diversity of death as a subject in a variety of literary genres. Second, it will demonstrate the timelessness of the subject of death in literature, as evidence b… OL18181642W
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
Thriving on a riff Thriving on a riff David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity… OL18784718W
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
The art of confession The art of confession Christophár Grobe "The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, bu… OL19721988W
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Hollis Robbins "A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American W… OL19730955W
Authoring war Authoring war Catherine Mary McLoughlin "Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide … OL19829118W
The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature The Cambridge companion to American gay and lesbian literature Scott Herring "This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evol… OL20002714W
Imaginary cities Imaginary cities Darran Anderson 1 online resource (570 pages) OL20052786W
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
Jesus incognito Jesus incognito M. E. Brinkman Explores Christic themes in films: Babette's Feast, The Communicants, A Short Film About Love and Breaking the Waves ; in fiction and poetry: The Blood of the Lamb, Disgrace, The Jewish Messiah, "Eas… OL20956451W
Light from the Gentiles Light from the Gentiles Abraham J. Malherbe Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse… OL20957469W
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