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Only When They're Little : The Story of an Appalachian Family
A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day’s family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative. A middle class family liv…
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- 9781469638188
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- 800 DAY o
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articl…
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- 9789004299009
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- 328 halaman
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- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 58
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- 800 CON
Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal
“Personally,” Stephen Leacock declared in his preface toSunshine Sketches of a Little Town(1912), “I would sooner have writtenAlice in Wonderlandthan the wholeEncyclopedia Britannica.” Yet the worlds represented byAliceand theEncyclopedia, seemingly light years apart, are central to an understanding, appreciation, and assessment of the many worlds that commanded the attention of Stephen…
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- 9780776601809
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- 184 halaman
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- Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
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- 800 STA s
The Citizen's Voice : Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature
Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century’s greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. He observes the infamous characters ranging from Joseph K from Franz Kafka’s The Trial to Ralph from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies to Chauncey Gardiner from Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There and beyond while…
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- 9781552386699
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- 800 KER c
Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature
Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicit…
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- 9780824831950
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- 800 XUW e
Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores…
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- 9781934843680
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- 800 LEV e
Disability, Literature, Genre : Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fic…
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape i…
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- 9781789620771
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- Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
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- 800 CHE d
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women…
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of …
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- 9781786940780
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- 800 JUA d
Dickens's London : Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that co…
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- 9780748640409
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- 272 halaman
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- 800 WOL d
Death and the Pearl Maiden : Plague, Poetry, England
Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight—as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
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- 9780814213902
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