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Writers under surveillance :the FBI files
FBI files on writers with dangerous ideas, including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin. Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them--to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under Surveillance gathers some of these files, giving readers a surveillance-state pe…
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- 9780262350693
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- 1 online resource (400 pages).
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Twelve entanglements :tomorrow's lovers, families, and friends
"Anthology of original science fiction short stories, published in conjunction with the MIT Technology Review"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359344
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The men in my life
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National B…
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- 9780262274104
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages).
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A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology.
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- 9780262269261
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- 1 online resource (396 pages).
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Re:skin
"In re:skin, scholars, essayists, and short stort writers offer their perspectives on skin--as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality."--Dust jacket front flap.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272773
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 356 pages) :illustrations
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A History of African American Poetry
African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop, Lauri Ramey traces African American poetry from slave songs to today's award-winning poets. Covering a wide range of styles and forms, canonical figures l…
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A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South Am…
In 1804 when W. B. Stevenson (fl. 1803–25) arrived on the small island of Mocha, just off the coast of South America, he stepped onto a continent on the brink of mass revolution. Over the next twenty years, he had an extraordinary range of experiences: as a traveller, a Spanish government official, a prisoner, and as secretary to an ex-Royal Navy admiral turned revolutionary. In this three-vo…
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- 9781139060592
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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Henry James' Europe : Heritage and Transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction.
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- 9781906924386
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- 316 halaman
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The Myths That Made America : An Introduction to American Studies
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made…
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- 9783837614855
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- 456 halaman
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- American Culture Studies
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Melting Pots & Mosaics : Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative appr…
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