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Gillespie, Carmen.
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813.54 23
Publication Date
2012
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Collin, Matthew.
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306.1 22
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2009
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Nischik, Reingard M.
Call Number
C818.5409
Publication Date
2009
Summary
Analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Margaret Atwood's works. This title approaches Atwood's oeuvre by genre - poetry, prose poetry and short fictions, short stories, novels, criticism, comics, and Atwood's involvement with film - and examines them chapter by chapter.
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Spivack, Kathleen.
Call Number
811.54
Publication Date
2012
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"A memoir of a famous poetry circle. In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell. Her fellow students were Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, among others. Thus began a relationship with the famous poet and his circle that would last to the end of his life in 1977 and beyond. Spivack presents a lovingly rendered story of her time among some of the most esteemed artists of a generation. Part memoir, part loose collection of anecdotes, artistic considerations, and soulful yet clear-eyed reminiscences of a lost time and place, hers is an intimate portrait of the often suffering Lowell, the great and near great artists he attracted, his teaching methods, his private world, and the significant legacy he left to his students. Through the story of a youthful artist finding her poetic voice among literary giants, Spivack thoughtfully considers how poets work. She looks at friendships, addiction, despair, perseverance and survival, and how social changes altered lives and circumstances. This is a beautifully written portrait of friends who loved and lived words, and made great beauty together. A touching and deeply revealing look into the lives and thoughts of some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, With Robert Lowell and His Circle will appeal to writers, students, and thoughtful literary readers, as well as to scholars."--Project Muse.
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Attree, Lizzy.
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809.896 22
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2010
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Manguel, Alberto, author.
Call Number
808.397 23
Publication Date
2019
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An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and the world itself. Manguel's favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn, Phoebe from The Catcher in the Rye, Job and Jonah from the Bible, Little Red Riding Hood and Captain Nemo, Hamlet's mother, and Dr. Frankenstein's maligned Monster. Sharing his unique powers as a reader, Manguel encourages us to establish our own literary relationships. An intimate preface and Manguel's own "doodles" complete this delightful and magical book.
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Pettersen, Tove.
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843.9 23
Publication Date
2015
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This collection of humanist readings of Simone de Beauvoir¿́¿s work is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It demonstrates the significance and value of humanistic research through the work of Beauvoir, and argues that the reception and influence of her works demonstrate the transformative potential of humanistic research. Organized around three topics, each chapter ascertains Beauvoir¿́¿s relation to the humanities and the humanist tradition. The first group focuses on Beauvoir¿́¿s interdisciplinary methodology and critical thinking, the second on her ethics of freedom and the construction of values. The last section explores how Beauvoir uses literature as a laboratory for developing her ideas on human interaction. The chapters can be studied as independent essays, or read together as a whole. Simone de Beauvoir¿́¿A Humanist Thinker reveals new and previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir¿́¿s work by exposing her as a significant and inspiring humanist thinker. This volume attests that Beauvoir¿́¿s works continue to offer conceptual tools and insights enabling readers to critically analyze their own situation. In today¿́¿s world, where religious fanaticism and totalitarian ideologies are gaining ground, humanist values and humanistic research are more important than ever.
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Jameson, Michael H., author.
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292.08 23
Publication Date
2014
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"This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original publications in two ways: firstly, it makes the articles more accessible; and secondly, the volume offers readers a unique opportunity to observe that over almost five decades of scholarship Jameson developed a distinctive method, a signature style, a particular perspective, a way of looking that could perhaps be fittingly called a 'Jamesonian approach' to the study of Greek religion. This approach, recognizable in each article individually, becomes unmistakable through the concentration of papers collected here. The particulars of the Jamesonian approach are insightfully discussed in the five introductory essays written for this volume by leading world authorities on polis religion"--
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Murphy, Emily A., author.
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810.99282 23
Publication Date
2020
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"Growing Up with America is a study of the relationship between national myths and the figure of the child, using young adult literature and American studies scholarship. Murphy considers how a set of Cold War-era literary critics used the child to give shape to abstract ideas regarding national identity. Known as myth and symbol critics, they found specific recurring themes in American literature and culture they believed helped forge American national identity. While partially intended to bolster national pride during the Cold War, this myth-gathering also represented each critic's individual attempt to the answer the question: "What does it mean to be an American?" Their work was thus representative of a search for a national narrative that could satisfactorily answer this question. They drew upon cultural conceptions of childhood such as innocence and vulnerability in order to better explain the divine mission of the United States during the tumultuous post-WWII period, and, in doing so, made innocent the colonial exploits of a nation that has resisted being labeled an empire. This project therefore takes as its point of departure the creation and validation of national myths that emerged from the myth and symbol school and charts the literary response to these myths from the 1950s to the present. Murphy uses a variety of types of sources, from newspapers, to 1940s literary criticism, to American Studies scholarship, to contemporary literature. She looks at literature both produced for and by children and young adults, as well as literature which features children and young adults as main characters. Her work complicates the traditional views of children in the US in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. She pushes the boundaries of young adult literature and discusses mainstream classic and contemporary titles that feature young adults (Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita, Karen O. Russel's Swamplandia!; Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides); works published prior to the formal establishment of the YA genre (Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye); and seminal young adult books that shook the genre out of complacency (M.T. Anderson's Feed, Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes)"--
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Dedman, Stephen.
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813.08762090000005
Publication Date
2016
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"Science fiction and the U.S. military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Some science fiction creators willingly cooperated with the military; others were conscripted. Some have used the genre as a forum for protest. This book examines the relationship between the U.S. military and science fiction through more than 80 years of novels, comics, films and television series"--
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Cazacu, Matei, author.
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949.8014092
Publication Date
2017
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