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A collection of essays and stories showcasing one of America's most insightful thinkers at his best Featuring both short stories and critical pieces, The Death of Picasso exhibits the versatility and innovative thinking that drives all of Guy Davenport's work. As a critic, he takes on topics such as Ruskin's life and influences and Benson Bobrick's history of English versions of the Bible, through which Davenport explores how translation has affected...
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This comprehensive 1901 history spans the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, with a sharp regional focus on New England, the Middle States, and the South; it also contains in-depth critical biographies of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman.
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The Simian World looks at man's simian characteristics. Day speculates on how man might have been better off if we had evolved from ants, bees, dogs cats, or even elephants. Clarence Day travels back in time to examine the species existing after the great saurians had been swept from the earth. Day's use of gentle satire helps make this book a delightful book to ponder.
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"The founding idea of "America" has been based largely on the expected sweeping away of Native Americans to make room for EuroAmericans and their cultures. In this authoritative study, David L. Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, since the nation's early days, to redefine an "America" and "American identity" that includes Native Americans. That Dream Shall Have a Name focuses on the writing of Pequot...
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"Latina/o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latina/o. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latina/o"--
30) Little big bully
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"Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does to people, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and how experiencing misogyny and sexual abuse can make a person...
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"Often treated like night itself--both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized--Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the United States. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the United States, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside the United States. She takes...
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John Hodder is the new rector at St. John's, a church in a fashionable section of town that isn't so far away from the misery of poverty-stricken Dalton Street. It doesn't take Hodder long to discover the true nature of his supposedly pious congregation. Primary among them is Eldon Parr, a bank president whose daughter, Alison, leaves to perform settlement work. Eldon's son, Preston, has deserted the family because of his father's treatment of the...
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Freeman's anthologies volume 3
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"In the summer of 1977, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. This was twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to make a record of the history of Beat Literature....
35) A far country
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American National Development series volume 6
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This is a story of the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood. The phrase "a far country" is from the Biblical parable of the prodigal son who takes everything he is given and runs off to fulfill his own desires. Paret leaves Great Britain where he grew up and travels to America with his worldly goods while gathering up and refining other more useful talents which provide him the greater wealth of honor and a standard of excellence. Once in the...
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This 1907 utopian romance is the final volume in the trilogy that includes A traveler from Alturia (1894) and Letters of an Alturian traveler (1904). The novel takes the form of letters from the protagonist, Aristides Homos, to his friend Cyril. In New York City, Homos falls in love with Evelith Strange, a socialite whose lifestyle conflicts with her Christian values values that Homos could help her regain back in utopian Alturia, if she accepts his...
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a well-written and comprehensive survey of the whole field of American literature," this invaluable volume is an excellent resource on the subject. The author presents detailed biographical sketches of each writer-Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and James, among other greats-along with a critical assessment of the writer's work.
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Crown Books for Young Readers
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[2021]
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Dedham's Black History Month List: Art is Resistance! (Children's Titles)
Dedham's Black History Month List: Art is Resistance! (Children's Titles)
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"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--
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