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Series
Approaches to teaching world literature volume 94
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an...
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1949
Language
English
Description
"All categories of folk tales are represented: Märchen, legends, myths, jests and drolls, fabliaux, fairy tales, fables, tall tales; dramatic, romantic, and fantastic tales; ghost stories and animal stories; moral tales and mystery stories. The prime requisite which Mr. Rugoff kept in mind was readability. Next was variety. During the years in which he has been working on this volume he has read about 20,000 stories. Another criterion was that the...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"William Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures--including a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New York--and an already long history of drug use and arrests. He would remain in Mexico...
2148) Carmen Sandiego: Vol. 1
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the dome of the Taj Mahal is stolen, then a dinosaur skeleton from the Smithsonian, Zack and Ivy track Carmen to Komodo Island. There, they discover she is bent on creating the world's only living dinosaur - for a one-of-a-kind pet.
When Mark Twain's writing desk and Charles Dickens' ink well are stolen, the detectives track Carmen to Rudyard Kipling's India. There, they deduce that the thefts can mean only one thing. Carmen is going to pen...
Author
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A guide to this seasonʼs joyous celebration and solemn worship, including folk customs, religious observances, history, legends, folklore, symbols, and related days from Europe, the Americas, and around the world. This reference work contains more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries that cover all aspects of Easter, Carnival, and Lent. These entries cover the holidayʼs history, myths, legends, customs, religious observances, related holidays,...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cats: The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and Bombalurina, Demeter, Alonzo, Mr. Mistoffelees, and others....
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
2158) Fables of Æsop
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
"This book combines the 1692 translation of the Fables by English journalist Sir Roger L'Estrange with 50 drawings created especially as illustration for the tales by American sculptor, painter, and illustrator Alexander Calder. ... Two hundred and one of the traditional fables are narrated here"--Page 4 of cover.
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