eBooks List For Item American - General
Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
- ISBN:
- 0385422776
- Authors:
- Michael Jackson
The pop superstar presents a collection of twenty inspirational poems and twenty essays that discuss such issues as world hunger, homeless children, and the need for world peace. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere
- ISBN:
- 006170363X
- Authors:
- Charlie Todd, Alex Scordelis
A fake U2 concert. A deranged hypnotist. A book signing by a dead author. Welcome to the wild world of Improv Everywhere. From the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age. In Causing a Scene , the group's agents provide a hilarious firsthand account of their mischievous antics. Learn how they created a time...
Evangelical Theories of Biblical Inspiration: A Review and Proposal
- ISBN:
- 019504911X
- Authors:
- Kern Robert Trembath
The inspiration of the Bible is central to Christian faith, yet there is no general agreement on the nature of this inspiration. In this provocative book, Kern Robert Trembath reviews seven major evangelical explanations of inspiration and demonstrates that all either view the Bible itself as the actual recipient of inspiration or explain biblical authority on grounds more appropriate to the doctrine of God--in effect investing the Bible with...
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
- ISBN:
- 019507775X
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus...
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age
- ISBN:
- 0195146328
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the contributors to this volume attempt to bridge the two decades-old gap between scholars and critics who hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. By exploring some of the ways in...
Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art
- ISBN:
- 0300115032
- Authors:
- Prof. Judith L. Sensibar
This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life—his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Estelle Oldham. In this new exploration of Faulkner’s creative process, Judith L. Sensibar discovers that these women’s relationships with Faulkner were not simply close; they gave life to his...
Early Modern Tragicomedy (Studies in Renaissance Literature)
- ISBN:
- 1843841304
Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- to the origins of mixed genre in English, to...
Reader's Guide to Literature in English (Reader's guide series)
- ISBN:
- 1884964206
- Authors:
- Hawkins-DaDy
Reader's Guides are not encyclopedias or dictionaries; they are guides to reading in particular subject. Their aim is to evaluate the secondary material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on hundreds of specific topics. Reader's Guide Literature in EnglishN provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801885507
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801886171
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
- ISBN:
- 0803259786
- Authors:
- Ted Kooser
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual , Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and...
Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook (Casebook in Contemporary Fiction)
- ISBN:
- 0195107969
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical...
The Oxford Book of American Poetry
- ISBN:
- 019516251X
- Authors:
- David Lehman
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often witty head note introducing each author, it is certain to become the definitive anthology of American poetry for our time. Lehman has gathered...
Mark Twain Speaking
- ISBN:
- 1587294680
Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.
Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies
- ISBN:
- 1599048612
- Authors:
- Lori Lockyer
Designing effective learning experiences is a significant challenge for educators. While there is a wide range of expert advice available for technology supported teaching and learning, translating theories and good practice principles into practice can be a daunting task. The Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies provides an overview of current research and development activity in...
Benjamin Franklin (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)
- ISBN:
- 1604131357
Benjamin Franklin was one of the most dynamic figures in early American history, publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac" as well as several other works. When not writing or editing, Franklin conducted scientific experiments, established many local and national institutions, and led diplomatic missions. This new volume in the "Bloom's Classic Critical Views" series features compelling essays from the 19th and 20th centuries that give students...
No Such Country: Essays toward Home (Sightline Books)
- ISBN:
- 0877457964
- Authors:
- Elmar Lueth
No Such Country explores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth...
A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900 - 1950 (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 1405133678
An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction. Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora...
The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century
- ISBN:
- 0745321984
- Authors:
- Scott Lucas
Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has been canonised as England's foremost political writer, and the standard-bearer of honesty and decency for the honourable 'Left'. In this controversial polemic, Scott Lucas argues that the exaltation of Orwell, far from upholding dissent against the State, has sought to quash such opposition. Indeed, Orwell has become the icon of those who, in the pose of the contrarian, try to silence public opposition...
In the Mind's Eye: Essays across the Animate World
- ISBN:
- 0803215665
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Dodd
In this collection of exquisite essays, Elizabeth Dodd explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the Mind’s Eye considers the artistic and creative impulses of those who preceded us, making sense of the different ways in which they—and we—express our experiences of landscape in words and images. Hiking to find...
Women Writing Women: The Frontiers Reader
- ISBN:
- 0803273363
By merging scholarly writing with personal life stories, Women Writing Women creates a new setting for communicating the unique experiences of women. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume, incorporating authors' ideas on identity, gender, and social realities, illuminates a rich diversity of experiences. To give voice to the different realities women live in and write from, the editors have divided the anthology into four sections: writing...
T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration
- ISBN:
- 0521841232
- Authors:
- Richard Badenhausen
Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot's works from the earliest poetry and unpublished prose to the late plays. He demonstrates Eliot's dependence on collaboration in order to create, but also his struggle to accept the implications of the process. In case-studies of Eliot's collaborations, Badenhausen reveals the complexities of Eliot's theory and practice of...
Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism
- ISBN:
- 0195076931
- Authors:
- Vincent Sherry
Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American *odernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual...
The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man
- ISBN:
- 0195080858
- Authors:
- Paul Morrison
Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency...
The Great War and the Language of Modernism
- ISBN:
- 0195101766
- Authors:
- Vincent Sherry
With the expressions ""Lost Generation"" and ""The Men of 1914,"" the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction?...
Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed
- ISBN:
- 0300104464
- Authors:
- Joel Porte
Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America’s foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protégé. The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and...
Improving Literacy in America: Guidelines from Research (Current Perspectives in Psychology)
- ISBN:
- 0300106459
- Authors:
- Dr. Frederick J. Morrison, Dr. Heather J. Bachman, Dr. Carol McDonald Connor
An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in “silver bullet” solutions such as reducing class size or implementing voucher programs. But as the authors of this critically important book show, improving literacy also requires an understanding of complex and interrelated social issues that shape a child’s...