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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Daughters of Emptiness
Author: Beata GrantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861713621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The author has performed a great service in recovering and translating the enchanting poems and talks of twenty nuns from the period 1600 to 1850.
O Pioneers!
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9181080794
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A Rose for Ecclesiastes
Author: Roger ZelaznyPublisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9780586029206
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
Author: Ron PadgettPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.
National Union Catalog
Author: No Future
Author: Lee EdelmanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself. Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers.
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Gulf
Author: Cody SmithPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1680032038
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Gulf is one part ode and one part elegy to Smith’s Louisiana. It is a book that, all at once, questions, praises, and eulegizes its muse. Smith’s poetry works to elevate people, places, and things that are often looked over as unpoetic. Trailers, pickups, catfish, menial labor thread through Gulf. But ultimately, the book revolves around family and home. It moves back and forth between innocence and experience, the idyllic and tragic. In Gulf, the past shapes the poet, yet the poet, through so much that has been lost, has little else to access a past other than memory. Ultimately, Gulf becomes a reckoning with memory. These poems are the work of a poet leaving and losing his home, his family, his way of life. But they are not merely past-centric. Loss is a centrifugal force, an inciting incident that leads to the question,what is on the other side? What is left of a state that every year falls farther into the Gulf of Mexico? What is left when the poet moves three thousand miles away? What is it like to come home? Can the poet come home? What remains when the poet leaves? What is he able to bring with him? Though Smith’s relationship to his home is not simple, his first urge is to praise; however, when home is a trailer on wheels in a state that continues to fall down farther into water, Gulf is a book of poems unable to escape the elegiac. The Sabine Series in Literature
Fugitive Pieces
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fugitive Pieces" by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.