Author: George Tobias Flom
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Gender of English Loan-nouns in Norse Dialects in America
Author: George Tobias Flom
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Rag Doll Plagues
Author: Alejandro Morales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyĆs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyĆs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.
T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide
Author: David E. Chinitz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226104184
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it seemed. T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide refurbishes this great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley. David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays, was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz, for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest in popular culture both in such famous works as The Waste Land and in such lesser-known pieces as Sweeney Agonistes. And he traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture through a new type of public art: contemporary popular verse drama. What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226104184
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it seemed. T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide refurbishes this great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley. David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays, was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz, for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest in popular culture both in such famous works as The Waste Land and in such lesser-known pieces as Sweeney Agonistes. And he traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture through a new type of public art: contemporary popular verse drama. What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem.
The Sounds of R.
Author: Alexander Melville Bell
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Category : Phonetics, Acoustic
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Phonetics, Acoustic
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Hamlet Under the Restoration
Author: Hazelton Spencer
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Order of Words in Anglo-Saxon Prose
Author: Charles Alphonso Smith
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Interpretative Syntax
Author: Charles Alphonso Smith
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Edith Wharton & Henry James
Author: Millicent Bell
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry
Author: Joseph Ellis Duncan
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
Author: T. Obinkaram Echewa
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
T. Obinkaram Echewa is one of the premier talents to emerge from the recent brilliant outpouring of fiction from Africa. Now this remarkable writer has produced his most impressive work to date in a revelatory novel of grief and joy, conflict and love in a Nigerian village.
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
T. Obinkaram Echewa is one of the premier talents to emerge from the recent brilliant outpouring of fiction from Africa. Now this remarkable writer has produced his most impressive work to date in a revelatory novel of grief and joy, conflict and love in a Nigerian village.