Author: Joseph Dewey
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Don DeLillo's 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of America's most distinguished novelists but also in the ongoing evolution of the postmodern novel. Vast in scope, intricately organized, and densely allusive, the text provided an immediate and engaging challenge to readers of contemporary fiction. This collection of thirteen essays brings together new and established voices in American studies and contemporary American literature to assess the place of this remarkable novel not only within the postmodern tradition but within the larger patterns of American literature and culture as well. By seeking to place the novel within such a context, this lively collection of provocative readings offers a valuable guide for both students and scholars of the American literary imagination.
Author: Maggie Hamand
Publisher: Arcadia Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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"London has always been a chameleon figure, revealing itself in a multitude of different guises, each as individual as the dreams and aspirations of its many inhabitants. The theme of this collection is the hidden city, and each of the fourteen stories vividly expresses a different mood and aspect of the city, and the undercurrents of emotion that surge through the capital - the irrepressible mixture of excitement or tension, fear or freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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A collection of poems in which the author draws upon her experiences as a Palestinian-American living in the Southwest, and her travels in Central America, the Middle East, and Asia, to comment upon the shared humanity of different cultures throughout the world.
Author: Erin Underwood
Publisher: Lightning Source Incorporated
ISBN: 9780985893408
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Offering 33 original short stories and poems that spark the imagination, twist the heart, and make readers yearn for the possibilities of a world yet to come, "Futuredaze" includes pieces by Jack McDevitt, Nancy Holder, Gregory Frost, Lavie Tidhar, Sandra McDonald, Brittany Warman, Stephen Covey, E. Kristin Anderson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Jenny Blackford, and many others.
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Walter William Skeat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: Walter W. Skeat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Judy Sierra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481480057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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“Teachers will have field day with this wordplay; this caper is clever, capricious, and cunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Bored with sitting in a dictionary ‘day in, day out,’ the words make a break for it and organize a parade which…introduce linguistics terminology in just about the most playful way possible.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “This is a charming, peppy introduction, enhanced by Comstock’s energetic, retro-flair illustrations, which fill the pages with cavorting words and creative details…In approach and format, this is both entertaining and educational—likely to hold and pique kids’ interest in the topic and provide a fun learning supplement.” —Booklist (starred review) When all of the words escape from the dictionary, it’s up to Noah Webster to restore alphabetical order in this supremely wacky picture book that celebrates language. Words have secret lives. On a quiet afternoon the words escape the dictionary (much to the consternation of Mr. Noah Webster) and flock to Hollywood for a huge annual event—Lexi-Con. Liberated from the pages, words get together with friends and relations in groups including an onomatopoeia marching band, the palindrome family reunion, and hide-and-seek antonyms. It’s all great fun until the words disagree and begin to fall apart. Can Noah Webster step in to restore order before the dictionary is disorganized forever?
Author: Nancy Polette
Publisher: Pieces of Learning
ISBN: 1880505851
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Author: Kate McDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520967232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. The book thus illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance.
