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by Trinity Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Some student guides are nearly as long as the novels they are written about. We promise to get to the point.Each Student Help! Guide® is designed for the student who literally has no time to spare. As efficiently as possible, we do the following:Provide a brief summary of the novelExplain why your...
Writing Travel
The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts...
The Ends of the Body
Identity and Community in Medieval Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its role in performing meaning.
The collection is divided into four clusters. ‘Foundations’...
Jacob L. Talmon
Mission and Testimony: Political Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Talmon was chosen by an international committee of scholars as one of the twenty major historians of the twentieth century, declaring that “his historiography was a convincing apologia for human freedom.” He owes his fame primarily to his magnum opus, the trilogy that began with The Origins of...
by Paul Reidinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
An American writer examines the story of his country and the story of himself and finds an unexpected braid between the two. Various sacred cows, including Lincoln and Shakespeare, are unsparingly considered, and a fresh interpretation of the constitutional realm, from the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War amendments, is offered.
by Anand Bose
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
These essays are a collection on diverse topics. Philosophical and Literary issues are read critically. The essays include post colonial criticism, feminist and queer studies, aesthetics, philosophy and literary theory. This collection is the result of a mass reading of many texts.
Some Write to the Future
Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden. A master of various literary forms, this collection draws...
Images of the Modern Vampire
The Hip and the Atavistic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire...
Homage to Americans
Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, and Time-Spanning Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Homage to Americans, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways.
In “Mile-high Meditations,” her flight’s late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e.,“being”)....
by Sam Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
A New York Times article once stated that “the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, “Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I’m on the front porch, I am...
Taking Root
The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
William Summer founded the renowned Pomaria Nursery, which thrived from the 1840s to the 1870s in central South Carolina and became the center of a bustling town that today bears its name. The nursery grew into one of the most important American nurseries of the antebellum period, offering wide varieties...
by Robin and the Honey Badger
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to recharge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Exploring the Bio-edge is a series of e-essays presenting lateral thoughts in search of ever more interesting stories from biology. In this e-essay: we feature the second author’s namesake...
The Universal Vampire
Origins and Evolution of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and...
by Alexander Pepple, Wendy Videlock, Gustavo Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2014 issue, Number 18. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse—online and in print. After...