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Book Kissyfur and His Dad

Download or read book Kissyfur and His Dad written by Dina Anastasio and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1986-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the wreck of the circus train, Kissyfur and his dad find a new home where they are truly free.

Book Little Raccoon

Download or read book Little Raccoon written by Lilian Moore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Raccoon has adventures fishing by himself at night, venturing into the outside world beyond his woods, and babysitting two tricky chipmunks.

Book Best Of 1986 Made In 1986 Vintage 1986 Birthday Gift A Beautiful Personalized

Download or read book Best Of 1986 Made In 1986 Vintage 1986 Birthday Gift A Beautiful Personalized written by Vintage 1986 Gift Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Of 1986 Made In 1986 Vintage 1986 Birthday Gift A beautiful personalized Notebook Birthday Gift for 1986 is a 120 pages Simple and elegant Notebook on a Matte-finish cover, Perfect Journal, Diary, Gift Idea for parents, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens. Great for taking notes in class, journal writing and essays, Perfect gift for parents, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens as a Birthday gift. 120 pages Size 6 x 9 (15.24 x 22.86 cm)- the ideal size for all purposes, fitting perfectly into your bag White-color paper Soft, glossy cover Matte Finish Cover for an elegant look and feel Looking for on the go vintage notepad for someone born in 1986 ? Are you looking for a gift for your friend, parents or relatives ? Then you need to buy this Cute Best Of 1986 Made In 1986 Vintage 1986 Birthday Gift A beautiful personalized gift Journal for your brother, sister, Auntie

Book Diasporas of the Mind

Download or read book Diasporas of the Mind written by Bryan Cheyette and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic, and postcolonial writers.div /DIVdivCheyette regards many of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century luminaries he examines—among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark—as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries./DIV

Book The Arena of Masculinity

Download or read book The Arena of Masculinity written by Brian Pronger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-05-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports are perhaps the most visible expression of the ideals of masculinity in our society, and figure as a training ground on which young boys are taught what it means to be a man. Given the involvement of sports with masculinity, the homosexual athlete becomes a paradox, and the recent explosive growth of gay sporting leagues, a puzzle. Pronger explores the paradoxical position of the gay athlete in a straight sporting world, examines the homoerotic undercurrent subliminally present in the masculine struggle of sports, and explicates the growth of gay sports in the framework of the developing gay culture.

Book Samson  s Cords

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex Garganigo
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 148750098X
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Samson s Cords written by Alex Garganigo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samson's Cords examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by an explosion of loyalty oaths in Britain before and after 1660.

Book Making Men

Download or read book Making Men written by Belinda Edmondson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked--and relocated--to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature.

Book The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies

Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies written by Julia M. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first major encyclopedia of its kind, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (OEBGS) is the go-to source for scholars and students undertaking original research in the field. Extending the work of nineteenth and twentieth century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, the Encyclopedia seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute "the world of the Bible." With contributions from leading scholars in gender and biblical studies as well as contemporary gender theorists, classicists, archaeologists, and ancient historians, this comprehensive reference work reflects the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the field and traces both historical and modern conceptions of gender and sexuality in the Bible. The two-volume Encyclopedia contains more than 160 entries ranging in length from 1,000 to 10,000 words. Each entry includes bibliographic references and suggestions for further reading, as well as a topical outline and index to aid in research. The OEBGS builds upon the pioneering work of biblically focused gender theorists to help guide and encourage further gendered discussions of the Bible.

Book The Civil Rights Movement Revisited

Download or read book The Civil Rights Movement Revisited written by Patrick B. Miller and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The crusade for civil rights was a defining episode of 20th century U.S. history, reshaping the constitutional, political, social, and economic life of the nation. This collection of original essays by both European and American scholars includes close analyses of literature and film, historical studies of significant themes and events from the turn-of-the century to the movement years, and assessments of the movement's legacies. Ultimately, the articles help examine the ways civil rights activism, often grounded in the political work of women, has shaped American consciousness and culture until the outset of the 21st century. Patrick Miller is Professor of History at North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago, Ill., USA. Elisabeth Schaefer-Wuensche teaches American Studies at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Therese Steffen is Professor of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland. "

Book Symeon the Holy Fool

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Krueger
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-07-19
  • ISBN : 0520415329
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Symeon the Holy Fool written by Derek Krueger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Culture of Terrorism

Download or read book The Culture of Terrorism written by Noam Chomsky and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scathing critique of U.S. political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us resistance is possible.

Book The Hands On Life

Download or read book The Hands On Life written by Amy E. Weldon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressed out? Swimming in a sea of screens? Worried about our beloved, endangered earth yet uncertain how to work for change? If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. In this intelligent guide to mindfulness in the digital age, writer and teacher Amy Weldon describes how practicing life as an artist can help you wake yourself up and take back control of your attention, your money, your time, and the health of our society and our planet. Traveling from farm to protest march to classroom, and engaging a range of thinkers from Hannah Arendt to George Orwell, John Keats, and Henry David Thoreau, The Hands-On Life is a book for students and for everyone who dreams of building a better world.

Book Where is Freddy

Download or read book Where is Freddy written by Laura Jean Allen and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous mouse detective Tweedy and his assistant Rollo investigate the case of wealthy Mrs. Twombly's missing grandson.

Book The Connoisseur

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monstrosities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Youngquist
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780816639793
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Monstrosities written by Paul Youngquist and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Youngquist reveals the cultural politics of embodiment in Britain in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. Drawing on the histories of medicine, economics, liberalism & nationalism, his work shows that bodies are not simply born, but rather built bycultural practices directed toward particular social ends.

Book Sublime Noise

Download or read book Sublime Noise written by Josh Epstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of noise in modernist music and literature? When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How—and why—did composers and writers incorporate the noises of modern industry, warfare, and big-city life into their work? Epstein argues that, as the creative class engaged with the racket of cityscapes and new media, they reconsidered not just the aesthetic of music but also its cultural effects. Noise, after all, is more than a sonic category: it is a cultural value judgment—a way of abating and categorizing the sounds of a social space or of new music. Pulled into dialogue with modern music’s innovative rhythms, noise signaled the breakdown of art’s autonomy from social life—even the “old favorites” of Beethoven and Wagner took on new cultural meanings when circulated in noisy modern contexts. The use of noise also opened up the closed space of art to the pressures of publicity and technological mediation. Building both on literary cultural studies and work in the “new musicology,” Sublime Noise examines the rich material relationship that exists between music and literature. Through close readings of modernist authors, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, and Ezra Pound, and composers, including George Antheil, William Walton, Erik Satie, and Benjamin Britten, Epstein offers a radically contemporary account of musical-literary interactions that goes well beyond pure formalism. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period.

Book Attention Equals Life

Download or read book Attention Equals Life written by Andrew Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of and social media is an urgent and unending task.