Author: Martin, Judith E. Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With Essays by Baru, Bart Beaty, Cécile Vernier Danehy, Hugo Frey, Pascal Lefèvre, Fabrice Leroy, Amanda Macdonald, Mark McKinney, Ann Miller, and Clare Tufts In Belgium, France, Switzer...
Author: Haggerty, George E. Publisher: Bucknell University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century m...
Author: Garner, Virginia Publisher: University Press of America Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century. These representatives of the Christian community diligently produced films about ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orl...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orl...
Author: de Mendelssohn, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in t...
Author: Ms. alfreda, Publisher: Bibliotheca Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just As It Was Given To Me Lyrical Wisdom has excerpts from They Are Part Of The Merchant Class, Just Like I Dreamed It, Just Like I Dreamed It , Quiet And others.
Author: Schuyler, James Publisher: Turtle Point Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "An extraordinarily rich and compelling book, a wonder. James Schuyler's letters provide the perfect companion to his brilliant and memorable poems-- hilarious, self-deprecating, insightful, and movi...
Author: Grogan, John Publisher: Vanguard Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From John Grogan, author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Dogs Have More Fun, Marley and Me, and The Long Way Home, comes a new collection of more than eighty newspaper articles from the Philadel...
Description: Media Perspectives for the 21st Century brings together key international scholars to explore concepts, topics and issues concerning the communication environment in contemporary democratic societies.
Author: N/A Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Between 1915, when the...
Author: Fletcher, Judith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oat...
Author: Green, Martin Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Martin Green is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, California. In 1991, the year after he retired, he started writing articles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Sacramento, Suttertow...
Author: Patterson, Annabel Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interv...
Author: Grover, Sameer Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: REFLECTIONS ON SOLITUDE and other ESSAYS explores a diverse range of topics from Eastern mysticism to mathematics, while blending in an element of fantastic realism. Sameer Grover is one of the eminen...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterised by a rathe...
Author: McKelway, St. Clair Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Why does A. J. Liebling remain a vibrant role model for writers while the superb, prolific St. Clair McKelway has been sorely forgotten?" James Wolcott asked this question in a recent review of the C...
Author: van Nuffelen, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that...
Author: O'Brien, Bruce R. Publisher: University of Delaware Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conq...
Author: O'Brien, Bruce R. Publisher: University of Delaware Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conq...
Author: Manuwald, Gesine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklori...
Author: Hammond, Jeffrey Publisher: Kent State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older "With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond's Small Comforts is a stunning personal journe...
Author: Gerwin, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Teaching U.S. History as Mystery, 2nd Edition offers a clear set of principles and methods teachers can use to promote and sustain problem-finding and problem-solving in history, along with case studi...
Author: Capers, Charlotte Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "When we read the collection here we want still more." -Eudora Welty A pleasure jaunt through the irrepressibly funny world of a gifted raconteur All who know Charlotte Capers treasure her wit and her...
Author: Chung, Henry Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume examines how and why Japan annexed Korea in the early twentieth century and discusses the role of foreign powers (particularly the USA) in trying to bring about freedom and independence fo...
Author: Williams, Ioan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding's own critical vi...
Description: In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China. The book cove...
Author: Polk, Noel , Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional...
Author: Hopkins, Isaac Publisher: X-STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I chose to reprint this book because it is one of the most practical beekeeping books I know of. Isaac Hopkins obviously had a lot of real life experience and not just a lot of book knowledge. This bo...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Ingenious Dr. Franklin, an outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For over two hundred years, Kentucky has inspired many of the nation's finest writers, both natives of the Bluegrass State and outsiders who were entranced by its rich natural wonders and culture. Now...
Author: Codrescu, Andrei Publisher: Garrett County Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Codrescu's New Orleans is a layered world of masks that he removes without shrinking from either their horror or their demonic joy. This scented, vibrant, corrupt, dreamy city that "habla suneos" (spe...
Description: Sufficiently concise to be teachable in a one-semester practice course, yet available with a treasure trove of related materials for use in a two or three-course practice sequence, this text...
Author: Andreae, Percy Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It seems scarcely necessary for the author to explain, as he does in the preface, that the "Emperor Willibald" of his romance is the Emperor William of Germany; that "Prince Ottomarck" is Prince Otto ...
Author: Munteanu, Dana LaCourse Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, th...
Author: Alpha Pyramis Publisher: Continnuus Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Valentine's Day Greetings And Gift Basket Ideas To Duplicate And Use is a reference for those seeking new, different or creative ideas for Valentine's Day. The contents of Valentine's Day Greetings A...
