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Moneybags Must Be So Lucky
On the Literary Structure of ""Capital
Häftad, 1988
550 kr
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In this book Robert Paul Wolff dispels much of the mystery surrounding Karl Marx's Capital by providing literary-philosophica analysis of the text and of Marx's intentions. The book solves lasting puzzles about "Capital, such as why it lacks proper scientific sobriety and why it speaks on many …
Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism
Häftad, 1988
650 kr
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What Is Art History?
Av Mark Roskill
Inbunden, 1989
572 kr
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The author has written a new introduction to his book. In it he defines the scope, high degree of skill and professional discipline coupled with increasing scientific methods utilized by today's art historian in order to establish criteria and to develop aesthetic perception. Instead of attempting …
Children and Play in the Holocaust
Games Among the Shadows
Av George Eisen
Häftad, 1990
572 kr
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An interdisciplinary study of the Holocaust combining history, psychology and anthropology, which analyzes the use of play in Jewish communities to bring an element of sanity into the lives of young people in the midst of the catastrophe.
Last Generation
Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-60
Häftad, 1990
744 kr
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Caribbean Women Writers
Essays from the First International Conference
Häftad, 1990
673 kr
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In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent …
Reading 'the Waste Land'
Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation
Av Jewel Spears Brooker, Joseph Bentley
Häftad, 1992
673 kr
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This book offers fresh commentary on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a book of modernist poetry published in 1922. It aims to be both a part-by-part analysis of the poem with periodic summations and a meditation on the limits of interpretation and the problematic nature of reading in the late 20th …
Late Fire, Late Snow
New and Uncollected Poems
Häftad, 1992
532 kr
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A nationally acclaimed poet, Robert Francis continued to write and receive recognition for his work right up until his death in 1987 at age 85. His honours include the Prix de Rome given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and the …
Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner
Beyond South African Colonialism
Häftad, 2012
491 kr
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A study of Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the first white South African novelist to win international recognition. Schreiner was also known for her political and social treatises, which promoted feminism, socialism, pacifism and free thought, and which criticised racism and British imperialism.
Frost
A Literary Life Reconsidered
Häftad, 1993
589 kr
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Although it does not attempt to revive the image of Frost as a benign, white-haired sage, this book presents him in a strikingly different light than did Lawrance Thompson's three-volume biography. William H. Pritchard sees Frost whole, demonstrating the complex interaction between the poet's life …
Culture of Inequality
Häftad, 1993
509 kr
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Who do America's wars against poverty turn out to be wars against the poor? Why does a nation so committed to fighting crime show such a bad record of combating it and so morbid a fascination with it? Why is American racism so deeply rooted? This study aims to answer these and other questions. Its …
Mark Twain on the Loose
A Comic Writer and the American Self
Häftad, 1995
673 kr
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In this work, the author re-examines Mark Twain as a person, a text and a myth. He argues that some of his best works are shaped by a drive for liberation from every social, psychological and artistic limit and describes him as a reflexive, paradoxical, rule shattering comic genius.
Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism
Av Yaron Ezrahi, etc.
Häftad, 2012
586 kr
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This collection of essays from international scholars from various disciplines addresses the theme of technological pessimism, the conviction that technology has given us the means not only to achieve unlimited progress, but to destroy ourselves and our most cherished values.
Roxana's Children
The Biography of a Nineteenth-century Vermont Family
Av Lynn A. Bonfield, Mary C. Morrison
Häftad, 1995
622 kr
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This text tells the story of Roxana Walbridge Watts (1802-1862), a farm wife in Peacham, Vermont and the 12 children she raised. Using a variety of primary sources - letters, diaries and photographs - these personal histories describe a broad range of experiences.
Blues Detective
Study of African American Detective Fiction
Häftad, 1996
673 kr
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A study of African American detective fiction which includes writers such as J.E. Bruce, Rudolph Fisher, Chester Himes, Ishmael Reed and Clarence Major. Themes such as altered detective personas, double-consciousness detection, black vernaculars and hoodoo are examined in the text.
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
An Oral Biography
Av Gary Fountain, Peter Brazeau
Häftad, 1996
687 kr
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This book interweaves more than 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets. Among the interviewees are numerous intellectual and artistic figures, including John Ashbery, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Clement …
Emmanuel Appadocca or, Blighted Life
Tale of the Boucaneers
Häftad, 1997
673 kr
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Appadocca is intent on wreaking revenge on his father for abandoning him and his mother. Through his anger, he sails the seas with a band of pirates on a ship named the ""Black Schooner"". The text is enriched with Appadocca's reflections on nature, racism, slavery, colonialism and retribution.
Correspondence V.1; Selections;1877-1934
Av W.E.B. DuBois, Herbert Aptheker
Häftad, 1997
687 kr
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Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the first volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1877 to 1934.
Mountain River
Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-93
Av Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
673 kr
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This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national Identity. These poems testify to the centrality of war in Vietnamese history and experience over the past fifty years. Beginning thw Ho Chi Minh in the 1940s and …
Teaching Working Class
Häftad, 1999
524 kr
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Since the 1970s, working-class individuals have made up an increasing proportion of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. At the same time, working-class studies has emerged as an academic discipline, updating a long tradition of scholarship on labour history and proletarian …
