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We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries-eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don't, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, "I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story."
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The Caribbean has had its fair share of Literary critics over the last two centuries - but they can never be enough. John Lara is a fiarly modern writer whose play The Samaritan is an appropriate criticism of modern governments in the Caribbean. This book aims at giving a better insight into the concerns of John Lara in this modern play as well as examining the style of the play. It will be found crucial to the reader of caribbean literature and especially...
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Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.
Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the Anglo-American genre of the "Italian novel," authors like James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Carolina De Robertis, and Chang-rae Lee have disrupted...
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Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life-each morning, one day at a time.
Bad habits. Bad feelings. Bad mornings that turn into regrettable days. Banish them all with simple brain hacks that flip negative thoughts and behaviors into positive, productive ones.
The Morning Mind makes it easy. Based on findings from neuroscience and medicine,...
85) Literatura afrocolombiana en sus contextos naturales: Imperialismo ecológico y cimarronaje cultural
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"A través de la obra de distintos escritores afrocolombianos, se evidencia el papel que juega la ""naturaleza"" en el proceso de la creación cultural; su influencia en los mitos, leyendas, ritos, religión y cosmovisión de una cultura, y la forma en que contribuye a la construcción de la identidad étnica. En la obras de autores como Artel, Martán Góngora, Truque, Palacios, Zapata Olivella ─algunos de los más conocidos entre todos los estudiados─,...
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How Russian Literature Became Great explores the cultural and political role of a modern national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating far beyond Russia's borders.
Rolf Hellebust investigates a range of literary tendencies, philosophies, and theories from antiquity to the present: Roman jurisprudence to German Romanticism, French Enlightenment to Czech Structuralism, Herder to Hobsbawm, Samuel Johnson to Sainte-Beuve, and so...
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Mystery: Detecting Truth in the DarknessA good mystery brings the reader into the mind of the detective: searching for clues, questioning suspects, and coming to conclusions. We like to play along, hoping to crack the case before the ultimate reveal. In a way, it feels like our real lives as we try to piece together the parts of our existence and discover what they mean. That is why mysteries are the perfect playground for the cultural apologist who...
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An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her bestselling...
90) Themes and Style
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This is the SECOND BOOKLET in the MARGARET OGOLA'S THE RIVER AND THE SOURCE series. It examines the nature of the themes against world themes in literature, and the Elements of Style used in this novel. Themes and Style are studied in depth to enable the reader not only get insight into the nevel but also acquire skills applicable to the study of other novels.
91) Honorarium
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In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years worth of reading other people's books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it's like to work behind-the-scenes in CanLit. Always breaking from convention, Moore's non-fiction is imbued a sense of urgency, passion and intimacy with the community of creators that surround him; creators that include Derek McCormack, Sheila Heti, Camilla Gibb, Jen Sookfong Lee, Catullus and...
92) Proust's Way
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The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.
93) In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psycho
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In his 1852 novel Basil, Wilkie Collins' narrator concludes that "those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me … are not to be written, but … are acted and reacted, scene by scene, year by year, in the secret theatre of home." Taking this memorable quote as her starting point, Jenny Bourne Taylor demonstrates how Victorian psychology is central to an understanding of the complexity and vitality of Collins' fiction, exploring the boundaries...
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Agnosticismo y fe poética en Jorge Luis Borges es un valioso e iluminador estudio abocado a la poesía del escritor argentino. Ya desde su título se enfatiza la tensión inherente en la que el libro nos invita a indagar: a pesar del escepticismo esencial, reiterado por el mismo Borges, y aun su supuesto agnosticismo, Borges es un escritor espiritual, que manifiesta su perplejidad ante los interrogantes metafísicos y religiosos, ante el misterio...
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Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels. Perhaps the most objective of these records were Helen Corke's, which became difficult to acquire. Their scarcity and their continuing usefulness were the stimulus for publication of this volume, which contains in...
96) El camino de Dante: Introducción, comentarios de cantos del Infierno y temas de la Divina Comedia
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El camino de Dante pretende ser un homenaje en el séptimo centenario de la muerte del poeta, a la vez que un aporte a los estudios dantescos en la Argentina. La materia de estudio se ha distribuido, para una más clara comprensión, en cuatro secciones. Primero, se presenta un amplio panorama sobre el texto y el contexto. Luego, se toma el Infierno, del cual se ofrece un prolegómeno y se comentan catorce de sus cantos más significativos. Más adelante...
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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.
Joan Didion was a writer's writer, not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Le roi se meurt est une pièce de théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), créée le 13 décembre 1962 à l'Alliance française à Paris, dans une mise en scène de Jacques Mauclair. Ionesco est alors un auteur consacré. Malgré le succès médiatique et critique du « théâtre de...
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If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there's been no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in the flood of books coming off the presses in the hot new category of young-adult publishing. If it's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, it is especially true for teen books, as publishers take aim at a new class of readers. The books land on shelves without...
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There's no relationship quite like the ones we have with our dogs-dogs who befriend us; dogs who annoy, perplex, and accept us. This book explores the special bond between teenagers and their dogs-how days of crowded hallways, pointless assignments, and blinding crushes are brought to balance by our dogs.
Including insightful poems by Joyce Sidman and essays in which teens speak for themselves, as well as beautiful photographs by Doug Mindell, The...
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