 | Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
Publication Date: November 13, 2000| Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas (Book 4) Women's Studies/Cultural StudiesAn original analysis of the role of female reproduction in the project of empire.In today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her provocati...
 |  | Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
Publication Date: June 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 1563684098 | ISBN-13: 978-1563684098| Edition: 1st Edition After spending three years in The National Theatre of the Deaf performing plays by hearing authors featuring hearing characters, Willy Conley realized that he wanted to write plays with deaf, hard-of- hearing, and hearing characters created from the Deaf perspective. Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays presents the result of his desire in twelve masterful plays. “I write for the eye, always searching for live, mobile, provocative images that would fill and illuminate th...
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|  | Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens and The Persians, Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Publication Date: February 1, 1992The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedip...
|  | Fabulously Fashionable: A Novel
Publication Date: May 25, 2010Twenty-eight-year-old Isabel Bookbinder has figured some things out:she’s moved in with her loving lawyer boyfriend, and despite her mother’s adoration of all things matching, she’s finally discovered her true calling—fashion design. After all, she knows her Manolos from her Louboutin, her Pucci from her Prada, and she’s always poring over fashion magazines (the celebrity pages of fashion magazines, that is). She’s even landed a position with Nancy Tavistock, editor at top fashion magazine Atelier, and creative muse to h...
| | King Lear (Twayne's New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare)
Publication Date: December 1988| ISBN-10: 0805787119 | ISBN-13: 978-0805787115Through a study of eight 20th-century stage and screen productions of "King Lear", this book examines the way in which performance and interpretation are bound together. It aims to show how different performances have illuminated the radical contradictions within the text itself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000: One-Act Plays (1994-<'97>: Contemporary Playwrights Series)
Publication Date: May 16, 2001| Series: 1994-...
|  | The New Weird
Publication Date: February 1, 2008This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Miéville, modern icon Clive Barker, and audacious new talents Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, and Sarah Monette. An essential snapshot of a vibrant movement in popular fiction, this antholo...
|  | The Poetic Edda: Volume II: Mythological Poems
Publication Date: December 4, 1997| ISBN-10: 0198111819 | ISBN-13: 978-0198111818This new edition of mythological poems from the Poetic Edda takes the reader deep into the imagination of the Viking poets (c.1000 AD). Setting text and translation side by side, Dronke provides full introductions and commentaries for each of the poems. ...
|  | The Songs of Johannes Brahms
Publication Date: May 2000| ISBN-10: 0300079621 | ISBN-13: 978-0300079623In this highly anticipated book, Eric Sams examines each of Johannes Brahms's 213 songs, translates the texts into English, and provides original commentary on points of musicology and literary detail. Sams here reveals for the first time the full extent of the poetry, fantasy, and humour of the composer's work. After an introduction to Brahms as a song-writer and to his use of motifs, the book offers a complete song-by-song analysis and will serve as an invaluable companion for students, performers, and listeners a...
|  | Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading
Publication Date: December 31, 2002"Persuasive, instructive, and revisionary. Serves as complementary, complicating, or corrective to much of the scholarship on Melville, especially to very recent scholarship. . . . I will never teach or discuss Melville's texts in exactly the same ways again."--Jamie Barlowe, University of ToledoBy delineating the connections between nineteenth-century penitentiary reforms and the narrative structures and strategies of Herman Melville's fictions, this book explores the ways literature reflects and refracts ideas about the influence of reading on m...
|  | Science in the Renaissance (Renaissance World)
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|  | The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius
Publication Date: January 2005Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims rega...
|  | Dangerous Days: The Essential Rinehart Collection #7
Publication Date: January 19, 2001| Series: Essential Rinehart Collection (Book 7) The darkening storm of the first World War threatens to tear apart the lives of a group of friends. At the eye of the storm is Clayton Spencer, an ambitious businessman, who must risk everything to be with the woman he loves. ...
|  | The Hidden Man (Berkley Prime Crime)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Berkley Prime Crime Jason Kolarich is a Chicago attorney with a lineman's build, a razor- sharp intellect-and the grief of a tragic personal loss. When an estranged childhood friend is charged with murder, Kolarich must create a solid defense-even while doubting his client's innocence. But it soon becomes clear that Kolarich will have to uncover long-forgotten events from their shared childhoods to save his friend-and bring a relentless killer to justice before he strikes again. ...
|  | Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Series: Deborah Knott Mysteries A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends with a brutal death ... and Judge Deborah Knott will discover more than a body. For beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface swirl dark secrets that Deborah has kept hidden for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with the demands of the law, she must struggle to w...
|  | Service of All the Dead
Release Date: September 1, 1996"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewThis time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs in...
| | NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, VOL.13:MURDER IN CASBAH & TANKERVILLE CLUB
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|  | Harry Potter y El Prisionero de Azkaban (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. ...
| | Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest (American Storytelling) (American Folklore Series)
Publication Date: March 2, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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