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Obra imprescindible de la literatura hispanoamericana, narra las aventuras de un gaucho trabajador, que vive en el campo con su mujer e hijos, y es reclutado forzosamente para servir en las milicias que defienden la frontera argentina contra los indígenas, dejando desamparada a su familia. Durante años sufre penurias - hambre, frío, castigos-, hasta que decide desertar después de tres años. Al volver, su rancho se encuentra abandonado, y se entera...
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In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican...
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Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together-writings by little-known black missionaries, so called "black whitemen," and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers-Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed...
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Traces the controversial poet's thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.
Once described by T. S. Eliot as "first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner," Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to teach readers in the twenty-first century, particularly amid increasing threats to the humanities and higher education. Robert Scholes and David Ben-Merre...
27) My Testimonies
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My Testimony was written to encourage those who are going through difficult circumstances with many trials and tribulations to believe in miracles, signs and wonders! It seeks to motivate people to pray for their breakthrough, which is to Pray Until Something Happens.
This exciting book holds readers captivated as the writer outlines miracle after miracle that she has experienced. It is a very uplifting and exciting book! It motivates readers...
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Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years but in that time became a poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and a prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Before his death in June 2004, his five volumes of Heartsongs poetry sold more than a million copies.
Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through...
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El presente libro, por el camino didáctico que sigue, es un auxiliar para las clases de literatura, para las investigaciones del arte dramático y para quienes se inician en el arte teatral. Se trata de un estudio del teatro contemporáneo español de la posmodernidad y de la obra dramática de Alfonso Vallejo, "Panic", publicada en 2001. Se analiza la forma estructural de esa obra: escenario, personajes, características del lenguaje y su significación...
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Africa has been bedevilled by many evils over the last few cunturies. The latest stem from colonialism and the resultant control of African nations and the way they govern themselves in post-independent Africa. This hass seen control through coups initiated by the West and economic exploitation through the control of not only the governments but also their mode of finance. The latter is Paul B Vitta's focus in his novel FATHERS OF NATIONS. This critique...
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Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.
Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and...
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Juan García Ponce: la mirada oblicua es una lectura de la vida y la obra de García Ponce a partir de algunos presupuestos esenciales extraídos de la propia poética del autor. No se trata solo de destacar algunos temas fundamentales y recurrentes de su obra—una sexualidad abierta que no se sustenta en la moral instituida, el incesto entre hermanos, la homosexualidad, el deseo como la fuerza que rige los comportamientos humanos, el rechazo a las...
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Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. Includes: "Growing Up" by Higuchi Ichiyō, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in the nineties; Natsume...
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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
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Get the Summary of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom is a comprehensive exploration of the literary works and authors that have shaped Western culture. Bloom delves into the concept of the Canon, emphasizing its evolution from a prescriptive list of essential readings to a more personal selection of literature that fosters individual connections....
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...
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How come Shakespeare keeps challenging and fascinating us? Why do we keep watching his plays and reading his poetry? Maybe because he knows us so well. His irresistible, playful comedies, full of love and joy, show us at our happiest moments, his tragedies show us the darkest dungeons of the human mind, and his romances have this strong and wonderful tone of reconciliation and forgiveness, that we all need now and then, and his poetry lends words...
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Once upon a time, She is called Mona, his longtime friend, the beloved of his soul. Personally, he called her the flower of the desert, the anticipated queen of the Toda kingdom before they parted on Davy's journey to seek the value of his death, when he who was an obedient famous poet slave within ancient Thebes. They didn't communicate even when they wrote letters, none of which reached their intended recipient. Their thoughts spoke together as...
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This book examines the PLOT of the novel and the CHARACTERS in John Steinbeck's famous novelLA THE PEAR. This allows the critic of the novel to have a comprehensive view of what the novel is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what underlies the CONFLICT of the novella. This should prepare any student of John Steinbeck in general or of this novella in particular, to answer any questions about the writer and his work, his world view and...
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