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“prof david dowling”

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  • Emerson's Protégés

    Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

    by Prof. David Dowling ...
    In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alec Turner ...
    In 'The Beautiful and Damned,' F. Scott Fitzgerald masterfully explores the decadence and disillusionment of the Jazz Age through the lives of the self-indulgent Anthony Patch and his captivating wife, Gloria. Written in a rich, lyrical style, Fitzgerald delves into themes of ambition, love, and the moral decay of the American elite in the tumultuous 1920s. The novel's intricate character studies ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Dictionary

    by Bierce Ambrose ...
    Discover the wit and satire of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" – a sharp, humorous lexicon that redefines the English language with biting irony and clever wit.Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) was an American writer, journalist, and satirist renowned for his dark humor and incisive commentary on human nature and society. His works often blend cynicism with a keen eye for the absurdities of ... Read more

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  • Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

    And other Conversations

    by Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated ManBut he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    by David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked

    by Curtis Smith ...
    Series Book 2 - Bookmarked
    Slaughterhouse-Five is a seminal novel of contemporary literature, a rumination on war, space, time and the meaning of life and death. In Kurt Vonnegut’s existential classic, we meet Billy Pilgrim, a man who has become unmoored in time after being abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a non-linear universe where time has no meaning, we revisit key moments in Pilgrim’s life, in ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

    Edited by Janet Beer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Vital Lie

    Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama

    by Anthony S. Abbott ...
    The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • E. B. White

    The Essayist as First-Class Writer

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Hoosier Holiday

    by Theodore Dreiser ...
    It was at a modest evening reception I happened to be giving to a new poet of renown that the idea of the holiday was first conceived. I had not seen Franklin, subsequent companion of this pilgrimage, in all of eight or nine months, his work calling him in one direction, mine in another. He is an illustrator of repute, a master of pen and ink, what you would call a really successful artist. He has ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handbook of Modernism Studies

    by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Critical Theory Handbooks
    Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research dataAdopts an original ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex

    Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

    by M. Merck, S. Sandford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD