Kent State University Press Forlag
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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition of ""Splintered Light"", a study of Tolkien's fiction first published in 1983, examines ""The Silmarillion"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"" in light of Owen Barfield's linguistic theory of the fragmentation of meaning.
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A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the... Læs mere
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A Singular People: Images of Zoar (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German... Læs mere
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Ambrose Bierce's ""Civilians and Soldiers"" in Context: A Critical Study (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Donald T. Blume rejects the view that ""In the Midst of Life"", the second volume of Bierce's collected works, is his most important literary work. Instead, he posits that Bierce's original 1892 collection is his most definitive and authoritative opus.
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Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the-century China. They discuss their missionary activities in the villages of North China and their struggle to master the Chinese Mandarin dialect.
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Evolution and the Sex Problem: American Narratives During the Eclipse of Darwinism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Bender argues that Darwin's theories of sexual selection are essential elements in American fiction from the late 1800s... Læs mere
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For Dear Life: And Selected Short Stories by Belinda Jelliffe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work is a portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early 20th century showing the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome the obstacles that confronted women and the working poor.
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Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books... Læs mere
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I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the old story of love and loss, Lisa Ampleman's I've Been Collecting This to Tell You cuts to the core of the matter with concision and subtlety. Hearts are laid... Læs mere
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More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Features lecturers chosen from among the best-known Civil War historians. This work offers readers an impressive array of topics,... Læs mere
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Orphics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of sonnets written in a playful manner.
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