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History of Art: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The stories in History of Art examine the definitive, yet paradoxical, preoccupations of humankind - namely art-making and war - and the emotions that underpin both: passion and sentimentality, obsession and delusion, ambition and insecurity, fear and envy.
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Get Up, Please: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly observant poems range from the... Læs mere
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Galaxie Wagon: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Galaxie Wagon, Darnell Arnoult navigates the territory of middle age to find humor, heartbreak, and wisdom in a phase of life where the body begins to betray itself, yet romance is still possible and childhood dreams are still attainable.
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Unquiet Things: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Grounded in wonder and fueled by an impulse to praise, the poems in James Davis May's debut collection, Unquiet Things, grapple with scepticism, violence, and death to generate lasting insights into the human experience.
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God's Foolishness: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
St Paul writes “the foolishness of God is wiser than men.” The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and uncover difficult truths with transformative insights.
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Bright Stranger: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In her beguiling new collection, Katherine Soniat invites the reader to celebrate the unfinished and unsure. The poems in this volume do not demand or offer certainty, existing instead in the spaces between the real and the imagined, between past and present and future.
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The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships... Læs mere
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Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The existing scholarship on Robert E. Lee is so voluminous, complex, and contradictory that it is difficult to penetrate the inner Lee and appreciate... Læs mere
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Andrew Jackson, Southerner (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Historians have traditionally presented Andrew Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic America.... Læs mere
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The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Robert Paul Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies.
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Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction-Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between... Læs mere
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Social History: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bobby Rogers's second collection, Social History, listens hard to the voices of American characters and celebrates the gestures of ordinary life. The long lines of his narrative... Læs mere
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