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Iris Murdoch Connected - Critical Essays On Her Fiction And Philosophy

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 A collection of twelve essays that reflect the surging interest in the Irish-born author Iris Murdoch as both a writer and philosopher. The prolific novelist-philosopher has drawn attention from scholars in multiple disciplines, which reflects her range of interests as well as the accessibility of her work from varied perspectives.
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Stories Of Nation - Fictions, Politics, And The American Experience

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 Throughout American history there has been an oddly close relationship between the seductive appeals of narrative fiction and those of political rhetoric and advocacy. The aim of Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience is to explore what political narratives and the cultural poetics behind them reveal about the way our personal and intimate lives are deeply connected with the public arena and the political process. The first section of the book, “The Politics of Fictions,” contains essays focused on works of fiction consciously dramatizing the political realm. The second group of contributions, “The Fictions of Politics,” explores structures and motifs from the narrative arts in discourses of American political life, and the interactions of public institutions and policy with forms of fictional representation, from novels to popular music and TV drama. The essays presented here broaden the conversation in American literary studies about what constitutes “the political” in literature and culture by reintroducing the dimension of institutional or representative politics. Likewise, Stories of Nation aims to repair the lines of communication between the idea that all fiction is political, and the view that political speech is a subgenre of literature all the more in need of examination in a highly polarized society. The range of perspectives in Stories of Nation will engage students of literature, popular culture, and politics alike. MARTIN GRIFFIN is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900 (2009) and co-author, with Constance DeVereaux, of Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World (2013). CHRISTOPHER HEBERT is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee and is former senior acquisitions editor at the University of Michigan Press. He is the author of the novels Angels of Detroit (2016) and The Boiling Season (2012).
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Iris Murdoch Connected - Critical Essays On Her Fiction And Philosophy

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 A collection of twelve essays that reflect the surging interest in the Irish-born author Iris Murdoch as both a writer and philosopher. The prolific novelist-philosopher has drawn attention from scholars in multiple disciplines, which reflects her range of interests as well as the accessibility of her work from varied perspectives.
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The Limits Of Literary Historicism

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 <DIV>         The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literature in recent decades, has become ossified. By drawing attention to the limits of historicism—its blind spots, overreach, and reluctance to acknowledge its commitments—this provocative new book seeks a clearer understanding of what historicism can and cannot teach us about literary narrative.             Editors Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox have gathered contributions from leading scholars that challenge the dominance of contemporary historicism. These pieces critique historicism as it is generally practiced, propose alternative historicist models that transcend mere formula, and suggest alternatives to historicism altogether. The volume begins with the editors’ extended introduction, “The Enigma of Critical Distance; or, Why Historicists Need Convictions,” and then is divided into three sections: “The Limits of Historicism,” “Engagements with History,” and “Alternatives to History.”             Defying convention, The Limits of Literary Historicism shakes up established modes to move beyond the claustrophobic analyses of contemporary historicism and to ask larger questions that envision more fulfilling and more responsible possibilities in the practice of literary scholarship.</DIV>
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At Home And Abroad - Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness In Literature And Performance

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 <DIV> Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves. Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or performance to reflect the sociopolitical imperatives that secured whiteness in the respective locations they study. They range from examinations of whiteness in the literature of Appalachia and contemporary Argentinean poetry to an analysis of performances memorializing the colonial experience in Italy and an exploration into the white rap music of Eminem and contemporary multiracial passing. As the contributors show, literary and performance representations have the power to chronicle histories that reflect the behaviors and lived realities of our selves. Whether whiteness, in addition to its physical manifestation, presents itself as identity, symbol, racism, culture, social formation, political imposition, legal imposition, or pathology, it has been outed into the visible, even in national spaces where the term “whiteness” has yet to be translated and entered into the official lexicon. The ten essays collected here provide powerful insights into where and how the race for biological and genealogical whiteness persists in various geopolitical realms and the ways in which Nordic whites, as well as ethnic whites and nonwhites, resecure its ascendance. La Vinia Delois Jennings is professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her recent critical study Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa won the 2008 Toni Morrison Society Prize for Best Single-Authored Book on the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-Prize winning author. </DIV>
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Confederate Generals In The Trans-Mississippi, Volume 2 - Volume 2: Essays On America'S Civil War

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 In contrast to Robert E. Lee' s Army of Northern Virginia, the armies and events of the Civil War' s Trans-Mississippi Theater have received scant historical attention. This volume offers fresh scholarship on eight generals who made names for themselves in the region, providing insight into wartime issues in the Trans-Mississippi and beyond.
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Sailing With Farragut - The Civil War Recollections Of Bartholomew Diggins

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 Shows readers the US Civil War through the recollections of Bartholomew Diggins, a young sailor who fought under US Admiral David G. Farragut in the battles for control of the Mississippi River. Diggins's memoir, one of a very few written by a sailor on either side, allows readers to experience a Northern seamen's daily existence and the perilous battles he endured during the war.
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Has The Bible Been Changed?

by Dan Wickwire

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The Stranger Maiden

by B Diaz

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Rendezvous With Death

by Sam Griffith

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 Sam Griffith's new novel, Rendezvous with Death, spins a tale of intrigue and suspense. His investigation takes him through a number of alleys and dead ends, from Dallas neighborhoods to the little Texas towns that hold and withhold answers. Rendezvous with Death is at once a compelling story and mesmerizing read in the tradition of some of Texas' best authors.
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Come Sunday Morning Saga

by Terry E. Hill

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House Of Gathering - Poets On May Sartons Poetry

by Marilyn Kallet

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Black American Poets Between Worlds - Tennessee Studies In Literature, Volume 30

by R. Baxter Miller

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Stories Of Nation - Fictions, Politics, And The American Experience

by Martin Griffin

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 "This collection of essays looks at politics in American fiction and fictional elements in American politics. Authors under consideration include Wiliam Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Robert Penn Warren, Dave Burrell, and contemporary cultural manifestations like the TV show 24"--
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Before The Volunteer State - New Thoughts On Early Tennessee History, 1540-1800

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An Evil Day In Georgia - The Killing Of Coleman Osborn And The Death Penalty In The Progressive-Era South

by Robert N. Smith

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Meb For Mortals - How To Run, Think, And Eat Like A Champion Marathoner

by Meb Keflezighi e Scott Douglas

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 Meb For Mortals describes in unprecedented detail how three-time Olympian Keflezighi prepares to take on the best runners in the world. More important, the book shows everyday runners how to implement the training, nutritional, and mental principles that have guided him throughout his long career.
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Sugar Smart Quick Start - The 21-Day Quick Start Plan To Stop Cravings, Lose Weight, And Still Enjoy The Sweets You Love!

by Anne Alexander e Julia Vantine

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 The Sugar Smart Diet is an easy-to-follow eating plan that offers great results in less time, with even more tools for success.
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Wanderlust - A Modern Yogi'S Guide To Discovering Your Best Self

by Jeff Krasno, Nicole Lindstrom e Sarah Herrington

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Truly Madly Pizza - One Incredibly Easy Crust, Countless Inspired Combinations & Other Tidbits To Make Pizza A Nightly Affair: A Cookbook

by Suzanne Lenzer

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 Suzanne Lenzer gives the time strapped home cook countless combinations for a healthy, delicious (and quick!) weeknight meal.
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Sideways 3 Chile

by Rex Pickett

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To The Dark Angels

by Jared Smith

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My Secret Loss Finding Peace After Abor

by Sheila M. Luck

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Holdup Number Six, An Fbi Novel Based On

by William J. Warner

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