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Understanding Emerson
A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about …
Seasons of War
Skulduggery Pleasant is dead. Valkyrie Cain is cool. Omen Darkly is neither. War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and …
Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison
Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new …
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell,
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
The Structures of Personal Existence
Orthodox theology developed the notion of personhood through dialogue with existential philosophy. Bodea demonstrates this by examining the works of two of the most significant …
The Letters of Samuel Johnson
"It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell …
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size …
Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, N Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin
Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, the author argues that these authors often employ strategies of indirection, via folkloric expression, …
Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes
This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of …
Patricia Johanson and the Re-Invention of Public Environmental Art, 1958-2010
Impeccably researched and richly detailed, this book addresses the issue of translation between visual arts and landscape design in the 50 more years career of Patricia Johanson, …
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War
Chiefly known for his exploits in the Indian Wars, most significantly for his horrific defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, George Armstrong Custer found initial success on the …
Toni Morrison
The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than …