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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
$62.00Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley. Philip H. Highfill, Jr., is a professor emeritus of English at George…
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse
$62.00Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the “English Ballad-Singer,” boxing champion of England, “Gentleman” John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family— Charles, Maria Theresa,…
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A Clown in a Grave
$40.00Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso’s complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death. Skau covers…
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A Communion of Friendship
$26.00Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality in A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in…
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A Contextualistic Worldview
$42.00This selection of articles by Lewis E. Hahn addresses the philosophical school of contextualism and four contemporary American philosophers: John Dewey, Henry Nelson Wieman, Stephen C. Pepper, and Brand Blanshard. Stressing…
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A Folk Divided
$35.00In this unique longitudinal study of how a divided people relate to one another, H. Arnold Barton outlines dilemmas created by the great migration of Swedes to the United States…
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A Friendly Companion to Plato’s Gorgias
$57.00A comprehensive study of “one of the most elusive and subtle” of all the Platonic dialogues.The Gorgias begins with a discussion of the nature and value of rhetoric and develops…
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A History of the Hal Roach Studios
$28.00Once labeled the “lot that laugher built,” the Hal Roach Studios launched the comedic careers of such screen icons as Harold Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy. With this…
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A History of the Ninth Regiment
$17.50When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, many German immigrants in Illinois rushed to enlist in the Union Army. Volunteers from Illinois towns in St. Clair County—Belleville, Millstadt, Mascoutah,…
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A Knight of Another Sort
$25.95In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made…
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A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers
$38.00A diverse repertoire of art songs for piano and voiceThe art song—a delicate and inspiring blend of music and poetry—has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated by audiences…
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A Pedagogy of Possibility
$35.00In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline’s theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Framing…