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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
$32.00Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors…
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A Readable Beowulf
$32.00Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into contemporary…
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A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 2 Volume set
$92.00This significant reference work is an unprecedented attempt to compile a chronological list of all documents related to the management and regulation of the theatres in England from the reopening…
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A Southern Illinois Album
$24.95Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of…
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A Student Guide to Play Analysis
$60.00With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in…
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A Student Guide to Play Analysis
$32.00With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in…
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A Tawdry Place of Salvation
$39.00Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth…
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A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade
$20.00This study by Phillip Eubanks challenges traditional accounts of metaphor and significantly expands theories of “conceptual” metaphor by examining Trade Is War metaphor as it occurs in concrete discourse.Although scholarly…
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A Woman’s Story of Pioneer Illinois
$19.50Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and…
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Abraham Lincoln
$26.50In 1890 Abraham Lincoln’s two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events…
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Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885-1937
$40.00In this study of the history of rhetoric education, Susan Kates focuses on the writing and speaking instruction developed at three academic institutions founded to serve three groups of students…
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African American Literacies Unleashed
$35.00This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular…