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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In this diverse collection, 28 writers describe positive experiences they have had on the autism spectrum and reveal how the most unexpected things can be a source of positivity. Their insights are moving, honest, often hilarious and almost always surprising. From hair-raising travel experiences to dynamic parenting, teaching music to volunteering, running a marathon to taking on a PhD, they show that autism need not limit life."--Back cover.
Publisher
Gale
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides quick, accurate answers to hundreds of question about the historical background and setting of 300 often-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches and short stories.
Contains profiles of three hundred notable literary works written from ancient times through the end of the twentieth century, relating them to the historical context in which they were written and in which they are set; arranged alphabetically by title...
145) Complete poems
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[1965, ©1963]
Language
English
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from novels by writers, giving their comments on what they wanted to achieve. For example, in How to Tell a True War Story, a novel on the horror and grandeur of war, Tim O'Brien sought "to arrive at some kind of spiritual truth that one can't discover simply by recording the world-as-it-is."
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing--misspelling and all--the great French poet's cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic...
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices of discrimination and marginalization. Even in the 21st century, the American film industry is not "color blind," evidenced by films such as Babel (2006),...
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