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Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author

Book by Derek Parker Royal; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Roth, Philip--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ROTH NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AN AMERICAN AUTHOR Derek Parker Royal Foreword...Roth : new perspectives on an American author / edited by Derek Parker Royal...Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author aims for. Framed by a superb...
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White Scholars/African American Texts

Book by Lisa A. Long; Rutgers University Press, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans--Historiography, African Americans--Intellectual Life, African Americans--Study And Teaching (Higher), American Literature--African American Authors--Study And Teaching, Education, Higher--Political Aspects--United States, Education, Higher--Social Aspects--United States, Teachers, White--United States, United States--Race Relations, Whites--United States--Intellectual Life

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...American literature-African American authors-Study and teaching. 4. African...attractions to particular African American authors within a specific and fundamental...Perry, we grant to African Americans implicit authority about the experiences of slavery...
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Epic Voices: Inner and Global Impulse in the Contemporary American and British Novel

Book by Robert Arlett; Susquehanna University Press, 1996

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Characters And Characteristics In Literature, English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Fowles, John--1926-2005--Daniel Martin, Lessing, Doris May--1919---Golden Notebook--Selections, Mailer, Norman. Wave, Pynchon, Thomas--Gravity's Rainbow, World History In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...influence on the American academy has lead...they can deny that authors always spoke language...circuits of current American experience. In...so that narrator/author could not merely...security of the authors view that Tillyard...Gated City, the American literary agent...
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Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America

Book by Lucille Kerr; Duke University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...writing of some well-known Spanish American authors with these problems in mind...come to represent "the Spanish American author" in recent years. One must...noticed that most of the Spanish American authors in whose writing such a recovery...
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The Author

Book by Andrew Bennett; Routledge, 2005

Subjects:

Authorship--History, Authorship--Philosophy

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates surrounding authorship, exploring such ...
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This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority, ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author. Accessible, yet stimulating, this study offers the ideal introduction to a core notion in critical theory.
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Journal Articles on: american author

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Toby Widdicombe and Herman S. Preiser, Eds. Revisiting the Legacy of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), American Author and Social Reformer: Uncollected and Unpublished Writings, Scholarly Perspectives for a New Millennium

Journal article by James J. Kopp; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003

Subjects:

Revisiting the Legacy of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), American Author and Social Reformer (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Bellamy (1850-1898), American Author and Social Reformer...Biography of the Author of Looking Backward...Destruction of American Forests" and "The...series on Studies in American Literature. John...discussion of the authors own work on participatory...
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Introduction: Reclaiming Julia C. Collins, Forgotten 19th-Century African American Author

Journal article by Veta Smith Tucker; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Works, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...19th-Century African American Author. by Veta Smith...century about the author and about the novels...edition of African American Review demonstrates...claim to textual authority developed. First...well-educated African American woman who taught...
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"A Complication of Complaints": Untangling Disability, Race, and Gender in William and Ellen Craft's Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom

Journal article by Ellen Samuels; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Autobiographies, Craft, Ellen--Works, Craft, William (American author)--Works, Disability studies, Race--Portrayals, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (Autobiography), United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals, United States history--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...humanity of African Americans. It is not surprising...a project as authoring a biography, questions...through issues of authority and power, I will...Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture...of biographies authored by black American women" (Introduction...
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Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth

Journal article by Mark Hulliung; CLIO, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...sciences. One of the joys awaiting the reader of Rousseau as Author is the attention Kelly pays to many of the minor and largely...reasons to repudiate the claim--a perennial favorite in the Anglo-American world--that Rousseau was a proto-totalitarian. Down to the...
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"To Be an Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt 1889-1905

Journal article by Julian Mason; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998

Subjects:

"To Be An Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Chesnutt as Southern Author," on a panel on...roles of African-American writers in American literature. The...scholarly editions of authors works when their...understanding about the authors being focused...Study of African American Poetry, which...

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Magazine Articles on: american author

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Humanist Profile: James A. Michener (1907-1997): American Author

Magazine article; The Humanist, Vol. 67, January 2007

Subjects:

Humanists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Humanists--Biography, Michener, James A.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Michener, James A.--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

Humanist Profile: James A. Michener (1907-1997): American Author. "I decided (after listening to a "talk radio...James A. Michener, Parade magazine, November 24, 1991 American author James A. Michener wrote that he never knew his parents...
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77 North Washington Street (American Author John Barth)

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, December 1997

Subjects:

American writers, Barth, John

Collections: Entire Library

77 North Washington Street (American Author John Barth). MORE than thirty...art forms of the time which, the author slyly noted, had a tendency to "eliminate...exhaustion of certain possibilities." The author was John Barth, and the essay was...
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Islamic Group Issues Fatwa against Author

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 116, December 1, 1999

Subjects:

Corpus Christi (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jesus Christ--Portrayals, depictions, etc., McNally, Terrence--Works, Muslims--Attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Islamic group issues fatwa against author A London-based Muslim group has sentenced to death the American author of a play depicting Jesus as a homosexual. The group, Al-Muhajiroun, which describes itself as the Defenders of the Messenger Jesus...
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Author! Author! Author?

Magazine article by Steven Drukman; American Theatre, Vol. 18, July 2001

Subjects:

Barrington Stage Company--Management, Boyd, Julianne--Management, Ciao! (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mitchell, Gary--Management, Playwriting--Authorship, Theater--Production and direction

Collections: Entire Library

Author! Author! Author by Steven Drukman Imagine youre a playwright, and youve devised a new play about an Everyman sort of character named Arthur Allman. Imagine that your new plays plot revolves around Everymans-- sorry, Allmans...
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An Author Is an Author Is an Author

Magazine article by Dove Wright; American Theatre, Vol. 15, July 1998

Subjects:

Authorship--Analysis, Playwriting--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...perilously short coattails of American playwrights? Perhaps - if the...redefined itself, the role of author has changed. Now, theatrical...this crucial reason: The American theatre has always acknowledged...theory and contractually - the authorial autonomy of the playwright...

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Newspaper Articles on: american author

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HOW TO CHEAT.. AND GET AWAY WITH IT; Outrageous American Author Reckons the Secret of a Happy Marriage Is to Have an Affair and His New Books Tells How

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HOW TO CHEAT.. AND GET AWAY WITH IT; Outrageous American Author Reckons the Secret of a Happy Marriage Is to Have an...Cole, is published by Vermilion at pounds 7.99. BOLD: Author; ADVICE: Book; PRESIDENTS WOMAN: Bill; Clinton didnt...
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HOW I PUT MY HUSBAND THROUGH THE HOOPS; after Learning about the Tricks That Trainers Use on Wild Animals, American Author Amy Sutherland Decided to Try the Same Techniques on Her Husband - with Dramatic Results

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 24, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HOW I PUT MY HUSBAND THROUGH THE HOOPS; after Learning about the Tricks That Trainers Use on Wild Animals, American Author Amy Sutherland Decided to Try the Same Techniques on Her Husband - with Dramatic Results. As I wash dishes at...
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In the Pantheon of the Musical Greats; We've Always Known They Were the Top of the Pops, but the American Author of a New Book on the Beatles Places Them Up There with Mozart and Beethoven

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 27, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the Pops, but the American Author of a New Book on the...says Jonathan Gould, author of Cant Buy Me Love...this very well - for an American. This makes the book...this, wondering, as Americans always do, at the intimate...
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Where Naperville Reads Author Found Inspiration: His American Indian Culture

Newspaper article by Amy Boerema; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 31, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Naperville Reads Author Found Inspiration: His American Indian Culture...telling stories about American Indian culture. But growing up, the author wasnt encouraged...Time;" and adult author Lisa See, whose Chinese-American focus will be on...
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The Welsh Expert Whocracked the Code for 'Da Vinci' Author

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 26, 2005

Subjects:

Brown, Dan (American writer)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...she believes that her online conversations with the American author - whom she has never met in person - from her home...loopholes, but its another matter to stand up against the authority of the professors. She pledges to continue challenging...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american author

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