Search Results - "Memoir"

Magic search getting the best results from your catalog and beyond / by Kornegay, Rebecca S.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Finding true stories : memoirs, observations, and confessions -- Finding primary sources -- It's about time : time periods and chronological subdivisions -- Tools for scholars and other professionals -- Subdivisions that give perspective, put you in control, and amaze others! …”
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Diversity in diaspora Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…The American experience of the Hmong : a historical review / by Kou Yang -- Hmong Americans : a demographic portrait / by Mark Pfeifer -- An analysis of poverty in Hmong American communities / by Yang Sao Xiong -- Civic values and political engagement in two Hmong American communities / by Carolyn Wong -- Electoral participation in the Hmong American community : an initial analysis / by Stephen Doherty -- Great expectations : the struggles of Hmong American high school boys / by Bic Ngo and Pa Nhia Lor -- Women in the Hmong diaspora / by Dia Cha -- Hmong Americans : the conceptualization and experience of aging in the United States / by Linda Gerdner -- The double diaspora : China and Laos in the folklore of Hmong American refugees / by Jeremy Hein -- "Reharmonizing" the generations : rap, poetry, and Hmong oral tradition / by Nick Poss -- Haunting and inhabitation in Yang's Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir / by Monica Chiu -- Hmong American studies : a bibliographic essay / by Mark Pfeifer.…”
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Encountering Morocco fieldwork and cultural understanding /

Table of Contents: “…Silverstein -- A distant episode : religion and belief in Moroccan ethnography / Rachel Newcomb -- Shortcomings of a reflexive tool kit; or, Memoir of an undutiful daughter / Jamila Bargach -- Reflecting on Moroccan encounters : meditations on home, genre, and the performance of everyday life / Deborah Kapchan -- The power of babies / David Crawford -- Anthropologists among Moroccans / Kevin Dwyer.…”
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Constructing pragmatist knowledge : education, philosophy and social emancipation / by Hooley, Neil

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Places of memory in modern China history, politics, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…: the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall / Daniel Leese -- A rock, a text, and a tablet : making the Song Emperor's terrace a lieu de memoire / Hon Tze-ki -- "This is how the Chinese people began their struggle" : Humen and the Opium War as a site of memory / James Flath -- The ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or, How to enjoy a national wound / Lee Haiyan -- Yan'an as a site of memory in socialist and postsocialist China / Kirk A. …”
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Rimbaud The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? : "Le Coeur du pitre"; Survival of the Object in "Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur...?" …”
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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? : "Le Coeur du pitre"; Survival of the Object in "Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur ...?" …”
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You never call! you never write! a history of the Jewish mother / by Antler, Joyce

Table of Contents: “…The mother and the movement: feminism constructs the Jewish mother -- Roseanne and the nanny: the Jewish mother as postmodern spectacle -- From second-generation memoirs to women's history: reclaiming the missing mother -- "They raised beautiful families": Jewish mothers narrate their lives -- We are all Jewish mothers: mothering in the new millennium.…”
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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? : "Le Coeur du pitre"; Survival of the Object in "Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur ...?" …”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche -- New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier -- Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh -- Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins -- The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker -- Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte -- Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson -- Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan -- Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- What's it like being Irish?…”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche -- New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier -- Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh -- Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins -- The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker -- Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte -- Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson -- Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan -- Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- What's it like being Irish?…”
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Understanding combat related post traumatic stress disorder by McDermott, Walter F., 1946-

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Anna's shtetl by Coben, Lawrence A.

Table of Contents: “…Shtetl influences -- Appendix B. The shtetl memoir -- Appendix C. How true to reality is Anna's shtetl? …”
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Final acts death, dying, and the choices we make /

Table of Contents: “…Oyster -- The family tree / Jean Levitan -- Elegy for an optimist / Mimi Schwartz -- Buddhist reflections on life and death: a personal memoir / Alan Pope -- Death as my colleague / Mary Jumbelic -- The transformation of death in America / Stephen P. …”
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Tracks and shadows field biology as art / by Greene, Harry W., 1945-

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Politics and culture in Victorian Britain essays in memory of Colin Matthew /

Table of Contents: “…A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.…”
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Escargotesque, or, What Is Experience / by Bowker, Matthew H.

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Escargotesque, or, What Is Experience / by Bowker, Matthew H.

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Re-reading Richard Hoggart life, literature, language, education /

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence / Sean Matthews -- The anxiety of influence : Hoggart, liminality and Melvyn Bragg's Crossing the line / Katie Wales -- Stances and tones before life : Richard Hoggart and the question of voice / Simon Grimble -- Local habitations : working-class childhood and its uses in the memoirs of Richard Hoggart and others / Michael Rosenfeld -- Questions of taste and class : Richard Hoggart and Bonamy Dobrée / Tom Steele -- Promoting international understanding and cooperation : Richard Hoggart's UNESCO years (1970-1975) / Malcolm Hadley -- Letter from W.H. …”
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Screens of blood : a critical approach to film and television violence / by Desilet, Gregory E.

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence: the ordeal of loving your enemy -- Shutter island: the ordeal of loving your enemy, take two -- Memoirs of a geisha: melodrama or tragic drama? -- Part 2: Violence in popular television-early 21st century samplings -- The Sopranos (1999-2007) -- Boardwalk empire (2010- ) -- Breaking bad (2008-2013) -- The following (2013- ) -- 24 (2001-2010) -- Homeland (2011- ) -- The walking dead (2010- ) -- The wire (2002-2008) -- The killing (2011- ) -- Hell on wheels (2011- ) -- Summary and conclusions -- Afterword.…”
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