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West of 98 : living and writing the new American West /

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin -- East to the west / John Daniel -- Three poems / David Guterson -- Celilo Falls / Craig Lesley -- A dark light in the west : racism and reconciliation / Barry Lopez -- Dirty stories / David Mas Masumoto -- Two poems / Gary Snyder -- "It's like they tilted the whole country east-to-west and everything that wasn't tied-down slid" / Louis B. …”
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Memories of the Branch Davidians the autobiography of David Koresh's mother / by Haldeman, Bonnie, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Bonnie Clark -- The Haldeman family -- Vernon Howell becomes a Branch Davidian -- Bonnie Haldeman becomes a Branch Davidian -- David Koresh's shootout with George Roden at Mount Carmel -- Resettling at Mount Carmel -- Bonnie and Roy leave Mount Carmel -- Visits back and forth with folks at Mount Carmel -- The ATF raid, February 28, 1993 -- The siege -- The fire, April 19, 1993 -- 1994 criminal trial -- 2000 civil trial -- Life after the fire -- Going back to Mount Carmel -- Remembering the people and lifestyle at Mount Carmel -- Remembering the children -- Remembering David -- Appendix: poems by David Koresh.…”
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Anna Seward and the end of the eighteenth century by Kairoff, Claudia Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. …”
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Dickinson's misery : a theory of lyric reading / by Jackson, Virginia Walker, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…." -- Lyric context -- Hybrid poems -- Dickinson unbound -- The archive -- 2: Lyric reading -- "My cricket" -- Lyric alienation -- Lyric theory -- Against (lyric) theory -- 3: Dickinson's figure of address -- "The only poets" -- Lyric media -- "The man who makes sheets of paper" -- "You--there--I--here" -- "The most pathetic thing I do" -- 4: "Faith in anatomy" -- Achilles' head -- The interpretant -- "No bird--yet rode in Ether--" -- The queen's place -- 5: Dickinson's misery -- "Misery, how fair" -- "The literature of misery" -- "This chasm" -- "And bore her safe away."…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century / by Kairoff, Claudia Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. …”
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Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France / Elie Haddad -- All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain / Ryan Gaston -- "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem / Sukanya Dasgupta -- Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 / Mathieu Marraud -- Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century / Jerzy Lukowski -- Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level / M. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War studies in Lucan's epic technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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Italy to Argentina : Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism / by Pagano, Tullio

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Representing Sylvia Plath

Table of Contents: “…'The trees of the mind are black, the light is blue': sublime encounters in Sylvia Plath's tree poems Sally Bayley; 6. Coming to terms with colour: Plath's visual aesthetic Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty; 7. …”
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Dante's Epic Journeys / by Thompson, David, 1938-

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Children's Folklore : A Source Book /

Table of Contents: “…- Overview: History of children's folklore -- The complexity of children's folklore -- The transmmission of children's folklore -- Overview: Methods in children's folklore -- Double dutch and double cameras: studying the transmission of culture in an urban school yard -- Children's games and gaming -- Methodological problems of collecting folklore from children -- Overview: Children's folklore concerns -- Songs, poems, and rhymes -- Riddles -- Tales and legends -- Teases and pranks -- Overview: Settings and activities -- Children's lore in school and playgrounds -- Material folk culture of children -- Children's folklore in residential institutions: Summer camps, boarding schools, hospitals, and custodial facilities -- The past in the present: Theoretical directions for children's folklore -- Bibliography of children's folklore.…”
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Magic search getting the best results from your catalog and beyond / by Kornegay, Rebecca S.

Table of Contents: “…Finding basic treatments and background reading -- Finding how-to guides -- Finding images -- Words, words,-and numbers -- Finding out about people : individuals and groups -- Finding out about places -- Finding creative treatments : stories, poems, songs, etc. -- 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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Thinking Literature across Continents / by Ghosh, Ranjan, Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…Hillis Miller -- The story of a poem / Ranjan Ghosh -- Western theories of poetry : reading Wallace Stevens's "The motive for metaphor" -- / J. …”
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Petrified utopia happiness Soviet style /

Table of Contents: “…A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly -- Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming happiness in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo -- Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto -- "It's grand to be an orphan!" …”
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Versatility in versification multidisciplinary approaches to metrics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Michael Schulte -- Metrical learning and the First grammatical treatise / Güðrún Nordal -- On Kuhn's laws and Craigie's law in Old Icelandic poetry / Kristján Árnason -- The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic : evidence from poetry / Thórhallur Eythórsson -- The effect of prosody on the linear structure of adpositional phrases in Eddic verse / Tonya Kim Dewey -- Alliteration and grammatical categories / Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson -- Old English feet / Chris Golston -- Accents left and right / Tomas Riad -- Formal interactions in poetic meter / Nigel Fabb -- How Germanic features can appear in Italian metrical poetry / Stefano Versace -- The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation / Sissel Furuseth -- Dipod rules : Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren -- Speech-acts in skaldic verse : genre, compositional strategies and improvisation / Frog -- No royal road : the extremes of dróttkvætt lines in Snorri's Háttatal / Helgi Skúli Kjartansson -- Gnast and brast : on metrics, enjambment and more in two ditties in Gísla saga, the shorter version / Bergljót Soffía Kristjánsdóttir -- Towards a theory of aesthetic rhythm / Eva Lilja -- Index.…”
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Anthem critical thinking and writing skills an introductory guide / by Ehrhardt, Victoria Pontzer

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Antidote / by Van Landingham, Corey, 1986-

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Writing works a resource handbook for therapeutic writing workshops and activities /

Table of Contents: “…What this book offers and why / Gillie Bolton -- Running groups / Victoria Field -- Writing therapeutically and in therapy / Kate Thompson -- Part one : writing from without -- Warming up and working together / edited by Kate Thompson -- Writing about place / edited by Victoria Field -- Writing from objects / edited by Gillie Bolton -- Writing from published poems / edited by Victoria Field -- Writing in form / edited by Victoria Field -- Part two : writing from within -- What people need to write / edited by Kate Thompson -- Different masks / edited by Victoria Field -- Who am I? …”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. …”
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A poetics of trauma the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / by Szobel, Ilana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: what must be forgotten -- Forever beholden: the state of orphanhood -- Poetics of orphanhood -- "She has damaged the little girl": orphanhood and motherhood -- "His eldest daughter": women's symbolic orphanhood -- Estrangement: the project of female subjectivity -- Estrangement and the collision of perspectives -- "Imaginary geography": the gap between "here" and "over there" -- "She tried to escape and lost her senses": mania, depression, and madness -- The manic-depressive mode: poetics of mobilité -- "Therefore I invented conversation": speech about madness, and mad speech -- Unveiling injustice: testimony, complicity, and national identity -- "Hovering at a low altitude": witnessing and complicity -- "Guilt-ridden poems": the contamination of language and the departure from innocence -- "Stinging and itching"/"maddeningly": the Palestinians as the Israeli abjection -- Conclusion: "the transparent skin that unites us".…”
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