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El arte dramático de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz presenta un análisis de sus 33 obras representables: Comedias, Autos, Villancicos y Loas. Incluye una cronologÃa de su Teatro que permite aclarar con nuevas luces su controvertida biografÃa; por ejemplo, se incluye un novedoso acercamiento de su relación con sus Arzobispos y un análisis textual de su pensamiento sobre la legitimación femenina. Interesante es el estudio de La segunda Celestina,...
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Get the Summary of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom is a comprehensive exploration of the literary works and authors that have shaped Western culture. Bloom delves into the concept of the Canon, emphasizing its evolution from a prescriptive list of essential readings to a more personal selection of literature that fosters individual connections....
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Learn all Amy March and her real-life inspiration May Alcott Nieriker and the harmful things that follow when one self-inserts themselves into but also the misconceptions about Jo´s insecurities and especially about her looks. Society likes to put two characters against one another but is this true to reality? Find out that and more in the Little Women podcast.Little Women Podcast is an ongoing series of video essays, articles and podcast episodes...
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[2023]
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275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. When the affluent white population of Prince Edward County built a private school--for white children only--they left Black children and their families with very few options. Some Black children were home schooled...
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2023.
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224 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth looks at our constantly changing planet, with striking images and scientific ideas that are easy for children to understand. Starting at the center of the Earth, the book examines each layer in forensic detail: from Earth’s metallic core, drilling through Earth’s tough crust until emerging out onto the planet’s surface, with its lush green rainforests, sparkling oceans, and snow-capped mountains, before...
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2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Based on a true story, the author humorously recounts the time his grandfather got stranded with a friend on Surtsey, a brand new volcanic island in Iceland. The adventurers face epic challenges like molten lava, melted eyeglasses and scant supplies before finally getting rescued. Graphic novel-like layouts and spirited text invite readers to search for the one thing that's not actually true in this thrilling yet light-hearted tale of adventure....
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The study of the Afican novel is often challenging to both the teacher and the student in high schools and colleges. This is because, apart from many modern African novels being multi-faceted, many teachers and students still use the traditional methods of analysis. Often, such methods leave the reader with a lot of knowledge about the particular text, but with few literary skills that can be used on other literary texts or even other genres. This...
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A Student's Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
31) Why Poetry
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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry-and poetry alone-can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding...
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This book is book is the third in a series that examines the novel, Fathers of Nations, by Paul B Vitta. The first booklet analyzes the plot and examines the characters and their roles. The second examines the important themes and the elements of style. This book looks at how to deal with questions set on this novel. It begins with how to interpret question words, recognizing that this is often the first hurdle standing in the way of a student's performance....
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can...
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This book is intended to assist those students and teachers of the African novel who have a problem with question interpretation or in telling exactly how to arrive at a 10/10 mark. The book takes the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education's English papers 101/2 and 101/3 as its base. In these two papers, the student is supposed to answer an excerpt question - where an excerpt is taken from the studied novel and questions are set on it to test the...
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Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad is a collection of essays directed to both new and experienced readers of Conrad. The book takes into account recent developments in literary theory, including the prominence of ecocriticism, ecopostcolonial approaches, and gender studies. Editor Agata Szczeszak-Brewer offers a comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to Conrad's most popular texts, also addressing the most recent academic debates as well...
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A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality,...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
40) Africa
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"Did you know that humans have lived in Africa longer than any other place on Earth? Scientists have found fossils of human ancestors that were more than 3 million years old! Have you heard that the continent is home to the world's largest hot desert-the Sahara? Or that each year, millions of animals cross the Serengeti during the Great Migration? And this only scratches the surface of the world's second-largest continent. Discover extreme facts about...
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