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BC, LIT004020, LIT018000, LIT024040, Ohio State University Press
PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY
A Prescription for Adversity makes the revolutionary case that Ambrose Bierce, far from being a bitter misanthrope, was instead both a compassionate and moral author. Berkove, focusing on Bierce’s short…
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BB, Hardback, LIT004020, PER004000, Southern Illinois University Press
Screening the Beats
Film critic David Sterritt’s Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen…
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BB, Hardback, LIT004020, LIT004120, Southern Illinois University Press
Something and Nothingness
John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the…
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BC, LIT004020, W. W. Norton & Company, W. W. Norton & Company
The Age of Innocence
“Contexts” constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the “New York Four Hundred,” elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as…
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