The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs
Author: John E. Cooney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Write Choices

Write Choices
Author: Sue Hertz
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-03-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1452230854

Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the decisions all writers confront when crafting factual narratives. Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common choices all true storytellers encounter, whether they are writing memoirs, literary journalism, personal essays, or travel essays. And since today's writers are no longer confined to paper, Write Choices also includes digital storytelling options, and advice on how writers can employ technology to enhance their narratives. Key Features Challenging Choices boxes in each chapter highlight how writers have decided to proceed at a particularly difficult juncture in their writing process. Web Choices sections in each chapter detail the decisions involved in creating additional multimedia to complement prose narratives. Try Tim writing exercises throughout the text provide opportunities for readers to apply and explore writing strategies presented in each chapter. Content gleaned from interviews with over 60 nonfiction storytellers exposes readers to established writers and editors representing all styles of nonfiction writing. Book jacket.

Defending Middle-Earth

Defending Middle-Earth
Author: Patrick Curry
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0544106563

A scholar explores the ideas within The Lord of the Rings and the world created by J. R. R. Tolkien: “A most valuable and timely book” (Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of Changing Planes). What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that the appeal for fans goes far deeper than just quests and magic rings and hobbits. In fact, through this epic, Tolkien found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. This thoughtful book focuses on three main aspects of Tolkien’s fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat; the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction; and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth—for which the author provides a particularly insightful and resonant examination. Includes a new afterword

The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain

The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
Author: Donald R. Kelley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1997-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521590693

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
Author: Nawāl Saʻdāwī
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781856495141

This collection portrays the intellectual and political development of an extraordinary thinker who explores a host of topics including women's oppression under recent interpretations of Islam and the subversive potential of creativity.

Writing Cogito

Writing Cogito
Author: Hassan Melehy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791435717

Combines literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis in order to consider a question that involves both literature and philosophy, namely, the foundation of the human subject.

Staging Place

Staging Place
Author: Una Chaudhuri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472065899

The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

A New History of Early English Drama

A New History of Early English Drama
Author: John D. Cox
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780231102438

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

A History of the United States

A History of the United States
Author: Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2019-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN:

A History of the United States is a schoolbook by Charles Kendall Adams. It was adopted nationally as a high school course and covers mostly the wars on US soil throughout history.

Metamorphosis and the Emergence of the Feminine

Metamorphosis and the Emergence of the Feminine
Author: Paula Smith Allen
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Women writers from both North and South America, including those from different ethnic groups in the United States, employ the motif of insect and seed metamorphosis, which shows a development of the motif in stages as women increasingly become aware of the existence of a feminine self that is not acknowledged in language. The use of the motif by these writers, separated by both distance and influence, is an attempt by women writers to reject the "casting" of women's experience in the archetypal images of Persephone and Penelope, as was traditionally assigned to the feminine by Western civilization.