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The Jazz Age

A Historical Exploration of Literature

By: Linda De Roche

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The Jazz Age

A Historical Exploration of Literature

By: Linda De Roche

This intriguing study examines the truth behind the myths and misconceptions that defined the Roaring Twenties, as portrayed through the popular literary works of the time. This one-stop reference to the "Jazz Age"—the period that began after the First World War and ended with the stock market crash of 1929—digs into the cultural, historical, and literary contexts of the era. Author Linda De Roche examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common conceptions of the Roaring Twenties and instead reflect on the era's complexities and contradictions, including how gender and race influenced social mores. The book profiles key American literature of the time, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Sinclair Lewis's Babbit, Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Nella Larsen's Passing. Filled with essays that offer historical explorations of each work as well as suggested learning activities, chapters also feature study questions, primary source documents, and chronologies. Support materials include activities, lesson plans, discussion questions, topics for further research, and suggested readings.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216106289

Erich Segal

A Critical Companion

By: Linda De Roche

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Erich Segal

A Critical Companion

By: Linda De Roche

From Love Story in 1970 to Prizes, his most recent bestseller, Erich Segal has created a body of fiction that testifies to the importance of traditional values and virtues in contemporary life. To drive home his views, Segal revitalizes the sentimental novel, which evokes emotion to assert moral precepts. This study, the first full-length examination of his work, explores the development of his art and analyzes each of his seven novels in turn. Pelzer shows how Segal's novels explore the parent-child relationship, the price of success, the importance of love, marriage, and human commitment, and the temptations and pressures that make it difficult for the individual to live rightly. A biographical chapter discusses Segal's career as a novelist and an academic. A chapter on genre examines his fiction in the tradition of the sentimental novel. Each novel is discussed in a separate chapter and analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, literary devices, and style. In addition, Pelzer defines and applies a variety of alternative critical approaches to the novels to widen the reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of Segal's work as well as selected reviews and criticism complete the volume. In this study Pelzer shows how both Segal's short, sentimental tales of love and loss and his multi-character sagas, which range wide in time and place, tap into the deeply held beliefs of his readers and assert traditional values. It is this reaffirmation of values that is the source of his popular appeal to American readers.

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154

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313317240

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9780313317248

Student Companion to Willa Cather

By: Linda De Roche

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Student Companion to Willa Cather

By: Linda De Roche

Willa Cather's elegiac tales of the pioneer experience on the American frontier continue to captivate new generations of readers. Written especially for students, this critical introduction offers insightful yet accessible criticism of Cather's most widely read novels. A full chapter examines each work, with full discussions of character development, thematic concerns, plot, critical reception, and historical contexts. Students will find this book a valuable guide to this great American author. The volume covers such enduring works as Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My D'Antonia, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock. Each chapter is devoted to an individual novel and provides a full discussion of character development, thematic concerns, and plot structure. The introduction to each novel traces its genesis and its critical reception at the time of publication. The historical context sections place Cather's vision of the pioneer spirit and achievement within the context of a rapidly changing America that was in the process of abandoning its traditional values and thus risking its source of greatness. Students will find this book a valuable guide to Cather's works.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083851

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9780313083853

Mary Higgins Clark

Life and Letters

By: Linda De Roche

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Mary Higgins Clark

Life and Letters

By: Linda De Roche

This incisive exploration probes the relationship between the novels of bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and the key events and influences of her life. In her 2002 memoir, Kitchen Privileges, Mary Higgins Clark shared the details of her life with her readers, but she offered little significant reflection on those details. For that, readers must look to her fiction, where her themes, characters, and subjects suggest her responses to her life experiences. Mary Higgins Clark: Life and Letters provides readers with an analysis of these connections in a volume that should increase their understanding—and appreciation—of the author and her work. Focusing on subjects associated with the literary elements of representative Clark novels, Linda De Roche explores the relationship between the life of this bestselling author and the books that have won her legions of fans for more than a quarter century. Themes and issues woven into Clark's fiction—such as the role of the past in people's lives, repercussions of violence, and the concept of identity—are considered, while close critical readings uncover psychological, feminist, and sociopolitical interpretations that will delight fans and inform scholars.

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192

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313366381

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9780313366383

Cuisine and Culture

A History of Food and People

By: Linda Civitello

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Cuisine and Culture

A History of Food and People

By: Linda Civitello

An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets-now revised and updated Why did the ancient Romans believe cinnamon grew in swamps guarded by giant killer bats? How did the African cultures imported by slavery influence cooking in the American South? What does the 700-seat McDonald's in Beijing serve in the age of globalization? With the answers to these and many more such questions, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition presents an engaging, informative, and witty narrative of the interactions among history, culture, and food. From prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to today's celebrity chefs, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Fully revised and updated, this Second Edition offers new and expanded features and coverage, including: New Crossing Cultures sections providing brief sketches of foods and food customs moving between cultures More holiday histories, food fables, and food chronologies Discussions of food in the Byzantine, Portuguese, Turkish/Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Greater coverage of the scientific genetic modification of food, from Mendel in the 19th century to the contemporary GM vs. organic food debate Speculation on the future of food And much more! Complete with sample recipes and menus, as well as revealing photographs and illustrations, Cuisine and Culture, Second Edition is the essential survey history for students of food history.

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434

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471741728

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9780471741725

The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies

By: William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain

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The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies

By: William A. Katz,Linda Sternberg Katz,Esther Crain

Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.

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488

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Columbia University Press

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023110104X

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9780231101042

Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece

Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory

By: Linda Jones Hall

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Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece

Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory

By: Linda Jones Hall

The essays in Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece honor the contributions of Timothy E. Gregory to our understanding of Greece from the Roman period to modern times. Evoking Gregory's diverse interests, the volume brings together anthropologists, art historians, archaeologists, historians, and philologists to address such contested topics as the end of Antiquity, the so-called Byzantine Dark Ages, the contours of the emerging Byzantine civilization, and identity in post-Medieval Greece. These papers demonstrate the continued vitality of both traditional and innovative approaches to the study of material culture and emphasise that historical interpretation should be the product of methodological self-awareness. In particular, this volume shows how the study of the material culture of post-Classical Greece over the last 30 years has made significant contributions to both the larger archaeological and historical discourse. The essays in this volume are organized under three headings - Archaeology and Method, the Archaeology of Identity, and the Changing Landscape - which highlight three main focuses of Gregory's research. Each essay interlaces new analyses with the contributions Gregory has made to our understanding of Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. Read together these essays not only make a significant contribution to how we understand the post-Classical Greek world, but also to how we study the material culture of the Mediterranean world more broadly.

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372

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Routledge

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1351957554

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9781351957557

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Linda Pavlovski

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Linda Pavlovski

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

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Twentieth-Century Literary Cri

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078765860X

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9780787658601

New York and Its Western Hemispheric Neighbors

By: Linda Briggs Biemer

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New York and Its Western Hemispheric Neighbors

By: Linda Briggs Biemer

Discusses the social and political history of New York, Canada, and Mexico from the the arrival of the earliest inhabitants to the present.

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Salt Lake City, Utah : Peregrine Smith Books

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0879053267

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9780879053260

Pronouns and Determiners

Dyad Learning Program

By: Alice C. Pack,Judith Muyskens,Linda Harlow,Jean-Francois Briere,Michèle Vialet

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Pronouns and Determiners

Dyad Learning Program

By: Alice C. Pack,Judith Muyskens,Linda Harlow,Jean-Francois Briere,Michèle Vialet

BRAVO! brings parity to the intermediate course, enabling students of diverse backgrounds to review first-year structures independently before delving into new material.

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Heinle & Heinle Publishers

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0883770814

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9780883770818

Worldwide Travel Information Contact Book

By: Linda Irvin,Burkhard Herbote

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Worldwide Travel Information Contact Book

By: Linda Irvin,Burkhard Herbote

This directory provides more than 25000 entries designed to bring you access to travel experts throughout the world. Organized within 300 country, state/province, and other geographic sub-sections, entries span the globe from New York to New Zealand, including hard-to-find information sources in third world countries.

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Gale Cengage

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0810380803

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9780810380806

Mary Higgins Clark

Life and Letters

By: Linda De Roche

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Life and Letters

By: Linda De Roche

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The Jazz Age

The Jazz Age

Erich Segal

Erich Segal

Student Companion to Willa Cather

Student Companion to Willa Cather

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark

Cuisine and Culture

Cuisine and Culture

The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies

The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies

Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece

Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

New York and Its Western Hemispheric Neighbors

New York and Its Western Hemispheric Neighbors

Pronouns and Determiners

Pronouns and Determiners

Worldwide Travel Information Contact Book

Worldwide Travel Information Contact Book

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark

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