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Dos Passos

Artist as American

By: Linda W. Wagner

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In most of his half century of writing, John Dos Passos consistently tried to capture and define the American character. The complete range of his work builds to Dos Passos' concept of "contemporary chronicle," his own name for his fiction. In this first study of all Dos Passos' writing, Linda W. Wagner examines his fiction, poetry, drama, travel essays, and history—a body of work that evokes a vivid image of America meant to be neither judgmental nor moralistic. From Manhattan Transfer to U. S. A. to District of Columbia to The Thirteenth Chronicle and Mid-century, Wagner illuminates Dos Passos' work with fresh readings and new interpretations. She makes extensive use of unpublished manuscript material so that this is a casebook of Dos Passos' interest in craft and method as well as a thematic study. In addition, this volume chronicles the years during which Dos Passos wrote—the immediate post-World War I period through the twenties and thirties and well into the fifties. This is an important book both in literary criticism and in American social history.

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University of Texas Press

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1477303340

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9781477303344

Ellen Glasgow

Beyond Convention

By: Linda W. Wagner

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Ellen Glasgow

Beyond Convention

By: Linda W. Wagner

For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work. A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background. But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved “beyond convention” to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow’s best novels, then—Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life—came late in her life, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Glasgow’s increased self-assurance as writer and woman led to a far greater awareness of craft. Her style became more highly imaged, more suggestive, as though she wished to widen the range of resources available to move her readers. She became a writer both popular and respected. Her novels appeared as selections of the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and one became a best seller. At the same time she was chosen as one of the few female members of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1942 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life.

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University of Texas Press

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0292729898

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9780292729896

A History of American Literature

1950 to the Present

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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A History of American Literature

1950 to the Present

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America’s transition from the innocence of the fifties to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non- fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of civil rights, feminism, sexual preferences, and race- and gender-based marketing. She also places a special emphasis on works produced during the twenty-first century, and writings influenced by recent historic events such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the global financial crisis. With its careful balance of scholarly precision and accessibility, A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present provides readers of all levels with rich and revealing insights into the diversity of literary forms and influences that characterize postmodern America. “A monumental distillation of an enormous range of material, Wagner-Martin’s rich book should be required reading for anyone grappling with making sense of the prolific, broad-spectrum, and diverse writing in the US since 1950.” Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania “Linda Wagner-Martin’s history impressively and judiciously surveys all fields of American writing over the past sixty years, taking full account of significant cultural and historical contexts and the major critical commentaries that have helped shape our understanding of developments in the second half of the last century and the dozen years following the millennium. Balanced, informative, and always highly readable there is much here for general readers, students, and specialists alike.” Christopher MacGowan, the College of William and Mary

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418

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119062527

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9781119062523

Ernest Hemingway

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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Ernest Hemingway

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readings—particularly of the way Hemingway’s unpublished stories (“Phillip Haines was a writer”) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingway’s treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene there—putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway’s edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway’s wives.

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Springer Nature

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3030862550

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9783030862558

The Early History of the Communities of Bowman, South Carolina

By: Linda Carter Smith

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The Early History of the Communities of Bowman, South Carolina

By: Linda Carter Smith

The authors Linda Carter Smith, Peggy Easterling Miller, Steven Craig Smith and John Woodrow Weathers have researched and compiled facts, stories and photos about the colorful history of the Bowman area. Using archival documents and photographs, the authors have assembled a history of the area that gives the reader a glimpse into the early days of Bowman and the nearby communities.

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Lulu.com

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1304202216

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9781304202215

Hemingway's Wars

Public and Private Battles

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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Hemingway's Wars

Public and Private Battles

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

This is a study of the ways various kinds of injury and trauma affected Ernest Hemingway’s life and writing, from the First World War through his suicide in 1961. Linda Wagner-Martin has written or edited more than sixty books including Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Life. She is Frank Borden Hanes Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a winner of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826273793

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9780826273796

When Groups Meet

The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact

By: Thomas F. Pettigrew,Linda R. Tropp

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When Groups Meet

The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact

By: Thomas F. Pettigrew,Linda R. Tropp

This volume is a comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary work on intergroup contact, combining an extensive meta-analysis of 515 published studies on the topic with the authors’ renowned research. It provides researchers, students and professionals in social psychology and related fields with a rich sourcebook on intergroup contact, at a time of intergroup turmoil around the world.

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321

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Psychology Press

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1136794301

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9781136794308

Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

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Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

This second edition is a revision of a successful reader in organizational behavior, edited by Jerald Greenberg. This volume describes the latest advances in the field of organizational behavior. Each chapter is a description of "what was," "what is," and "what will be" as envisioned by leading researchers and experts. Topics covered include: affect, stress, self-fulfilling prophecies, diversity, justice, reputations, deviant behavior, conflict, construct validity, and cross-cultural behavior. The book concludes with a commentary chapter by Ed Locke--a distinguished senior scholar--who offers directions and guidance on the field's future. This book will appeal to professors and scholars in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, and social psychology. It is an invaluable compendium reporting on the state of the science in a rapidly developing field.

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481

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Psychology Press

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1135641439

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9781135641436

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

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Routledge

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1351719319

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9781351719315

The Best Hospitals in America

By: John W. Wright,Linda Sunshine

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The Best Hospitals in America

By: John W. Wright,Linda Sunshine

Written from a patient's view and drawing valuable input from physicians and other medical personnel, The Best Hospitals in America describes the history of 387 institutions, their locations, reputations, highly rated services and well-known specialists. Provides such details as admissions policies, room charges and contact information.

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Gale Cengage

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0810398745

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9780810398740

Democratic Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education

An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study

By: Linda Mitchell

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Democratic Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education

An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study

By: Linda Mitchell

This book uses case studies of Aotearoa New Zealand policy formulation and practice to explore early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a site for democratic citizenship and social justice. Addressing fundamental questions about the purpose of education, it argues for explicit values focusing on children and childhood as a basis for ECEC policy to replace discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability that are dominant within policy goals in many countries. A commitment to democracy and equity is a good place to start. Aotearoa New Zealand is of special interest because of its world-renowned ECE curriculum, Te Whāriki, which is based on principles of social justice, respect for rights and an aim to support children growing up in a democracy. The curriculum upholds Māori rights to tino rangatiratanga (absolute authority over their lives and resources). Yet, Aotearoa New Zealand’s extreme market policies and harsh labour laws during recent periods run contrary to ideals of democracy and are puzzlingly inconsistent with curriculum principles. The book starts with an analysis and critique of global trends in ECEC in countries that share capitalist mixed economies of welfare, and where competition and marketisation have become dominant principles. It then analyses ideas about children, childhood and ECEC within a framework of democracy, going back to the Athenean origins of democracy and including recent literature on meanings and traditions of democracy in education. The book uses vivid examples from researching curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices within Aotearoa New Zealand ECEC settings and collective action to influence policy change in order to illustrate opportunities for democratic education. It concludes by examining what conditions might be needed for integrated and democratic ECEC provision in Aotearoa New Zealand, and what changes are necessary for the future. It offers a compass not a map; it points to promising directions and provides insights into issues in ECEC policy and practice that are of current global concern.

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179

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Springer

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9811317933

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9789811317934

Sylvia Plath

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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Sylvia Plath

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

Linda Wagner-Martin's emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. In keeping with the critic's early ground-breaking work on American poet William Carlos Williams, she here studies elements of Plath's work with dedication to discussions of style and effect. Her close analysis of Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light into Plath's work in the late 1960s. The book concludes with a section assessing Sylvia Plath's current standing.

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Springer

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1349275271

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9781349275274

ResearchNavigator. com Guide

Mass Communication, Theatre, and Film (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Ronald Roat,Linda Robinson Barr

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ResearchNavigator. com Guide

Mass Communication, Theatre, and Film (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Ronald Roat,Linda Robinson Barr

This updated booklet includes tips, resources, and URLs to aid students conducting research on Pearson Education's research website, www.researchnavigator.com. The guide contains a student access code for the Research Navigator database, offering students unlimited access to a collection of more than 25,000 discipline-specific articles from top-tier academic publications and peer-reviewed journals, as well as The New York Times and popular news publications. The guide introduces students to the basics of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and includes tips for searching for articles on the site and a list of journals useful for research in their discipline. Also included are hundreds of Web resources for the discipline, as well as information on how to correctly cite research.

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0205524141

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9780205524143

Research Navigator Guide for Abnormal Psychology (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Rebecca L. Walker-Sands,Linda R. Barr

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Research Navigator Guide for Abnormal Psychology (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Rebecca L. Walker-Sands,Linda R. Barr

This updated booklet includes tips, resources, and URLs to aid students conducting research on Pearson Education's research website, www.researchnavigator.com. The guide contains a student access code for the Research Navigator database, offering students unlimited access to a collection of more than 25,000 discipline specific articles from top-tier academic publications and peer-reviewed journals, as well as the New York Times and popular news publications. The guide introduces students to the basics of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and includes tips for searching for articles on the site, and a list of journals useful for research in their discipline. Also included are hundreds of web resources for the discipline, as well as information on how to correctly cite research. The guide is available packaged with new copies of the text.

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0205408354

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9780205408351

Research Navigator Guide

Psychology

By: Brian Kelly,Linda Robinson Barr

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Research Navigator Guide

Psychology

By: Brian Kelly,Linda Robinson Barr

Designed to teach students how to conduct high-quality online research and to document it properly, this guide provides access to Research Navigator(tm) (www.researchnavigator.com), providing students and instructors with instant access to thousands of academic journals and periodicals any time from any computer with an Internet connection. Now updated with a new Research Navigator User's Guide, Research Navigator guides are free when packaged with any Allyn & Bacon/Longman text. With discipline-specific academic resources, and helpful tips on the writing process, online research, and finding and citing valid sources, starting the research process has never been easier!

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0205408281

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9780205408283

Research Navigator Guide for Education (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Linda R. Barr

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Research Navigator Guide for Education (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Linda R. Barr

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180

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Allyn & Bacon

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020540829X

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9780205408290

Research Navigator Guide

Mass Communication, Theatre, and Film

By: Ronald Roat,Linda Robinson Barr

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Mass Communication, Theatre, and Film

By: Ronald Roat,Linda Robinson Barr

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0205408303

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9780205408306

ResearchNavigator. com Guide

Speech Communication (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Steven L. Epstein,Linda R. Barr

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Speech Communication (Valuepack Item Only)

By: Steven L. Epstein,Linda R. Barr

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0205517145

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9780205517145

The Healthy Home

An Attic-To-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living

By: Linda Mason Hunter

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The Healthy Home

An Attic-To-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living

By: Linda Mason Hunter

The Healthy Home gives a complete picture of indoor health, including a healthy home inspection checklist. The New York Times called the book, "A sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home, The Healthy Home has tips on soundproofing, safety, detecting carcinogens and an appendix of products and services.

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Dissertation.com

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0595149715

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9780595149711

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