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CliffsNotes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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CliffsNotes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Handmaid's Tale, you come to realize that for every utopia, there's a corresponding dystopia. This tale of a bleak future depicts a time where women are valued only for their reproductive capacities. While this cautionary tale of repression and totalitarianism is horrifying, there are moments of poetic warmth and humor. It is a brilliant satire. This concise supplement to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale helps you understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. Features that help you study include Chapter-by-chapter summaries and commentaries A timeline of critical events that leads to the climax of the novel A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays on women's roles in the novel, and the use of literary devices, themes, and settings A review section that tests your knowledge Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054418193X

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9780544181939

Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

By: Lorraine Mary York

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Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

By: Lorraine Mary York

For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine York explores the ways in which the careers of famous writers are managed and maintained and the extent to which literary celebrity creates a constant tension in these writers' lives between the need of solitude for creative purposes and the give-and-take of the business of being a writer of significant public stature. Making extensive use of unpublished material in the Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto, York demonstrates the extent to which celebrity writers must embrace and protect themselves from the demands of the literary world, including by participating in or even inventing new forms of technology that facilitate communication from a slight remove. This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye.

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233

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University of Toronto Press

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1442614234

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9781442614239

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By: Lorraine Mary York

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Literary Celebrity in Canada

By: Lorraine Mary York

Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon.

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209

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University of Toronto Press

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0802092829

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9780802092823

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

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2896

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Infobase Learning

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1438140649

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9781438140643

Reform as Learning

School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego

By: Lea Ann Hubbard,Mary Kay Stein,Hugh Mehan

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Reform as Learning

School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego

By: Lea Ann Hubbard,Mary Kay Stein,Hugh Mehan

Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process - from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. The authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, in order to identify, not only how teachers, principals and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms, but also the ways in which the reform unfolded. In doing so, the book shows more broadly how actors throughout a school system can change the views of leaders and impact the larger reform process.

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317

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Routledge

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1135925496

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9781135925499

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

A Feminist Critique

By: Mary J. Magoulick

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The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

A Feminist Critique

By: Mary J. Magoulick

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

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211

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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149683707X

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9781496837073

Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.

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497

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Infobase Publishing

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1438109113

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9781438109114

San Antonio in the 1920s and 1930s

By: Mary E. Livingston

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San Antonio in the 1920s and 1930s

By: Mary E. Livingston

While recounting the story of a childhood in San Antonio, Mary Linvingston also tells the story that exemplifies the opportunities and struggles faced by countless people growing up during this time of opportunity and change in America. The author's memories and reflections are illustrated by over 100 photographs, providing readers with an authentic view of life in San Antonio in the early twentieth century. From detailed accounts of canning fruits and vegetable during the Depression, watching movies at the Majestic Theater, and life on a "domestic zoo," to colorful antecdotes about makeing tamales, shopping for shoes using an X-ray machine, and visiting the San Antonio parks and missions, this entertaining and educational book will give older readers and younger readers a glimps of a way of life that is long gone, but not forgotten.

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164

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738501522

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9780738501529

A Postmodern Cinema

The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film

By: Mary Alemany-Galway

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A Postmodern Cinema

The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film

By: Mary Alemany-Galway

Alemany-Galway (media studies, Massey University, New Zealand) engages with a trend in Canadian cinema that speaks for those who are marginalized by society. She develops a rationale for a postmodern film theory to explore this trend and then focuses closely on four films: Jesus of Montreal, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Family Viewing, Life Classes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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288

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Scarecrow Press

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0810840987

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9780810840980

Physical Properties of Materials, Second Edition

By: Mary Anne White

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Physical Properties of Materials, Second Edition

By: Mary Anne White

Designed for advanced undergraduate students, Physical Properties of Materials, Second Edition establishes the principles that control the optical, thermal, electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties of materials. Using an atomic and molecular approach, this introduction to materials science offers students a wide-ranging survey of the field and a basis to understand future materials. The author incorporates comments on applications of materials science, extensive references to the contemporary and classic literature, and problems at the end of each chapter. In addition, unique tutorials allow students to apply the principles to understand applications, such as photocopying, magnetic devices, fiber optics, and more. This fully revised and updated second edition presents a discussion of materials sustainability, a description of crystalline structures, and discussion of current and recent developments, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, magnetocaloric effect, and spintronics. Along with a new capstone tutorial on the materials science of cymbals, this edition contains more than 60 new end-of-chapter problems, bringing the total to 300 problems. Web Resource The book’s companion website (www.physicalpropertiesofmaterials.com) provides updates to the further reading sections, links to relevant movies and podcasts for each chapter, video demonstrations, and additional problems. It also offers sources of demonstration materials for lectures and PowerPoint slides of figures from the book. More information can be found on a recent press release describing the book and the website.

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474

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CRC Press

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1439866511

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9781439866511

Like Letters in Running Water

A Mythopoetics of Curriculum

By: Mary Aswell Doll

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Like Letters in Running Water

A Mythopoetics of Curriculum

By: Mary Aswell Doll

Explores ways in which fiction yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice.

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249

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Routledge

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113567762X

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9781135677626

Book's by Mary Atwood

CliffsNotes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

CliffsNotes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

Literary Celebrity in Canada

Literary Celebrity in Canada

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Reform as Learning

Reform as Learning

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature

Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature

San Antonio in the 1920s and 1930s

San Antonio in the 1920s and 1930s

A Postmodern Cinema

A Postmodern Cinema

Physical Properties of Materials, Second Edition

Physical Properties of Materials, Second Edition

Like Letters in Running Water

Like Letters in Running Water

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