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Epic of the Dispossessed

Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

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Epic of the Dispossessed

Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

Hamner describes Omeros as an epic of the dispossessed because each of its protagonists is a castaway in one sense or another. Regardless of whether their ancestry is traced to the classical Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, or confined to the Americas, they are transplanted individuals whose separate quests all center on the fundamental human need to strike roots in a place where one belongs.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211526

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9780826211521

Principles of Toxicology

Environmental and Industrial Applications

By: Stephen M. Roberts,Robert C. James,Phillip L. Williams

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Principles of Toxicology

Environmental and Industrial Applications

By: Stephen M. Roberts,Robert C. James,Phillip L. Williams

A fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling guide on toxicology and its practical application • Covers the diverse chemical hazards encountered in the modern work and natural environment, and provides a practical understanding of these hazards • New chapters cover the emerging areas of toxicology such as omics, computational toxicology, and nanotoxicology • Provides clear explanations and practical understanding of the fundamentals necessary for an understanding of the effects of chemical hazards on human health and ecosystems • Includes case histories and examples from industry demonstrate the application of toxicological principles • Supplemented with numerous illustrations to clarify and summarize key points, annotated bibliographies, and a comprehensive glossary of toxicological terms

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496

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470907916

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9780470907917

Beginning at the End

Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry

By: Robert Stilling

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Beginning at the End

Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry

By: Robert Stilling

During the struggle for decolonization, Frantz Fanon argued that artists who mimicked European aestheticism were “beginning at the end,” skipping the inventive phase of youth for a decadence thought more typical of Europe’s declining empires. Robert Stilling takes up Fanon’s assertion to argue that decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing both the failures of revolutionary nationalism and the assertion of new cosmopolitan ideas about poetry and art. In Stilling’s account, anglophone postcolonial artists have reshaped modernist forms associated with the idea of art for art’s sake and often condemned as decadent. By reading decadent works by J. K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde alongside Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Agha Shahid Ali, Derek Mahon, Yinka Shonibare, Wole Soyinka, and Bernardine Evaristo, Stilling shows how postcolonial artists reimagined the politics of aestheticism in the service of anticolonial critique. He also shows how fin de siècle figures such as Wilde questioned the imperial ideologies of their own era. Like their European counterparts, postcolonial artists have had to negotiate between the imaginative demands of art and the pressure to conform to a revolutionary politics seemingly inseparable from realism. Beginning at the End argues that both groups—European decadents and postcolonial artists—maintained commitments to artifice while fostering oppositional politics. It asks that we recognize what aestheticism has contributed to politically engaged postcolonial literature. At the same time, Stilling breaks down the boundaries around decadent literature, taking it outside of Europe and emphasizing the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.

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Harvard University Press

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0674919696

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9780674919693

Epic of the Dispossessed

Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

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Derek Walcott's Omeros

By: Robert D. Hamner

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Epic of the Dispossessed

Epic of the Dispossessed

Principles of Toxicology

Principles of Toxicology

Beginning at the End

Beginning at the End

Epic of the Dispossessed

Epic of the Dispossessed

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