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Street Stories

The World of Police Detectives

By: Robert Jackall

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Street Stories

The World of Police Detectives

By: Robert Jackall

Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity. Detectives' stories lay bare their occupational consciousness--the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world--as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.

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Harvard University Press

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0674264665

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Pucks and Sticks and Dirty Tricks

By: Robert E. Fennell

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Pucks and Sticks and Dirty Tricks

By: Robert E. Fennell

Robert Fennell has taken a euphemistic look at the Great Canadian Game - namely hockey. The story takes place in Saskatchewan where two fictitious teams, the Frontier Aces and the Moose Lake Thunderclouds, battle it out for the symbol of Northern League supremacy, the Manly Cup. With the 'cup' as their objective, the two teams struggle through an arduous seven-game playoff series, filled with tricks, schemes, brawls, and other forms of nonsensical mayhem. Central to the story in the Frontier Aces' goaltender, Stonewall Cody. He is one of the sneakiest, most conniving players ever to strap on a set of pads. His lust for victory is accompanied by a colorful array of characters, both human and animal. Stonewall's attempts to manipulate each game in his team's favor often lead to hilarious results. Never has a rivalry between two teams in any sport been so entertaining and side-splittingly funny.

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Trafford Publishing

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141205169X

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9781412051699

A journey beyond midnight

By: Robert W Hogarth

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A journey beyond midnight

By: Robert W Hogarth

When a missing gun turns up years after it was used in a killing it puts Joe Wilson in a fix. As his adventure grows he meets many new characters and becomes the one to save their futures

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Lulu.com

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129197461X

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9781291974614

Modern Irish Poetry

Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney

By: Robert F. Garratt

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Modern Irish Poetry

Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney

By: Robert F. Garratt

Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition

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Univ of California Press

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0520066030

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Now and Then

The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000

By: Robert Hass

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Now and Then

The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000

By: Robert Hass

During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th–century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains well–known poets such as Wallace Stevens, Rita Dove, John Ashbery, and Robert Frost, as well as emerging and translated poets such as Jaime Sabines and Czeslaw Milosz. Also included are Hass's essays that accompanied the poems. Encapsulating a world before 9/11, this collection serves as both remembrance and reminder of a period in our history, and as a celebration of the poets whose works transcend time.

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Catapult

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1582439680

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9781582439686

Partners of the Imagination

The Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy

By: Robert Leach

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Partners of the Imagination

The Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy

By: Robert Leach

Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns. Beginning in the 1950s, Arden and D’Arcy created a series of hugely admired plays performed at Britain’s major theatres. Political activists, they worked tirelessly in the peace movement and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, during which D’Arcy was gaoled. She is also a veteran of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace camp. Their later work included Booker-listed novels, prize-winning stories, essays and radio plays, and D’Arcy founded and ran a Woman’s Pirate Radio station. Raymond Williams described Arden as ‘the most genuinely innovative’ of the playwrights of his generation, and Chambers and Prior claimed that ‘The Non-Stop Connolly Show’, D’Arcy and Arden’s six-play epic, ‘has fair claim to being one of the finest pieces of post-war drama in the English language’. This study explores the connections between art and life, and between the responsibilities of the writer and the citizen. Importantly, it also evaluates the range of literary works (plays, poetry, novels, essays, polemics) created by these writers, both as literature and drama, and as controversialist activity in its own right. This work is a landmark examination of two hugely respected radical writers.

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Routledge

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1000281175

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9781000281170

The Wrestler

A Bizarre Life in Pro Wrestling

By: Robert Hawkinson

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The Wrestler

A Bizarre Life in Pro Wrestling

By: Robert Hawkinson

George Martin, a young college wrestler has graduated, and his coach thinks he should become a professional wrestler. However, George quickly finds out that he isn't big enough for the 'big time'. Eventually a local promoter gives him an opportunity and he goes on the road. George has the ability but must gain at least fifty pounds. He becomes involved with power weight-lifters and a doctor with a dark past. The combination of aggressive hypnotism, steroids and other activities has an unexpected effect on George's personality, with dire consequences for friends and other wrestlers. His experiences with promoters, con-men and fans gives the reader a glimpse into the world of professional wrestling. This thriller is based on the real life experiences of the author. He leaves it up to you to sort fact from fiction.

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iUniverse

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0595163440

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Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud

Lyrical Material

By: Robert St. Clair

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Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud

Lyrical Material

By: Robert St. Clair

Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies. The question that Poetry, Politics, and the Body seeks to answer is: What does this corporeal density mean for reading Rimbaud? What kind of sense are we to make of this omnipresence of the body in the Rimbaldian corpus, from first to last–from the earliest poems in verse celebrating the sheer, simple delight of running away from wherever one is and stretching one's legs out under a table, to the ultimate flight away from poetry itself? In response, this book argues that the body appears–often literally–as a kind of gap, breach, or aperture through which Rimbaud's poems enter into contact with history and a larger body of other texts. Simply put, the body is privileged 'lyrical material' for Rimbaud: a figure for human beings in their exposed, finite creatureliness and in their unpredictable agency and interconnectedness. Its presence in the early work allows us not only to contemplate what a strange, sensuous thing it is to be embodied, to be both singular and part of a collective, it also allows the poet to diagnose, and the reader to perceive, a set of seemingly intractable, 'real' socio-economic, political, and symbolic problems. Rimbaud's bodies are, in other words, utopian bodies: sites where the historical and the lyrical, the ideal and the material, do not so much cancel each other out as become caught up in one another.

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Oxford University Press

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0192561227

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9780192561220

Native America, Discovered and Conquered

Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny

By: Robert J. Miller

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Native America, Discovered and Conquered

Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny

By: Robert J. Miller

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313071845

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9780313071843

The American Indian in Western Legal Thought

The Discourses of Conquest

By: Robert A. Williams Jr.

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The American Indian in Western Legal Thought

The Discourses of Conquest

By: Robert A. Williams Jr.

Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World.

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Oxford University Press

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0198021739

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9780198021735

Farrell's Daughter

By: Robert Bennick

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Farrell's Daughter

By: Robert Bennick

Ann Farrell notices two strange mourners at her father's funeral. At the reading of her father's legal will it appears they have played a key role in her father's mysterious past. Her determined pursuit to unveil this mystery leads her to France, where her father allegedly was a British secret agent during World War II. There she discovers the shocking truth.The story of four different eras in the life of two young men - courageous soldiers, close friends and successful barristers - their ambiguous hate/love relation gradually turning them into rancorous adversaries, the consequent aftermath of their horrible war experience that atrophied part of their soul.As the story grows, so does suspense. Why did the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, sacrifice two brave young men without mercy? And who is Farrell's daughter?In combat many young men lose their life or limbs, they are called war heroes. But some lose their emotional balance on the battlefield. They are called cowards

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1409218872

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The Cold of May Day Monday

An Approach to Irish Literary History

By: Robert Welch

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The Cold of May Day Monday

An Approach to Irish Literary History

By: Robert Welch

The Cold of May Day Monday is an account of one of the most interesting literary histories in the world, offering insights into the connections between Irish legend and literature, and accounts of the best Irish writers of the twentieth century.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019968684X

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

By: Robert Shea

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

By: Robert Shea

Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

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Dell

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0307569640

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9780307569646

Voluntary Initiatives and the New Politics of Corporate Greening

By: Robert B. Gibson

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Voluntary Initiatives and the New Politics of Corporate Greening

By: Robert B. Gibson

The diverse range of authors highlight the inherent complexities and controversial nature of the use of corporate voluntary initiatives for environmental improvements. This is an excellent reference book." - Dianne Humphries, Pollution Probe

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University of Toronto Press

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1551112183

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9781551112183

The Nebula Planet

Galactic Command Series

By: Robert Fitton

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The Nebula Planet

Galactic Command Series

By: Robert Fitton

Fitton's Galactic Command Series. Voyage 24. Join Commander John Ross and the crew of ESS-14, after the Antarian War, to a planet bordering a nebula on the edge of the galaxy. Ross chases a derelict ESS Commander and his Antarian conspirator. Beyond the Nebula is an enclosed solar system, controlled by omnipotent life forms that desire a cataclysmic future for Galactic Command.

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iUniverse

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0595485359

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Circle of Six

The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him

By: Randy Jurgensen,Robert Cea

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Circle of Six

The True Story of New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and The Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him

By: Randy Jurgensen,Robert Cea

“The Mosque case of 1972 is the most famous case amongst the rank and file of the NYPD and Circle of Six holds no punches.” —Joe “Donnie Brasco” Pistone, former FBI special agent Circle of Six is the true story of what is perhaps the most notorious case in the history of the New York Police Department. It details Randy Jurgensen’s determined effort to bring to justice the murderer of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was shot and killed inside Harlem’s Mosque #7 in 1972, in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. The New York of this era was a place not unlike the Wild West, in which cops and criminals shot it out on a daily basis. Despite the mayhem on the streets and the Machiavellian corridors of Mayor Lindsay’s City Hall, Detective Jurgensen single-handedly took on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass, and City Hall, capturing Cardillo’s killer, Lewis 17X Dupree. He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen’s witness. The relationship they formed during the time before trial gave each of the two men a greater perspective of the two sides in the street war and changed them forever. In the end, Jurgensen had to settle for a conviction on other charges, and Dupree served a number of years. The murder case is still officially unsolved. In 2006 the NYPD re-opened the case, and it is once again an active investigation with full media attention. The book has received acclaim from former New York City Police Commissioners Ray Kelly and William Bratton.

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Red Wheel Weiser

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1934708852

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9781934708859

Romantic Generations

Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner

By: Robert F. Gleckner

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Romantic Generations

Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner

By: Robert F. Gleckner

These essays express a common belief that the study of Romantic literature must be at once professionally serious and personally engaging. Topics discussed range from Wordsworth to Lady Caroline Lamb, and from Blake and Burke to the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Each essay also offers close readings of essential works on English and Irish Romanticism. Introducing the collection is a tribute by the celebrated Romanticist Peter Manning.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754708

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9780838754702

Ralph Compton the Wrong Side of the Law

By: Robert J. Randisi,Ralph Compton

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Ralph Compton the Wrong Side of the Law

By: Robert J. Randisi,Ralph Compton

In this fast-paced new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series, a bandit who takes the identity of a dead lawman finds that the best place to hide is in plain sight. Jake Polk is a wanted man. He's spent years on the wrong side of the law staying one step ahead of the marshals. His most recent stage robbery ends with a posse hot on his trail. He's opened up just enough room to take a breather when he stumbles upon something astonishing. It's the body of a man resting peacefully next to a burned-out campfire. It's clear the man died in his sleep of natural causes. This is the chance Jake has been waiting for. According to a letter in the man's saddlebag, he's Marshall Owen Dent, on his way to the town of Riverbend to take over as the local lawman. Jake switches identities to avoid the posse, but what starts out as a quick means of escape may have deeper consequences when Jake considers making the change permanent.

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Penguin

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0593333861

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9780593333860

Glory Road

By: Robert A. Heinlein

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Glory Road

By: Robert A. Heinlein

E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me étage, apt. D." How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her "Star." A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes. Robert A. Heinlein's one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny and tremendously readable -- a favorite of all who have read it. Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail. Tor is proud to return this all-time classic to hardcover to be discovered by a new generation of readers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan

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1429912529

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9781429912525

Poets on Paintings

A Bibliography

By: Robert D. Denham

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Poets on Paintings

A Bibliography

By: Robert D. Denham

Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.

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McFarland

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0786456582

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