Retrievals is a collection of poems that explore personal experiences, such as the set of poems drawn from Catholic school, but also create personas from an assortment of characters, some tragic, some comic, as well as poems offering short observations of the absurd.
REA's MAXnotes for Willa Cather's My Antonia The MAXnotes features a comprehensive summary and analysis of My Antonia and a biography of Willa Cather. Places the events of the novel in historical context and discusses each section in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.
Eddie Shemanki is a paranoid seventeen year old boy who had built a secret room in his closet to hide from kidnappers who have already taken his baby brother Benjamin from his crib. Fearing their return and tiring of the incessant wailing of his mother,Eddie runs away from home and begins a journey that will lead him into to a quest to find Benjamin. Hiding in a cave and working in a restaurant, Eddie's solitude leads him into encounters with a variety of eccentric characters, from a friend who is allergic to dust to a Vietnam vet to an old woman who worships her dead husband like a God. Then Eddie meets "The Men of Fire," Good Samaritans who will help him in his quest to bring Benjamin home. Behind everything are the Philadelphia Phillies and their perpetual losing seasons, along with Eddie's past, filled with his days of Catholic school and the memorizing of saints and Eddie's unfilled desire to own a giant monitor lizard,all of which propel the novel to Eddie's inevitable destiny.
Retrievals is a collection of poems that explore personal experiences, such as the set of poems drawn from Catholic school, but also create personas from an assortment of characters, some tragic, some comic, as well as poems offering short observations of the absurd.
Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature analyzes a wide range of Irish literature whose themes tie into a reverence for the natural world of Ireland. From an ecocritical perspective, these works, tied into an understanding of the landscape and particular aspects of nature, attain a fresh new meaning and foster a more relevant reflection of Ireland’s beautiful literary landscape. The analysis begins with the first Irish writers, the hermit poets, and examines the ways in which the Irish hermit and saint were connected spiritually, through both pagan and early Christian values, to the natural world. The book then examines Irish literature from the perspective of the deforested landscape and the landscapes of farmland, divided property, famine, ruins, and a threatening natural world. Following the Famine, the book moves on to explore the establishment of the pastoral dream in this loss of landscape, and a re- connection to nature through the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance. From there, the analysis shifts to the nature writing of Ireland’s islands, including nature and community on Achill Island, storytelling on the Aran Islands, exile in nature on Skellig Michael, and the mythmaking of the Great Blasket Island. Moving north and into the twentieth century, Emerald Green focuses on four nature poets from Northern Ireland: Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley; all four are redeemed by nature through their returns to the rural landscape of Ireland’s west coast. The book concludes with an examination of modern Irish environmental writers and naturalist poets, as well as journalists weighing in on current environmental concerns in Ireland. Emerald Green concludes with an assessment of the future of nature in Ireland, and how the significant reduction of this country’s natural landscape will alter its literary landscape as well.
Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature analyzes a wide range of Irish literature whose themes tie into a reverence for the natural world of Ireland. From an ecocritical perspective, these works, tied into an understanding of the landscape and particular aspects of nature, attain a fresh new meaning and foster a more relevant reflection of Ireland’s beautiful literary landscape. The analysis begins with the first Irish writers, the hermit poets, and examines the ways in which the Irish hermit and saint were connected spiritually, through both pagan and early Christian values, to the natural world. The book then examines Irish literature from the perspective of the deforested landscape and the landscapes of farmland, divided property, famine, ruins, and a threatening natural world. Following the Famine, the book moves on to explore the establishment of the pastoral dream in this loss of landscape, and a re- connection to nature through the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance. From there, the analysis shifts to the nature writing of Ireland’s islands, including nature and community on Achill Island, storytelling on the Aran Islands, exile in nature on Skellig Michael, and the mythmaking of the Great Blasket Island. Moving north and into the twentieth century, Emerald Green focuses on four nature poets from Northern Ireland: Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley; all four are redeemed by nature through their returns to the rural landscape of Ireland’s west coast. The book concludes with an examination of modern Irish environmental writers and naturalist poets, as well as journalists weighing in on current environmental concerns in Ireland. Emerald Green concludes with an assessment of the future of nature in Ireland, and how the significant reduction of this country’s natural landscape will alter its literary landscape as well.
Eddie Shemanki is a paranoid seventeen year old boy who had built a secret room in his closet to hide from kidnappers who have already taken his baby brother Benjamin from his crib. Fearing their return and tiring of the incessant wailing of his mother,Eddie runs away from home and begins a journey that will lead him into to a quest to find Benjamin. Hiding in a cave and working in a restaurant, Eddie's solitude leads him into encounters with a variety of eccentric characters, from a friend who is allergic to dust to a Vietnam vet to an old woman who worships her dead husband like a God. Then Eddie meets "The Men of Fire," Good Samaritans who will help him in his quest to bring Benjamin home. Behind everything are the Philadelphia Phillies and their perpetual losing seasons, along with Eddie's past, filled with his days of Catholic school and the memorizing of saints and Eddie's unfilled desire to own a giant monitor lizard,all of which propel the novel to Eddie's inevitable destiny.
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