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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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Dasa Drndic
Trieste

"Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory." - New York Times Book ReviewHa…

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Davis Smith-Brecheisen
Mode of Address

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured both reading practices and our understanding of the novel as art.Despite claims that…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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Emily van Duyne
Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary s…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret and the Old Lady (Inspector Maigret)

A maid dies after sipping a poisoned drink on a country estate. Was the woman of the house the true target, as she claims, or will Maigret uncover another story?In the tranquil coastal village of Étretat,…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret's Dead Man (Inspector Maigret)

A panicked man turns to Maigret for help-and dies before the detective can learn his identity. Who was he, and what led to his brutal murder? One morning, Maigret receives several phone calls from an incr…

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Dianne Freeman
A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder

"Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London, Alicia Stoke-Whitney, seeks Frances's help to investigate a personal matter. Alicia's d…

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Georges Simenon,
My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

On a tiny Mediterranean island, a rowdy fisherman is shot dead mere hours after mentioning "my friend Maigret." The suspects are few-and the famous inspector is trapped among them. On the tiny M…

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Georges Simenon,
Félicie (Inspector Maigret)

"Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose . . . as pure as running water." -Roger EbertIt's the height of spring, and Maigret is …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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Emily Sullivan
A Murder in Marylebone

After over a decade away, widowed mother of two Minnie Harper has left sunny Greece and returned to her native England at the turn of the 20th century---just as a cloud of suspicion falls over her younger…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret at Picratt's (Inspector Maigret)

When a striptease dancer is brutally murdered, Inspector Maigret must haunt Montmartre's sleazy nightlife to find the killer.At the tiny basement club Picratt's, the striptease dancer Arlette is the star …

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret's Mistake (Inspector Maigret)

When a young woman is murdered, her recent exit from grim poverty may be the key to cracking the case-but Maigret, to his disquiet, struggles to spot the right suspect. In an apartment in the exclusive Ét…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret and the Tall Woman (Inspector Maigret)

In the lull of late summer, Maigret is told of a woman's murder-but with no corpse, no missing person, and a dubious source for the tip-off, is there even a case to solve? During Maigret's memorable first…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret's Revolver (Inspector Maigret)

A firearm filched from his own apartment, a politician's corpse, and an ostentatious woman of mysterious means-in Maigret's latest case, he must connect the dots before tragedy strikes twice. When Maigret…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret in New York (Inspector Maigret)

"Georges Simenon was the twentieth century's Balzac. But while Balzac spares us nothing of what he's learned, Simenon's genius is the art of reduction. He can teach you how to run a restaurant in a f…

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