Anthologies: general

Learn about Korean culture while improving your language skills!

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar - Abteilung Englische Sprache und ihre Didaktik), course: Child Discourse, language: English, abstract: Language itself as a means of communication as well as a carrier for thoughts, ideas and art is one of the factors that determine us as human beings.

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.

Even Monkeys Fall From Trees: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs, with a foreword by Edward G.

There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python.

In Solving for X, his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B.

Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood.

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return.

Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack.

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In Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, McLoughlin draws on psychohistory, sociology, and anthropology to examine the relationship between America's five great religious awakenings and their influence on five great movements for social reform in the United States.

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Erotics, and Intimacy, 1886-2014 is an anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men.

To Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein.

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At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups-those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland-faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.

In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia.

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the postWorld War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

Samba is Brazils national rhythm, the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.

Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there.

Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region-the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others-shared a tumultuous history.

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "e;Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.

Polish emigres have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction.

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming.

In these eleven talks-originally presented as the highly acclaimed television series "e;The Worlds of Abraham Kaplan"e;-a great teacher discusses the most important questions of traditional and contemporary human experience.

From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.

North Carolinas Paul Green (18941981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: English Grammar - synchronic and diachronic aspects, language: English, abstract: In Middle English and Early Modern English one could choose either You or Thou (and their respective variants see Simpson et al.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3 (A), Technical University of Braunschweig (English Seminar), course: 9/11, language: English, abstract: Something which was a bomb, a big bomb, has blasted my clever Njurunda coffee tables in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang that fit together to make a circle.

In the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South.

Not Out of Hate-published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939-42-was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices for change.

The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions.

Now in paperback, Paine''s essential American writings in authoritative Library of America texts: After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37.

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: good, University of Potsdam (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS/ GK Introduction to Media Science, language: English, abstract: What is violence'?

Master's Thesis from the year 2025 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: North America Studies, language: English, abstract: This following study focusses on two of Lovecraft's most conceptually rich and formally distinct stories: "e;The Call of Cthulhu"e; (1926) and "e;The Colour out of Space"e; (1927).

With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Miltons thought.

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks.

The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epicThe seventh and final book of the monumental Ramayana of Valmiki, the Uttarakanda, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rama's millennia-long reign.

Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures.

This collection of diverse pieces excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina.

This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years.

This new collection of short stories centers exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors.

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.

This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyds short stories.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, Karlsruhe University of Education (Fakultat 1), course: Literary and Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper thoroughly examines the profound analogies between At-wood's dystopian universe and the ongoing debates over abortion rights in the U.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Between Chance and Adaptation.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Rostock (Amerikanistik/ Anglistik), course: Global Plots: Transnationality in Contemporary American Literature, language: English, abstract: The haunting ghost of history can be found everywhere in our existence.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Dusseldorf "e;Heinrich Heine"e; (Anglistisches Institut), course: Domain Specific English Language - Language and Law, language: English, abstract: The English language has taken over the key role in international trade, legislation and policy-making.