In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved-and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form.
Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band.
"e;This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental expert.
"e;This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental expert.
In this ground-breaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short profiles from individuals with chronic illness, to provide an intimate and insightful look at the complexities of living as an autistic and chronically ill person.
In this ground-breaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short profiles from individuals with chronic illness, to provide an intimate and insightful look at the complexities of living as an autistic and chronically ill person.
The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in the "e;magical"e; family, founded by the occultist, poet, and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875--1947).
The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in the "e;magical"e; family, founded by the occultist, poet, and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875--1947).
Counting the Tiger's Teeth narrates a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion ("e;Peasants Reject Poverty"e;) of 1968-70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to history.
Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies.
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Mannheim (Historisches Institut), course: PS The Mental Lexicon, language: English, abstract: This term paper is based on Clahsen and Neubauer (2010).
Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, Caiseal Mor was labelled `retarded' and `an idiot', and his parents were led to believe that physical punishment could cure his autism.
Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,7, University of Frankfurt (Main) (IEAS), course: The Memoir Boom - Literary, Cultural and Social Perspectives"e;, language: English, abstract: All (auto)biographies and memoirs have one thing in common: they are usually written in the retrospective way, meaning that even if they "e;read chronologically forward, they are composed essentially backward.
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the "e;fallen woman"e; from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,3, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the topic "e;The Series '13 Reasons Why' as an Example for a Failed Personality Development"e;.
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Masterarbeit wird analysiert, inwiefern und auf welche Weise die Differenzkategorie "Beeinträchtigung" in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur thematisiert wird und wie sich diese im Verlauf von ca.
Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will take a look at how Kushner's characters Prior and Harper deal with challenges in the changes in the postmodern world of the 1980s.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dresden (Institute of English and American Studies), Veranstaltung: Ghosts in the Machine: Cultural Narratives of Artificial Intelligence, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: With Ted Chiangs "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", a short story is given where artificial beings gradually become entities with moral status, that is artificial persons.
Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, Caiseal Mor was labelled `retarded' and `an idiot', and his parents were led to believe that physical punishment could cure his autism.
Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentuckys loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincolns judge advocate general.
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances.
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care-intensive period of their lives.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Universität Münster (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Einführung in das Studium der Neueren Geschichte: Unvollendete Revolution?
Each day, as Oded Lowenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings.
Each day, as Oded Lowenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings.
Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this "e;silent language"e; to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world.