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Charles S. Kraszewski is a poet, translator, and literary critic, specializing in the literatures of Europe, specifically Polish, Czech and Slovak. He has published several books in literary criticism and translation theory; his articles and translations have appeared in journals both in North America and Poland, including The New Yorker, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Paideuma and Odra. A collection of his verse, Diet of Nails, is in production at ervenÃƒÂ¡ Barva Press. He currently teaches at King s College in Pennsylvania.

Call #: PG7158.M5532 K737 2012

Landmark essays on writing across the curriculum / edited by Charles Bazerman and David Russell. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: PE1404 .L275 1994

The Cambridge companion to African American theatre / edited by Harvey Young. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

John Milton prose : major writings on liberty, politics, religion, and education / edited by David Loewenstein. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR3569 .L64 2013

Keepers of the code : English-Canadian literary anthologies and the representation of nation / Robert Lecker. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR9184.6 .L43 2013

Kind of kin / Rilla Askew. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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“Vividly authentic . . . Askew has crafted an uncannily real cast of characters . . . A winner for book clubs...Askew’s sensitive and humanizing treatment of this hot-button issue is sure to provoke thought and discussion no matter what readers’ political leanings may be.” (Shelf Awareness )

“A brilliant evocation of Heraclitus’s axiom that character is fate-an ironic evocation she both confirms and turns on its head…Askew immerses us in the frightening dynamics of every situation while illustrating the focused moral prescience of a novelist of superb acumen.” (World Literature Today )

“A brilliant evocation of Heraclitus’s axiom that character is fate-an ironic evocation she both confirms and turns on its head…Askew immerses us in the frightening dynamics of every situation while illustrating the focused moral prescience of a novelist of superb acumen.” (Jewish Book World )

“Askew’s novel delivers the unexpected. It has moments both funny and sublime.” (Denver Post )

“The end result is a novel as ambitious as it is complex: Askew deftly weaves multiple points of view into a narrative that’s spacious, messy and, above all, honest.” (Kansas City Star )

“What might have been a political polemic or a partisan pitch in the hands of a lesser writer, Rilla Askew’s fourth novel....personalizes [immigration]...exploring with a deft hand and an unflinching moral vision the gray areas of an argument so often presented in black and white.” (New York Times Book Review )

Kind of Kin is about how we are all connected and how we might transcend barriers of race and fear. Askew’s astonishing ending, which, like life, is messy and incomplete, and so filmic, you might find yourself casting the characters. (San Francisco Chronicle )

“Intelligent and gripping...Askew’s strength as a novelist is just this; through an accretion of believable detail and judgment-free descriptions, she creates characters in whose fate you can’t help but become invested.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )

“Askew deftly weaves these storylines together to create an engaging read.” (Tulsa World )

“Written in the rawboned, heartfelt and often funny prose that has defined much of her [Askew’s] earlier acclaimed works on the Great Plains…Extraordinary novel.” (Huffington Post )

“Askew’s characters are both larger than life and deeply, complicatedly human…Askew gallops her story to an astonishing ending, which, like life, is messy and incomplete, and so filmic, you might find yourself casting the characters.” (Austin American-Statesman )

“Kind of Kin is equally full of grace, humor and much love for Oklahoma and its people. A contemporary classic, this novel is an ideal choice for book clubs and anyone with a love of character-driven, lyrically written and issues-oriented fiction.” (Tulsa Book Review )

“Kind of Kin does not disappoint. In fact, it is so good, so cogent and poignant and dead-on perspective, I would very much like to make it required reading for anyone who harbors strong opinions on immigration policy, on either side of the metaphorical border.” (Dallas News )

“Askew has created a realistic and compassionate reflection of the people who populate our neighborhoods and our nation today.” (Seattle Times )

Call #: PS3551.S545 K56 2013

Mad girl's love song : Sylvia Plath and life before Ted / Andrew Wilson. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PS3566.L27 Z962 2013

Making gender, culture, and the self in the fiction of Samuel Richardson : the novel individual / Bonnie Latimer. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR3667 .L38 2013

Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America / Jaime Harker. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR6017.S5 Z675 2013

Modern rhetoric in culture, arts, and media : 13 essays / by Joachim Knape. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

"Everett is one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers. . . . His work takes hold of us and won't let go." —Alan Cheuse, NPR.org

"Though funny, the novel also possesses a terrible and still sadness, concerning as it does not only William Styron and Nat Turner but also aging and death, the tragic hatred of racists, the depth of solitude at life's end. . . . The book, though it's frequently philosophical, is not in the least boring. Dear reader, how that impressed me! For there are times when philosophy can be less than action-packed. This is not one of them. Therefore, I heartily commend this book to you. It's like a carnival ride, but not the kind where you vomit. . . . Percival Everett numbers among his very best." —Lydia Millet, Los Angeles Times

"Funny, insightful, and unpredictable. . . . Everett is a master of his trade." —Time Out Chicago

"Possessed by a loopy, madcap energy. . . . [Everett] demonstrates that a literary work can be cerebral, emotionally affecting, and highly readable at the same time. The novel also turns out to be relentlessly funny." —Paste Magazine
"In a more perfect world the novelist Percival Everett would dominate the bestseller list to such a degree that they would need to give him his own category, Harry Potter style. . . . The man is practically A Goddamn National Treasure." —Alex Balk, The Awl
"Witty [and] perceptive . . . Everett's writing is dazzling throughout." —PopMatters

"[Contains] scenes of great emotional authenticity. . . . Everett's metafictional reflections on identity will further solidify his critical reputation." —Shelf Awareness

"Everett gives us a work of fiction that grapples with grief, the fragility of human life, death, relationships, loneliness, and yearning for purpose. . . We are left breathless, with heartache and with the understanding we are all made of stories, nothing but products of our diverging and converging plot lines that eventually will come to an inexorable point." —ZYZZYVA

"[Percival Everett is] so humanely adept at getting to the heart of the human condition. . . . Everett has created much more than an exercise in unreliable narration, an exploration of the nature of language and the rationales we create to keep ourselves going as we grow old. By the conclusion, every sentence, indeed every word, has come to seem like a valuable key, not just to this puzzle of a novel, but to the meaning of existence." —Publishers Weekly

"[Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is] an innovative exploration of the outer limits of narrative ambiguity, and it's also a deeply felt book about a father and a son. . . . An intriguing and intricate puzzle of a novel." —Booklist

"The heart of storytelling and the heart of a complicated man beat together in this extraordinary meditation on love, language, and the irrevocable action of time. Who tells whose story when and why and how do we know when it's over? For Everett, it's never over, and it's never enough, and it's the very best thing we've got. A novel of surpassing intelligence, grief, and tenderness." —Stacey D'Erasmo, author of The Sky Below

"Within [a] narrative labyrinth, the novel is much more than an academic exercise . . . as it searches for the possibility of meaning in life as well as narrative and meditates on the process of aging and the inevitability of death." —Kirkus Reviews

Call #: PS3555.V34 P47 2013

Portrait Inside My Head : Essays / By Phillip Lopate. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: PS3562.O66 P66 2013

Precocious charms : stars performing girlhood in classical Hollywood cinema / Gaylyn Studlar. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PN1995.9.G57 S65 2013

Principles & practices : discourses for the vertical curriculum / edited by Margaret M. Strain. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PE1404 .P653 2013

Prosaic conditions : Heinrich Heine and the spaces of Zionist literature / Na'ama Rokem. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

"For Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World Monica S. Cyrino has assembled an impressive cast out of academia's galaxy of A-list stars and promising young starlets: all of them write with flair, clarity and, above all, passion for their chosen subjects. And what subjects they are! Hesiod and Homer rub shoulders with Pocahontas and Colin Farrell. Here you'll find a veritable bacchanal of banquets, blood-sports, nymphomaniacs, muscle-men, belly-dancers, and sexual perversions galore – the stuff that has made generations of cinema and television producers, directors, and designers turn to antiquity for inspiration. This is a bold and dazzling collection of cutting-edge scholarship and a major contribution to the current state of play in reception studies; it cannot afford to be missed by anyone with an interest in the transmission of antiquity into modern culture." - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

The Cambridge companion to Don DeLillo / edited by John N. Duvall. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Cataract : some notes after having a cataract removed / John Berger with drawings by Selçuk Demirel. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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About the Author

Storyteller, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, JOHN BERGER is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker-prizewinning novel G (1972), Here is Where We Meet (2005), About Looking (2009) and, most recently, Bento’s Sketchbook (2011) He lives in a small village community in France.

SELÇUK DEMIREL was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He trained as an architect and moved to Paris in 1978, where he still lives. His illustrations and books have appeared in many prominent European and American publications.

Call #: PR6052.E564 C38 2012

Crime, history, and Hollywood : learning criminal justice history through major motion pictures / Willard M. Oliver and Nancy E. Marion. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Call #: PN1995.2 .O45 2012

Dándole pena a la tristeza / Alfredo Bryce Echenique. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PQ8498.12.R94 D36 2012

Deadline artists : scandals, tragedies, and triumphs : more of America's greatest newspaper columns / edited by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo & Errol Louis. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PN4726 .D44 2012

Morirás mañana. 3, Escupirán sobre mi tumba / Jaime Bayly. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PQ8498.12.A95 E838 2012

Must I weep for the dancing bear and other stories / by Louis Phillips. (4/10/2013)

Call #: PR3671.R4 Z58 2013

Euro horror : classic European horror cinema in contemporary American culture / Ian Olney. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PN1995.9.H6 O46 2013

Evolutionary rhetoric : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / Wendy Hayden. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PS217.W64 H39 2013

Herland and related writings / Charlotte Perkins Gilman edited by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Review

"A splendid classroom edition of Gilman's best-known novel. Not only does Beth Sutton-Ramspeck restore some passages omitted by previous editors of the text, her introduction and selection of 'related writings' smartly situate the story and the controversial issues it raises--political, biological, social, architectural, environmental, literary, and economic--in the context of Gilman's life and times." (Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico )

"This edition importantly positions Gilman alongside authors often associated with her—such as socialist and fellow utopian writer Edward Bellamy—and those rarely paired with her, such as nature writer John Muir. Likewise, Herland and Related Writings brings together excerpts from seminal Gilman works with her lesser-known works, and, of real interest, materials that appeared in The Forerunner in 1915 alongside Herland. In her introduction, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck concludes provocatively in speculating on Gilman's response to approaches to her still prescient novel." (Catherine Golden, Skidmore College )

"While numerous editions of Herland have appeared in the years since the novel's recovery, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck's Herland and Related Writings will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike. The carefully chosen "Related Writings" consist of selections from Gilman's wide-ranging oeuvre, including, in an inspired editorial decision, materials appearing alongside Herland in the 1915 run of The Forerunner. Ancillary materials usefully complement and clarify Gilman's best-known novel, making this new volume a welcome addition to Gilman scholarship." (Cynthia Davis, University of South Carolina, Columbia )

Call #: PS1744.G57 A6 2013

Homer, gedeutet durch ein grosses Lexikon : Akten des Hamburger Kolloquiums vom 6.-8. Oktober 2010 zum Abschluss des Lexikons des frühgriechischen Epos / herausgegeben von Michael Meier-Brügger. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Ut ait Lucretius : die Lukrezrezeption in der lateinischen Prosa bis Laktanz / Susanne Gatzemeier. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

A companion to the historical film / Robert A. Rosenstone, Constantin Parvulesu. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PN1995.9.H5 R67 2013

A poet's mind : collected interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985 / edited by Christopher Wagstaff foreword by Gerrit Lansing. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PS3507.U629 Z48 2012

A town of empty rooms / Karen E. Bender. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PR468.L65 R53 2013

Journalism across boundaries : the promises and challenges of transnational and transborder journalism / Kevin Grieves. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PN5110 .G75 2012

La vie qui gronde / Carlos Dorim. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PQ2704.O756 V54 2011

Labyrinth 2 : plays by Don Nigro: 2001-2011 / Jim McGhee. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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3/27/2013

Exercises in style / by Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright with new exercises translated by Chris Clarke and exercises in homage to Queneau by Jess Ball ... [et al.]. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Very still & hard to see / by Steve Yockey. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Call #: PS3625.O285 V47 2012

Virginia Woolf in context / edited by Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR6045.O72 Z89356 2012

W.H. Auden in context / [edited by] Tony Sharpe, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Call #: PR6001.U4 Z8914 2012