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2) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First e-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the work of fiction writer Ruth Rendell, discussing her portrayals of gender differences and her use of ancient Greek narratives and complex family relationships drawn from the work of Jung and Freud, and Oedipus and Electra complexes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. ... Rob Sheffield, the ... author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape ... has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to...
5) Michelangelo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes...
Author
Publisher
Beavers Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with months of never-ending blizzards leading to railroad blockades that all but cut off fledgling communities. But what really happened that winter? Lively and rewarding, The Beautiful Snow is a new look at The Hard Winter. Pulling from nearly three thousand...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with semiautobiographical details, Dante's poem...
8) Hippolytus
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
viii, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Euripides, the youngest of the trio of great Greek tragedians was born at Salamis in 480 B.C., on the day when the Greeks won their momentous naval victory there over the fleet of the Persians. The precise social status of his parents is not clear but he received a good education, was early distinguished as an athlete, and showed talent in painting and oratory. He was a fellow student of Pericles, and his dramas show the influence of the philosophical...
Author
Publisher
Dey St
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In 'Why Bob Dylan matters', Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry,...
11) Passing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past - even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work. After introductory chapters on O'Connor's markings in her own Roman Catholic Bible, her book reviews in diocesan newspapers, and her impatience with her wayward readers, Michaels looks first at her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and then at seventeen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 173 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Simon: An American Tune is the first full-scale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teeny-bopper rocker in the late 1950s, Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960s - Simon & Garfunkel - and after their break-up in 1970, launch one of the most successful, varied, and surprising solo careers of our time. Cornel Bonca considers Simon's vast trove...
17) Sherman Alexie
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 434 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Volume of literary criticism concerning the works of novelist, poet, and short-story writer Sherman Alexie.
Author
Series
Prince studio sessions volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career. Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry, and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio...
Author
Series
Publisher
Northwestern Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
128 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It isn't always easy to read through the books of the Bible by Old Testament prophets.
Laws, warnings, and God's wrath seem to dominate the Old Testament landscape, and prophets are often channels for his righteous judgment. However, when we look closely, we see that it is through these men that the beauty of the gospel message begins to bloom.
Flowers in the Desert will help you appreciate the Old Testament prophets and the messages they conveyed...