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4421) Milwaukee blues: roman
Author
Publisher
Sabine Wespieser éditeur
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Since calling 9-1-1, the Pakistani manager of the convenience store in Franklin Heights, a neighborhood north of Milwaukee, has not slept. His nightmares are filled with black faces screaming 'I can't breathe anymore.' He should never have called the emergency number for a suspicious bank note. But it is too late, and the media around the world keep reminding him of the appalling death of his passing client, suffocated by the knee of a police officer....
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing--misspelling and all--the great French poet's cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Critical Survey of Mythology and Folklore presents articles on myths, folktales, legends, and other traditional literature. Drawing upon the most widely-read literature, this volume covers a diverse range of authors, countries, and cultures. Articles begin with a summary that offers readers the major actions and characters in the tale followed by an analysis of the important cultural and social interpretations of the author and myth. Myths in...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A master of ships with a thunderous voice, Hart aggressively carried tropical fruit to an insatiable market with little concern for notions of supply and demand. But when an unexpected crisis hit the fruit business, Hart was unprepared. The financial Panic of 1893 doomed his strategy of bringing in limitless...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1945
Language
English
Description
A collection of writings of the past 5000 years that are part of the rich cultural heritage of the Hebrew people and of the world-taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the Twelve Testaments, the Confessions of Josephus, the New Testament, the Talmudic writers, Spinoza through to the modern period of Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Sholom Asch. Huntting.
4430) Fifty key Irish plays
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault's entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and, alert to the cultural and critical context of each play, an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
"Encompasses folk literature, folk-life, and folk speech, with twenty-seven folk melodies and a complete section of tales about twelve legendary figures including Casey Jones, Daniel Boone and Johnny Appleseed"--Jacket. Also covers folk poetry, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, games, and festivals.
Author
Series
Phoenix books volume P471
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Selection of tales, songs, riddles, proverbs and other items of folklore from seven regional cultures of the U.S.A.
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