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Brand: Linkgua
En plena madurez literaria, sor Juana critic un sermn del padre Vieyra. Ello provoc que el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernndez de Santa Cruz, le pidiera que abandonase la literatura y se dedicase por entero a la religin. Sor Juana se defendi con una aguda respuesta. In the midst of her literary maturity, Sor Juana criticized a sermon given by Father Vieyra.
Brand: University Press of Florida
Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent black newspapers--the New York Globe, New York Freeman, and New York Age --provided Fortune with a platform to speak against racism and injustice. For nearly five decades his was one of the most powerful voices in the press. Contemporaries such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T.
Brand: Columbia University Press
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. This anthology registers that fact in as encompassing and enlightening a way as possible. Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the idea of lesbianism.
Brand: University of Illinois Press
For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug thetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with testing. Admired for her insights and breadth of field, she has attracted a wide readership by writing with guts, candor, and wit.
Brand: Conari Press
Fifty daughters--from literary luminaries to award-winning voices of the next generation--take on a topic at once tender and challenging: mothers. Includes essays, stories, and poems by Natalie Angier, Zora Neale Hurston, Erica Jong, Edwidee Danticat, Margaret Mead, and Anna Quindlen. 15 photos.
Brand: Akashic Books
The debut of a new literary journal dubbed the African-American McSweeney''s, featuring Toure, Greg Tate, and others.
Brand: Akashic Books
The new installment of the groundbreaking African American literary journal.
Brand: Gallaudet University Press
The sixth of the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies presents the short shorts, stories, and poetry by Teegarden, a deaf teacher in late 19th and early 20th century Pennsylvania.
Brand: BALLJ
A collection of non-fiction stories from South Africa ''s pre-eminent authors, journalists and commentators
Brand: Harvest Books
In these essays celebrating a career of forty years, Howe provides the lineage for modern literary tastes, social attitudes, and political persuasions. An invaluable record of a stunningly original and consistently idealistic American mind. Foreword by Michael Walzer.
Brand: Seven Stories Press
Dr. Hite''s revolutionary work on human sexuality, with new essays on current politics and sexuality.
Brand: University of Georgia Press
In Bound for Shady Grove, essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music, he took up his guitar and assumed the journey that culminated in this book.Harvey''s essays measure out in words the four seasons of a life in music. Springtime pieces describe playing music in the log house of friends born and raised in the mountains or entering a banjo contest and losing with style.
Brand: Harvard University Press
Though he occupies a firm place in the canon of the ten Attic orators, Isaeus seems not to have been an Athenian, but a metic, being a native of Chalcis in Euboea. From passages in his work he is inferred to have lived from about 420 to 350 BC. But no contemporary mentions him, and it is from Dionysius of Halicarnassus that we learn he was the teacher of Demosthenes, a fact confirmed by several unmistakable examples of borrowing from or imitation of him by his great pupil.
Brand: Harvard University Press
The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of 'philosophia' involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language.
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians--from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century--a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald carry on the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric.