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The Continental Op And Women, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

The Continental Op, by his own admission, does not fit the stereotype of the hardboiled detective. At five foot six, one hundred ninety pounds, he would be more likely to be played on film by Danny DeVito or Jason Alexander than Humphrey Bogart or Alan Ladd. However, Dinah Brand, the primary female character in Red Harvest, does not conform to the stereotype of the femme fatale. In many ways, the Op is much more practical than his counterparts in Hammett’s other fiction, and Dinah Brand, a large, powerful woman, is drastically different from her counterparts as well. In this paper, …

Cats As Detectives In Library Mysteries, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

Cats have become ubiquitous as detectives or detective assistants in twenty-first century mysteries, although the trend began with the “The Cat Who” books, the first of which was published in the nineteen-sixties. Cats have a fine history in the detective genre, but current depictions of cats as detectives include the cats conversing with other animals and even the human detective in the novel. Some of these cats possess supernatural abilities, and even those who don't possess impressive intelligence. Cats are notorious, of course, for being curious, and the librarians who function as amateur sleuths are similar in this regard. Some …

Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier

Mollie Freier

Library mysteries written since 1970 often depict intrigue surrounding the theft or threatened theft of rare books. Charles Goodrum, a director of the Library of Congress, once wrote that when he decided to write a mystery novel set in a library, he spent an evening coming up with ideas for such a novel. He said that he came up with dozens, but settled on a plot about rare book theft because he thought it would be more accessible to general readers. Many other mystery writers have made the same decision. Although these mysteries are often considered library mysteries and frequently …

George Edgar Slusser (1939-2015), Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

Obituary for George Slusser, an important American scholar of science fiction.

Modernist Fiction And News: Representing Experience In The Early Twentieth Century, David Rando

David P. Rando

Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernism in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with a newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf engage with the discourse and narratives of the news in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality.

European Joyce Studies 21: Joyce, Benjamin And Magical Urbanism [Review], David Rando

David P. Rando

This collection marks a major chapter in the ongoing belated encounter between James Joyce and the German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. In the 1930s, both writers lived in Paris and shared a veritable Venn diagram of overlapping friends and acquaintances—Adrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach, Stuart Gilbert, and Gisèle Freund, to name a few—but apparently never met each other. As Heyward Ehrlich reports in this volume, Benjamin heard the story of Joyce’s infamous meeting with Marcel Proust through Monnier and Léon-Paul Fargue (192), which, in the version that William Carlos Williams told, anticlimactically consisted of the writers complaining about …

Cat Got Your Tongue? : Recent Research And Classroom Practices For Teaching Idioms To English Learners Around The World, Paul Mcpherron, Patrick Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph

In the aptly titled Cat Got Your Tongue? Recent Research and Classroom Practices for Teaching Idioms to English Learners Around the World, authors Paul McPherron and Patrick T. Randolph explore effective ways to address idioms, collocations, multiword phrases, and other types of formulaic language in the classroom. They present recent research on the pedagogy of teaching and learning idioms along with practical tools for teachers, including ready-to-use lesson plans and resource materials.

“Cat Got Your Tongue? welcomes the reader to a practical and relevant guide in the learning and teaching of idioms that aligns science with compassionate, responsive classroom teaching,” …

The Piano In The World Of Jane Austen, Laura Vorachek

Laura Vorachek

No abstract provided.

Spenserian Indirect Satire: Explorations Of A Tradition (Forthcoming), Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

Storytelling And Alienated Labor: Joyce, Benjamin, And The Narrative Wording Class, David Rando

David P. Rando

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Staging England In The Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity" By Ralf Hertel. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

Review of a book that analyzes Shakespeare's history plays as shapers of mass cultural self-identity in England.

Kar Ve Arametni İspanyol Trajedisi [Turkish Translation Of “The Spanish Tragedy As Intertext For Orhan Pamuk’S Kar (Snow)”], Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

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The Worldmakers: Global Imagining In Early Modern Europe, Ayesha Ramachandran

Ayesha Ramachandran

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an …

Radio Appearance-Georgia Public Radio, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

Pump It Up--How To Fuel A Novel That's Running Out Of Gas, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

Who Will Buy Your Book, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

How To Write A Novel, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

The Monster, Melanie Sumner

Melanie Sumner

'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage Of Colette And Katherine Mansfield, Deborah Pike

Deborah Pike

“What Have They Done To You Now, Tally?” Post-Posthuman Heroine Vs Transhumanist Scientist In The International Young Adult Series Uglies, Petros Panaou Dr

Petros Panaou

This article explores issues of importance to contemporary and future youths, scientists, and societies, as they are expressed in the first three books of the Uglies series, by Scott Westerfeld. A critical approach to transhumanist thought informs an analysis of the conflict between Dr. Cable, a transhumanist scientist, and Tally, the “post-posthuman” adolescent protagonist. This exploration demonstrates how Scott Westerfeld’s story, and perhaps other posthuman narratives, can engage us in useful conversations about what it means to be human, the coming of the posthuman age, and the roles of science and technology in it.

Hemingway's Politics In His Journalism And Fiction, A Continuum Of Contradiction, Clay Morgan, Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Conner, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of Boise State University Clyde Moneyhun, Jacky O'Connor, Mitch Wieland, and Clay Morgan.

Stalking Glory, H. Rice

H. William Rice

No abstract provided.

My Father's Dogs, H. Rice

H. William Rice

No abstract provided.

Characterization In The Faerie Queene, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

The Limitations Of Concord In The Thames-Medway Marriage Canto Of The Faerie Queene, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

“The Politics Of Satire And The Burning Of Middleton’S Micro-Cynicon (1599)”, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

Louis Du Guernier's Illustrations For The John Hughes Edition Of The Works Of Mr. Edmund Spenser (1715), Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

Edmund Spenser And Auto/Biographical Fantasies Of Social Status, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

“Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum And The Anxiety Of Spenser's Satiric Influence”, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.

“Michael Drayton’S Spenserianism In The Owle (1604): The Poetics Of Nostalgia”, Rachel Hile

Rachel E. Hile

No abstract provided.