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What's New On Jane's Bookshelf?, Jane Leeth

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When I’m not teaching, I’m scouring bookstores and websites for interesting new releases in children’s and young adult literature. My dogs don’t even bark anymore when the UPS man shows up at the front door with a box of books; he’s sort of become part of our family.

I’ve listed here a handful of books that recently piqued my interest—whether I was intrigued by the topic, the aesthetic post-modern appearance, and/or what I can do with the text in the classroom.

A Catholic Childhood In Philadelphia, Eamon Maher

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That Silent Faubourg St. Germain: Ruskin And The Realms Of Reading, Jay Curlin

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On December 6, 1864, John Ruskin delivered at Rusholme Town Hall in Manchester a lecture entitled "Of Kings' Treasuries." Little more than a week later, he delivered in the same venue "Of Queens' Gardens," both of which he would publish the following year under the single title Sesame and Lilies. Seven days after his death on January 20, 1900, an obituary article appeared on Ruskin in a Parisian paper, authored by Marcel Proust, who would devote much of the next five years to a close study of Ruskin's works and, though he knew very little English, to translating two …

No Surrender! War And The Death Of Innocence In The Fictions Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

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Tracing The Imprint: Catholicism In Some Twentieth Century Irish Fiction, Eamon Maher

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In a seminal article published in Studies in 1965, Augustine Martin noted now Irish writers were characterised by what he termed 'inherited dissent', a tendency that led them to replace their original religious faith with blends of the mystical and aesthetic:

Moral Rights And Supernatural Fiction: Authorial Dignity And The New Moral Rights Agendas, Jacqueline D. Lipton

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In recent years, several scholars have revisited the question of moral rights protections for creators of copyright works in the United States. Their scholarship has focused on defining a moral rights agenda that comports with American constitutional values, as well as being practically suited to current copyright business practices. Much of this scholarship has prioritized a right of attribution over other moral rights, such as the right of integrity. This Article evaluates some of these recent moral rights models in light of a sample of comments made by American supernatural fiction authors about their works. The Author questions whether the …