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• Originally published in hardcover: New York : Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.
• Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence and a short stay at a psychiatric hospital to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

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• Women journalists — Fiction.
• Girls — Crimes against — Fiction.
• Missouri — Fiction.
• Girls — Crimes against. fast (OCoLC)fst00942877
• Women journalists. fast (OCoLC)fst01178072
• Missouri. fast (OCoLC)fst01204724
• Suspense fiction. gsafd
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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• The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. In doing so it lays the foundation for a proper philosophy of poetry, setting out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address. Given its breadth of approach, the volume is relevant not only to aesthetics but to all areas of philosophy concerned with meaning, truth, and the communicative and expressive powers of language more generally. Poetry is the last unexplored frontier in contemporary analytic aesthetics, and this volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: the place of poetry in contemporary aesthetics / John Gibson — Semantic finegrainedness and poetic value / Peter Lamarque — The dense and the transparent, reconciling opposites / Ronald de Sousa — Poetic opacity, how to paint things with words / Jesse Prinz and Eric Mandelbaum — Unreadable poems and how they mean / Sherri Irvin — Can an analytic philosopher read poetry? / Simon Blackburn — The spoken and the written, an ontology of poems / Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro — Poetry and truth / Roger Scruton — Poetry’s knowing, so what do we know? / Angela Leighton — Ethical estrangement, pictures, poetry, and epistemic value / Alison Denham — The inner paradise / Tzachi Zamir — To think exactly and courageously, poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann’s poetics, and her Bohemia poem / Richard Eldridge.

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• Poetry — History and criticism — Theory, etc.
• Philosophy.

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• Speaking English Is Like — Todavia no — Not Yet — Gavilan o Paloma — Uses for Spanish in Pittsburgh — Ode to Glass — Baptism — One Foot — Grocery Shopping with My Girlfriend Who Is Not Asian — Language Poetry / Grandma’s English — Tres Mujeres — Las Meninas / The Maids of Honor — Becoming — Falling, Calle Orizaba — What I Don’t Tell My Children About the Philippines — Glove — Revenant Gladness — Corazon como un reloj — Heart Like a Clock — Rear Window — House — Manejar, I-80 Nebraska — Driving, I-80 Nebraska — Witness — Adoration at El Montan Motor Lodge — While Watching Dallas, My Filipina Auntie Grooms Me for Work at the Massage Parlor — Seguir — Seguir: To Follow, Keep On, Continue — In the Time of the Caterpillars — Hablar espanol sigue asi — Speaking Spanish Is Like — In Mexico City — Catching Cardinals.
• Chiefly in English, with some Spanish.
• National Poetry Series MTVU Prize, 2008.
• National Poetry Series MTVU Prize, 2008.

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• Lesbians — Poetry.
• Bilingualism — Poetry.

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• Includes bibliographical references.
• South Carolina sea island — Summers with the JACL — My son at ninth grade — The left panel of the diptych speaks — Assimilation — Peter Wu’s poem — Footnotes to the Book of Baghdad — A surprise visit — Tales of hybridity — J.A. songs for Richard Pryor — That early angel — A mixed marriage blues — Things that lose by being painted — Regie Cabico shouts across the bar at the Apia Spoken Word Summit — My computer asks a question — The rape of Nanking — An abstract expressionist — Wisconsin hunting season — Kick push — The angel muse — The great Nisei novel, circa 1949 — Song for an Asian American radical: Yuri Kochiyama — Love poem for Suheir Hammad — Poets in my youth — Poem for Patricia Smith upon my nomination for the Urban Griots award — Dangerous trains of thoughts — V.C — Tenzing on Everest — The psychic sherpa — General Romeo Dallaire, commander of UNAMIR — Rock angel: an American version — Last night on HBO — Crystal — Isamu Noguchi: fragments from an unwritten memoir — Frightening things — Zen practice — The dream — Shakespearean thoughts on a stormy night — What my daughter tells me — Last A.A. incantation — Prayer — Aubade.

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• The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life.

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• Burial — Fiction.
• Death — Fiction.
• Mississippi — Fiction.
• Domestic fiction. lcgft
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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Part of the series The Oxford Shakespeare;Oxford world’s classics;Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1982.;Oxford world’s classics (Oxford University Press)
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• Previously published as an Oxford’s World’s Classics paperback, 1998.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-137) and index.

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Part of the series Understanding contemporary American literature;Understanding contemporary American literature.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Understanding Truman Capote — A tree of night and other stories — Other voices, other rooms — The grass harp — The muses are heard — Breakfast at Tiffany’s — In cold blood — Three stories, answered prayers, and Capote in the twenty-first century.
• Truman Capote–along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s–continues to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination. His glamorous lifestyle, which included hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequenting the most elite nightclubs in Manhattan, makes him the subject of ongoing interest for public and academic audiences alike. In Understanding Truman Capote, Thomas Fahy provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author’s work. By reading Capote’s work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his writing and refutes any notion of Capote as disconnected from the political. Instead this study positions him as a writer deeply engaged with the social anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s. Understanding Truman Capote also applies a highly interdisciplinary framework to the author’s writing that includes discussions of McCarthyism, the Lavender Scare, automobile culture, juvenile delinquency, suburbia, Beat culture, the early civil rights movement, female sexuality as embodied by celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, and atomic age anxieties. This new approach to Capote studies will be of interest in the fields of literature, history, film, suburban studies, sociology, gender/sexuality studies, African American literary studies, and American and cultural studies. Capote’s writing captures the isolation, marginalization, and persecution of those who deviated from or failed to achieve white middle-class ideals and highlights the artificiality of mainstream idealizations about American culture. His work reveals the deleterious consequences of nostalgia, the insidious impact of suppression, the dangers of Cold War propaganda, and the importance of equal rights. Ultimately Capote’s writing reflects a critical engagement with American culture that challenges us to rethink our understanding of the 1940s and 1950s.

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• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 — Criticism and interpretation.

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• Bravery — Loyalty — Chastity — Charity — Forbearance — Lust — Sloth — Avarice — Gluttony — Vanity — Coda.
• ‘There’s something I want you to do.’ This request–sometimes simple, sometimes not–forms the basis for the ten inter-related stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from an author who has been repeatedly praised as a master of the form. As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the remarkable in what might otherwise be considered the inconsequential moments of everyday life. –Back cover.

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• Short stories.
• Short stories. lcgft

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• American poetry — African American authors. fast (OCoLC)fst00807349
• 2000 – 2099 fast

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Part of the series Cambridge companions to literature;Cambridge companions to literature.
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• This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing eating and obesity, pain, death and dying and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Medieval somatics / Bill Burgwinkle — Disability / Jonathan Hsy — Staging early modern embodiment / David Hillman — Eating, obesity and literature / Maud Ellmann — The body and language / Andrew Bennett — The maternal body / Clare Hanson — Literary sexualities / Heike Bauer — The body, pain, and violence / Peter Fifield — The ageing body / Elizabeth Barry — Representing dead and dying bodies / Sander Gilman — The racialized body / David Marriott — Literature, technology and the senses / Steven Connor — Literature and neurology / Ulrika Maude — Psychoanalytic bodies / Josh Cohen — The body and affect / Jean-Michael Rabate — Posthuman bodies / Paul Sheehan.

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• Human body in literature.
• Human body in motion pictures.
• Human body — Social aspects.
• Mind and body.
• Human body — History.

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