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To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
by William L. AndrewsTo Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach.
To The Point: Reading and Writing Short Argument
by Gilbert H. Muller Harvey S. WienerTo the Point helps readers construct arguments by thinking about their own experiences, reading brief, current essays, and doing writing assignments.
To Walk in Seasons: An Introduction to Haiku
by William Howard CohenTo Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems.It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku.<P><P> For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience:To walk in seasonsis to discover what's insidea split instantTo walk in seasons;passing through a dry gateinto a rainstorm.To walk in seasons is to wake andfind you really are.Mr. Cohen's haiku and other poems have appeared in many well-known literary periodicals such as Literature East and West and American Haiku. He is the author of The Hill Way Home and A House in the Country, and his works have been praised by such eminent poets as Peter Viereck and Mark Van Doren. (He was elected in 1963 to membership in the Poetry Society of America) Mr. Cohen won the title of United States Olympic Poet, representing the United States in Mexico City in 1968, and in 1969 he honored at the World Congress of Poets in Manila.
To Walt Whitman, America
by Kenneth M. PriceWalt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States.Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself.
To Write Like A Woman: Essays In Feminism And Science Fiction
by Joanna RussClassic essays on science fiction and feminism by Nebula and Hugo award-winning Joanna Russ. Here she ranges from a consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of the lesbian identity of Willa Cather. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural, feminist utopias, popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"), and the feminist education of graduate students in English.
To Write as if Already Dead (Rereadings)
by Kate ZambrenoTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault.The first half of To Write As If Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection. The second half, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague, continues the meditation on friendship, solitude, time, mortality, precarity, art, and literature.Throughout this rigorous, mischievous, thrilling not-quite study, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates his methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert’s work, an ode to his slippery, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks, as Foucault once did, “What is an author?” Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age, the ethics of friendship, and “the facts of the body”: illness, pregnancy, and death.
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation
by Annie PfeiferTo the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship between author and text, source and medium. Placing Benjamin and Einstein in surprising conversation with James sharpens the contours of collecting as aesthetic and political praxis underpinned by dangerous passions. An apt figure for modernity, the collector is caught between preservation and transformation, order and chaos, the past and the future.Positing a shadow history of modernism rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, To the Collector Belong the Spoils traces the movement's artistic innovation to its preoccupation with appropriating and rewriting the past. By despoiling and decontextualizing the work of others, these three authors engaged in a form of creative plunder that evokes collecting's long history in the spoils of war and conquest. As Pfeifer demonstrates, more than an archive or taxonomy, modernist collecting practices became a radical, creative endeavor—the artist as collector, the collector as artist.
To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by Ivan Nikolaevich Akif’ëvThis annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula to find gold. No other account so richly details life along the North Pacific Rim before World War I, especially from a Russian perspective. This volume relates the expedition's formation, development, and aftermath and offers unique insights on the region's place in both Russian policymaking and geopolitics. The illustrated diary includes picturesque descriptions of San Francisco, the Nome Gold Rush, Chukchi culture, Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok, and Nagasaki, Japan.Andrew A. Gentes's translation is based on an edition of Akifëv's book that was published in St. Petersburg in 1904. The diary shows how Russian and American views and cultural values clashed over a territory that is today more geopolitically important than ever. By documenting Akifëv's personal travels outside the expedition, To the Far North also demonstrates, in both human and personal terms, the role Russians played in shaping this region's history.
To the Happy Couple: Creating a Great Wedding Toast with Style
by Sarah McElwainNow here's something worth raising a glass to: the perfect how-to guide and resource for preparing, writing, and presenting the best wedding toast ever (butterflies not included). With clear explanations of who traditionally offers a toast and when, To the Happy Couple also gives useful information on fitting toasts for rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, and bachelor parties. Tips include avoiding the pitfalls of public speaking and advice on which topics work well and which should be avoided (don't bring up that first marriage...). There are plenty of suggestions for finding quotes, whether from song lyrics, poems, or other sources, examples of how to use them to enhance and personalize the message, plus a variety of quotes in the back of the book to provide additional inspiration. Beautifully illustrated throughout with whimsical drawings, To the Happy Couple is both a practical guide and a lovely gift for anyone who has ever had to say, "I'd like to make a toast..."
To the Letter
by Simon GarfieldTo the Letter tells the story of our remarkable journey through the mail. From Roman wood chips discovered near Hadrian's Wall to the wonders and terrors of email, Simon Garfield explores how we have written to each other over the centuries and what our letters reveal about our lives. Along the way he delves into the great correspondences of our time, from Cicero and Petrarch to Jane Austen and Ted Hughes (and John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Anaïs Nin and Charles Schulz), and traces the very particular advice offered by bestselling letter-writing manuals. He uncovers a host of engaging stories, including the tricky history of the opening greeting, the ideal ingredients for invisible ink, and the sad saga of the dead letter office. As the book unfolds, so does the story of a moving wartime correspondence that shows how letters can change the course of life. To the Letter is a wonderful celebration of letters in every form, and a passionate rallying cry to keep writing.
To the Letter
by Simon GarfieldThe New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age. Few things are as exciting--and potentially life-changing--as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice, letter writing seems to be disappearing amid a flurry of e-mails, texting, and tweeting. The recent decline in letter writing marks a cultural shift so vast that in the future historians may divide time not between BC and AD but between the eras when people wrote letters and when they did not. So New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield asks: Can anything be done to revive a practice that has dictated and tracked the progress of civilization for more than five hundred years? In To the Letter, Garfield traces the fascinating history of letter writing from the love letter and the business letter to the chain letter and the letter of recommendation. He provides a tender critique of early letter-writing manuals and analyzes celebrated correspondence from Erasmus to Princess Diana. He also considers the role that letters have played as a literary device from Shakespeare to the epistolary novel, all the rage in the eighteenth century and alive and well today with bestsellers like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. At a time when the decline of letter writing appears to be irreversible, Garfield is the perfect candidate to inspire bibliophiles to put pen to paper and create "a form of expression, emotion, and tactile delight we may clasp to our heart."
To the Lighthouse (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesTo the Lighthouse (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Virginia Woolf Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions #0)
by Virginia Woolf“One of Woolf's most beloved novels, To the Lighthouse, finally gets a Norton Critical Edition. In Margaret Homans, To the Lighthouse has an ideal editor, for Homans brings her deep knowledge of the Victorian world Woolf portrays, her long admiration for Woolf, and her feminism to bear on the novel. The generous and welcoming introduction will help new and returning readers to explore the rich contextual and critical material that accompanies the text. The abundant and diverse materials here—from writings by Woolf’s parents and fairy tales, to physics and art, to early reviews and recent criticism—will all support a wide range of critical approaches and invite new readings. What a treat for readers!” —Anne Fernald, Fordham University “Margaret Homans’ vision of To the Lighthouse is replete. A magnificent array of contexts complements the annotated text, including familial and literary sources for the novel; a chronology of its composition and reception; early reviews; and scholarly interpretations addressing gender, empire, and the role of the artist. The introduction considers the novel’s debt to philosophy, its structure and style, its revelation of the social changes wrought by World War I, and the effect of its Scottish setting. Having studied Woolf with Margaret Homans as an undergraduate, I am delighted that her thoughtful teaching is now widely available in this wonderful classroom edition.” —Emily Kopley, McGill University “What excellent choices! This splendid edition of To the Lighthouse will make all the difference, thanks to its dynamic array of explanatory contexts, backgrounds, and sources—its ideal set of historical, political, theoretical, and biographical frameworks. The editor’s introduction is a marvelous crash course in the many points of interest that have made To the Lighthouse so essential, and the edition as a whole, with its authoritative text and diverse pathways for interpretation, is really perfect for everyone from general readers to students in courses at all levels to the most seasoned Woolfians. This Norton edition has it all. It’s the single best option for anyone who wants to know everything about To the Lighthouse.” —Jesse Matz, Kenyon College This Norton Critical Edition includes: The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse’s composition, revision, publication, and reception. A rich selection of background materials, thematically organized for ease of reference. Topics include: “Autobiographical Writings,” “Family and Other Contemporary Contexts and Sources,” “Essays by Virginia Woolf,” and “Literary Sources.” Nine critical assessments of To the Lighthouse, from publication to the present day, by Arthur Sydney McDowell, Louis Kronenberger, Mary Colum, Francis Brown, Erich Auerbach, Adrienne Rich, Rachel Bowlby, Pamela L. Caughie, and Urmila Seshagiri. A chronology and a selected bibliography This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
To the Point: A Dictionary of Concise Writing
by Robert Hartwell FiskeThe essential guide to writing succinctly. Who doesn't hate wading through wordy paragraphs? Unfortunately, many writers don't realize when they are padding their sentences and obscuring their meaning. Enter To the Point, the essential guide to writing succinctly. Featuring hundreds of new entries, this freshly updated edition is complete with: * A guide to the basics of writing concisely, including how to reduce the number of words in a phrase, substitute a single word for a phrase, and delete extraneous words and phrases. * The "Dictionary of Concise Writing," which gives concise alternatives to thousands of wordy phrases. Language expert Robert Hartwell Fiske uses each wordy phrase in a sentence and then rewrites or deletes the phrase entirely to show how the sentence can be improved. * The brand new "Guide to Obfuscation: A Reverse Dictionary," which helps writers build a more pithy vocabulary. To the Point is the perfect reference book for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively through clear and beautiful writing.
To the Stars and Other Stories (Russian Library)
by Fyodor SologubA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane.Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.
Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Program
by Toastmasters InternationalIncluded here is the manual that you get upon first joining a Toastmasters club. Toastmasters is an organization which teaches its members how to speak effectively. Even if the reader is not a member of a Toastmasters club, it will be of some use to those who want to learn some good ways to prepare different types of speeches. Otherwise, this just might spur you to find and joina Toastmasters club and have fun. This has been specially edited to make navigation with braille or daisy through the manual an easy and enjoyable task.
Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces
by Paul DicksonA list of speeches for any occasion.
Tobias Smollett: The Critical Heritage
by Lionel KellyThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
by Daniel KharmsA master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be called micro-fiction, Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of and in spite of the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English. A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere. Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally. In this brilliant translation by Matvei Yankelevich, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms s literary reputation a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.
Today's Public Relations: An Introduction
by Robert L. Heath Timothy CoombsToday's Public Relations: An Introduction is a comprehensive text that features all aspects of public relations with specific sensitivity to the message strategies that challenge practitioners to be successful, yet ethical. In this book, authors Robert L. Heath and W. Timothy Coombs redefine the teaching of public relations by discussing its connection to mass communication while linking it to its rhetorical heritage. The text features coverage of ethics, research, strategy, planning, evaluation, media selection, promotion and publicity, crisis communication, risk communication, and collaborative decision making as ways to create, maintain, and repair relationships between organizations and the persons who can affect their success.
Toddler Story Treasury: A Read Aloud Book for Kids
by Julie KierasRead cherished classic stories aloud—for toddlers ages 1 to 3 Toddlers love listening to a story, especially when it's read by someone they love. But how can you fit this beloved tradition into a busy day or night? This toddler reading book offers much-loved tales that are shortened, so it's easy to make time for them—even if your toddler asks for "just one more." Cozy up with 30 stories—Delight your toddler with classic tales to enjoy over and over again, including "The Three Little Pigs," "The Little Duckling," "Beauty and the Beast," "Tom Thumb," and many more. Enchanting pictures tell the story—Discover whimsical illustrations that enhance the playfully retold condensed tales. Teach skills with stories—Experience how reading aloud helps kids build vocabulary, grow emotionally, and learn effective listening. Give a gift more fitting than a glass slipper: reading aloud from this storybook for toddlers.
Todo cuenta: Del pasado remoto al futuro incierto
by Saul BellowUna recopilación de ensayos, artículos, ponencias y apuntes de viaje de Saul Bellow que abarca, prácticamente, toda la vida del autor. Más de treinta textos publicados en revistas y periódicos en los que la astuta mirada de Bellow recoge desde un magnífico retrato de la ciudad de Chicago, la firma del tratado de paz entre Egipto e Israel, o impresiones sobre sus colegas, hasta una descripción de la sociedad española de posguerra. Pero es, sobre todo, su lamento por la pérdida de responsabilidad del novelista en la tarea de construir una literatura que sea vehículo de «impresiones verdaderas» lo que compone el corazón de este libro. Una crítica devastadora a sus contemporáneos que ejemplifica a la perfección el texto leído en la recepción del Nobel. Y como colofón, tres entrevistas en las que reflexiona sobre la lectura, la escritura, la enseñanza y la vida. Reseña: «Frase a frase, página a página, Bellow es, simplemente, el mejor escritor que tenemos.»The New York Times Book Review
Todo ese ayer
by Óscar VelaSebastián, un joven argentino que en la rebeldía dela adolescencia decidió colaborar con los Montoneros,fue capturado, torturado y desaparecido durantela dictadura del general Jorge Videla. Treinta y cuatroaños más tarde, Federico, su amigo de la juventud,recibe un extraño mensaje que altera los hechossupuestos del pasado y cambia definitivamente elrumbo de su vida. Esos días, en medio de una confusaprotesta policial que provoca graves incidentespolíticos, Rocío se encuentra repetidamente conquien ella cree es Cristo, venido para colmarla defe tras el devastador descubrimiento de los secretosmás íntimos de su marido.Las historias de estos personajes están conectadaspor viles manipulaciones que pretenden encubrir laverdad. Pero antes de que se puedan atar todos loscabos, habrá que preguntarse: ¿quién nos está contandoesta historia, y por qué?Oscar Vela conecta ciertos eventos de la realidad latinoamericanacon una destreza
Todo lo que no puedo decir
by Emilie PineEn Todo lo que no puedo decir, Emilie Pine nos trae seis relatos autobiográficos que quieren romper el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente de placer y de dolor. «No leas este libro en público: te hará llorar.» Anne Enright Cuando Emilie Pine le dijo a su madre que quería escribir un libro de ensayos autobiográficos, ella le preguntó de qué tratarían. "Sobre alcoholismo, abortos, violaciones, depresión y silencio. Y también sobre encontrar fuerzas, trabajar duro y aprender a alzar la voz." Su madre entendió por qué su hija quería escribir ese libro, pero ¿publicarlo? Sin duda. Publicarlo porque nunca antes ha sido tan necesaria esta exploración sobre todo aquello que las mujeres supuestamente deben esconder: la adicción, la ira, la violencia sexual, la euforia, la sensualidad y el amor. Pine escribe con una sinceridad radical sobre acontecimientos que durante cuarenta años no había admitido ni siquiera ante sí misma: el alcoholismo de su padre, su imposibilidad de quedarse embarazada, violaciones y adicciones. Esta es su historia, pero es también un golpe contra el más antiguo de los pactos de silencio: el cuerpo de las mujeres como fuente y recipiente de dolor y placer.Si nuestro cuerpo pudiera contar su historia, ¿de qué hablaría? Hablaría de sangre, del dolor de la sangre sucia, de la sangre que no debe mostrarse jamás. Hablaría de la angustia de no dar la talla, de callar siempre creyendo que eso mejorará las cosas. Este es un libro devastador, sabio y alegre. Un tratado sobre lo que significa estar viva, un acto de rebelión contra una sociedad que se siente más cómoda silenciando a las mujeres. La crítica ha dicho...«Ágil y profunda: ahonda en la familia, en las cuestiones de clase y en los modos en los que las mujeres son relegadas al silencio.»Deborah Levy «Un tratado a gritos sobre lo que significa crear tus propias reglas [...]. Emilie Pine es como tu mejor amiga... si tu mejor amiga fuese tan afilada que te hiciese sangrar.»Lena Dunham «Pine es fascinante y cercana de principio a fin. En el momento en que crees que la conoces, se revela otra cara.»The Sunday Times «La escritura de Pine es clara y urgente, del tipo que te hace sentarte y tomar nota. Léanla. No solo por su honestidad en temas con los que muchos todavía nos sentimos incómodos, sino también porque es muy consciente de cómo ha dado forma a la historia de su vida en estas páginas.»Independent«Leer estos textos es entender la condición humana con más claridad. Y reivindicar las experiencias propias como reales y válidas.»The Guardian «Nunca he leído nada similar a estos ensayos. La inteligencia de Pine fluye de una manera inimitable a través de cada pregunta, de cada dilema,. Es el tipo de libro que quieres dar a todo el mundo, especialmente a mujeres y hombres jóvenes, para que podamos aprender juntos a tomarnos más en serio a nosotros y a los demás.»The Irish Times
Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre la lengua castellana
by Fundacion del Espanol UrgenteFundéu, la Fundación del Español Urgente, es el servicio filológico de la Agencia EFE. Este compendio ilustrado pretende ordenar de forma atractiva el conocimiento que emite Fundéu y difundir el amor por el idioma.