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Edgar Allan Poe : beyond gothicism

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Between literature and science : Poe, Lem, and explorations in aesthetics, cognitive science, and literary knowledge by Swirski, Peter

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Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning by Bradford, Adam C.

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Southern bound : a Gulf coast journalist on books, writers, and literary pilgrimages of the heart by Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957-

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The Bronx : the ultimate guide to New York City's beautiful borough by Ultan, Lloyd, Olson, Shelley, 1951-

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Out of the black patch : the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer by Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974

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Clear White Light by Sirett, Paul

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Adaptation in contemporary culture : textual infidelities

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Books are made out of books : a guide to Cormac McCarthy's literary influences by Crews, Michael Lynn

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Remarkable women of Rhode Island by Grzyb, Frank L., 1946-, DeSimone, Russell J., 1944-

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American Arabesque : Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary. by Berman, Jacob Rama

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A skeptic's guide to writers' houses by Trubek, Anne, 1966-

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. by Gray, Richard

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Origins and futures : time inflected and reflected

Table of Contents: “…Futures Opened, Futures Closed -- The Human Temporal Condition between Memory and Hope / Steven Ostovich -- Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" : How Self-Generation of "Pure Time" Engenders Free Choice / Patricia Engle -- Tales of Time and Terror : Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History and the Narrative Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe / Marcus Bullock -- The Future of August 6th, 1945 : A Case of the "Peaceful Utilization" of Nuclear Energy in Japan / Masae Yuasa -- Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future / Karmen MacKendrick.…”
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Genre fission : a new discourse practice for cultural studies by Barr, Marleen S.

Table of Contents: “…-- Private Lives: Peaceful Coexistences -- Bridging the Dead Father's Canonical Divide: Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lynn Redgrave Form a Textual Cross-Dresser Support Group -- "All Good Things": The End of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the End of Camelot, and the End of the Tale about Woman as Handmaid to Patriarchy-as-Superman -- Shutting the Bestial Mouth: Confessions of Male Clones and Girl Gangs -- Public Displays: Sexed Spectacles -- Night Watch in Amsterdam's Red Light District: Prostitutes/Dutch Windows/Utopian and Dystopian Gazes -- Los York/New Angeles: "New York, New York, a Helluva Town" Sings "I Wish They All Could Be California Girls" -- American Middle-Class Males Mark the Moon: Retrospectively Reading the Apollo Program or Lorena Bobbitt vs. the Saturn -- Premier Discourses: First Times -- Women "Churtening" via the Cha Cha: Ursula K. …”
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Lectures on American literature

Table of Contents: “…7 Inventing the Indians: Bryant, Cooper, Simms & LongfelloWIntroduction -- William Cullen Bryant -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Simms & Longfellow -- 8 American Gothic: Brockden Brown & Poe -- Introduction -- Charles Brocken Brown -- Edgar Allan Poe -- 9 American Transcendentalism: Emerson & Thoreau -- Introduction -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- 10 Late Romanticism: Hawthorne & Melville -- Introduction -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Herman Melville -- 11 The Birth of Modern Poetry: Whitman & Dickinson -- Introduction -- Walt Whitman…”
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Curtis Harrington short film collection

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Literature as cultural ecology : sustainable texts by Zapf, Hubert, 1948-

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George Garrett : a critical biography by Clabough, Casey, 1974-

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The psychoanalytic adventures of Inspector Canal by Fink, Bruce, 1956-

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On the fringes of literature and digital media culture : perspectives from eastern and western Europe

Table of Contents: “…Intro; On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: From the Centre to the Fringes and Back Again; 1 Two Ends and One Beginning: Notes on the Future of Writing in the Post-Medial Context; 2 Digital Literature, Deinosis and Haptic Reading; 3 Edgar Allan Poe's Adventures in Convergence Culture; 4 The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children's Literature: A Ukrainian Case.…”
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My Dear Boy : Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938. by Williams, Carmeletta M.

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Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work

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My Dear Boy : Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938. by Williams, Carmeletta M.

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An unfinished revolution : Edna Buckman Kearns and the struggle for women's rights by Kearns, Marguerite

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 7 The Secret -- Chapter 8 "Don't Fall in Love with Curmudgeons" -- Chapter 9 The Spirit of 1776 Wagon -- Chapter 10 Getting to Know the Family on Edgar Allan Poe's Chairs -- Part II -- Chapter 11 The Telephone Party Line -- Chapter 12 Just Friends…”
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The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America. by Hall, Donald

Table of Contents: “…WILLIS, 1806-1867 -- Ambition -- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882 -- The Children's Hour -- Excelsior -- Paul Revere's Ride -- A Psalm of Life -- The Village Blacksmith -- The Wreck of the Hesperus -- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892 -- Barbara Frietchie -- The Barefoot Boy -- In School-Days -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894 -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- The Height of the Ridiculous -- EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 -- Annabel Lee -- The Bells -- The Raven -- C. …”
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The new encyclopedia of the American West

Table of Contents: “…. -- Nute, Grace Lee -- Nye, Bill [Edgar Wilson Nye] -- Nye, Gerald P. -- Nye, James W. -- Oakland Museum of California -- Oakley, Annie [Phoebe Ann Moses] -- Occaneechi Trading Path -- Ochoa, Esteban -- Oddie, Tasker L. -- O'Donel, Charles M. -- O'Fallon, Benjamin -- Ogden, Peter Skene -- Ogden, Utah -- Ohio River -- Ohio, settlement of -- Oil industry -- Ojibwa (Anishinaabe/Chippewa) Indians -- O.K. …”
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