English & Literature Studies
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From  The Quest for Acceptance and Legitimization in the Literary PeripheryBanned Books and Pulp Fiction |
Translators and writers of the sex guides used didactic reasoning: they described their work as fulfilling a “mission,” their duty as teaching and educating (regardless of what the … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 53 | 2006 | $5.83 Add |
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From  The Fallout of a MurderFrom: Any Other Way |
Ed Jackson recounts the fallout of the murder of 12 year old Emanuel Jaques in 1977 and the crackdown on the gay community that ensued. | Ed Jackson | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
 The Rights Revolution |
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump … | Michael Ignatieff | 186 | 2007 | View |
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From  The Road AheadFrom: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From  "The Roussis’ Fire" 1872From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Le Feu des Roussi," translated here by Yves Brunelle as "The Roussis’ Fire," first appeared in two instalments in the journal L ‘Opinion publique in 1872 under … | Narcisse-Henri-Edouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice | 16 | 1997 | $0.96 Add |
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From  NEW! The Scoop on Sensational StoriesFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the sensationalizing of "uncommon stories", how the boundary-less reporting of these a-typical events traumatically impacts the surviving family … | Tamara Cherry | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Screen of HalFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery. | Alberto Manguel | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
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From "The Secret Voice" 1982From: The Quebec Anthology |
Le Surveillant was translated in 1990 as The Secret Voice by Matt Cohen, and it is from this collection that the title story has been taken. "The Secret Voice" exemplifies … | Gaétan Brulotte | 6 | 1997 | $0.36 Add |
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From  the seven sacred ways of healingFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony. | jaye simpson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  the snare. the arm. the guinea pig. the bottle. the bus. the nightFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Tablets of GilgameshFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness. | Alberto Manguel | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 Add |
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From "The Three Devils, or, All’s Well That Ends Well" 1867From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Les trois diables," translated by Wayne Grady as "The Three Devils," first appeared in Contes populaires and was one of Stevens’s more successful stories. It is typical … | Paul Stevens | 14 | 1997 | $0.84 Add |
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From "The Torrent" 1947From: The Quebec Anthology |
The short story "Au bord du torrent" was published in October 1947 in Amerique française, and appeared in book form in 1950, when Le Torrent won the Belgian Royal Academy’s … | Anne Hébert | 36 | 1997 | $2.16 Add |
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From The Town My Mother Left Behind Poland, 1939-45From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
 The Triumph of Narrative |
Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time … | Robert Fulford | 173 | 1999 | View |
The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 184 | 2023 | View |
