The politics of postmodernism

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Brenda Daly

Joyce Carol Oates's authorial voice is lavishly diverse. In her works she divides herself into many voices, many persons. This up-to-date examination of Oates's novels argues that the father-identified daughters in her early novels have become, in the novels of the 1980s, self-authoring women who seek alliances with their culturally devalued mothers. Oates's struggle to resist and transform male-defined literary conventions is often mirrored by the struggles of her female characters to resist and transform social conventions.

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Charlotte Caldwell

Staying with his grandparents in Charleston, South Carolina, for the summer Kirby keeps photographs and writes in his journal about all the animals he sees in their backyard, particularly the butterflies--and ends up having a wonderful summer.

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Tara Janzen

He's the bad boy she always wanted.She's the good girl that got away.He'd know her anywhere. Johnny Ramos had just come off a tour of duty in Afghanistan to find Esmee Alden trolling the mean streets of Denver in red lace and leather. The smartest girl he ever knew turning tricks? Not even close. Esmee's in danger so deep, only Johnny can get her out--which is why the elite government operative is shadowing her every move. Esmee had everything planned down to the last detail: dressed in disguise, she'd recover a stolen painting and pay off her dad's ruthless bookie. Until Johnny Ramos, her high school crush, blows into town and nearly blows her cover. Now Esmee, a P.I. and an art- recovery expert, has a mother lode of bad guys on her trail...including the one bad boy she always wanted: Johnny. But passion will have to wait. Because when bullets start flying, suddenly they're on the run, playing it fast and loose--and heading straight into the line of fire....From the Paperback edition.

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Russell Sturgis, music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Descriptive, critical and comparative notes on 1,000 works on painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, illustration and music. Classed, with author and subject index. – – A.L.A.Catalog 1904