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The book is a marvelous resource for teachers who teach Japan to children and young adults. The annotations for trade books published from the mid-sixties to the present will help teachers, librarians, and interested parents select appropriate materials from the vast numbers of books available.

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"No Plays" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers.

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The volume includes 58 alphabetically arranged biographical and critical profiles of these women.

The book profiles women writers who are considered mainstream writers in Japan and who have attracted attention in the West, chiefly through translations of their works and critical scholarship on their writings.

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This collection of essays on the topics of feminist voice, vision, and performance in political poetries by Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich includes visual art and commentary by the feminist sculptor Linda Stein. The book examines the rise of the American popular-culture female superhero--notably, Wonder Woman--exploring the textuality of female-poetic activism through this superhero theme.

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Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music.

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Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music.

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This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. -- .

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A comprehensive introduction to Jeanette Winterson's writing. This work provides students with a critical guide to Winterson's most commonly studied texts, covering major themes and developments, and issues of style, technique and genre, from a range of contemporary critical and theoretical perspectives.

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A comprehensive introduction to Jeanette Winterson's writing. This book brings together essays by critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" to works like "Lighthousekeeping". It provides students with a critical guide to Winterson's most commonly studied texts.

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This book offers a compelling examination of performed adaptations of Stevenson's masterpiece, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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The subject of divided critical opinion because of the experimental nature of his writings and his use of radical subject matter, Jerzy Kosinski, author of such novels as The Painted Bird and Being There, nevertheless ranks among the most celebrated of contemporary American authors.

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David, Jesus, and Jesse James evoked complicated and conflicted reactions from their contemporaries - considered criminals by some, saviors by others. This title explores the interconnections between these three figures.

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This ground-breaking work is intended to guide readers and those who advise readers in selecting fiction and nonfiction books that match specific reading interests. Award-winning titles are noted, as are books that appeal to young adult readers and titles appropriate for book clubs and reading discussions.

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Even among scholars of Jewish literature, Jewish American women writers have been largely neglected. An introductory essay defines the scope of Jewish American women's literature, while a special chapter is devoted to writers of autobiographies who document the experience of Jewish women in America.