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The Gospel According to Luke

The Gospel According to Luke

Emily Maguire

Praise for Emily Maguire 'Emily Maguire ... invites the reader to slide into the skins of her beautifully flawed characters and share in their human weaknesses. Be prepared to be absorbed ...' GOOD READING MAGAZINE '[Maguire's] prose is  ...
Smoke in the Room

Smoke in the Room

Emily Maguire

Provocative, honest, brimming with sexual tension and crackling with intelligence, this sensational novel cements Maguire's place as one of Australia's best young writers. PRAISE FOR EMILY MAGUIRE "At the heart of .
Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity

Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity

Emily Maguire

Wrong, argues Emily Maguire. Society today is most comfortable to categorise women as Princesses (in need of protection) or Pornstars (peoples whose major duty is to be attractive and turn on men).
Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice

Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice

Emily Maguire

Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choicea revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire ignites discussion on issues relevant to teenagers.
Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Emily Maguire

Singling out the work of Lydia Cabrera as emblematic of the experimentation with genre that characterized the age, Maguire constructs a series of counterpoints that place Cabrera's work in dialogue with that of her Cuban contemporaries.
Art and Eloquence in Byzantium

Art and Eloquence in Byzantium

Henry Maguire

In particular, Maguire shows that the literary embellishments of the sermons and hymns of the church nourished the imaginationas of artists.
Venezuela, 1948-1951, [numbers 27290-31583].

Venezuela, 1948-1951, [numbers 27290-31583].

Bassett Maguire

This collection of field books documents Bassett Maguire's botanical collecting in Venezuela in 1948-1951 on New York Botanical Garden expeditions, with co-collectors including H.R. Kunhardt, Jr., Louis Politi, Bassett Maguire, Jr., Richard ...
Taming the Beast

Taming the Beast

Emily Maguire

" Sydney Morning Herald "what you get, along with a sharp mind and a keenness to investigate cultural confusions, is an engaging ability to put the vitality of the story first." Weekend Australian
Fishing for Tigers

Fishing for Tigers

Emily Maguire

" Sydney Morning Herald "what you get, along with a sharp mind and a keenness to investigate cultural confusions, is an engaging ability to put the vitality of the story first." Weekend Australian
An Isolated Incident

An Isolated Incident

Emily Maguire

" Sydney Morning Herald "what you get, along with a sharp mind and a keenness to investigate cultural confusions, is an engaging ability to put the vitality of the story first." Weekend Australian
Venezuela, Colombia, New Jersey, Brazil, Panama, Dominican ...

Venezuela, Colombia, New Jersey, Brazil, Panama, Dominican ...

Bassett Maguire

The notebook also contains a few pages of accounts. Blank pages were removed when the notebook was rebound. The Maguire field books also have their own volume numbering scheme; this is Vol. 37.
Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres

Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres

Dēmētra Papanikola-Bakirtzē

In the volume's first essay, Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire discuss the aesthetics and design of Byzantine pottery, as well as its relationship to the ceramic traditions of the Near East and Western Europe, particularly Italy.
Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art

Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art

Henry Maguire

The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary.
Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art

Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art

Henry Maguire

Professor Maguire here studies three distinct but interrelated topics - first, the connections between Byzantine art and rhetoric, as illustrated by the imagery of both Church and State, and by ekphrastic descriptions of works of art, ...
Victoriana

Victoriana

Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson. Copyright © Copyright 2015 The Emily Isaacson Institute. No part of this book may be reproduced, ... of the Emily Isaacson Institute P.O. Box 3366 Mission, B.C. Canada V2V 4J5 www.emilyisaacsoninstitute.com Dedicated to ...
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference ...

Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference ...

Sharon Leiter

1858 spring: Emily writes first Master letter. c. June: First letter to Samuel Bowles, editor of Springfield Republican. First year of “flood creativity,” Emily writes 43 poems. Emily organizes her poems into the first booklets, or fascicles, a practice ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Páraic Finnerty

Daneen Wardrop, '"The Ethiop Within: Emily Dickinson and Slavery," in Emily Dickinson at Home, Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society in South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College, 12-15 ...
Klee Wyck

Klee Wyck

Emily Carr

These are beautifully crafted keepsake editions of the literary world of Emily Carr, each with an introduction by a distinguished Canadian writer or authority on Emily Carr and her work.
Secrets of the Lotus

Secrets of the Lotus

Michelle Garren Flye

“Emily,” she said,seeing Emily Rosenberg passing, “Ithink thiswas meant foryou.” Sheheld the invitationout between two fingersand Emily took it without comment. Theday of Dan Mason's party, Josie foundEmily Rosenberg looking feverishand ...
The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

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... a concise, comprehensive summation of the key features not only of Johnson's Complete Poems (1976) but also of Richard Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson (1974) and John Emerson Todd's Emily Dickinson's Use of the Persona (1973).
This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr

This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr

Emily Carr

Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.
Emily Carr and Her Dogs: Flirt, Punk, and Loo

Emily Carr and Her Dogs: Flirt, Punk, and Loo

Emily Carr

This delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr.
Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Emily Carr

Emily Carr’s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills.
Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another

Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another

Emily Writes

Popular blogger Emily Writes gives words of encouragement to sleep-deprived parents everywhere. With two small boys, both non-sleepers, Emily finds herself awake in the wee small hours night after night.
Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination

Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination

Linda Freedman

4 For further discussion of Dickinson's personae, see John Emerson Todd, Emily Dickinson's Use ofthe Persona (The Hague: Mouton, 1973). For further discussion of Dickinson's letters, see Marietta Messmer, A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily ...
City of Roses

City of Roses

Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson. About the Author Emily Isaacson was born December 11, 1975 in Windsor, Ontario and grew up in Victoria, B.C., Canada. She is both Scottish ( on the maternal side) and German, (on the paternal side), and has a Scottish plaid ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Páraic Finnerty

Subsequently cited by parenthetical page references in the text. See Carlton Lowenberg, Emily Dickinson's Textbooks, ed. Ter- rita A. Lowenberg and Carla L. Brown (Lafayette, Calif.: Carlton Lowenberg, 1986), 100-101; and Capps, Emily,  ...
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Emily Carr

" Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France.
Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers

Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers

Emily Wharton Sinkler

Copies of letters written by Emily Wharton Sinkler (1823-1875) to her parents, Thomas Wharton (1791-1856) and Arabella Griffith (1800-1866), and other family members in Philadelphia regarding life with her husband, Charles Sinkler, on ...

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