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Marcia Muller and the Female Private Eye: Essays on the ...

Marcia Muller and the Female Private Eye: Essays on the ...

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In The Wilderness Within, Kristina Groover analyzes the diversity of women writers' uses of the garden and wilderness themes in conjunction with spiritual quests. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Groover notes, uses blighted marigolds as a ...
Dismemberment in the Fiction of Toni Morrison

Dismemberment in the Fiction of Toni Morrison

Jaleel Akhtar

Kristina K. Groover observes that lack of domestic rituals or the ability to perform them depicts disintegrating relationships and the spiritual dissolution behind the attempts to establish domestic life in Toni Morrison's fiction (Groover 33).
The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual ...

The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual ...

Kristina K. Groover

Ordinary, personal experience in these works becomes a source for spiritual revelation. Wisdom is gained, lessons are learned, and lives are healed not in spite of home and communal ties, but because of them.
Kaye Gibbons: A Critical Companion

Kaye Gibbons: A Critical Companion

Mary Jean DeMarr

The first, family — or, more precisely, her search for a mother and family — is the central focus of the plot, while the second, race, is examined and eventually resolved through the search for the first. Critic Kristina K. Groover (1999) has pointed ...
The Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, ...

The Silent Appalachian: Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, ...

Vicki Sigmon Collins

Kristina Groover claims the novel “posits the domestic values of child rearing, housekeeping, and gardening against the canonical male story of quest and war” (2 9). Harriette Simpson arnow's novels share the same compelling force: to draw ...
On their own premises: Southern Women Writers and the Homeplace

On their own premises: Southern Women Writers and the Homeplace

Constante González Groba

... family and community, is the subject of Nina Baym's influential “Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors,” a subject subsequently taken up by Kristina Groover in The Wilderness Within.
Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy

Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy

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106–32; A. Kouffman, 'Reflections on the Sacred: The mystical diaries of Jane Lead and Ann Bathurst', in Kristina Groover (ed.), Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality (Notre Dame, IN, 2004), pp. 90–107; D.F. Durnbaugh, ...
NDQ, North Dakota Quarterly

NDQ, North Dakota Quarterly

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Kristina K. Groover, ed., Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp.368, $25.00 pb. Delores Williams, womanist theologian, has called it a "way out of no way," referring ...
Voicing the Self: Female Identity and Language in Lee ...

Voicing the Self: Female Identity and Language in Lee ...

Carmen Rueda Ramos

Kristina K. Groover claims, in The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual Quest, that women do not find meaning for their lives in the wilderness quest as countless male questers have done in the American literary canon; ...
Things of the spirit: women writers constructing spirituality

Things of the spirit: women writers constructing spirituality

Kristina K. Groover

For more information on Phelps's biogtaphy, see Kelly, Life and Works. - 41 . Phelps, Chapters from a Life , 98. 42. Bennett, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 43. 43. Phelps, Chapters from a Life, 97. Although Carol Farley Kessler has suggested that the ...
Secret Namesake Sampler

Secret Namesake Sampler

Kim Sherouse Krewson

Paula Deen married a man named Michael Groover and that, my friend, means this lady found her “groove”. You better believe she did! The Groover surname is a variant of the Grover surname. It is a name that either means ditch or channel, ...
Kristina, the Girl King

Kristina, the Girl King

Carolyn Meyer

A novel in diary form about Kristina, the young queen of Sweden.
The Art of Reciting the Qur'an

The Art of Reciting the Qur'an

Kristina Nelson

By examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qurʾan, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance ...
Crank

Crank

Ellen Hopkins

But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is a total opposite to Kristina - she's fearless. Through a boy she meets, Bree is introduced to the monster: crank.
Holiday Fling: 10 Vacation Romances

Holiday Fling: 10 Vacation Romances

Kristina Knight

10 Vacation Romances Kristina Knight, Laura Simcox, Ana Krista Johnson, Nora Snowdon, Casey Dawes, Liv Rancourt, J. Arlene Culiner, Susanne Matthews, Robyn Neeley, Jennifer DeCuir ...
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Roman Rosenbaum. First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor ...
Legendary Locals of Crookston:

Legendary Locals of Crookston:

Kristina Torkelson Gray

Kristina Torkelson Gray. John Martin Socha's Art The Northwest School of Agriculture (NWSA) class of 1932 gifted this wall mural commissioned to be painted by the highly acclaimed artist John Martin Socha. It was finally completed as a ...
Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated ...

Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated ...

Mikell P. Groover

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, ...

Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, ...

Mikell P. Groover

The fourth edition introduces more modern topics, including new materials, processes and systems. End of chapter problems are also thoroughly revised to make the material more relevant.
My Delicious Life with Paula Deen

My Delicious Life with Paula Deen

Michael Groover

We were eatin' at a restaurant and naturally people recognized me, and they looked at me pretty funny because here was Paula Deen's husband bein' kissed and handled by some brunette. Lord, the whispering! When Paula opened her ...
59 Authentic Turn-of-the-century Fashion Patterns

59 Authentic Turn-of-the-century Fashion Patterns

Kristina Harris

Over 575 illustrations detailing 59 different garments, mainly for women. Introduction and brief instructions.
Crookston

Crookston

Kristina M. Gray

Crookston was first settled in 1872, organized in 1876, and incorporated in 1879.
Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction

Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction

Melissa Brackney Stoeger

Deen finally found happiness in her second marriage to Michael Groover; readers may be interested in his memoir, My Delicious Life with Paula Deen. Sandra Lee, another popular Food Network celebrity describes her struggles for success in ...
Vintage Fashions for Women 1920s-1940s

Vintage Fashions for Women 1920s-1940s

Kristina Harris

Specific information on construction, value, and date make this a great book for collectors and designers alike.
CAD/CAM: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing

CAD/CAM: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing

M. Groover

In this book, the authors examine interactive computer graphics and its use in design industrial robots, computer control of manufacturing processes, computer-integrated production control, automated inspections, and flexible manufacturing ...
"À la Française"

"À la Française"

Kristina Tobutt

A photocopiable resource for KS2, teaching maths, geography, history, science, arts, and physical education through the medium of French.
Until You

Until You

Kristina Dalton

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The following afternoon, Jason walked home to get his car . ... Jason smiled. “I'm going to cook for you this evening.” Ridge caught him, relieving him of a few bags and managing to kiss ... “Hey, Cro-Magnon, I can walk .
Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the ...

Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the ...

Kristina Kleutghen

These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas.

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