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The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

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... Scylla and Charybdis by Persephone Braham Sea Monsters by Emily Alder Shapeshifter by Paul T. Beattie Shuten Dōji by R. Keller Kimbrough Siren by Persephone Braham Skeleton by Lin Wang Sphinx, The by Don Riggs Swift, Jonathan, ...
From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America

From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America

Persephone Braham

... Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Jason Cortés, Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative Persephone Braham, From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America For a ...
Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective ...

Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective ...

Persephone Braham

Considering the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes as well as G.K. Chesterton, Braham addresses Marxist critiques of the culture industry and Latin American postmodernity.
Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of ...

Violence Without God: The Rhetorical Despair of ...

Joyce Wexler

13 For a recent example, see Persephone Braham, From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015), 172. 14Jameson, “War and Representation,” 1537–42. 15 See, for example, Virginia ...
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the ...

African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the ...

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—Dwight McBride, “Toward the New Black Studies”1 I remember well the day when Persephone Braham engaged Julie McGee2 and me in a proposal to undertake the African Americas project. Just an idea then, the project's aim was to ...
Mining Memory: Reimagining Self and Nation through ...

Mining Memory: Reimagining Self and Nation through ...

Mary Beth Tierney-Tello

... Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Jason Cortés, Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in LatinoCaribbean Narrative Persephone Braham, From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America Mary ...
Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A ...

Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A ...

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The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow Casey Shoop True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico Persephone Braham The Novel of ...
A Bulletin for Schools

A Bulletin for Schools

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... cave waiting for Persephone; but every year with Persephone returned and Ceres welcomed her, the eat seemed to come to life again. And so the seasons begin Retold by JoAN DURIS Minnie and Winnie Minnie and Winnie slept in a shell.
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

Holly Blackford

... and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Blackford, Holly Virginia. The myth of Persephone in girls' fantasy literature / Holly Virginia Blackford. p. cm.
A Tangled Web

A Tangled Web

Mercedes Lackey

Kidnapping Persephone should have been an easy task.
Works

Works

Charles Reade

She cried and trembled, and became hysterical, and. vowed she would never go near Leonard Monckton again; he had never loved her, had never been a friend to her as Jonathan Braham had. “ No,” she said; 5' if he wants money, take and ...
A Perilous Secret

A Perilous Secret

Charles Reade

She cried and trembled, and became hysterical, and vowed she would never go near Leonard Monckton again ; he had never loved her, had never been a friend VOL. II. N to her as Jonathan Braham had. ' No,' she said REMORSE. 177.
The London Gazette

The London Gazette

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... wind up the same, and accordingly that the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Jonathan Braham Lever, of 11-13 Ormerod Road, Burnley, Lancashire, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.
Temple Bar

Temple Bar

George Augustus Sala

She cried and trembled, and became hysterical, and vowed she would never go near Leonard Monckton again ; he had never loved her, had never been a friend to her as Jonathan Braham had. " No," she said ; " if he wants money, take and ...
The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at ...

The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at ...

Donald White

"An excellent general introduction to the sanctuary and the evacuation."—Journal of Hellenic Studies
White lies. A perilous secret

White lies. A perilous secret

Charles Reade

Poverty had pinched Jonathan Braham by this time; and as he saw by the tone of her letter she did not care one straw whether he accepted the situation or not, he accepted it eagerly, and had to court her as a stranger, and to marry her, and ...
The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

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... Trovatore heardby some in Apollon musagète and Perséphone, neither acceptingnor rejecting these associations; see Igor Stravinsky andRobert Craft, Dialogues(London: FaberandFaber, 1982), 34. 42 JosephN. Straus, Remaking the Past.
Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

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Povertyhad pinched Jonathan Braham by this time, and as he saw by the tone of her letter she did not care one straw whether he accepted the situation or not, he accepted it eagerly, and had to court her as a stranger and to marry her, and ...
Per-Sef-O-Nee

Per-Sef-O-Nee

Jenny Hale

His only hope of pure happiness is found in young Persephone. Goddess of Spring. Queen of the Night. Spark of his life. His light, his very sin, his only love. Per-Sef-O-Nee.
Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Modernist Mysteries: Persephone

Tamara Levitz

On Lourié's date of birth, which is often erroneously given as 1892, see Klára Móricz, “Shadows of the Past: Akhmatova's Poem without a Hero and Lourié's Incantations,” Twentieth-Century Music 5, no. 1 (2008): 80. On his conversion, see ...
The Complete Writings of Charles Reade

The Complete Writings of Charles Reade

Charles Reade

She wrote to her husband in the States, and by the advice of Middleton, told him the exact truth instead of a pack of fibs, which she certainly would have done had she been left to herself. Poverty had pinched Jonathan Braham by this time, and  ...
Temple bar, conducted by G.A. Sala

Temple bar, conducted by G.A. Sala

Temple almanack

Poverty had pinched Jonathan Braham by this time, and as he saw by the tone of her letter she did not care one straw whether he accepted the situation or not, he accepted it eagerly, and had to court her as a stranger and to marry her, and ...
Demeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth

Demeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth

Tamara Agha-Jaffar

The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.
Picturebooks: Representation and Narration

Picturebooks: Representation and Narration

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... Culture, and the New Indian Girl Michelle Superle Re-visioning Historical Fiction ThePast throughModern Eyes Kim Wilson The Myth of Persephone in Girls« Fantasy Literature Holly Virginia Blackford Pinocchio, Puppetsand Modernity The ...
The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives ...

The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives ...

Jana Rivers Norton

The quality and attractiveness of her prose, as Henry Jr. stresses, is her ripeness and pathos for life.165 Additionally, as Rosemarie Bodenheimer insists, Eliot's journals and letters are powerful reminders that certain psychological states, such ...
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

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See Lillian Eileen Doherty, Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). See Margot K. Louis, Persephone Rises, 1860–1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a ...
The Pink House at Appleton

The Pink House at Appleton

Jonathan Braham

Sister Margaret Mary wentoffto one side to talk with Papa, her creamy face businesslike. Papa seemed benign and polished. His brown brogues reflected the sun.His kneelength socks accentuated his firm calves and short khaki trousers ...

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