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The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American ...

The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American ...

Sanford Pinsker

In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old ...
Between two worlds: the American novel in the 1960's

Between two worlds: the American novel in the 1960's

Sanford Pinsker

Pinsker identifies the literary trends that dominated the decade and focuses upon authors who came into prominence during this period.
Worrying about Race, 1985-1995: Reflections During a ...

Worrying about Race, 1985-1995: Reflections During a ...

Sanford Pinsker

The essays and reviews in Pinsker's collection focus on the need to sharpen our intellectual debate about race, to address the economic conditions that foster despair among certain racial groups, and to recognize the differences between ...
Bearing the Bad News: Contemporary American Literature and ...

Bearing the Bad News: Contemporary American Literature and ...

Sanford Pinsker

Critic and poet Pinsker offers 11 essays exploring such topics as the decline of formative reading, unifying themes in American literature, the cultural value of humor (but not vice versa), and the place of the college novel.
The catcher in the rye: innocence under pressure

The catcher in the rye: innocence under pressure

Sanford Pinsker

A critical introduction to Salinger's classic novel, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting
African Americans of Sanford

African Americans of Sanford

Valada Parker Flewellyn

Many return to Sanford to live or to visit. Most agree that their experiences in Sanford have made a marked impression on their lives. May the legacy of the Mighty Panthers live forever. (Courtesy of the Sanford Herald Collection, Sanford  ...
Holocaust Studies Annual 1991: General Essays

Holocaust Studies Annual 1991: General Essays

Sanford Pinsker

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Betty Holland Wiesepape

Letter to Winifred Sanford, July 14, 1931. Winifred Mahon Sanford Papers. Southwestern Writers Collection. Texas State University, San Marcos. Lloyd, David. Letter to Winifred Sanford, December 16, 1927. Winifred Mahon Sanford Papers.
Understanding Joseph Heller

Understanding Joseph Heller

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In this revised edition of Understanding Joseph Heller, Sanford Pinsker explores the idiosyncratic vision that permeates Heller's complete body of work, as he maps the dark terrain Heller carved out, novel by novel, with considerable verbal ...
Sanford and Lee County

Sanford and Lee County

Jimmy Haire

Where the line met an existing east-west line, the town of Sanford sprang up. The town was named in honor of Col. Charles O. Sanford, who was the engineer in charge of building the Raleigh-to-Columbia line. The railroad constructed a depot  ...
Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' ...

Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' ...

Malin Pereira

For a discussion of Morrison's use of "magic realism," see Sanford Pinsker, and Craig Werner, "Homer's Joyce: John Updike, Ronald Sukenick, Robert Coover. Toni Morrison." For a particularly harsh critique of Morrison's use of "magic realism" ...
Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery

Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery

Great Britain. Court of Chancery

... sanford Lucy, and Mary Sanford ; and the remaining fourth part sanford or share I desire may be divided between Mary Juliana Morgan and Charlotte Austen ; and, in all other respects not hereby altered or revoked, I confirm my said will.
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

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Boulder's First Newspaper

Boulder's First Newspaper

Sanford Gladden

Sanford Gladden. Boulder's First Newspaper by Sanford Gladden BOULDER WALLEY NE people left; and he will die like.
Psychology and Race

Psychology and Race

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Peter Watson. Chapter. 3. The. Roots. of. Prejudice: Emotional. Dynamics. Nevitt Sanford Nevitt Sanford is one of the authors of the famous work of the 1950s, The Authoritarian Personality. Since then he has been director of the Wright Institute ...
Sanford

Sanford

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Sanford Historical Society Inc. Henty S. Sanfotd's 1itst investment in Flotida was a gtove in St. Augustine that he putchased in 1867. ln 1870, he and his wife Getttude joutneyed to Flotida on a pleasute ttip which was To include seatching fot ...
Agnes Sanford and Her Companions: The Assault on ...

Agnes Sanford and Her Companions: The Assault on ...

William L. De Arteaga

This account is based on an interview the author had with Harry Goldsmith, PhD, at his home in Tampa, Florida, in April of 1983, as well as Mrs. Sanford's descriptions of Dr. Goldsmith's healing and evangelization, found in her Sealed Orders, ...
Descendants of Daniel Pound (1792-1867)

Descendants of Daniel Pound (1792-1867)

Sanford Gladden

Sanford Gladden. Descendants Of Daniel Pound (1792-1867) by Sanford Gladden DESCENDANTS • OF DANIEL POUND (1792-1867) Sanford Charles Gladden INTRODUCTION. Front Cover.
Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

Howard E. Covington

Privately, however, the Charlotte Observer's Jenkins said legislators thought Sanford "was simply off his rocker if he thought they would accept such a tax." 28 The governor found little initial support from the editorial pages of the state's major ...
The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish ...

The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish ...

Sanford Sternlicht

Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers.
Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, ...

Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, ...

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Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method Sanford F. Schram, Brian Caterino ... In addition, we thank students in Sanford Schram's social theory seminar for offering ideas that help informed his thinking on the project: Page Buck, Wesley ...
A Reader's Guide To Modern British Drama

A Reader's Guide To Modern British Drama

Sanford V. Sternlicht

Sanford Sternlicht examines effects of modern history and psychology on British drama, including the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O'Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J.T. ...

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