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Provocative and ...persuasive...{Pletsch} has illuminated the process by which a gifted but awkward philology student became one of the modern world's most original thinkers... Deserves to be read...by anyone interested in the dynamics of creative influence and achievement.... More

Transgenic animal technologies and the ability to introduce functional genes into animals have revolutionized our ability to address complex biomedical and biological questions. This well-illustrated handbook covers the technical aspects of gene transfer - from molecular methods to whole animal cons... More

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places "Beloved" in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre an... More

In recent years the work of Charlotte Bronte has undergone a significant reassessment from a postcolonial critical perspective. This book develops current scholarship by providing historically and theoretically informed readings of the full range of her texts, including new analyses of her four best... More

"The light, for as far as""I can see, is that of any number of late" "afternoons I remember still: how the light""seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living""insider it, waiting - I'd heard all about" "that one clear note it gives. "--from "Late Apollo III" In "The Rest of Love," his seventh book,... More

The singer turning thisand that way, as if watching the song itself--the words to the song--leave him, as helets each go, the wind carrying most of it, some of the words, falling, settling intoinstead that larger darkness, where the smaller darknesses that our lives were lie softly down."--from "Rid... More

"Speak Low "is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive-- and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft. Over the cou... More

Graceful and resonant new work by a lyric poet at the height of his skill. "As I understand it, I could""call him. Though it would help, ""it is not required that I give him""a name first. Also, nothing""says he stops, then, or must turn."--from "The Figure, the Boundary, the Light" In the art of fa... More