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On literature / by Eco, Umberto.(CARDINAL)139063;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Literature;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Club Dumas / by Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.(CARDINAL)358502; Soto, Sonia.(CARDINAL)380419;
Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals."-New York Daily News. Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion. Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Antiquarians; Book collectors; Rare books; Rare books;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Circles in the stream : index, identification, and intertext : reading and preaching the story of Judah in Genesis 37-50 / by Koptak, Paul E.,1955-author.(CARDINAL)872125; Eklund, Rebekah,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-133).Foreword by Rebekah Eklund -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Index: Judah and Tamar -- Identification: Judah and Joseph -- Intertext: Judah and his brothers receive -- Jacob's blessing -- Conclusion."Maybe we should read Genesis 37-50 as the story of Joseph and Judah. Both kept their families alive and received major blessings from their father Jacob. Like his brother Joseph, Judah knew how to use words to lead and persuade, primarily by appealing to common experience. His speeches model Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of identification, "inducing cooperation" by showing his listeners how they are consubstantial--that is, where they stand together. Preachers hope to do the same, making gospel connections between ancient texts and life today. Circles in the Stream shows that the connections are there in the Scripture text, freeing preachers from the pressure to find contemporary illustrations. Adapting Burke's literary-rhetorical approach to reading, Paul Koptak offers ever-widening circles of reading to that end. Indexing a passage and looking for identification there lead to the transformative purpose and life issue. Intertextual study, a combination of both, discovers these connections in the wider two-testament canon. Circles in the Stream offers both a distinct perspective for reading Scripture and practical steps for in-depth study. Its method can make sermon preparation more efficient and effective. More importantly, it leads to the life-issues that listeners want their preachers to address."--
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Judah (Biblical figure); Judah (Son of Jacob); Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.; Bible.; Rhetoric in the Bible.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hispanic-American writers / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.1350L
Subjects: American literature; Hispanic Americans in literature.; Hispanic Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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In the houses of the Holy : Led Zeppelin and the power of rock music / by Fast, Susan.(CARDINAL)684085;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-237), discography/videography (pages 239-240), and index.
Subjects: Led Zeppelin (Musical group); Rock music; Gender identity in music.; Subjectivity in music.; Sex in music.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Collecting art in the Italian Renaissance court : objects and exchanges / by Clark, Leah Ruth,author.(CARDINAL)356682;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index."Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance court, exploring the circulation, exchange, collection, and display of objects. Rather than focusing on patronage strategies or the political power of individual collectors, she uses the objects themselves to elucidate the dynamic relationships formed through their exchange. Her study brings forward the mechanisms that structured relations within the court, and most importantly, also with individuals, representations, and spaces outside the court. The volume examines the courts of Italy through the wide variety of objects - statues, paintings, jewellery, furniture, and heraldry - that were valued for their subject matter, material forms, histories, and social functions. As Clark shows, the late fifteenth-century Italian court an be located not only in the body of the prince, but also in the objects that constituted symbolic practices, initiated political dialogues, caused rifts, created memories, and formed associations" --
Subjects: Art, Renaissance; Art objects, Renaissance; Courts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ceramics of ancient America : multidisciplinary approaches / by Park Huntington, Yumi,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)855914; Arnold, Dean E.,1942-editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)855913; Minich, Johanna,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)855912; Dye, David H.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855911; Farmer, James(James D.),contributor.(CARDINAL)855910; Pozorski, Shelia Griffis,contributor.(CARDINAL)855909; Pozorski, Thomas George,contributor.(CARDINAL)856003; Scher, Sarahh E. M.,contributor.(CARDINAL)856002; Carrasco, Michael,contributor.(CARDINAL)856001; Wald, Robert F.(Robert Francis),1941-contributor.(CARDINAL)856000; Washburn, Dorothy Koster,contributor.(CARDINAL)134851; Price, Jeff,contributor.; Bey, George J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855999; Feinman, Gary M.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855998; Hirshman, Amy J.,contributor.; University Press of Florida,publisher.(CARDINAL)327729;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This edited volume analyzes ceramics specifically from ancient America to add new layers to our understanding by emphasizing new perspectives and a multidisciplinary approach from the fields of archaeology, art history, and anthropology. This volume will help students and scholars alike better understand and appreciate ceramics as one of the vital forms of communication within small social units, and across cultural and political boundaries.
Subjects: Indian pottery; Terra-cotta sculpture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Thrice told tales / by Lewis, Catherine.(CARDINAL)170747;
Story -- Plot -- Metafiction -- The lenses of psychic distance -- Immediacy -- Irony -- Red herring -- Suspension of disbelief -- Names -- Leitmotif -- Avant-Garde -- Cause and effect -- Stream of consciousness -- Legend -- Vocabulary and syntax -- Showing and telling -- Dialogue -- Interior monologue -- Setting -- Sentimentality -- Title -- Mechanics -- Transitions -- Foreshadowing -- Insertion -- Allegory -- Epigram -- Fairy Tale -- Farce -- F__K -- Intertextuality -- Keyboard digression -- Picaro -- Sex in the story -- Revision -- Translation -- Style -- Premise -- Flashback -- Coincidence -- Formula -- Clichâe -- Sentence diagram -- Hero (not) -- Description -- Repetition -- Prologue -- Unreliable narrators -- Simile, Metaphor, and Conceit -- Frame story -- Detail -- Dialect, Ain't it? -- Epistolary novel -- Diction -- Symbolism -- Point of view -- Beginning -- Suspense -- Stereotype -- Exposition -- Research -- Deus ex machina -- Character -- Pathetic fallacy -- Bildungsroman -- Denouement -- Fable -- Parable -- Myth -- Mise-en-Scáene -- Roman áa Clef -- Ambiguity -- Verisimilitude -- Catharsis -- Allusion -- Archetype -- Oxymoron -- Structure -- Tale -- Short short story -- Character -- Character presentation (indirect method) -- Character presentation (direct method) -- Narrator -- Subplot -- Grotesque -- Science fiction -- Humors -- Tragedy -- Epilogue -- Tour de Force -- Introduction, preface, foreword -- Appendix."Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly--but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary."--dust jacket.850LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Authorship; Literature;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Thrice told tales : three mice full of writing advice by Lewis, Catherine,author.(CARDINAL)170747; Swarte, Joost,1947-(CARDINAL)741028;
Story -- Plot -- Metafiction -- The lenses of psychic distance -- Immediacy -- Irony -- Red herring -- Suspension of disbelief -- Names -- Leitmotif -- Avant-Garde -- Cause and effect -- Stream of consciousness -- Legend -- Vocabulary and syntax -- Showing and telling -- Dialogue -- Interior monologue -- Setting -- Sentimentality -- Title -- Mechanics -- Transitions -- Foreshadowing -- Insertion -- Allegory -- Epigram -- Fairy Tale -- Farce -- F__K -- Intertextuality -- Keyboard digression -- Picaro -- Sex in the story -- Revision -- Translation -- Style -- Premise -- Flashback -- Coincidence -- Formula -- Clichâe -- Sentence diagram -- Hero (not) -- Description -- Repetition -- Prologue -- Unreliable narrators -- Simile, Metaphor, and Conceit -- Frame story -- Detail -- Dialect, Ain't it? -- Epistolary novel -- Diction -- Symbolism -- Point of view -- Beginning -- Suspense -- Stereotype -- Exposition -- Research -- Deus ex machina -- Character -- Pathetic fallacy -- Bildungsroman -- Denouement -- Fable -- Parable -- Myth -- Mise-en-Scáene -- Roman áa Clef -- Ambiguity -- Verisimilitude -- Catharsis -- Allusion -- Archetype -- Oxymoron -- Structure -- Tale -- Short short story -- Character -- Character presentation (indirect method) -- Character presentation (direct method) -- Narrator -- Subplot -- Grotesque -- Science fiction -- Humors -- Tragedy -- Epilogue -- Tour de Force -- Introduction, preface, foreword -- Appendix."Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly--but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary."--dust jacket.850LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Literature; Authorship;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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How to read a novel : a user's guide / by Sutherland, John,1938-(CARDINAL)726937;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-263).
Subjects: Fiction;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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