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“peter kerry”

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  • Goodbye Christ?

    Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance

    by Peter Kerry Powers ...
    Despite the proliferation of criticism on the cultural work of the Harlem Renaissance over the course of the past two decades, surprisingly few critics have focused on the ways in which religious contexts shaped the works of New Negro writers and artists during that time. In Goodbye Christ? Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance, Peter Kerry Powers fills this scholarly void, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    North East of Eden

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

    by Peter Kerry ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Front, Joan Sims, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 49 min

    The BBC radio sitcom about a metropolitan GP who quits the city for a life in ParadiseWhen Marcia Hulme inherits her uncle's medical practice, she decamps from London to a remote island off the coast of Northumbria. There's not a lot to do in Paradise, other than fish or drink, and Marcia's soon missing her favourite restaurants, cinemas and theatres - and her boyfriend, Clem. But as she plans her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • American Religious Liberalism

    by Leigh E. Schmidt, Sally M. Promey ...
    Series series Religion in North America
    An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States.Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements.The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and ... Read more

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  • American Intellectual History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literatureCovers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective ... Read more

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  • The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America

    by James Darsey ...
    This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its ... Read more

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  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

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  • The African American Roots of Modernism

    From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and ... Read more

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