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Winter Poetry Contest: Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize is an annual poetry contest for undergraduates of any major...
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Faculty Bookshelf

Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph
Abbott, H. Porter

Suppose that, before he is writing fiction, before he is writing drama,...
The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories
Waid, Candace

20 short stories which dramatize the topics that compelled Wharton throughout her career - both...
Wordsworth: The Sense of History
Liu, Alan

The imaginative power of Wordsworth’s poetry stems from a denial of history so strong and precise that denial itself – the...
Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

Teaching The Woman Warrior can be a challenging...
Loving in the War Years
Moraga, Cherríe

Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been...
Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton's England
Hiltner, Ken

These essays consider how writers and artists such as John Milton...
In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women
Carlson, Julie

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and...
Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable
Abbott, H. Porter

Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable revisits the ancient theme of...
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
Duffy, Enda

Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the...

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