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Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"For Diane Glancy, there are books that you open like a map. In-between Places is such a book: a collection of eleven essays unified by a common concern with landscape and its relation both to our spiritual life and to the craft of writing. Taking readers on a trip to New Mexico, a voyage across the sea of middle America, even a journey to China, Glancy has crafted a sustained meditation on the nature and workings of language, stories, and poems;...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Gull Bone Index contains 24 original short stories and flash fictions. This innovative collection features distinct postmodernist leanings with an emphasis on magical realism, fragmented narrative structures, and elements of absurdism. Stories include a group of people in perpetual free fall, a woman in love with a dissipating gaseous cloud, a man with vine-like outgrowths on his knee, and other bizarre situations. Beneath these flashy conceits...
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books, and reveals a world...