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James Wright (1927-1980) is one of the foremost figures in postmodern American poetry. Among the most widely honored and respected poets of his generation, he was once described in "The New York Times Book Review" as "a national treasure." With his friend and fellow poet, Robert Bly, Wright was instrumental in the development of nondiscursive imagery as a poetic method. This bibliography is the first comprehensive record of Wright's work as well as the criticism that has resulted from it. The first part, "Writings by James Wright," is divided into sections for books, periodical appearances of both poems and translations, prose works, anthologies, sound recordings, video recordings, and book blurbs. A physical description of American first editions is provided in the books section. Annotations and content notes are given where appropriate. Part Two, "Writings About James Wright," provides annotated entries for books, articles and parts of books, reviews, dissertations, poems, dedications, and miscellany. ... Read more

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This volume is the definitive work on Blumenschein's life and art, reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to form the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published. ... Read more

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Uneven works of genius
I was initially disappointed with this book as I felt there weren't enough quality paintings represented. But as I scanned the text I learned that Blumenschein wasn't as productive as some artists. He would actually work on some of his paintings for ten years or more. But what Blumenschein lacks in quantity he makes up for in quality. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of large reproductions in this book, I was just surprised at the non-uniformity of the painting.

While it is true that the overall quality of Blumenschein's work is a bit uneven his best paintings really are works of genius and I can't imagine not having this book in my collection.

If you love paintings that use thick, rich paint this book is a must.

Great book!
This is a wonderful book! The illustrations are many, large, clear and of very good color. I'd say this book is a must have for any Blumenschein fan!

Very thorough !
This is a very comprehensive & thorough review of Blumenschein's work.
Although it is not a "Catologue Raisone" , it is probably as close as you are going to get. It covers much information besides his Southwest period, which is very interesting. If you like Blumenschein's work, this is a must have.

A welcome addition to public library as well as private artbook collections.
Illustrated with vintage black-and-white photographs as well as copious full-color artwork, In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein collects the work of one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960). In Contemporary Rhythm not only showcases Blumenschein's critically acclaimed work, but also contemplates the history and inspiration behind his creations in the exhaustively in-depth text. A welcome addition to public library as well as private artbook collections. ... Read more

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Need Cliff notes...
First, I already read half of the book and since I'm very busy with school activities, work, and voluntering, I can't finish the book on time for my essay.If anyone know's a place where I can find or get some info regarding this Novel, Please e-mail me...I already have the cliff notes for it, but I need some more...

An very excellent book, is greatly reccommended
This book really had me reading. Some things in the book had digusted me but it was an amazing story. It was very realastic. I really felt like I could relate to it.

It was good.
the story talked about killing, feelings of black against white people. Also included discrimation and religions with peoples opinions.this is probably the only book i would ever enjoy reading and be touched by it. With other books, i would just read it and just forget it later on. This book i'll slways remember it...

READ THIS BOOK, and I MEAN IT.
Yo people~this book was SUPERB!!!!! I am someone who HATES, and i mean HATES, to read books, but when i was forced to read this book for class, i was hesistant.. but as i started to read the book, i couldnt, and COULDNT take my eyes off of it. I stayed up late hours finishing the book. I recommend this book to ANYONE, period! This is the only book that i have liked, and probably will ever like. This book truly displays the REAL WORLD. ~Sarah Duran

It was a pretty good book.
It was a pretty good book. At times it was fascinating, others wasn't especially during the ending in Book Three when it was all Bigger's thinking and talking.. No action like in the begininng that make me keep reading. ... Read more

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Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers. ... Read more

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"...was because the specific social climate which had produced it,...seemed archaic now ...was fading from our memories."
James Baldwin is quoting a woman, upon the death of Richard Wright, concerning his novel, "Native Son."The same sentiment can be used to describe this collection of essays by James Baldwin. It really was a different era, archaic to us now, before Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, back when segregation, de facto or legal, was very much the rule in America. Most of the essays discuss events in the late `40's or `50's, and underscore how far we have come, now that we have elected the first American black president, but also how many other issues, particularly those related to power, remain much the same. A few years after the Second World War, Baldwin, driven by no doubt the same forces that sent Wright there, sought solace in voluntary exile in France.

Baldwin starts his first essay by quoting from the quintessential author of the white elite, Henry James, on what it means to be an American. Baldwin goes on to describe that only when he was in France, and had some perspective on the matter, did he realize that he also was an American. His second essay concerns the first black writer and artist conference, held in Paris in 1956, when almost all the participants were still literally coming from colonies. It was billed as a "second Bandung" a reference to the conference that was held in that Indonesian city in 1954 that commenced the "non-aligned movement," the Third World countries who wished to neither join the American or Soviet blocs. In other essay he has returned to America, and gives his views on the development of Harlem (and it is not positive.)

He also conducts some brilliant interviews, taking his first trip to the South, and interviewing the white principal of the school which had just commenced de-segregation with its first black pupil.The pupil is also interviewed, as well as his parents. In another interview he goes to Stockholm, and interviews film director Ingmar Bergman.

In other essays he addresses the relationships he had with some of the literary figures of the era, certainly including his "mentor," Richard Wright, and the eventual alienation from him that was never closed. He also had an on again, off again relationship with Norman Mailer, and was truly stunned when Mailer seriously ran for the position of Mayor of New York. He was dubious of Wright's friendship with Sartre and de Beauvoir, who he thought were using him as so much "window dressing."He has rather scathing comments to make about William Faulkner, who saw so much, but not enough, alas, and pushed his "Middle Way" on desegregation, and Jack Kerouac, who spoke of wandering through the "colored sections" of Denver, and imagining the "ecstasy" of being black.Baldwin said:"Now, this is absolute nonsense, of course, objectively considered, and offensive nonsense at that: I would hate to be in Kerouac's shoes if he should ever be mad enough to read this aloud from the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theater."

I could go on, but fortunately there is an excellent review of this book posted by D Cloyce Smith that gives additional insights. Baldwin remains relevant today, to indicate the distance we have traveled; he "ages" quite well, within his final resting place high on the hill, overlooking the Mediterranean, at St. Paul de Vance. We can only speculate on what he'd think seeing Blacks so fully integrated into media images, and how a certain segment of America has now decided to demonize Muslims.Even though this is not his greatest work, and his homosexuality will only come out in those, he still deserves the full 5-stars for this collection of early essays.

More Notes of a Native Son
Bearing the subtitle "More Notes of a Native Son," "Nobody Knows My Name" is a follow-up to Baldwin's earlier, more famous book. Originally published in national magazines between 1954 and 1961, these essays are more mature, if less biting, than his first collection--and they are certainly just as witty. With one notable exception, they are timeless and trenchant commentaries on racial and cultural issues.

The first group of eight essays focuses on the political and social divides in the United States. The opening article reiterates the discovery he made in "Notes of a Native Son": that by living in Europe he paradoxically discovered what it means to be an American. Others examine the despicable inhumanity of a Harlem public housing project ("cheerless as a prison"), the success of the student movement and the rise of Muslim power in black politics ("a very small echo of the black discontent now abroad in the world"), and the first efforts to integrate Southern public schools ("the entire nation has spent a hundred years avoiding the question of the place of the black man in it"). The two most memorable essays detail the daily bravery, trauma, and humiliations of a schoolboy who is the first black in an all-white school and respond to Faulkner's despicable remarks on race (which were made when Faulkner was seemingly drunk and which were later repudiated when he was atypically sober).

The only disappointing essay is "Princes and Power," an account of Le Congres des Ecrivains et Artistes Noirs (Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists). The internal disputes and lofty goals of this gathering--convened to consider "the history of Euro-African relations" and the postcolonial "cultural inventory"--did not lack for interest, and Baldwin ably relates the tensions between and cross-purposes of American blacks and Africans. But, overall, he seems to be just phoning it in, muffling the obvious passions of the conference participants and highlighting instead the abstract academic tone.

The second and final group of five essays highlight cultural subjects. He follows a speech detailing the outline for an imaginary novel with biographical appraisals of Andre Gide, Ingmar Bergman, Richard Wright, and Normal Mailer. His eulogy for Wright, initially composed and published in three disparate parts, simultaneously expresses regret for Baldwin's youthful criticism of the older author that resulted in the irreparable destruction of their friendship and recounts Wright's sad social decline: "he had managed to estrange himself from almost all of the younger American Negro writers in Paris ... [who] had discovered that Richard did not really know much about the present dimensions and complexity of the Negro problem here, and, profoundly, did not want to know."

But the gem of the collection is "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy," Baldwin's tongue-in-cheek account of his friendship with Normal Mailer, written both as not-so-subtle payback for Mailer's criticism of Baldwin in the self-indulgent "Advertisements for Myself" and as a tribute to Mailer's talent and "responsibility" as an artist. After sending off a number of barbed (yet good-natured) repartees, Baldwin acknowledges not only Mailer's importance as a "very good friend" but also his worth as a writer. Baldwin's assessment of that career serves at as fitting coda to Baldwin's own essays: "His work, after all, is all that will be left when the newspapers are yellowed, all the gossip columnists silenced, and all the cocktail parties over, and when Norman and you and I are dead."

Nobody Knows My Name Is Timeless
For my humanities class I was instructed to read an autobiography of my choice. Through shuffling through the library for an autobiography that I can actually read and appreciate I stumbled across this great James Baldwin title. Nobody Knows My Name is a collection of his writing while he was self exiled in Europe. I opened the book with excitment and urgency. As the words regestired in my head I began to realize that the experiences he described articulated exactly how I feel as a black man in American society.
Each essay discussing another aspect of society or the life of a black man in the world I grasped with utter enthusasim. His observations and theories were articulate critical and insightful. James Baldwin's tales of another continent are intising and informative of where our society was and how it is still the same in many ways.
If you are interested in Baldwin's previous writings or African American authors and perspective I know you will enjoy this combiation of essays.

Great esssays from one of America's best authors
This collection of essays show James Baldwin as he strives to figure out who he is as a writer, as an American and as a black man.Beginning with his self-imposed exile to Paris in the 1950's, he calls his own identity as both a black man and an American into question.The Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists which met in 1956 showed him just how different Europeans and Africans viewed cultural identity and hinted at ostracizing the American contingent.And he felt distinctly American in that crowd.Through his essays about returning to Harlem, his criticisms of William Faulkner ("Faulkner and Desegregation"), his review of a work by André Gide, his dealings with author Richard Wright, his friendship with author Norman Mailer ("The Black Boy Looks At the White Boy"), and his interview with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, Baldwin displays his own feelings at finding his own identity as both man and writer in a world that tries to both accet and to reject him at the same time.

Powerful essays from one of America's best authors.

Honest, Critical, Sincere, Moving, Black, Human!!!
what i love about baldwin is that he does not have delusions of grandeur about himself - unlike many blacks in the public sphere.this book of essays on society and his personal experiences in the US and abroad is majestic b/c baldwin has a way of writing about complexities of people and societal issues in an introspective yet practical way.although i was impressed with every essay, his essay on richard wright was mindblowing.BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT FOR YOURSELF!i think it is a great book for black and latin men to read.in doing so many bruhs - if they are honest - will find that they are as similar baldwin as we like to believe are are to malcolm x.either way, you do not go wrong as both were great human beings.in short, i was totally edified by this text.It will easily make my top 10 list - which is very, very, very difficult. ... Read more

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Dig around for the good stuff.
Overall this isn't very well written.Mr. Wright's editors could have done a better job in bringing the level of writing to a more appropriate adult tone.As Speaker Wright freely admits his recall of these events is faulty at times, but again the editors could have done a better job in making sure the historic background that Wright discusses is accurate.One of the glaring errors comes in the pages devoted to the Doolittle Raid of 1942.Supposedly they took off from the North Sea and "made their getaway to a predetermined landing strip in China."

The best parts of the book are when Mr. Wright abandons world outlooks and sticks to his facts; missions, training and the experiences he had, and those of his bomb group.To be commended is the praise and warmth that Mr. Wright genuinely feels for the Australians and their efforts at being mates, hosts and allies.That's where the interesting and compelling reading is found.Again the end of the book becomes a diluted ode to the fight for democracy, the Four Freedoms and the beginning of Mr. Wright's political career.

A Well Told Story of B-24's in the South Pacific
A surprising numbre of fighters in what has become known as the Greatest Generation went on to careers in politics. Bob Dole, obvious of course because of the injury to his hand, Jack Kennedy, Nixon, and Eisenhower, and probably many more.

I had not known that Jim Wright, long time representative from Texas and eventually Speaker of the House had served combat tour with the Army Air Force. This story wasn't written until some fifty eight years after the fact. And it's written as an answer to his grandchrildren's 'What Did You Do in the War, Grandpa,' even if they hadn't asked the question.

His is a fairly standard tale of fairly standard people engaged in something so big that from the lower levels of the Army they could only glimpse a tiny bit. As he says, they weren't the Greatest Generation, not extraordinary people, just fairly malleable yound folks, products of our times and of our parents guidance. Hitler thought these young men decadent, indolent and soft. They weren't that either.

There are few surprises to the story. Young man, Pearl Harbor, hasty marriage, and a long B-24 flight to the war in the South Pacific. But then there is:

Lt. Hal Grace, bombardier, shot down, beheaded by the Japanese.
Lt. David Lippencott, pilot, show down, beheaded by the Japanese.
Lt. Edward Skuzinski, navigator, disabled in crash, left by the Japanese to perish inside plane as the tide came in.
Lt. Harold S. Mulhollen, pilot, killed in action.

I'm writing this on the anniversary of Hiroshima, tell me again we shouldn't have dropped that bomb. ... Read more

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This book takes a refreshing look at Wright's work, not from the perspective of his personality, but from the point of view of his use of principle and form in design. Frank Lloyd Wright also integrates the research of several noted scholars to clarify the interaction of theory and practice in Wright's work, as well as the role of formal order in architectural experience. ... Read more

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A Passion for the Past features 22 articles that cover a wide range of subjects, including the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, linguistics, cosmology, Native perspectives on archaeology, palaeo-botany, physical anthropology and an original contribution by a late nineteenth-century archaeologist. ... Read more

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O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships.O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs--the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home.

[A] brilliant analysis . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of modern American architecture."--David Hamilton Eddy, Times Higher Education Supplement. ... Read more

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Excellent Overview & Analysis
A concise and thoughtful work; a scholarly yet very easy read.
O'Gorman's positioning of Richardson's work as a manifestation of Emerson's call for 'an American beauty' to arise from the 'shop and the mill' as well as the 'field and roadside' is spot-on.
This approach resonated through the work of both Sullivan and Wright and, to me, indicates a path that is still relevant (yet often missing) in American architecture today. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Whittaker ... Read more

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Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citiens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambitious survey ever undertaken of criminal acquisition, possession, and use of guns.There are vast differences between the average gun owner and the average gun-abusing felon, but the analyses reported here do not suggest any obvious way to translate these differences into gun control policies. Most policy implications drawn from the book are negative in character: this will not work for this reason, that will not work for that reason, and so on. When experts are asked, "Okay, then what will work?" they usually fall back on the old warhorses of poverty, the drug problem, or the inadequate resources of the criminal justice system, and otherwise have little to say. This is not a failure of social science. It simply asks more of the data than the data were ever intended to provide.Several of Wright and Rossis findings have become "coin of the realm" in the gun control debate, cited frequently by persons who have long since forgotten where the data came from or what their limitations are. Several other findings, including many that are important, have been largely ignored. Still other findings have been superseded by better and more recent data or rendered anachronistic by intervening events. With the inclusion of a new introduction detailing recent statistics and updated information this new edition of Armed and Considered Dangerous is a rich source of information for all interested in learning about weapon behavior and ownership in America. ... Read more

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Integrity in Research
The work presented in this book stands as a shining example of how social science research should be conducted.The authors' ability to set aside their preconceptions regarding gun control establishes their qualifications as preeminent researchers in the field and true professionals (as though this was necessary).Contemporary social science research is too often lacking in integrity;thankfully, these practitioners have made a contribution to the truth rather than some political ideology.The work cannot be classified as conservative or liberal.Rather, it represents a full and exhaustive exploration of the dynamics associated with the gun control debate as it is framed today. True students of the field should be grateful.

By far the most in-depth study criminal gun habits.
Interviewing felony prisoners in ten state correctional systems in 1981, Wright and Rossi found extensive information suggesting that gun control laws have relatively little effect on violent criminals. For example, only 12% of criminals, and only 7% of the criminals specializing in handgun crime, had acquired their last crime handgun at a gun store. Of those, about a quarter had stolen the gun from a store; a large number of the rest, Wright and Rossi suggested, had probably procured the gun through a legal surrogate buyer, such as a girlfriend with a clean record. Fifty-six percent of the prisoners said that a criminal would not attack a potential victim who was known to be armed. Seventy-four percent agreed with the statement that "One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime." Thirty-nine percent of the felons had personally decided not to commit a crime because they thought the victim might have a gun, and eight percent said the experience had occurred "many times." Criminals in states with higher civilian gun ownership rates worried the most about armed victims. Despite the popular myth that criminals preferred small, inexpensive handguns (so-called "Saturday Night Specials" or "junk guns"), the felony prisoners preferred larger, more powerful handguns-equal to the guns which they expected the police would have. Although the criminals rarely bought guns in gun stores, the overwhelming majority stated that obtaining a gun after their release from prison would be a simple project, which might take a few hours to a few weeks. Armed and Dangerous has lost none of its importance. In the years since it was published, no-one has done any research on criminal gun use and acquisition that is even half as significant or detailed. Armed and Dangerous is also a great book to give a library. The new paperback includes an introduction by Jim Wright that discusses the reaction to Armed and Dangerous in the years since its first publication.

A thorough analysis of sociological research about guns.
Intending to build the case for comprehensive federal gun restrictions, the Carter administration handed out a major gun control research grant to sociology Professor James D. Wright, and his colleagues Peter Rossi and Kathleen Daly. Wright was already on record as favoring much stricter controls, and he and his colleagues were recognized as among sociology's brightest stars. Rossi, a University of Massachusetts professor, would later become President of the American Sociology Association. Wright, who formerly served as Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, now teaches at Tulane. Daly was a relatively young scholar at the time, but she has since gone on to win the Hindelang Prize from the American Society of Criminology. The Hindelang Prize is awarded for the most significant contribution to criminology in a three-year period. Daly is the most recent winner, for her studies of women's issues. Anyway, Wright, Rossi, and Daly were asked to survey thestate of research regarding the efficacy of gun control, presumably to show that gun control worked, and America needed more of it. But when Wright, Rossi, and Daly produced their report for the National Institute of Justice, they delivered a document quite different from the one they had expected to write. Carefully reviewing all existing research to date, the three scholars found no persuasive scholarly evidence that America's 20,000 gun control laws had reduced criminal violence. For example, the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned most interstate gun sales, had no discernible impact on the criminal acquisition of guns from other states. Washington, D.C.'s 1977 ban on the ownership of handguns which had not already been registered in the District was not linked to any reduction in gun crime in the District. Even Detroit's law providing mandatory sentences for felonies committed with a gun was found to have no effect on gun crime patterns, in part because judges would often reduce the sentence for the underlying offense in order to balance out the mandatory two-year extra sentence for use of a gun. The Wright/Rossi/Daly team exploded scores of other gun control myths. They discussed the data showing that gun owners-rather then being a violent, aberrant group of nuts-were at least as psychologically stable and morally sound as the rest of the population. Polls claiming to show that a large majority of the population favored "more gun control" were debunked as being the product of biased questions, and of the fact that most people have no idea how strict gun laws already are. As the scholars frankly admitted, they had started out their research as gun control advocates, and had been forced to change their minds by a careful review of the evidence. Review by Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, http://i2i.org. ... Read more

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Of Course I'm Prejudiced...
This is pretty funny to me, one of the Authors of this book. First, because anyone can get a brand new copy from me for only $15, which included shipping cost. That's okay if someone wants to charge $20.99 and up for a "used" copy. All they have to do is send a check to me, Dr. Ben Townsend, at P.O. Box 11, Mesick, MI 49668 and request the "Approved by God" book. I'll even pay the shipping. We did not write this book to make a buck, but to change public opinion about church unincorporation. We send many copies "free" to pastors and missionaries, which is where these three "used" copies came from probably. Of course, we have sold many other copies to interested buyers. I just wanted to direct people to the right source to get a "new" book for less. Thanks -Ben ... Read more

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Hendricks Chapel is one of Syracuse University's most recognizable landmarks and a beloved campus institution, standing both literally and figuratively at the heart of its campus. The chapel has been the site of some of the university's most significant events, from antiwar protests in the sixties to the vigil of nearly 3,000 people held on September 11, 2001. Its efforts to foster intellectual, cultural, and spiritual growth within the campus community have drawn distinguished speakers from all fields: the painter Grant Wood; poets Carl Sandberg and Robert Frost; novelists Paul Gallico and Ayn Rand; the arctic explorer Viljhalmur Stefansson; politicians such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Hillary Clinton; and religious figures and social activists such as Paul Tillich, the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, and James Baldwin; as well as scientists, economists, and other scholars.

This book, with contributions from other deans and staff, traces the history and evolution of the chapel, from its construction in 1930 when it was dedicated to promoting the "moral and spiritual welfare of the generations of young men and women at Syracuse University," to its many current functions as an inclusive spiritual and social resource for the university and the community at large. ... Read more

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This literary study considers how the 'voice' of Jesus has been heard in different periods of parable interpretation, and how the categories of figure and trope may help us towards a sensitive reading of the parables today.
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A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry
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