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A Brief History of English Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

A Brief History of English Literature

This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style. A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers. New to this Edition: - Revised chapter on twentieth century literature - Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature - Updated Chronology and Further Reading section

Rebuilding Sergeant Peck
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Rebuilding Sergeant Peck

"I met Marine Sgt. John Peck, a quadruple amputee who has received a double arm transplant, at Walter Reed in 2017. Today, it was my honor to welcome John (HERO) to the Oval, with his wonderful wife Jessica. He also wrote a book that I highly recommend, Rebuilding Sergeant Peck."—President Donald Trump Marine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years later, one that left him with three and a half limbs missing. He’s one of only two living people to survive the flesh-eating fungus he contracted in recovery at Walter Reed, one that left him as a quadruple amputee. ...

Contradance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Contradance

In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the larger humanscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to our shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection, Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection has never been stronger or more beautifully embodied.

Collected Shorter Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Collected Shorter Poems

This is the definitive collection of poems by a remarkable, thoroughly original American poet. Peck's poems continue to attract an appreciative, loyal and growing audience of readers who take on the challenge of confronting his astonishing range and ambitions.

How to Study a Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

How to Study a Novel

How to Study a Novel has long been established as the one book about the novel that every student of literature at school or university needs to read. In a series of clearly written, eminently practical chapters, John Peck takes the reader through a set of logical steps that show him how to respond to, interpret and develop his own view of a novel and how to present that response in an effective essay. This thoroughly revised and expanded Second Edition has three new chapters taking this process one step further, showing how to make use of the new critical thinking that has swept through literary criticism in recent years.

Martin and John
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Martin and John

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-10
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  • Publisher: Soho Press

Dale Peck’s debut is a tour de force in which Martin and John find each other again and again: in a trailer park, a high-end jewelry store, a Kansas barn, and later, in New York City, living under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Though their names remain the same, their identities are constantly shifting, creating a fractured view of loss and desire in the early years of the AIDS crisis. Vaulting through self and history, Martin and John is one of the most remarkable novels to emerge from an America ravaged by disease, and one of the finest and most complex love stories of the ’90s. Martin and John is the first volume of Gospel Harmonies, a series of seven stand-alone books (four have been written) which follow the character of John as he attempts to navigate the uneasy relationship between the self and the postmodern world.

Called to Serve Leader's Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 70

Called to Serve Leader's Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-22
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

LEADER'S EDITIONA basic Bible survey course for Orthodox Christians.This is the Leader's Edition, for Bible Study leaders, Church school teachers, clergy and introduction to Scripture class teachers.

Mosaic Orpheus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Mosaic Orpheus

Maturing reflections on a changing world.

Forty Years of Pioneer Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Forty Years of Pioneer Life

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  • Published: 1864
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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War, the Army and Victorian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

War, the Army and Victorian Literature

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the military era of Wellington yielded to a new kind of liberal society, the mid-Victorians turning their backs on the army. In the last two decades of the century, however, there was a thorough-going resurgence of militarism. This major new study of the Victorian period considers the way in which literature both reflected and contributed to a double process of social change.