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Tribute to Leonard Moss is a collection of different writings: Leonard's own "Premature Obituary," as well as eulogies, letters, speeches, memorial essays, diary entries, articles, and book chapters written by his close family, and remembrances from many friends. It also includes several of his essays and descriptions of his many books. In addition, numerous old-time photographs are included throughout the book to add color to the memories.
Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity brought into play by an unrelenting drive for respect. Their patterns of speech, action, and image project a convergence of polarities, the convergence of integrity and radical change, of constancy and infidelity. A fanatical drive to fulfill a traditional code of masculine conduct produces the ironic consequence of de-forming that codeāthe tragic paradox. Tragic literature exploits irony. In...
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Arthur Miller.
David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. Du Bois and John Brown. He shows that, for a...