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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Chapbook"”.
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Where Light Is: a collection of short stories & The Definition of Snow: a chapbook
Where Light Is and The Definition of Snow are linked manuscripts in which a world is held in lyrical suspension. In the process of speaking alongside one another, the stories and poems in these collections explore the repercussions of grief, loss, and loneliness and how these are affected by …
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Black Lens
<p>This poetry chapbook consists of 30 poems that examine the historical and current experiences of the Black community within America. Ligon displays his perspective on blackness and how it's perceived in a climate filled with racial and political tension, hence the name—"Black Lens."</p>
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From Chapbooks to Plumb Cake: The History of Children's Literature
… fantasy, is by harkening back to the old chapbooks romances. Howard Pyle's King Arthur series incorporates much of the magic and fantasy of old chapbook stories, but nonetheless, his retellings of medieval legends were still constrained by the desire to morally guide children; and they …
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The book as looking glass : improving works for and about children in early modern England
… of children reading romances and adventures in chapbook form. Escapist literature was believed to make one forget one's mortal lot, which in turn decreased one's motivation for piety. Through a discussion of the threat chapbook romances posed to pious reading, the chapter establishes the …
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The rule of contraction: a manuscript of sequential prose poems with an introduction
… prose poems constituting Bonné A. de Blas’s chapbook, The Rule of Contraction. The introductory essay discusses the history of the modern prose poem, as well as the questions of genre surrounding its form, and describes the influences of the New Prose Poem and elliptical poetics as they …
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Black Lake
Black Lake lives as a creative non-fiction essay, chapbook of poetry and video installation art piece, meditating on grief, loss, and the tenth anniversary of my father’s suicide. Born from a collection of poems, the works are intimate yet leave room for the reader to breathe and map their own …
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Silence for the one about to sing: selected short lyrics from two collections
Silence for the One about to Sing contains a chapbook of 30 poems (selected from two collections) and a prologue. In the prologue, I discuss my influences and inspirations, and explain the creative and critical devices I use throughout my art. Inspired by the Portuguese music genre of fado and its …
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Becoming the flaming creature
… of the body. The accompanying sample of the poem chapbook, Dog Custody, extends these gestures through a language that bruises and breathes—treating text as flesh, metabolizing desire, grief, and power. Across media, the work offers an aesthetic of the unfinished: a queer alchemy where nothing is …
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Catalogação do acervo xilográfico do Programa de Pesquisa em Literatura Popular (PPLP): do manual ao virual
… culture and it is intrinsically linked to chapbook. In this context, the present research was developed with woodcuts of the collection of the Research Program in Popular Literature of the Federal University of Paraíba (PPLP/UFPB). Its main objective is to create a virtual catalogue and …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
… Marlowe all drew upon characters from popular chapbook romances and dramatized them in accordance with audience expectations, demonizing them when their aims became selfish or esoteric and applauding them when the magic was used to benefit the community. These plays achieved great success and …
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Beneath the light: stage-bound and ankle-cuffed
… the Light, Stage-bound and Ankle-cuffed" is chapbook-length manuscript with two sections. The first section has a focus on famous actors and actresses on the stage and in film, and the second section enters the area of the housewife and the everyday woman with specific cases of female …
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DIRTY COMPUTERS: EROTIC DATA POETICS
… of the 1968 MLK assassination riots in her chapbook Riot. Though the text predates Palantir Technologies by many decades, they offer an interesting comparison point on the topic of capturing, reading, and writing data. Both work to read and speak data about Black Chicago citizens in crisis, …
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dipsomania
<p>A collection of poetry exploring addiction. Specifically, 25 poems which focus on alcoholism, from beginning to end and further, its effect on the drinker, its effect on the sufferer's family, and the triumphs and tribulations of living with such a horrible disease.</p>
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The Fiction We Make Between Us
… each of which could later expand into a separate chapbook, or a section of a book, of poems. In the first section, “Quiet Project”, the speakers externalize their interior realities, reflect and marvel on the quotidian shimmer of things in the world as they shift in and out of presence and, by …