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G. Pope Atkins
This book undertakes a multifaceted examination of South American international relations, emphasising on the continent's new era of domestic and international politics and the implications of the evolving environment for…
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Rosalie G Robles
She heard the call as a young girl growing up in a loving Mexican American family in Los Angeles, California. Then after high school, Rosie Robles joined the convent and…
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A girl hears follows her call to become a Catholic nun then after several decades leaves to marry and enjoy family life.
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G. Atkins
This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that…
By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual…
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More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift’s writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest…
Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century’s most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is…
With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot’s debt to the…
In a fresh reading of Gulliver’s Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee…
By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian…
This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses…
Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot’s poetic art. The…
Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of…
This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot’s other works, notably…
A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope’s religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that…
This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot’s six Ariel Poems as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations…
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Offers an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests.
Lawrence G. Atkins
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Although the purpose of this text is unchanged-that of providing students with a topical, current, and analytically integrated survey of Latin America’s role in international politics-it has been completely updated…
A reference guide to all the elements of the Inter-American System from its formal beginning in 1889 to the present, as it developed into a major, multipurpose regional inter-governmental organization…
G. Douglas Atkins
Offers an original consideration of T.S. Eliot’s essay as a form of embodied thinking. Exploring the similarities between Eliot’s prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, G. Douglas…
This book undertakes a multifaceted examination of South American international relations, emphasising on the continent’s new era of domestic and international politics and the implications of the evolving environment for…
Organizing the discussion around the idea of the region as a separate subsystem within the global international political system, this book gives special emphasis to subregions within Latin America, especially…
The study of Latin American and Caribbean international relations has a long evolution both within the development of international relations as a general academic undertaking and in terms of the…
The fourth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the evolving characteristics of the current international system that have had a dramatic effect on every aspect of international relations of…
This book remains organized around the idea of Latin America and the Caribbean as a separate international subsystem within the global system, with special consideration given to both further subsystems…
Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the ‘intellectual poetry’ of the critic who, whether or not he ‘represents the future of the profession’, is a…
Written for both specialist and non-specialist, this book examines T. S. Eliot’s treatments of putting-in-other-words, including the necessity of putting ancient truth in ‘new verse.’ By means of fresh new…
This chronicle and interpretation of recent military and political events in the Dominican Republic analyzes the political behavior of the country’s armed forces and scrutinizes policies put in action since…
Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the “intellectual poetry’ of the critic who, whether or not he "represents the future of the profession’, is a…
This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to the responsible poet. Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to…
