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"This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Beginning with an updated survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of narrative. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively when discussing fictional and nonfictional narratives in a variety of media: stories, novels, films, graphic narratives, and video games"--

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Fiction --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- GAMES / Video & Electronic. --- Technique.

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"This anthology presents underappreciated works by African Americans active throughout the nineteenth century. Readers will find familiar names in this anthology, such as Douglass, Wells Brown, Jacobs, and Du Bois, but readers will also be introduced to lesser known and even unknown African Americans worthy of discussion, such as Solomon G. Brown, H. Cordelia Ray, and T. Thomas Fortune. Mance's intention for this volume is to offer an alternative to the Norton and Houghton Mifflin anthologies that emphasize only the canonical works of African American literature in the 19th century and to introduce students--and even professors--to a variety of writings, from poetry to journalism, by African Americans who have yet to receive their due"-- "Despite important recovery and authentication efforts during the last twenty-five years, the vast majority of nineteenth-century African American writers and their work remain unknown to today's readers. Moreover, the most widely used anthologies of black writing have established a canon based largely on current interests and priorities. Seeking to establish a broader perspective, this collection brings together a wealth of autobiographical writings, fiction, poetry, speeches, sermons, essays, and journalism that better portrays the intellectual and cultural debates, social and political struggles, and community publications and institutions that nurtured black writers from the early 1800s to the eve of the Harlem Renaissance. As editor Ajuan Mance notes, previous collections have focused mainly on writing that found a significant audience among white readers. Consequently, authors whose work appeared in African American-owned publications for a primarily black audience--such as Solomon G. Brown, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and T. Thomas Fortune--have faded from memory. Even figures as celebrated as Frederick Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar are today much better known for their "cross-racial" writings than for the larger bodies of work they produced for a mostly African American readership. There has also been a tendency in modern canon making, especially in the genre of autobiography, to stress antebellum writing rather than writings produced after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Similarly, religious writings--despite the centrality of the church in the everyday lives of black readers and the interconnectedness of black spiritual and intellectual life--have not received the emphasis they deserve. Filling those critical gaps with a selection of 143 works by 65 writers, Before Harlem presents as never before an in-depth picture of the literary, aesthetic, and intellectual landscape of nineteenth-century African America and will be a valuable resource for a new generation of readers. "--

LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- African Americans --- American literature --- African American literature (English) --- Black literature (American) --- Negro literature --- African American authors. --- Afro-American authors --- Negro authors

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Madre Ana's account of her life gives insight into the nature of female monasticism at the turn of the seventeenth century. In two relaciones of her life, Madre Ana de San Agust©Ưn, a member of the Discalced Carmelite reform under Santa Teresa, reveals a rich interior life of visions, locutions, and visits to heaven and hell. Guiding her at manyjunctures of her spiritual journey is the figure of Santa Teresa, both before and after the saint's death in 1582. Although Madre Ana does not refer to any books save the Divine Office, the details she provides suggest her familiarity with numerous devotional and mystical texts by men and women available at the time. Her accounts share many of the characteristics of these earlier works. Equally interesting are the connections she draws between her visions and the outside world, especially the struggle over the Carmelite reform. En las dos 'relaciones' de su vida, la Madre Ana de San Agust©Ưn, Carmelita descalza de la Reforma teresiana, revela una rica vida interior de visiones, locuciones, y visitas al cielo y al infierno. Gui©Łndola en su viaje espiritual est©Ł la figura de Santa Teresa, antes y despu©♭s de la muerte de ©♭sta en 1582. Aunque Madre Ana no cita ninguna obra salvo el Oficio Divino, los detalles empleados en sus narrativas sugieren un conocimiento de varios textos de la literatura m©Ưstica y devota escritos por hombres y mujeres que fueron publicados y circulados durante la ©♭poca. Las 'relaciones' de Madre Ana reflejan algunas de las caracter©Ưsticas de estas obras anteriores. A la vez las conexiones que ella hace entre sus visiones y el mundo cotidiano, especialmente en cuanto al conflicto de la Reforma Descalza, son igualmente interesantes. ELIZABETH HOWE is Professor of Spanish at Tufts University, Massachusetts.

Ana de San Agustín, --- Discalced Carmelite Nuns --- Agustín, Ana de San, --- San Agustín, Ana de, --- Pedruja, Ana de, --- Discalced Nuns of the Order of Our Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel --- Monjas Descalzas de la Orden de la Beatísima Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Religiosas Descalzas de la Orden de la Gloriosísima Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Carmelitas Descalzas --- Carmes déchaux --- Religiosas Primitivas Descalças de la Orden de la Gloriosísima Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Karmelitanki Bose --- Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites (Italian Congregation) --- Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation) --- Carmelite Nuns --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. --- Ana de San Agustin,