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TALKING VOLUMES; A mind of his own; Talking Volumes' season opener David Treuer flashes his literary wares in "The Translation of Dr Apelles: A Love Story" and stirs the pot in a contrarian book of essays on American Indian fiction.(ENTERTAINMENT)(TALKING VOLUMES)
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Byline: Sarah T. WIlliams; Staff Writer
After his daughter, Elsina, was born in November, David Treuer quickly crafted a cradleboard for her. For the backing, he bought a cedar plank at Home Depot. Then, in his Minneapolis back yard, he steamed and molded ash strips for the footrest and crash-bar, using PVC pipes, an empty gas can and a turkey fryer. The wraps, which had been beaded by an Ojibwe woman in Wisconsin, were ready to go. All was blessed at a drum ceremony.
A new morning routine was established: When Elsina woke, Treuer would bundle her in the ...
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In their own terms; American literary historiography in the United States and Italy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...approaches to its native literature with critiques from Italy. Along the way he re-reads the work of Samuel L. Knapp, Moses Coit Tyler, Charles F. Richardson and Barrett Wendell, along with the work of Norman Foerster, Vernon L. Parrington and...
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Ebenezer Cooke's satire, calculated to the meridian of Maryland.
Magazine article from: Early American Literature
; ...most famous poem, The Sot-weed Factor (1708; revised and republished in 1730, is a case in point. Although Moses Coit Tyler's nineteenth-century critique argues that the work is a complaint against the mores of colonial Maryland, more...
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January 2003 Top 20 Best Read eBooks; Celebrated African-American Voices of Freedom Top January List.
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; ...Arthur H. Blair. Texas A & M University Press, 1992. 19. A History of American Literature, 1607-1765, by Moses Coit Tyler. Cornell University Press, 1949. 20. Culture and Customs of Japan, by Noriko Kamachi and Hanchao Lu. Greewood...
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The new early American anthology.(Early American Writings)(The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology)(The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations)(Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature
; ...literature, though they showed increasing skepticism about the patriotic cant of their predecessors. Works like Moses Coit Tyler's History of American Literature (1878) and Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 (1897...
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