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Robert Giroux, giant of publishing, dies

msn.com     yesterday   10 related          

Editor guided dozens of writers, including T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac NEW YORK - Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack...                    

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Course details Epic Tradition

warwick.ac.uk     Aug 30, 2008          

Learning outcomes By the end of this module you should have: 1. Arrived at a good working knowledge of the three crucial texts of ancient Europe, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid. 2. Made a detailed study...                    

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Nobel winner Walcott faults Caribbean development

ibtimes.com     Aug 25, 2008          

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott criticized the pace of tourism-driven development in Caribbean islands including his native St. Lucia, according to a report published Monday. Walcott, who...                    

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Taiwan: Viva la Generalissimo!

globalvoicesonline.org     Aug 25, 2008          

The Bermudian government has plans to introduce a SWAT team to tackle the war on drugs, but 21 Square thinks that “cracking down on supply without solving the problem of demand creates a vicious cycle that will only make...                    

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Jamaica: “Lightning” Strikes Twice at Beijing Olympics

globalvoicesonline.org     Aug 21, 2008   545 related          

Photo by Kerry Gibbons. Used with permission Jamaica's Usain Bolt continued his phenomenal run at the Beijing Olympics with a record-breaking win in the men's 200m Wednesday. Not to be outdone, the Jamaican women also made the...                    

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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile

progressive.org     Aug 9, 2008   186 related          

By Nathalie Handal, May 2002 Issue "Absent, I come to the home of the absent," the leading Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, writes. Other poems allude to myths, draw parallels between the Native American and the Palestinian...                    

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Teresa Bailach

warwick.ac.uk     Aug 7, 2008          

Title: Anglophone Caribbean Theatre Description: Guyanese artist Wilson Harris's cross-culturalism offers a non-static, unfinished vision of the world, that recovers formerly invisible resources. Derek Walcott's plays provide...                    

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Jonathan Morley

warwick.ac.uk     Aug 6, 2008          

Title: T. S. Eliot and the Postcolonial Field: Caribbean Literature, Modernist Studies Current Stage: 4th Year (part-time) Description: A thesis on processes of literary exchange between Europe and the Third World, considering...                    

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Reading is a way round the world

heracliteanfire.net     Aug 1, 2008          

I used to have a cookbook for kids — still do, come to think of it — called Cooking is a Way Round the World. Hence the post title. To quote Julie: In one of my Goodreads groups, a clever person had the idea of each of us...                    

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Fictions and History (CL904)

warwick.ac.uk     Jul 25, 2008          

c] Convenor: Professor David Dabydeen Credit rating: 60 CATS as a core module, or 30 CATS if the course is taken as an option with an essay of 5,000 words Aims: This course measures key works of fiction from the Anglophone...                    

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