Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410356310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Reapers"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410356310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Reapers"
Author: Cengage Learning GalePublisher:
ISBN: 9781375386852
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Reapers," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Cane
Author: Jean ToomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States.
A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410342379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Robert Frost's "Mowing"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410393038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Study Guide for Robert Frost's "Mowing", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
Author: Robert B. JonesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616416
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.
The Wayward and the Seeking
Author: Jean ToomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780882580289
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Women Who Wrote
Author: Louisa May AlcottPublisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785236279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families. They were sometimes lonely. Many wrote anonymously or under a pseudonym for a world not yet ready for their genius and talent. We know many of their names—Austen and Alcott, Brontë and Browning, Wheatley and Woolf—though some may be less familiar. They are here, waiting to introduce themselves. They marched through the world one by one or in small sisterhoods, speaking to each other and to us over distances of place and time. Pushing back against the boundaries meant to keep us in our place, they carved enough space for themselves to write. They made space for us to follow. Here they are gathered together, an army of women who wrote and an arsenal of words to inspire us. They walk with us as we forge our own paths forward. These women wrote to change the world. The perfect keepsake gift for the reader in your life Anthology of stories and poems Book length: approximately 90,000 words
Essentials
Author: Jean ToomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781684227242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
2022 Reprint of the 1931 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Jean Toomer was one of the great literary figures from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. His signature work, Cane, is familiar to most people who have studied African-American literature. Lesser known to readers is this brilliant work, Essentials, published in 1931. After his success with Cane, Toomer disappeared from the literary scene to pursue his own philosophical and psychological inquiries. Toomer sought enlightenment in the teachings of George Gurdjieff. During this time (1924-1935), Toomer published this slim volume offering his attempts to grapple with the experience of what it means to be human. Essentials is a collection of Toomer's ponderings in his search for wholeness in a fragmented world. Drawing on modern psychology and eastern religious belief Toomer falls into the company of Emerson, Thoreau and Gibran as he deals with that which is transcendent. He revives the use of aphorisms to convey timeless truths in a world which is incapable of moving beyond its limited definitions of life. Long ignored, this work gives us a glimpse of Toomer's metaphysical tendencies. Through it we capture another alternative view of dealing with reality. It is essential reading for anyone interested in metaphysics, African-American literature, and Toomer; it also serves as a example of a Black writer who refused to be limited by definitions of race for his life. Think on his words. Grow in the wisdom shared by a great literary giant of the 20th century." Amazon Review by Bonita L. Davis, on November 28, 2000
Literature and the Writing Process
Author: Elizabeth McMahanPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780130669063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1179
Book Description
For Composition Through Literature and Introduction to Literature courses. Blending a complete writing about literature text, a literature anthology, and a handbook into one, this unique text guides students through the allied processes of critical reading and writing illustrating the use of writing as a way of studying literature, and providing students with all the tools necessary to analyze literature on their own. The text promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature.