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  • At Joyce's tomb: mourning, scholarship, and post-mortem copyright
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    Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Copyright; Intellectual property; Censorship; Fair use (Copyright); Public domain (Copyright law); Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850;
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    Literary scholars are familiar with the "Death of the Author," which Roland Barthes announced in 1968. But what happens when authors become undead and walk the earth in the surrogate body of the law? Taking the Estate of James Joyce as an...
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    2005-04-13
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  • Lessons from L.A. schools: some gleanings from the toils of the past that would make the work of the future easier if only someone would listen
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    Public schools; Educational change; Education; Los Angeles Unified School District;
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    The story of public education in Los Angeles is one of institutional decline and hollowing out mixed with daily heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers and administrators who try to make an old institution do things it was not designed...
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    2007-11-11
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  • Public lands - public debates: a century of controversy
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    Public lands; United States. National Park Service; United States. Forest Service.
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    The U. S. manages a vast system of national forests, grasslands, parks, and refuges, landscapes that contain some of the most beautiful and resource-rich terrain in the country. Since their establishment beginning in the late 19th-century, these...
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    2012-10-31
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  • Ripping the veil, weaving meaning: the textures of African American expressive culture
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    Sacred texts; Social psychology; Bible; Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc.; African Americans; Christianity; Consciousness
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    How do groups of people engage themselves with a "central and center-ing" text? What does this engagement tell us about how the people express themselves? How do dominant groups interpret this engagement? Seen in the refracting mirror of...
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    2005-03-09
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  • Screening the rural: the American countryside in silent film
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    Culture; Country life; Homesickness; Rural-urban relations; Silent films; United States - Social life and customs;
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    The rise of motion pictures during the 1910s and 1920s was a critical component of an emerging consumer culture in the United States that coincided with its broader transformation from a rural to an urban society. Because of this conjuncture,...
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    2006-09-28
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  • The pleasure of the blog: the early novel, the serial, and the narrative archive
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    Blogs; Literary form;
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    Blogs have in the last couple of years loomed large in the Western imagination, but the ideas about blogs that have circulated both through the mainstream media and through academia have been extremely limited in scope. In the popular imagination,...
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    2006-10-11
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  • The satisfactory midwife bag: midwifey regulation in South Carolina in the early twentieth century
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    Midwifery; South Carolina; Twentieth century; Childbirth
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    How did childbirth, once commonly administered in the household by lay midwives for women, become the domain of the hospital and the state? During the early 20th century, it was common for older African-American women -- Granny Midwives -- to...
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    2013-03-14

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