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• Editing Daphne du Maurier

  From: Women's History Review

  20026,867 words Critical essay [(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Hodges, the editor of all of du Maurier's work from 1943 to 1981, offers an assessment of her writing skill, her personality, and the connections between her novels and her...

• 'Flowers for Hitler': Leonard Cohen's Holocaust Poetry in the Context of Jewish and Jewish-Canadian Literature

  Editors:Klaus Stierstorfer, Heinz Antor, John Considine, and Sylvia BrownFrom: Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture

  200312,569 words Critical essay [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, after surveying the philosophical and critical literature concerning the treatment of the Holocaust in art, Volkmann discusses Cohen's representation of the Holocaust in Flowers...

• Leonard Cohen (1934-)

  From: ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets

  19931,073 words Critical essay [(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hutcheon offers a brief and general overview of Cohen's life and works.] In 1967 George Bowering wrote that "Leonard Cohen could become the Jewish Kahlil Gibran."1 And,...

• Leonard Cohen

  Editor:Jeffrey M. HeathFrom: Profiles in Canadian Literature

  19864,888 words Critical essay [(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Meyer and O'Riordan discuss Cohen's entire literary output up to his 1984 Book of Mercy, focusing on Cohen's main themes of mythology, spirituality, and the importance of...

• Imaginary Traditions: Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen and the Rest of the Montreal Poets

  Editors:Jason Camlot and Todd SwiftFrom: Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century

  20079,731 words Critical essay [(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Ravvin presents an analysis of the place of Cohen and Irving Layton among their fellow Montreal poets and in the annals of Canadian and Jewish literature.] Belmont Avenue and...

• Best Sellers and the Critics: A Case History

  From: College English

  Jan. 19554,404 words Critical essay [(essay date January 1955) In the following essay, Stockwell surveys du Maurier's novels, concluding that while she is a talented author who satisfies the uncritical reader, her propensity for writing escapist romantic...

• Drawing to Discern Parasites.

  Author:Madison KellyFrom:Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue (Issue 19) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20181,207 words Essay Of all identified species, 30-50 percent are defined as parasitic. (1) Parasite ubiquity, however, does not equate to widespread popularity or criticality. This extends even to animal rights mentalities, which, Giovanni...

• Parasites at the helm. (Findings)

  From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1)

  Winter 2003276 words Brief article Westerners "razor medicine off at the neck because people such as Rene Descartes and Pope Urban VIII contended that the human soul resides in the mind, and human disease resides in the body," Gerald Callahan, a...

• World distribution of Locustacarus trachealis (Acari: Podapolipidae), tracheal parasites of grasshoppers, and comments on the genus Locustacarus

  Authors:Robert W. Husband and Patricia S. HusbandFrom:Michigan Academician (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20022,645 words Article ABSTRACT Two species of Locustacarus from grasshoppers (Orthoptera Acrididae) are Locustacarus trachealis Ewing, 1924 and Locustacarus masoni Husband, 1974. Distribution tables with collection localities, hosts,...