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• First American: Captain John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
• An American Pepys: William Byrd's History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
• American statesman: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
• Terrestrial paradise: William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
• History versus legend: Mason Locke Weems's The life of Washington the great
• Folk hero: A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee
• Yarns of frontier life: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia scenes
• Slave Plantation: Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a resident on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
• From slavery to freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself
• Political philosopher: John Caldwell Calhoun's A disquisition on government
• Hated helper: Hinton Rowan Helper's The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it
• Southern traveler: Frederick Law Olmsted's The cotton kingdom
• Southern panorama: Edward King's The great South
• Romantic New Orleans: George W. Cable's Old Creole days
• Black folktales: Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings
• Father of waters: Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
• Moonlight and magnolia: Thomas Nelson Page's In old Virginia
• The great compromiser: Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from slavery
• Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The souls of black folk
• Hymn of hate: Thomas Dixon's The clansman: an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan
• Antebellum South: Ulrich Bonnell Phillip's Life and labor in the old South
• Nostalgia for never-never land: Twelve Southerners' I'll take my stand
• Regional inventory: Howard W. Odum's Southern regions of the United States
• Nation within a nation: W. J. Cash's The mind of the South
• Reconstruction to the new freedom: C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South, 1877-1913.

An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to say Taking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle explores the ways that critics evaluate books despite the inherent subjectivity involved, and the uncertainties of reviewing when seemingly anyone can be a reviewer. Drawing on interviews with critics from such venues as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, Phillipa Chong delves into the complexities of the review-writing process, including the considerations, values, and cultural and personal anxieties that shape what critics do. Chong explores how critics are paired with review assignments, why they accept these time-consuming projects, how they view their own qualifications for reviewing certain books, and the criteria they employ when making literary judgments. She discovers that while their readers are of concern to reviewers, they are especially worried about authors on the receiving end of reviews. As these are most likely peers who will be returning similar favors in the future, critics' fears and frustrations factor into their willingness or reluctance to write negative reviews. At a time when traditional review opportunities are dwindling while other forms of reviewing thrive, book reviewing as a professional practice is being brought into question. Inside the Critics' Circle offers readers a revealing look into critics' responses to these massive transitions and how, through their efforts, literary values get made.
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• Introduction
• Epistemic uncertainty. How reviewing works ; Accounting for taste
• Social uncertainty. Reviewing as risky business ; Aim for the stars: punching up, never down
• Institutional uncertainty. I am not a critic ; Do we need book reviews?
• Conclusion

An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to say Taking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle explores the ways that critics evaluate books despite the inherent subjectivity involved, and the uncertainties of reviewing when seemingly anyone can be a reviewer. Drawing on interviews with critics from such venues as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, Phillipa Chong delves into the complexities of the review-writing process, including the considerations, values, and cultural and personal anxieties that shape what critics do. Chong explores how critics are paired with review assignments, why they accept these time-consuming projects, how they view their own qualifications for reviewing certain books, and the criteria they employ when making literary judgments. She discovers that while their readers are of concern to reviewers, they are especially worried about authors on the receiving end of reviews. As these are most likely peers who will be returning similar favors in the future, critics' fears and frustrations factor into their willingness or reluctance to write negative reviews. At a time when traditional review opportunities are dwindling while other forms of reviewing thrive, book reviewing as a professional practice is being brought into question. Inside the Critics' Circle offers readers a revealing look into critics' responses to these massive transitions and how, through their efforts, literary values get made.
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• Callicles and Socrates: Psychic (Dis)harmony in the Gorgias (Raphael Woolf)-- The Methodology of the Second Voyage and the Proof of the Soul's Indestructibility in Plato's Phaedo (Yahei Kanayama)-- Thrasymachus and Definition (T. D. J. Chappell)--Aristotle on Posthumous Fortune (Dominic Scott)--
• Flux and Language in the Theaetetus (Allan Silverman)-- Aristotelian Dialectic and the Discovery of Truth (Marta Wlodarczyk)-- Epicurean Immortality (James Warren)-- Self-Bracketing Pyrrhonism (Luca Castagnoli)-- Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt: A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primaversi, L'Empedocle de Strasbourg (Catherine Osborne)-- Index Locorum.
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. From 2000, OSAP is being published not once but twice yearly, to keep up with the abundance of good material submitted; and it is being made available in paperback as well as hardback, in response to demand from scholars wishing to purchase it. This volume, the first of 2000, features contributors from Britain, America, Europe, and Japan contributing pieces on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, and the recently discovered papyrus text of Empedocles.
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• Heraclitus' Criticism of Ionian Philosophy
• The Theory of Perception in Plato's Theaetetus 152-183
• Movers and Elemental Motions in Aristotle
• Two Conceptions of Hylomorphism in Metaphysics Zeta, Eta, and Theta
• Aristotle on Fair Exchange
• Plato, Aristotle, and the logos ek ton pros ti
• Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic: A Discussion of R. Patterson, Aristotle's Modal Logic
• Reviews
• Index Locorum.
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. 'an excellent periodical' Mary Margaret MacKenzie, Times Literary Supplement 'This ...annual collection ...has become standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy...Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy continues to reflect the vigour of a challenging but vital sub-discipline within Classical Studies and Philosophy.' Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review [NB: please list contents in catalogues and other publicity material.].
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"Faint Praise" takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of book reviewing. Gail Pool, herself an accomplished reviewer and review editor, analyzes the inner workings of this troubled trade to show how it works - and why it so often fails to work well. She reveals why bad reviewing happens despite good intentions and how it is that so many intelligent people who love books can say so many unintelligent things on their behalf. Pool takes readers behind the scenes to describe how editors choose books for review and assign them to reviewers, and she examines the additional roles played by publishers, authors, and readers. In describing the context of reviewing, she reveals a culture with little interest in literature, much antipathy to criticism, and a decided weakness for praise. In dissecting the language of reviews, Pool demonstrates how it often boils down to unbelievable hype. Pool explores the multifaceted world of book reviewing today, contrasting traditional methods of reviewing with alternative book coverage, from Amazon.com to Oprah, and suggesting how the more established practices could be revised. She also explores the divide between service journalism practiced by reviewers versus the alleged high art served up by literary critics - and what this fuzzy boundary between reviewing and criticism really means. "Faint Praise" is a book not just for those who create and review books but also for everyone who loves books. By demystifying this hidden process, pool helps everyone understand how to read reviews - and better decide what to read.
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This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It's not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It's not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It's not designed to give you theory. It's designed specifically to instruct you in the practicalities of the writing process used to create strong, thorough, and potentially bulletproof literature reviews. This book is the culmination of years of research experience. It's also the culmination of several years of teaching writing and critical thinking to doctoral students. Although it began as a tool for doctoral students, it has been expanded to be useful for everyone from senior high school students through doctoral candidates working on developing their first literature review or a larger literature review than they normally develop. It has been created for everyone from academics to new business entrepreneurs with good ideas who are trying to write their first reviews to support the new idea they're proposing.
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An investigation into the art of "Lit Ed-ing". Describing the qualities needed to run the literary pages of the broadsheets, this book recalls the work of literary editors and reviewers over the past 100 years.
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