Day: December 14, 2011

  • James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race,…

  • Dreams of a Life The Arts Desk 2011-12-14 Nick Hasted Carol Morley’s moving documentary brings a dead woman lost in London back to life The decontamination squad scraped the remains of 38-year-old ex-City professional Joyce Vincent from her seat, in front of a TV which had flickered unseen for three years. They took her wrapped…

  • An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum Metrowest Daily News Framingham, Massachusetts 2011-12-12 Chris Bergeron, Daily News Staff WORCESTER—Forget the da Vinci Code. There’s no Knight Templars or murderous albinos, but the life and death of Julien Hudson and the whereabouts of his paintings is a fascinating “art historical mystery’’ waiting to be solved.…

  • Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington A Special Session Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time) Room 6A, WSCC Presiding: Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Speakers: Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English and…

  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…