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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 9780821416440
Pages : 593 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (821 users)

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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0813914388
Pages : 436 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (914 users)

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The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
ISBN 10 : 9780817320782
Pages : 318 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (817 users)

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Download The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Paul Laurence Dunbar Full Free and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals Paul Laurence Dunbar (1873–1906) was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and appreciation. Scholars have taken a renewed interest in Dunbar but much is still unknown about this once-famous African American author’s life and literary efforts. Dunbar’s letters to various editors, friends, benefactors, scholars, and family members are crucial to any critical or theoretical understanding of his journey as a writer. His literary correspondence, in particular, records the development of an extraordinary figure whose work reached a broad readership in his lifetime, but not without considerable cost. The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a collection of 250 letters, transcribed and annotated, that reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals. Editors Cynthia C. Murillo and Jennifer M. Nader highlight Dunbar not just as a determined author and master of rhetoric, but also as a young, sensitive, thoughtful, keenly intelligent, and talented writer who battled depression, alcoholism, and tuberculosis as well as rejection and racism. Despite Dunbar’s personal struggles, his literary letters disclose that he was full of hopes and dreams coupled with the resolve to flourish as a writer—at almost any cost, even when it caused controversy. Taken together, Dunbar’s letters depict his concerted effort to succeed as an author within an overtly racist literary culture, among sharp divides within the African American intellectual community, and in opposition to the demands of popular public tastes—often dictated by the demands of publishers. This wide-ranging selection of Dunbar’s most relevant literary letters will serve to correct many matters of conjecture about Dunbar’s life, writing, and choices by supplying factual evidence to counter speculation, assumption, and incomplete information.

The Collected Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : OCLC:610967531
Pages : 107 pages
Rating : 4.:/5 (61 users)

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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-30
ISBN 10 : 1979204284
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (24 users)

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Download The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Paul Laurence Dunbar Full Free and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think I should scarcely trouble the reader with a special appeal in behalf of this book, if it had not specially appealed to me for reasons apart from the author's race, origin, and condition. The world is too old now, and I find myself too much of its mood, to care for the work of a poet because he is black, because his father and mother were slaves, because he was, before and after he began to write poems, an elevator-boy. These facts would certainly attract me to him as a man, if I knew him to have a literary ambition, but when it came to his literary art, I must judge it irrespective of these facts, and enjoy or endure it for what it was in itself.

The Selected Short Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2022-02-08
ISBN 10 : 9781528793124
Pages : 506 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (528 users)

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Download The Selected Short Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Paul Laurence Dunbar Full Free and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the start of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave parents, Dunbar began writing at a very early age and had published his first poems by the age of 16 in a local newspaper. Much of his work was written in the "African-American Vernacular" associated with the antebellum South, although he also employed conventional English in his novels and poems. Dunbar was among the first African-American writers to garner international acclaim for their work. This volume contains a collection of Dunbar's best short stories, originally published in three books. “Folks from Dixie” (1898) comprises 12 stories and was Dunbar's first collection, as well as the first volume of short stories ever published in the United States by an African American. “The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories” (1899) was Dunbar's second collection, including 20 short stories. Originally published in 1904, “The Heart of Happy Hollow” contains sixteen short stories that explore African American life post-Civil War. A fantastic collection of powerful tales that offer a unique glimpse into the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century. Other notable works by this author include: “Oak and Ivy” (1892), “Majors and Minors” (1896), and “Lyrics of Lowly Life” (1896). Read & Co. Classics is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic short stories now complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author and original illustrations by E. W. Kemble.

Dividing Lines

Author : Andreá N. Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-01-02
ISBN 10 : 9780472118618
Pages : 233 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (472 users)

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
ISBN 10 : 9780691235158
Pages : 504 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (691 users)

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Download Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Gene Andrew Jarrett Full Free and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.

7 Best Short Stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Tacet Books
Release Date : 2019-10-30
ISBN 10 : 9788577775545
Pages : 77 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (577 users)

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Download 7 Best Short Stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Paul Laurence Dunbar Full Free and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Scapegoat. - One Christmas At Shiloh. - The Mission Of Mr. Scatters. - A Matter Of Doctrine. - Old Abe's Conversion. - The Race Question. - A Defender Of The Faith.

The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1971
ISBN 10 : CORNELL:31924022008589
Pages : 430 pages
Rating : 4.E/5 ( users)

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The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 0821418599
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (418 users)

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The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism

Author : Keith Newlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9780190642907
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (19 users)

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Download The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism PDF by Keith Newlin Full Free and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it a period, usually placed as occurring after the Civil War and concluding somewhere around the onset of World War I? This volume aims to widen the scope of study beyond mere definition, however, by expanding the boundaries of the subject through essays that reconsider and enlarge upon such questions. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism aims to take stock of the scholarly work in the area and map out paths for future directions of study. The Handbook offers 35 vibrant and original essays of new interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. Contributors here tease out the workings of a particular concept through a variety of authors and their cultural contexts. A set of essays explores realism's genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts--poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film--and to pedagogic issues in the teaching of realism. As a whole, this volume forges exciting new paths in the study of realism and writers' unending labor to represent life accurately.

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-05-11
ISBN 10 : 9781473370302
Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (473 users)

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Download The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar PDF by Paul Laurence Dunbar Full Free and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the turn of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave parents, Dunbar began writing at a very early age and had even published his first poems by the age of 16 in a local newspaper. Much of his work was written in the "African-American Vernacular" associated with the antebellum South, although he also employed conventional English in his novels and poems. Dunbar was among the first African-American writers to garner international acclaim for their work. This volume contains a complete collection of Dunbar's powerful poetry, presented here in a brand new edition for the enjoyment of a new generation. A fantastic collection of powerful poetry that offers a unique glimpse into the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century. Highly recommended for those interested in African-American history and literature. Other notable works by this author include: "Oak and Ivy" (1892), "Majors and Minors" (1896), and "Lyrics of Lowly Life" (1896). Ragged Hand is proudly republishing this classic collection of poetry, complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Containing His Complete Poetical Works, His Best Short Stories, Numerous Anecdotes and a Complete Biograph

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Release Date : 2017-08-24
ISBN 10 : 137627910X
Pages : 438 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (279 users)

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The Best Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1938
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015008044227
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (39 users)

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Writing America

Author : Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-11
ISBN 10 : 9780813576008
Pages : 399 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (813 users)

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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9781628467550
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (628 users)

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