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The Politics of Denial (ISBN 026213330X) is a book written by psychologists Michael A. Milburn and Sheree D. Conrad and published in 1996 by MIT Press.The authors argue that the political life of a nation often exhibits shared denial of painful realities, and that this phenomenon has its roots in punitive childrearing practices which force children to deny unpleasant truths about their parents.
Mike Milburn (born September 28, 1952) was the Speaker of the House for the Montana 62nd Legislature. He is a Republican representing Cascade County . He has been elected for House District 19 four times since 2005.
Karr won a 1989 Whiting Award for her poetry. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays. Karr has published five volumes of poetry: Abacus (Wesleyan University Press, CT, 1987, in its New Poets series), The Devil's Tour (New Directions NY, 1993, an original TPB), Viper Rum (New Directions NY, 1998, an original TPB), Sinners Welcome ...
Another Chicago Magazine is an American magazine established by Left Field Press, in 1977. [1] [2] [3] Contributors include David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Samantha Irby, Ander Monson, Shelley Jackson, Charles Harper Webb, Maxine Chernoff, Kim Addonizio, Sterling Plumpp, Robin Hemley, David Trinidad, Kathleen Rooney, Kathy Acker, Eve Ewing, and other writers.
The Michael L. Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It is sponsored by Booklist magazine; administered by the ALA's young-adult division, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); and named for the Topeka ...
Maps and Legends is a 2008 collection of sixteen essays by American author Michael Chabon, his first book-length foray into nonfiction. [1] Several of these essays are defenses of the author's work in genre literature (such as science fiction, fantasy, and comics), while others are more autobiographical, explaining how the author came to write several of his most popular works.
Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a 2002 book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholarly editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics".
Milburn states that Tolkien's "Leaf by Niggle" is just such a text, because Niggle's allegorical "journey" signifies death, the "Workhouse" signifies purgatory, and the place Niggle reaches after that is the Earthly Paradise, the place for Tolkien as for Dante of final purification before heaven, Niggle's "mountains". [5]