" A life of loneliness and oddity": Freaks, Alienation, and the consoling power of narrative in Lewis Nordon's fiction
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The book, 'A Life of Loneliness and Oddity', is described as the work of Nordon Lewis. His texts show that unrelieved isolation can lead to despair, alcoholism, madness, suicide, or even the creation of an individual as thoroughly depraved as Wolf Whistle's solon Gregg.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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A conversation with John M. Barry
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John M. Barry feels his political writing attempts to explore how power works in a democracy. Other themes include the power and ambition of the press, legislators' lack of courage, and how issues change but the political process in Washington, D.C., remains unchanged.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2001
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Southern camp (sites): Florida's vernacular spaces from John Ruskin to the Tin Can Tourists of the world
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The Florida architectural vernacular is reconceived as the negotiation of the spatial paradoxes found in camps. Camping is thus repetition with a difference in the overall sequence and thus events can overlap or occur simultaneously.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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