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Eleanor A. Daniel is a retired professor and minister. She knew from the first grade that she wanted to be a teacher. During high school, she felt the Spirit directing that desire toward the teaching ministry of the church. She followed this leading that led in unexpected directions, even to the shadow of the Kremlin. She taught for two years in a church kindergarten and forty years in higher education. She has served as education minister, children's pastor, youth minister, and minister of adult education in congregations in Illinois, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee for twenty years....

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the “English elegy” to English and Anglo-American Modernist contemporary poets. Perry examines how these genealogical constructions operate as a means of framing which guides interpretation. This book argues that they reflect a necropoetics – a system of principles, precepts and techniques which serve to establish and maintain ideas about whose lives are worthy of being mourned publicly and whose losses matter. Examining elegies that challenge...

The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art world. Today he is recognized as a highly influential founding father of modern art, who emphasized the use of flat planes and bright, nonnaturalistic color in conjunction with symbolic or primitive subjects. Familiarity with Gauguin the writer is essential for a complete understanding of the artist. The Writings of a Savage collects the very best of his letters, articles, books, and...