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Title
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Life in the sunshine and other short stories.
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Creator
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James, Elisabeth S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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Language: the sounds of it, the richness of its rhythms, the connotative and the denotative meanings of words have all played a part in my development from a child to the adult I have become making a life for myself. Whether the words I heard flew like fiery darts, or whether they lifted my weary soul, I somehow always found they meant something to special me. Because of my love of language, I began early to read voraciously. The first novel that I read was Gone with the Wind. That story...
Show moreLanguage: the sounds of it, the richness of its rhythms, the connotative and the denotative meanings of words have all played a part in my development from a child to the adult I have become making a life for myself. Whether the words I heard flew like fiery darts, or whether they lifted my weary soul, I somehow always found they meant something to special me. Because of my love of language, I began early to read voraciously. The first novel that I read was Gone with the Wind. That story whisked my imagination to a dark and mysterious time and place that, along with the narrative powers of my mother, convinced me that Margaret Mitchell had recreated a real world from her imagination. I still have my own dream that there is a mysterious and hidden world waiting for me to recreate out of my imagination, too.
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Date Issued
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2013
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360804
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Subject Headings
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Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American
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Format
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Document (PDF)
