Bandon Public Library

Mrs. Dalloway: With a masterful interplay of past and present, Woolf captures a single day in one woman's life. As Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway makes arrangements for a party, she remembers her youth, considers the crushing effects of the Great War, and reexamines the reasons behind her practical marriage. In getting ready to welcome her guests, Clarissa also prepares to face the next stage of her life. Now in her 50s, she begins to consider the changes...

Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist...