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Rhymes with Doug
\"When Doug opens a mysterious package, out pops an adorable parrot. His name is Otto, and he talks! Or rather, rhymes--magically! When Otto says, \"mug\" and then \"pug\" a mug and a puppy miraculously appear. But then the rhymes take a topsy-turvy turn and Doug's life goes from everyday to extraordinary\"-- Amazon.com.
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Chasing the Writer
Since the places Lawrence lived exist outside his writing, they are authentic in the sense that they precede representation. Since empirical description represents sensory perception, it seems beyond representation and imbues the non-empirical meanings Lawrence asserts with authenticity. [...]he usually began, and she finished, the task in hand. Lawrence uses the incident to speak as a social critic or, in Dawson's terms, a public intellectual. Because the couple is childless, the narrator assumes that the signore resents his wife's delight in her nephew: \"And the signore felt almost as if she insulted him, by being in such an ecstasy with the baby.
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Parrots prove deadly
When animal psychic Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain an African gray parrot after its owner's death, she discovers that the parrot witnessed its owner's murder, and Pru begins to investigate.
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Locke's Wild Fancies: Empiricism, Personhood, and Fictionality
Lamb discusses several writings on experimental science and the development of fiction, highlighting Francis Bacon and John Locke's related discourses on empiricism, personhood, and fictionality. Specifically, the essay aims to uncover the seed of imagination in the investigation of the real, and to trace from that a forking model of fiction. From a governed fancy flourishes the realist novel, whose principle of verisimilitude is founded upon an imagined but credible picture of of the truth. From a wild fancy, however, spring all those tales of animate things things and intelligent animals that populate the genre of fiction now known as \"it-narratives.\"
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Terrific
Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
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It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender and Friendship in Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals
Carnell discusses the political importance of friendship in the domestic fiction of Eliza Haywood. Haywood used the domestic narrative to express her discontent with the delegation of her work to the domestic sphere.
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Mango, Abuela, and me
\"Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English (\"Dough. Masa\"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories. Then Mia sees a parrot in the pet-shop window and has the perfecto idea for how to help them all communicate a little better. An endearing tale from an award-winning duo that speaks loud and clear about learning new things and the love that bonds family members.\"--Amazon.com.
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Interred Textuality: The Good Soldier and Flaubert's Parrot
Toward the end of Flaubert's Parrot, Dr. Geoffrey Braithwaite ironically concedes his own failure because he has putatively tried to write a book to make sense of his own life. At the novel's conclusion, Braithwaite finds himself unable to say with certainty anything about his own life, his late wife, or his various investigations into the life of Flaubert. Indeed, even the books that had been so important to him no longer provide him with the Positivist assurances that he seeks; nor does his clear distinction between books and life prove tenable. Rather, Flaubert's Parrot, through its complex intertextuality that explores the relation between life and textuality, provides insight into a postmodern world where a stable version neither of history nor of books can be conceded.
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Good morning to me!
\"A picture book about a parrot named Beatrix, who is very awake, very excited to see her friends, and has a very hard time using her 'inside voice'.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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