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Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy - Teaching Viewing and Representing (Hardcover): Fei Victor Lim, Lydia Tan-Chia Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy - Teaching Viewing and Representing (Hardcover)
Fei Victor Lim, Lydia Tan-Chia
R4,066 Discovery Miles 40 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy addresses the need to design learning for multimodal literacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with print and digital media. In the current age, communication and interactions on social media are seldom made with language alone but are often accompanied with emojis, images, and videos, making meanings multimodally. Young people, including children, are also increasingly active in making videos of themselves, their ideas, and their experiences as part of their out-of-school literacy activities. In particular, for language teachers, the present shifts in our world require that teachers re-examine what they teach and how they can meaningfully and effectively teach the students in their classes today. At 8 years old, Alden created his own rap music video and shared it with the world. He wrote his own lyrics and set it against the music he remixed and meshed from a music download site. Alden is in your classroom today. As his teacher, what would you teach him? How would you engage him? Alden, and children like him, is the inspiration for why the authors have written this book. The changing times and changing learners place a demand on educators to continually reflect on what and how teachers are teaching their students - to ensure that learning in school remains relevant, relatable, and prepares them for the world of the future. Lim's book outlines how teachers can design learning for multimodal literacy. It is a result of a collaboration between an educational researcher and a curriculum developer, and offers practical resources for practitioners but also design principles and considerations based on practice with a range of students to inform and inspire academics and postgraduate students. It is poised to contribute to the global conversation and interest on how educators can reflect on the zeitgeist of the digital age and design learning for multimodal literacy.

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy - Teaching Viewing and Representing (Paperback): Fei Victor Lim, Lydia Tan-Chia Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy - Teaching Viewing and Representing (Paperback)
Fei Victor Lim, Lydia Tan-Chia
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy addresses the need to design learning for multimodal literacy in a world that is increasingly saturated with print and digital media. In the current age, communication and interactions on social media are seldom made with language alone but are often accompanied with emojis, images, and videos, making meanings multimodally. Young people, including children, are also increasingly active in making videos of themselves, their ideas, and their experiences as part of their out-of-school literacy activities. In particular, for language teachers, the present shifts in our world require that teachers re-examine what they teach and how they can meaningfully and effectively teach the students in their classes today. At 8 years old, Alden created his own rap music video and shared it with the world. He wrote his own lyrics and set it against the music he remixed and meshed from a music download site. Alden is in your classroom today. As his teacher, what would you teach him? How would you engage him? Alden, and children like him, is the inspiration for why the authors have written this book. The changing times and changing learners place a demand on educators to continually reflect on what and how teachers are teaching their students - to ensure that learning in school remains relevant, relatable, and prepares them for the world of the future. Lim's book outlines how teachers can design learning for multimodal literacy. It is a result of a collaboration between an educational researcher and a curriculum developer, and offers practical resources for practitioners but also design principles and considerations based on practice with a range of students to inform and inspire academics and postgraduate students. It is poised to contribute to the global conversation and interest on how educators can reflect on the zeitgeist of the digital age and design learning for multimodal literacy.

Technology in Second Language Writing - Advances in Composing, Translation, Writing Pedagogy and Data-Driven Learning... Technology in Second Language Writing - Advances in Composing, Translation, Writing Pedagogy and Data-Driven Learning (Hardcover)
Jingjing Qin, Paul Stapleton
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume showcases state-of-the-art research in technological applications in second language writing. It examines multimodal composing, digital feedback, data-driven learning, machine translation, and technological applications in writing pedagogy. Technology in Second Language Writing reflects the rapidly changing field of technology in second language learning and highlights technological advances across different areas relevant to L2 writing. Composed of empirical studies, reviews, and descriptive essays, this book covers a variety of topics across the areas of composing, pedagogy, and writing research. It includes discussion of computer-mediated communication, language learners' perceptions about using technology in their writing, the use of social media in writing, corpus learning, translation software, and the use of electronic feedback in language classrooms. Offering a multifaceted approach to technology in a wide variety of second language writing contexts, this cutting-edge book serves as essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students in the field of language teaching, applied linguistics, and TESOL.

Pandemic of Perspectives - Creative Re-imaginings (Hardcover): Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty Pandemic of Perspectives - Creative Re-imaginings (Hardcover)
Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty
R4,088 Discovery Miles 40 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. It sheds light on how the pandemic has exposed the inequities in society and is shaping social institutions, affecting human relationships, and creating new norms with each passing day. It examines how people from diverse societies and fields of work have come to conceptualise and imagine a new world order based on the principles of social and ecological justice, care, and human dignity. It prioritises the realm of imagination, creativity, and affect in understanding social formations and in shaping societies beyond the positivist approaches. Documenting the myriad experiences and responses to the pandemic, the volume foregrounds varied processes of making meaning; understanding impulses, resistances, and coping mechanisms; and building solidarities. Further, it also acts as a tool of memory for future generations, and articulations- artistic, political, socio-cultural, scientific- of hope and perseverance. This spectrum of expressions intends to value visceral experiences, build solidarities, and find solace in art. Its uniqueness lies in the way it brings together a much-needed interface between science, social sciences, and humanities. A compelling account on our contemporary lives, the volume will be of great interest to scholars of sociology and social anthropology, politics, art and aesthetics, psychology, social work, literature, health, and medical sciences.

Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Zoltan... Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Zoltan Doernyei, Jean-Marc Dewaele
R4,068 Discovery Miles 40 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new edition is thoroughly updated to reflect developments in the field and with recent example studies that focus on considerations, challenges, and opportunities raised at all stages of the research process by online questionnaires. There is also expanded, detailed guidance on how to use the IRIS database and how to clean, process, and analyze questionnaire data prior to determining and reporting findings.

The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children (Hardcover): Susan Grohs Iwamura The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children (Hardcover)
Susan Grohs Iwamura
R2,947 Discovery Miles 29 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1980 The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children states that in the course of acquiring language, every child recognizes that verbal interaction is a powerful tool which can be used to interpret and manipulate the world. During the last previous two decades developments in the study of both language acquisition and linguistic theory had begun to illustrate that the acquisition of a first language involves considerably more than the mere learning of grammatical structure. This view of learning had led researchers gradually to see children as more than grammarians devising grammatical constructs. The tendency at the time was to see the child as an active partner in what are essentially games of communication and invention during which the rules of usage as well as the rules of grammar are discovered. This study is based on extensive and detailed observation of the verbal interaction of two pre-school children, and as such offers far-reaching ideas and conclusions concerning the manner in which all children determine the role of language in their lives, whilst simultaneously learning how to piece it together.

Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Paperback, 3rd edition): Zoltan... Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Zoltan Doernyei, Jean-Marc Dewaele
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new edition is thoroughly updated to reflect developments in the field and with recent example studies that focus on considerations, challenges, and opportunities raised at all stages of the research process by online questionnaires. There is also expanded, detailed guidance on how to use the IRIS database and how to clean, process, and analyze questionnaire data prior to determining and reporting findings.

The Languages of COVID-19 - Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare (Hardcover): Piotr Blumczynski,... The Languages of COVID-19 - Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare (Hardcover)
Piotr Blumczynski, Steven Wilson
R4,079 Discovery Miles 40 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Showcases an agile humanities response to one of the most pressing challenges of contemporary times. Demonstrates truly global understandings of the pandemic through linguistic, cultural and translational encounters beyond the Anglosphere. Covers over 100 countries, 20 languages and a rich diversity of source material (press conferences, political speeches, interviews, journalism, literature, graphic art, social media and data visualisations). Underpinned by an ethos of inclusion, collaboration and cross-disciplinarity; features work by leading scholars from across the world. Has implications for future pandemic responses, at cultural, societal, political and policy levels.

Social Spaces and the Public Sphere - A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala (Hardcover): S. Harikrishnan Social Spaces and the Public Sphere - A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala (Hardcover)
S. Harikrishnan
R4,077 Discovery Miles 40 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores through a study of modern Kerala. Using archival material, discourse analysis, participant observation, and personal interviews, this book traces the transformation of public spaces through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on how "modernity" has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading rooms, and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies-caste, class, or capital-have been challenged. It suggests that the secular public sphere that emerged in the last century in Kerala was a result of the constant negotiations between conflicting ideas which were put to test in these social spaces. At a time when digital spaces are fast replacing physical ones, this book is a timely reminder of the struggles that led to the emergence of secular public spaces in Kerala. It contributes to similar studies on public space that have emerged from other parts of the world over the last decades. A major contribution to understanding modern India, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of social history, political science, political sociology, gender studies, linguistics, and South Asian studies.

English with an Accent - Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States (Paperback, 3rd edition): Rusty Barrett,... English with an Accent - Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, Kevin B. Mcgowan
R1,428 Discovery Miles 14 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Controversial and accessible, this book is popular with lecturers and students alike as it enthuses and inspires engagement with pertinent and contemporary language discrimination issues. Features discussion questions and exercises which supports learning and engagement of students with the material covered. Supported with a companion website that features extra exercises, audio files and YouTube clips which provides an interactive experience for students and brings the material in the book alive.

Content Strategy - A How-to Guide (Hardcover): Guiseppe Getto, Jack T. Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz Content Strategy - A How-to Guide (Hardcover)
Guiseppe Getto, Jack T. Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

-A comprehensive text for students and professionals on an essential and emerging area of knowledge and skills for today's technical communication professions -Covers a growing area of focus for the field of technical communication, with relevance to digital marketing, social media publishing, and other professional fields -The first core textbook in this area designed to cover a full range of content strategy skills and practices

Reading Success in the Early Primary Years - A Teacher's Guide to Implementing Systematic Instruction (Paperback): Jocelyn... Reading Success in the Early Primary Years - A Teacher's Guide to Implementing Systematic Instruction (Paperback)
Jocelyn Seamer
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

*A step-by-step guide which leads teachers through the process of teaching children to read. *An accessibly written, research-based resource that teachers can pick up and get on with teaching. *Written by an experienced classroom teacher for teachers.

Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength. - A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022 (Paperback, Expanded Edition): Andrew T. Le... Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength. - A Narrative History of InterVarsity Press, 1947-2022 (Paperback, Expanded Edition)
Andrew T. Le Peau, Linda Doll, Albert Y Hsu, Jeff Crosby, Robert A. Fryling
R577 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Some publishers tell you what to believe. Other publishers tell you what you already believe. But InterVarsity Press helps you believe." J. I. Packer The history of evangelicalism cannot be understood apart from the authors and books that shaped it. Over the past century, leading figures such as pastor-scholar John Stott, apologist James W. Sire, evangelist Rebecca Manley Pippert and spiritual formation writer Eugene Peterson helped generations of readers to think more biblically and engage the world around them. For many who take their Christianity seriously, books that equip them for a life of faith have frequently come from one influential publisher: InterVarsity Press. Andy Le Peau and Linda Doll provide a narrative history of InterVarsity Press, from its origins as the literature division of a campus ministry to its place as a prominent Christian publishing house. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the stories, people, and events that made IVP what it is today. Recording good times and bad, celebrations and challenges, they place IVP in its historical context and demonstrate its contribution to the academy, church and world. In honor of IVP's seventy-fifth anniversary, senior editor Al Hsu has updated this edition with new content, bringing the story up to 2022 and including stories about contemporary authors such as Esau McCaulley and Tish Harrison Warren. As IVP continues to adapt to changes in publishing and the global context, the mission of publishing thoughtful Christian books has not changed. IVP stands as a model of integrative Christianity for the whole person-heart, soul, mind and strength.

Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) - Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and... Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) - Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers (Hardcover, New edition)
Beatrice Schuchardt, Christian Von Tschilschke
R1,457 Discovery Miles 14 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople and similar 'protagonists of production' take before it became the subject of negative assessments in the epoch of industrialization? Focusing on the European Enlightenment movement with a special emphasis on Spain, this volume sheds light on how both male and female figures working in production are represented by novels, plays, economic tracts and in the press. Literary scholars, historians, and economists analyse how those portrayals are related to the history of economic thought, 18th-century economic discourse, and enlightened Political Economy. With an epilogue by Deirdre McCloskey.

Dimensiones del exilio en el teatro de Jorge Diaz (Hardcover, New edition): Anna Werman Dimensiones del exilio en el teatro de Jorge Diaz (Hardcover, New edition)
Anna Werman
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

El libro investiga el funcionamiento dramatico del exilio exterior e interior en una seleccion de diecisiete obras teatrales de Jorge Diaz. Se establecen vinculos entre el contenido y la estructura de cuatro elementos que constituyen el microcosmos de una obra teatral: accion, personaje, tiempo y espacio. Cabe destacar que estas categorias mantienen una serie de relaciones sintagmaticas y paradigmaticas, asi como presentan diferentes grados de semantizacion que, en casos extremos, llegan incluso a la tematizacion. Ademas, la estructura espaciotemporal presenta una construccion dialectica que remite a las consecuencias sociologicas y psicoanaliticas del exilio o insilio, tales como la marginalizacion, provisionalidad, falta de pertenencia, perdida masiva de objetos, entre otros.

The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain (Hardcover): Agustin Ibanez, Adolfo M. Garcia The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain (Hardcover)
Agustin Ibanez, Adolfo M. Garcia
R5,961 Discovery Miles 59 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Its various chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals. This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology.

Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication (Hardcover): Isabella Poggi, Francesca D. Errico Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication (Hardcover)
Isabella Poggi, Francesca D. Errico
R4,083 Discovery Miles 40 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Examines fragments of real multimodal communication, which provides insights on the universal mechanisms and devices of power and social influence * Enhances the readers awareness of how people may use multimodal communication to achieve and maintain power, and of how, by their own body, they may influence others and defend themselves from their influence, making this essential reading for students and academics * Refers to a variety of contexts in which communication is used and adapted, including in everyday life, at work, at school, and in politics to show the similarities and differences in these environments

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development - A Guide for Research (Hardcover): Philip Durrant Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development - A Guide for Research (Hardcover)
Philip Durrant
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

*Combines the author's own cutting edge research in writing development with a 'how to' guidebook approach, making it the complete package for students starting out in this area of research. *Cross-disciplinary market of students of both Education and Applied Linguistics in areas of Language Acquisition and Language and Literacy. Requires no background in Corpus Linguistics as it walks students through the basics. *The first book to combine research in this area with an activity-based approach- none of the competition demonstrates how to put theories and methods into practice like ours does.

A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry I (Paperback): Lin Geng A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry I (Paperback)
Lin Geng; Contributions by Xiaolu An
R2,552 Discovery Miles 25 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language, and diverse styles constitute great literature in itself, as well as a rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set constitutes a classic analysis of Tang poetry in the "Golden Age" of Chinese poetry (618-907 CE). In this volume, the author provides a general understanding of poetry in the "High Tang" era from a range of perspectives. Starting with an indepth discussion of the Romantic tradition and historical context, the author focuses on poetic language patterns, Youth Spirit, maturity symbols, and prototypes of poetry. The author demonstrates that the most valuable part of Tang poetry is how it can provide people with a new perspective on every aspect of life. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, and students of Chinese literature and especially of classical Chinese poetry. People interested in Chinese culture more widely will also benefit from this book.

A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry II (Paperback): Lin Geng A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry II (Paperback)
Lin Geng; Contributions by Xiaolu An
R1,299 Discovery Miles 12 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language and diverse styles constitute great Literature in itself, as well as a rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set constitutes a classic analysis of Tang poetry in the "Golden Age" of Chinese poetry (618-907 CE). This volume focuses on the prominent Tang poets and poems. Beginning with an introduction to the "four greatest poets"-Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, and Bai Juyi-the author discusses their subjects, language, influence, and key works. The volume also includes essays on a dozen of masterpieces of Tang poetry, categorized by topics such as love and friendship, aspirations and seclusion, as well as travelling and nostalgia. As the author stresses, Tang poetry is worth rereading because it makes us invigorate our mental wellbeing, leaving it powerful and full of vitality. This book will appeal to researchers and students of Chinese literature, especially of classical Chinese poetry. People interested in Chinese culture will also benefit from the book.

Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Hardcover): Naomi Gurevich,... Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Hardcover)
Naomi Gurevich, Christopher Grindrod
R4,077 Discovery Miles 40 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

*Provides a foundational understanding of linguistics as it applies to spoken and signed languages. *Covers numerous linguistic disciplines such as phonetics, semantics and sociolinguistics. *Makes linguistic theory accessible to speech-language pathologists. *Highlights the importance of integrating linguistic frameworks into clinical decision-making.

Teaching and Reading New Adult Literature in High School and College (Paperback): Sharon Kane Teaching and Reading New Adult Literature in High School and College (Paperback)
Sharon Kane
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An introduction to the rapidly growing category of New Adult (NA) literature, this text provides a roadmap to understanding and introducing NA books to young people in high school, college, libraries, and other settings. As a window into the experiences and unique challenges that young and new adults encounter, New Adult literature intersects with but is distinct from Young Adult literature. This rich resource provides a framework, methods, and plentiful reading recommendations by genre, theme, and discipline on New Adult literature. Starting with a definition of New Adult literature, Kane demonstrates how the inclusion of NA literature helps support and encourage a love of reading. Chapters address important topics that are relevant to young people, including post-high school life, early careers, relationships, activism, and social change. Each chapter features text sets, instructional strategies, writing prompts, and activities to invite and encourage young people to be reflective and engaged in responding to thought-provoking texts. A welcome text for professors of literacy and literature instruction, first-year college instructors, researchers, librarians, and educators, this book provides new ways to assist students as they embark upon the next stage of their lives and is essential reading for courses on teaching literature.

Southernizing Sociolinguistics - Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Hardcover): Bassey E.... Southernizing Sociolinguistics - Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Language in the Global South (Hardcover)
Bassey E. Antia, Sinfree Makoni
R4,087 Discovery Miles 40 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on Southern epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South. This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, critical race and ethnic studies, and philosophy of knowledge.

Teaching and Reading New Adult Literature in High School and College (Hardcover): Sharon Kane Teaching and Reading New Adult Literature in High School and College (Hardcover)
Sharon Kane
R4,080 Discovery Miles 40 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An introduction to the rapidly growing category of New Adult (NA) literature, this text provides a roadmap to understanding and introducing NA books to young people in high school, college, libraries, and other settings. As a window into the experiences and unique challenges that young and new adults encounter, New Adult literature intersects with but is distinct from Young Adult literature. This rich resource provides a framework, methods, and plentiful reading recommendations by genre, theme, and discipline on New Adult literature. Starting with a definition of New Adult literature, Kane demonstrates how the inclusion of NA literature helps support and encourage a love of reading. Chapters address important topics that are relevant to young people, including post-high school life, early careers, relationships, activism, and social change. Each chapter features text sets, instructional strategies, writing prompts, and activities to invite and encourage young people to be reflective and engaged in responding to thought-provoking texts. A welcome text for professors of literacy and literature instruction, first-year college instructors, researchers, librarians, and educators, this book provides new ways to assist students as they embark upon the next stage of their lives and is essential reading for courses on teaching literature.

Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudere - Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Epoque (Hardcover): Sharon Larson Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudere - Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Epoque (Hardcover)
Sharon Larson
R2,677 Discovery Miles 26 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudere (nee Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Epoque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudere adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands-and how she created and profited from controversy. Relatively unknown today, La Vaudere published more than forty novels, poetry collections, and dramatic works as well as hundreds of shorter pieces. A controversial figure who was known as a plagiarist, La Vaudere attracted the attention of the public and of her peers, who caricatured her in literary periodicals and romans a clef. Most notably, La Vaudere claimed to have written the Reve d'Egypte pantomime, whose 1907 production at the Moulin Rouge featured a kiss between Missy and Colette that led to riots and the suspension of future performances. Larson scrutinizes the ensemble of these various media constructions, privileging La Vaudere's self-representation in interviews and advertisements, and brings to light her agency in creating an image that captivated public attention and boosted sales of her writings. An engrossing examination of La Vaudere's life and work, this volume probes the quandaries of scholarship seeking to responsibly recover lost female voices and makes a long-overdue contribution to nineteenth-century French literary studies.

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