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Working-Class Identity in Glaswegian Literature (Paperback): Anita Sikora Working-Class Identity in Glaswegian Literature (Paperback)
Anita Sikora
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book provides an overview of major works in 20th century Glasgow literature presenting fundamental changes in the way of working-class people saw and see themselves. The works analysed, written exclusively by writers from within the working classes, employ various narrative techniques to convey the changing perception of working-people themselves in a century that saw many fundamental social changes. Formalist methods of analysing these narrative methods combined with a detailed presentation of the cultural background make sure that the reader is kept informed and engaged throughout. The focus is on works by such influential writers as James Kelman and Alasdair Gray, but short stories by less known authors make this book also a starting point for further research.

Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling - A Dynamic Tool for Improving Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum... Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling - A Dynamic Tool for Improving Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum through Oral Language Development (Paperback, New)
Brian "Fox" Ellis
R1,598 Discovery Miles 15 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through a balance of pedagogy and practice, Ellis gives teachers the skills and confidence they need to become better storytellers. The book includes dozens of great stories and classroom-tested lesson plans to help students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. With better reading skills, students' ability to learn content will also improve. By telling their own stories students will also learn creative writing strategies.

The preface and introduction recount current research, while providing inspiration for teachers to learn and tell stories. Each subsequent chapter explores one content area, Reading, Math, Science, etc. There is also a series of interdisciplinary units. What makes this project unique is that each chapter offers several exciting, easy-to-learn stories and reproducible pages for a ready-to-use handouts. Lesson plans include detailed strategies for their application, as well as links to national learning standards. Grades K-6

Puppet Plays Plus - Using Stock Characters to Entertain and Teach Early Literacy (Paperback): Laura L Iakovakis Puppet Plays Plus - Using Stock Characters to Entertain and Teach Early Literacy (Paperback)
Laura L Iakovakis
R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Join Piggy Rae and her silly friends Bernie Bear, Tommy Turtle, Alistair McMoose and others in these engaging and interactive puppet skits that encourage both laughter and learning. This guide gives you everything you need for lively storytimes. In addition to ten complete scripts, you'll find literacy tips, preparatory checklists of materials and props needed, patterns, lists of books for literacy building displays, activities that relate to the story and promote early literacy, and take-home reproducibles for caregivers that help them reinforce the six early literacy skills. Designed for PreK-Grade 3, the puppet plays are perfect for in-house storytime settings and for community outreach projects. Grades PreK-3.

Performing the Trauma of History (Paperback): Mei-Yu Tsai Performing the Trauma of History (Paperback)
Mei-Yu Tsai
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although new historical scholarship on trauma has expressed great interest in exploring the role of metaphor and modernist figurative language in writing about trauma, there has so far been relatively little systematic scrutiny of the links between modernist aesthetics and the shocking and unresolved nature of traumatic history. This book, therefore, seeks to remark on a modernist vision of history as trauma shared by both Freud and modernist writers. Bringing a historical vision to modernism and reading modernist literature as a literature of trauma, this book aims to show that the mad and schizophrenic nature of modernist narrative has both aesthetic and historical justification. Such a reading helps add a historical dimension to modernist stylistic devices in which modernist writers employ a peculiar form of non-linearity and a circular textual referentiality to represent history through the symptomology of trauma. This book will be particularly useful to professionals in modern literature and trauma studies, or anyone else who is interested in reading literature against/with history.

Women's Freedom of Choice in Marge Piercy's Three Women (Paperback): Ginger Huei-Chen Yang Women's Freedom of Choice in Marge Piercy's Three Women (Paperback)
Ginger Huei-Chen Yang
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reading Peter Handke (Paperback): Margaret Jones Reading Peter Handke (Paperback)
Margaret Jones
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom and Liberty in Book II of Thomas More's Utopia (Paperback): Gabor Rados Freedom and Liberty in Book II of Thomas More's Utopia (Paperback)
Gabor Rados
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thomas More finished writing his Utopia originally in Latin in 1516. This scholarly masterpiece describes an imaginary society in two separate books, together with its various social-political institutions and everyday customs. Through the words of the experienced and over-intelligent sailor, Raphael Hythloday, we have the opportunity to get a profound insight into the mechanisms of the lives of the Utopians in a way that, even from the remoteness of almost five hundred years, it tells us something immensely fundamental about the constantly changing nature of human affairs. In the present book we endeavor to have a closer look upon the characteristics of political freedom in the Utopian society, besides continually being aware of the fact that this very concept has undergone the most influential and diverse interpretations ever since More's own time. Bearing this in mind, our ultimate aim with the book is to continue More's own belief to go on with the neverending struggle to find the optimal condition of man.

The English Picaresque Tradition - Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Paperback): Birgit OEllerer-Einboeck The English Picaresque Tradition - Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Birgit OEllerer-Einboeck
R2,017 Discovery Miles 20 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book concentrates on the main question regarding the picaresque novel: What is a picaresque novel? Since generations of scholars have come to no agreement the author uses a working definition. The (Spanish) forefathers of the genre provide the basis for the real point of interest, viz. the neglected, partly even forgotten early European picaresque works. These books are discussed with regard to similarities and differences, the working definition of the picaresque novel being the main point of reference at all times. The analysis of these works focuses on the following questions: Can the distinctive features of the picaresque be applied and how has the picaresque novel changed throughout the years? This book aims at those people who show a profound interest in the picaresque phenomenon, from its very beginnings to the eighteenth century. The author, of course, is very well aware of the fact that the phenomenon does not end in the eighteenth century but the classics of Defoe, Fielding and Smollett seemed to be the perfect works to round off this very personal picture of the picaresque novel.

Teaching Grammar Through Literature - A Task-based Approach (Paperback): Eva Jonizs Grajczarikne Teaching Grammar Through Literature - A Task-based Approach (Paperback)
Eva Jonizs Grajczarikne
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book aims at investigating whether teaching literature and teaching grammar can be integrated in second language teaching. In the literature review part of the work the first aim is to provide a summary of the studies that have dealt with the questions of why literature and grammar should be taught in the language classroom and especially how teachers should teach them. Since there is hardly any literature on how these two areas can be integrated, the aim is to find those points where the two language teaching areas can be combined. In the second part of the book four activities are introduced to show possible ways how theory can be put into practice in the language classroom. They are also implemented and, as the results show, they are regarded by the students as effective and motivating ways of teaching grammar through literature. The work should help shed some light on this new and exciting teaching area, and should be specially useful to teachers of English who may consider utilizing teaching grammar for teaching literature.

Writing for Educators - Personal Essays and Practical Advice (Paperback, New): Karen Bromley Writing for Educators - Personal Essays and Practical Advice (Paperback, New)
Karen Bromley
R1,568 Discovery Miles 15 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published. The essays focus on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. The authors are educators who share their own first-hand experiences that provide novice writers with important knowledge and support in the quest for success in professional scholarly writing. A variety of authors discuss the writer's craft, including issues of voice, audience, planning, drafting, revision, conventions, style, submitting to journals, editorial review, and editing.

The Silence of the Suffering Body (Paperback): Ellinor Bent Dalbye The Silence of the Suffering Body (Paperback)
Ellinor Bent Dalbye
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Wild(e) Society (Paperback): Alexandra Kienzl A Wild(e) Society (Paperback)
Alexandra Kienzl
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mnemotechnics and Virgil (Paperback): Elizabeth-Anne Scarth Mnemotechnics and Virgil (Paperback)
Elizabeth-Anne Scarth
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cicero, Quintilian and the anonymous author of the ad Herennium each describe the art and practice of using an artificial memory system to help aid remembrance. Each of the authors' respective treatises offers an exploration of how both loci (places) and imagines (images) were used to facilitate remembrance of both res (things) and verba (words). The methods delineated by each author provide valuable insight into the visual process, used by educated Romans to retrieve and recall information stored in their memories. By understanding how remembering and recollection were inherently important to the Romans the modern reader can apprehend how Virgil, as a member of the Roman elite, either consciously or subconsciously, would portray his characters as being familiar not only with the system of artificial memory, but also with the Roman process of using different spaces and places to stimulate remembrance. This book looks at the rhetoricians' discussions of the art of memory and posits that Virgil uses the artificial memory system features of sequential order, discriminability, and distinctiveness when describes the way his characters look at various images in the Aeneid.

Two World Views - Double-Voice and Double-Consciousness in Native American Literature (Paperback): Shelley Stigter Two World Views - Double-Voice and Double-Consciousness in Native American Literature (Paperback)
Shelley Stigter
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book follows the interaction of "double-voicing" and "double-consciousness" in Native American literary history. It begins with the surviving records from the time of colonial contact and ends with works by Leslie Marmon Silko and Thomas King, two contemporary authors of the Native American Literary Renaissance. "Double-voicing" is a common feature found in many works preserved by early anthropologists from various Native American oral traditions. However, after colonial contact this feature largely disappears from literary works written by Native American authors, when it is replaced by the societal condition "double-consciousness." With the revitalization of cultural knowledge in the mid-twentieth-century, Native authors also revitalize their rhetorical techniques in their writing and the "double-voice" feature re-emerges coupled with a bicultural awareness that is carried over from "double-consciousness."

An Autobiography of the Creative Writing Experience (Paperback): Shelley Robinson An Autobiography of the Creative Writing Experience (Paperback)
Shelley Robinson
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a self-analysis of Shelley Robinson's own act of creative writing. In a (modified) think-aloud protocol, Robinson metacognitively reflects upon her own act of writing, working in three rhetorical forms of writing: 1) a poem (imaginative); 2) a journal entry (expressive); and 3) an article (transactional). During this research, she expands the concept of metacognition to become "meta-processing" in order to better communicate her reflexive experience. She broadens metacognition (thinking) to include four other meta-learning domains: (meta-conative motivational], meta-affective feeling], meta-spiritual inspirational]) and meta-kinaesthetic body connection]). As well, there appear to be ideas about writing that are representative of both process and post-process writing (and related) theories. These contrasting schools of thought about writing do not appear to be mutually exclusive in her encounters with text and in the writing and reflections of other published writers. This research is a work that considers many theories of writing and resonates with other writers.

Mythic Reconstruction - The Study of Australian Aboriginal and South African Literature (Paperback): Osaghae Esosa Mythic Reconstruction - The Study of Australian Aboriginal and South African Literature (Paperback)
Osaghae Esosa
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work examines the reconstruction of cultural and historical myths by selected postcolonial writers of fiction from Indigenous Australia and South Africa. It explores summarily how these myths were used to define the colonial space, define the indigenes and how they in turn have chosen to define and represent themselves in a post-colonial world. This work also brings the postcolonialism debate back to the table by exploring its implications in using the theory to examine indigenous works of literature. The prodominant concerns of this work are Representation and Historiography situated within the context of postcolonialism. The achievement of this work is one of the canonical expansions recommended by postcolonial criticism which stresses the need for and the appreciation of differences that exist in postcolnial fictions even when they seek to achieve the same goals.

Redefining Literacy 2.0, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): David F Warlick Redefining Literacy 2.0, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
David F Warlick
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This seminal work on what literacy truly means in the 21st century is filled with big, meaningful ideas. The purpose of this book is not to replace the three Rs, but to expand them to a model for literacy that applies to classrooms which are shape-shifting under the pressures of converging conditions. This is a must-read for all educators!

- Expose meaning from global interactive, multimedia, electronic cybraries

- Employ information for solving challenges and constructing information

- Express ideas compellingly and fluently through technology to a diverse audience

This resource features an associated Wiki web page where readers can access presentation slides, links to blog entries about redefining literacy from the edu-blogosphere, online handouts for conference presentations and workshops, various files associated with this book, and regularly updated web links that have started with Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century.

The Impact of Digital Technology on Immersive Fiction Reading (Paperback): Anne Mangen The Impact of Digital Technology on Immersive Fiction Reading (Paperback)
Anne Mangen
R2,039 Discovery Miles 20 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The pleasure of reading digital narrative fiction resides in our sense of being immersed in a fictional universe populated by life-like characters, and where situations and events unfold in a plot allowing us to reenact the vicissitudes of the story in our minds as we read. What happens to this sense of immersion when the narrative consists of animated, interactive, multimodal text, is displayed on a computer screen, and when we click on hyperlinks and scroll with a computer mouse, instead of leafing through the pages of a print book while reading unyielding text on paper? This study explores the impact of technical and material features of the reading device - the computer and the print book - on our sense of being emotionally, cognitively, and phenomenologically immersed in a narrative fiction. Far from being transparent displays of narratives, the medium and technology in question play a crucial role for our reading experience.

Urizen Wept (Paperback): Ed Thanhouser Urizen Wept (Paperback)
Ed Thanhouser
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Literary Grotesque and Motherhood - Mothers and Daughters in Southern Literature (Paperback): Lori Ann Stephens The Literary Grotesque and Motherhood - Mothers and Daughters in Southern Literature (Paperback)
Lori Ann Stephens
R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This brief book focuses on the Gothic elements that help to shape and define literature of the American South and on how these elements are incorporated into Southern literature through overt use of the grotesque. After exploring the foundations of what may be loosely termed the Southern Grotesque, this work analyzes two literary themes that have played major roles in the evolution of Southern fiction, which often centers on women and the roles they play in Southern society: coming-of-age themes and motherhood themes. Coming-of-age themes trace the lives of adolescent girls who grow up in Southern culture, come of age spiritually in the South, and search for identity, while motherhood themes track the influence (both productive and destructive) of Southern women who are thrust into motherhood. This book also examines the Grotesque and Gothic connections among the authors of Southern literature, in particular Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery OConnor, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. These writers of the grotesque tradition have influenced my own novel-writing, to which I refer in the last chapter, a study of the creative process.

Gothic and the Pacific Voyage (Paperback): Stephanie Smith-Browne Gothic and the Pacific Voyage (Paperback)
Stephanie Smith-Browne
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Symbolism of Darkness and Light in Joseph Conrad's Literary Works - The symbolism of darkness and light, black and... The Symbolism of Darkness and Light in Joseph Conrad's Literary Works - The symbolism of darkness and light, black and white in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Paperback)
Maria Boros
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When I read Heart of Darkness for the first time, I had never though that I would ever write a book about it. I think I am not the only one who found Heart of Darkness indigestible and incomprehensible for the first time. Joseph Conrad is a kind of writer whose works need be read at least three times or even more to understand not only the gist or main message but the importance of each detail. The more times you read Conrad's works the more you understand them, you discover that every little thing has meaning and significance. In this book I am focusing on the opposition between darkness and light, black and white, their role both in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Conrad seems to use the colours in a conscious way, he emphasizes, expresses, suggests or refers to something or sometimes he simply plays with them. I wish everyone as much pleasure as I had while proceeding "deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness" (Heart of Darkness, p. 62.)

Re-articulating Literary Dissent - An Analysis of Wang Shuo's Playing for Thrills (Paperback): Christopher Hakkenberg Re-articulating Literary Dissent - An Analysis of Wang Shuo's Playing for Thrills (Paperback)
Christopher Hakkenberg
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wang Shuo established a new discursive space written from the perspective of the liumang or "player" within the burgeoning pop culture of the late 1980s. Wang Shuo"s roles as a cultural mirror and a social agent are not mutually exclusive, but interact with each other in a complex dialogue involving a number of social and political actors. Re-articulating Literary Dissent seeks to explore the implications of the term "literary dissent" during the late-1980s in China by examining Wang Shuo"s 1989 novel, Playing for Thrills. After an extensive examination of the novel, the analysis concludes that it is subversive of the ideology of the literary and the political establishment, arguing for the fickle use of the term "literary dissent" and the inconsistency with which it is used. Labeling something as literary dissent - a rhetorical move to transform artists into political pawns - illuminates more the political motives of the powers who use it than the potentially subversive nature of the works which the term is used to describe. Inconsistent politicization of the term destabilizes its authority and makes visible the political manipulations of representation that inform its use.

Other Spaces, Other Voices - Heterotopic Spaces in Island Narratives (Paperback): Ryan Lee Storment Other Spaces, Other Voices - Heterotopic Spaces in Island Narratives (Paperback)
Ryan Lee Storment
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Islands periodically manifest themselves within cultural texts as locations for fantasy and the exotic. Through this process they function as a literary trope. Most often they are served up as blank slates, much like early visions of the western United States, where we meet cultural 'others' or encounter exotic experiences. Island narratives depict conflicts between dominant and margial cultures and are driven by exotic and resistant voices as much as dominant ones. Narratives such as The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, and The Island of Dr. Moreau depict these conflicts, frequently representing these social conflicts between different kinds of spaces. There is a jump that comes when the island becomes reused in science fiction narratives, such as Star Wars, where it can be replaced by a spaceship or planet. Michael Foucault, Philip Fisher, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari's models of space help us understand these competing spatial and socio-spatial regimes, as well as premodern, modern, and postmodern organizations of space. This book is meant to address an academic audience and develops a new understanding of island spaces and the integral role they play.

Making Canons and Finding Flowers - A Study of Selected New Zealand (Paperback): Owen Bullock Making Canons and Finding Flowers - A Study of Selected New Zealand (Paperback)
Owen Bullock
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book evaluates a sample of New Zealand Poetry Anthologies covering the 1940s to the 1980s. It assesses how the intentions, knowledge and tastes of the anthology editors have influenced the representation of New Zealand poetry. Changes in the content of the poetry are observed, as well as the techniques that were used. Allen Curnow's influential anthologies of 1945 and 1960 were concerned mostly with the topic of literary nationalism. From the mid-1960s, trends emerged linked to possibilities offered by American poetry and perhaps to a search for greater freedom of expression in general. By the mid-1970s, New Zealand's poetic canon was well established on the strength of publications from Penguin and Oxford University Press, but poetry by women seemed under-represented. Despite increased publication of writing by women poets from the late 1960s onwards, many years passed before women's writing was fully acknowledged in major anthologies. A new bias emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s in favour of work from the University Presses, but, in recent years, anthologies that present some alternative point of view of New Zealand's literary history have proliferated.

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