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This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar
Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe
as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique
today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields
more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence,
however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe's texts
or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued
prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been
interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of
mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and
fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and
illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe's texts
for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its
own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked
influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and
adapted the author's writing over the past 170 years.
Edgar Allan Poe wields more influence in the spheres of literature
and popular culture on a world scale than any other US author. This
influence, however, does not rely on the quality of Poe's texts
alone nor on the compellingly tragic nature of his biography; his
reputation and his ubiquitous presence owe much of their longevity
to the ways Poe has been interpreted and portrayed by his
advocates-other writers, translators, literary critics, literary
historians, illustrators, film makers, musicians-and packaged by
various mediators in the literary field, especially editors and
anthologizers. As this study demonstrates, the division between
Poe's advocates and the mediators who organize his work for
consumption by the reading public can be very porous since many of
Poe's most adamant proponents-Charles Baudelaire and Julio
Cortazar, for example-also anthologized, edited, and/or translated
his works. Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and
(Trans)national Canons focuses on the works produced by Poe's
anthologizers and editors, both the famous and the lesser-known,
whose labor often takes place behind the scenes. Poe's editors and
anthologizers exercise real power, and over the last 170 years,
they have crafted and framed the various Poes we recognize, revere,
cherish, and critique today.
Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood
professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mindset in
the youngest learners, how to engage young children in
maker-centered learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how
to select/use open-ended tools and materials. Field tested in real
classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums, the authors have
practical suggestions, student samples, implementers' suggestions,
photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation.
Each chapter focuses on a different type of makerspace, details
ways to successfully set up that makerspaces, offers provocation
ideas for how to extend learning, and shows how educators can
document evidence of how a child can develop a stronger growth
mind-set by interacting with the makerspace. Full-color
demonstrative photos give readers additional visual guidance.
From the award-winning authors of StoryMaking and Makerspaces comes
ArtMaking. ArtMaking?is a process of making meaning by reading
children's books, investigating how this meaning is expressed and
then inviting the child to use art to communicate their own
meaning.?It is the perfect language to give all children a voice,
regardless of age or ability. In ArtMaking children are invited to
"read their worlds" as they learn about images, explore materials
and elements of art (color, lines, shapes, textures, spaces,
design) and communicate their thinking through their own art
processes and products. Along the way these skills build a strong
literacy foundation. Using artwork as well as illustrations from
children's books as provocations, children make meaning with their
visual literacy skills as they use the receptive and productive
languages of literacy and art to make connections. When children
engage in ArtMaking they apply the highest level of the
comprehension and visual literacy continuums to new art experiences
and makerspaces. They aren't just making art, they are making
meaning of the book and the world.
After studying the current research on literacy learning for young
children, delving into the beliefs and schools of Reggio Emilia,
and discovering the Maker Movement, the authors created
StoryMaking. With great success, they implemented it in their
diverse and large public school district. StoryMaking shares the
processes, first steps, next steps, uses for materials, and lessons
learned so teachers can implement their own versions in their
classrooms. The book shares practical suggestions, student samples,
photographs, anchor charts, and other forms of documentation.
Narrative non-fiction on a variety of subjects. The author attempts
to apply practical Christian teaching to present day issues
Narrative non-fiction about the author's struggle with the loss of
his mother. Through searching the bible, the author attempts to
reconcile the experience of sickness and death in the world we live
in, and the promises of faith, healing and hope in the Gospel of
Jesus.
Michele Kay, a life that was both too much and too short, left
behind this story, one of an unforgettable person and an
extraordinary time. --Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort From
Cairo to Austin: exiled at 12, Michele Kay takes her readers on a
gut-wrenching, painfully lonely, but often exhilarating journey to
"home.'' This memoir she tells the intensively personal stories of
her family's expulsion from Egypt during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis
and devastating effects of this displacement on their lives. No
matter where her nomadic life took her-London, Hong Kong, Saigon,
San Francisco, Paris, Tel Aviv, Washington, Texas-Michele proved,
as she once wrote: "life is a series of opportunities...to grab."
Mother of two, grandmother of five, she was often described as a
"fireball who thought fast, wrote fast and spoke very fast."
Inspiring, fascinating: a reassuring story for anyone faced with
unwanted, unexpected twists and turns in life. And that would be,
of course, all of us. ..".very readable-and gripping...the
interspersing of Michele's reflecting on displacement and her
moments of introspection..sequencing the events of her life. --Ken
Ashworth, University of Texas, professor, author, lecturer ..".an
unforgettable memoir of a remarkable woman who packed multiple
lives into one. " --Carrie Rosenthal, former editor of Reader's
Digest Condensed Books
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