English Speaking Towns And Cities Memoirs And Narratives

Author : Glain Olivier
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782862727349

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English-Speaking Towns and Cities: Memoirs and Narratives by Glain Olivier Pdf

This book relies on a multidisciplinary approach that allows the authors to bear witness to the realities and representations of various urban environments in the English-speaking world in complementary ways. They deal with the motifs of urban identity and expression from several methodological and theoretical perspectives (sociolinguistics, soundscapes, architecture, stylistics, literature). This book analyses the representations of and the changes in urban identity through different forms of linguistic and artistic expression associated with several English-speaking towns and cities. The protagonists are, in order of appearance, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Houghton-le-Spring, Kolkata, New York City, London, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Dublin and Edinburg. Cet ouvrage s’appuie sur une approche pluridisciplinaire qui permet de rendre compte des réalités et des représentations d’environnements urbains anglophones de manière complémentaire. Les auteurs abordent la question de l’identité et de l’expression urbaine selon des perspectives méthodologiques et théoriques diverses (sociolinguistique, environnement sonore, architecture, stylistique, littérature). L’ouvrage vise à rendre compte des représentations et des mutations identitaires des villes anglophones à travers des modes d’expression linguistiques et artistiques qui leur sont propres. Les protagonistes sont, par ordre d’apparition, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Houghton-le-Spring, Kolkata, New York, Londres, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Dublin et Édimbourg.

Author : Virginie Iché,Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000536065

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The Rhetoric of Literary Communication by Virginie Iché,Sandrine Sorlin Pdf

Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th-century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction. The book showcases a diverse range of contributions from scholars in stylistics, rhetoric, pragmatics, and literary studies to offer new ways of looking at the "author–reader channel," drawing on work from Roger Sell, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, and James Phelan. The volume traces the evolution of its form across historical periods, genres, and media, from its origins in the conversational mode of direct address in 18th-century English novels to the use of second-person narratives in the 20th century through to 21st-century digital fiction with its implicit requirement for reader participation. The book engages in questions of how the author–reader channel is shaped by different forms, and how this continues to evolve in emerging contemporary genres and of shifting ethics of author and reader involvement. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in the intersection of pragmatics, stylistics, and literary studies.

Author : Claire Hélie,Elise Brault-Dreux,Emilie Loriaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000124200

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No Dialect Please, You're a Poet by Claire Hélie,Elise Brault-Dreux,Emilie Loriaux Pdf

No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining works from a wide range of poets and poetries, from acclaimed poets to emerging ones, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to poetics of dialects from a variety of regions, across two centuries of English poetry.

Author : Aphra Behn,Thomas Clarkson,Daniel Drayton,Louis Hughes,Austin Steward,Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Moses Grandy,William Still,Nat Turner,Henry Bibb,Olaudah Equiano,Sojourner Truth,Mary Prince,Kate Drumgoold,Frederick Douglass,Brantz Mayer,Theodore Canot,Booker T. Washington,Elizabeth Keckley,Charles Ball,Solomon Northup,Josiah Henson,Stephen Smith,Ellen Craft,William Craft,John Gabriel Stedman,Sarah H. Bradford,Lucy A. Delaney,L. S. Thompson,F. G. De Fontaine,Henry Box Brown,John Dixon Long,Harriet Jacobs,Jacob D. Green,Work Projects Administration,Thomas S. Gaines,Willie Lynch,Margaretta Matilda Odell,Joseph Mountain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547682042

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The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves by Aphra Behn,Thomas Clarkson,Daniel Drayton,Louis Hughes,Austin Steward,Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Moses Grandy,William Still,Nat Turner,Henry Bibb,Olaudah Equiano,Sojourner Truth,Mary Prince,Kate Drumgoold,Frederick Douglass,Brantz Mayer,Theodore Canot,Booker T. Washington,Elizabeth Keckley,Charles Ball,Solomon Northup,Josiah Henson,Stephen Smith,Ellen Craft,William Craft,John Gabriel Stedman,Sarah H. Bradford,Lucy A. Delaney,L. S. Thompson,F. G. De Fontaine,Henry Box Brown,John Dixon Long,Harriet Jacobs,Jacob D. Green,Work Projects Administration,Thomas S. Gaines,Willie Lynch,Margaretta Matilda Odell,Joseph Mountain Pdf

Good Press presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including many recorded testimonies and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War. It is designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) The Underground Railroad Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! The History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney) Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Buried Alive Documents: The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861 Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment ...

Author : Mikyoung Kim,B. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230277427

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Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past by Mikyoung Kim,B. Schwartz Pdf

The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings.

Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524748890

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Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro Pdf

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

Author : Steven G. Kellman,Natasha Lvovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000441512

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism by Steven G. Kellman,Natasha Lvovich Pdf

Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree. The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism aims to provide a comprehensive overview of translingual literature in a wide variety of languages throughout the world, from ancient to modern times. The volume includes sections on: translingual genres - with chapters on memoir, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema ancient, medieval, and modern translingualism global perspectives - chapters overseeing European, African, and Asian languages Combining chapters from lead specialists in the field, this volume will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in investigating the vibrant area of translingual literature. Attracting scholars from a variety of disciplines, this interdisciplinary and pioneering Handbook will advance current scholarship of the permutations of languages among authors throughout time.

Author : Metty Pellicer
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781634901291

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HELLO, FROM SOMEWHERE: Stories of the Roads I Traveled (A Memoir) by Metty Pellicer Pdf

Whenever the author has returned from traveling her friends wanted to hear detailed accounts of her experiences. She started emailing these accounts. Many have kept copies of their favorite pieces and soon everyone wanted the author to compile them into a book. From Alaska to Zanzibar, the author offers funny and detailed observations of the places, people, and cultures she has encountered. On a visit to Pompeii, she tells of frescoes of the various ways ancient Romans copulate. In Africa she thrilled to the spectacle of a lion kill of an impala in the wild, but was repelled by a cat with its kill of a rat in the alleys of Zanzibar. On her 70th birthday, she celebrated with a solo walk of the 800 km Camino Santiago de Compostela from St. Jean Pied de Port in the French Pyrenees to Galicia in Spain. She got lost in the mountains on the first day, but the trek was smooth all the way from there. After her husband passed in 2004 she continued to travel and reflected on her life. A lapsed Catholic, she took a Buddhist retreat in Tassajara trying to inject a spiritual dimension in her life, but she found the vegetarian meals and the mountains more alluring. Along the way she made many friends, young and old, who enriched her life and who showed her that life is indeed beautiful!

Author : Dawn Hogue
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780738688701

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AP® English Language & Composition Crash Course, 2nd Edition by Dawn Hogue Pdf

REA's AP® English Language and Composition Crash Course® is the top choice for the last-minute studier or any student who wants a quick refresher on the course. Written by Dawn Hogue, M.A., an AP English teacher with many years of classroom experience, the book gives students the topics and critical context that will matter most on exam day. Crash Course® puts AP® test candidates on the inside track to a higher score. Packed with powerful test strategies and unmatched insight into the workings of the exam, the book equips students to effectively apply the skills demanded of test-takers. In addition, the author provides tips for mastering the multiple-choice questions as well as the three required essays, with special emphasis on handling the synthesis essay. The book comes with a true-to-format full-length online practice test with diagnostic feedback, automatic scoring, and detailed answer explanations to allow students to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses so they can gauge their test-readiness. New to this second edition of REA's AP® English Language and Composition Crash Course® is a chapter with AP-style practice questions to help you maximize your score. With REA's Crash Course®, students can prep more efficiently, reinforcing the crucial concepts and boosting their AP® score. About REA's Prep: Fully aligned with the AP® English Language and Composition Exam Quick Review format is perfect for time-crunched AP® students Focuses on key skills and must-know content Full-length online practice exam with diagnostic feedback based on official College Board materials New second edition include a chapter with AP®-style practice questions to help you maximize your score About the Author Dawn Hogue has taught all levels of high school English and was an AP® English teacher for the Sheboygan Falls School District, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin for many years. Ms. Hogue received her B.A. in English, graduating Summa Cum Laude, from Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She earned her M.A. in Education from Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and her M.S. in Educational Leadership from Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is interested in promoting technology and web resources in the classroom and maintains a website (www.mshogue.com) for that purpose. English Language and Composition Crash Course is the second Crash Course Ms. Hogue has written for REA. She is also the author of English Literature and Composition Crash Course.

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631496738

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Machado de Assis: 26 Stories by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Pdf

This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories. Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as “another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, “the accomplished duo” (Wall Street Journal) behind the “landmark . . . heroically translated” volume (The New Yorker) of the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado’s life—featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella “The Alienist”; the tragicomic “parable of bureaucracy, madness, and power” (Los Angeles Review of Books), “Midnight Mass”; “The Cane”; and “Father Against Mother.” Ultimately, Machado de Assis: 26 Stories affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.

Author : Cindy Hall Ranii
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468547320

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Parakeet Races and Other Stories by Cindy Hall Ranii Pdf

Parakeet Races and Other Stories is a memoir that recounts the challenges and escapades of a family of six children in the 1950's which faces the premature death of its mother. Always authentic, each self-contained story can be read in just a few richly rewarding minutes that may leave the reader laughing out loud, crying, or both. Together the stories recount the collective memories of a remarkable set of siblings, three boys and three girls, the father who gives it his very best, and the mother whom the children can barely remember. The stories explore the "mystery" of the mother's death and reflect how the death of a parent in that era was often a topic not to be discussed or processed. The author, Cindy Hall Ranii, is the oldest daughter in the Hall Family, and beyond sharing the memories of her childhood and that of her siblings, she also shares her experiences as a world traveler, first as a teenager in Finland, then as a college student in India and finally as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran. With her keen powers of observation and respectfulness of different cultures she gives the reader the opportunity to eavesdrop on other peoples and other places. In the final segment of Parakeet Races Dr. Ranii takes the reader into the world of disability. Stricken with Transverse Myelitis, a rare neuro-immunologic disorder, she went from playing golf one day to being paralyzed from the chest down four days later. Her accounts of this chapter of her life are told with the same delicious, rhythmic writing style as the other two segments of the book. The author skillfully weaves her stories from decade to decade, taking the reader on a journey that captivates, entertains and challenges.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : English language
ISBN : BSB:BSB10711897

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Inez Baranay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781329170414

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Local Time a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life by Inez Baranay Pdf

"One last look at Europe" - that was the idea behind a 3-month trip in 2006. The weather was always good and that 3 months led to a life of unanchored travels, for years moving among countries and continents. In Local Time: a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life New York, London, Bristol, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Barcelona all have a chapter devoted to them, and Rome has more. Other chapters explore themes like sexuality, Europe, identity among hybrids and hyphens, family secrets, the self fiction creates, ageing, beginnings, the history of friendships, and a life in which writing has been the centre. Known for her stylish provocative work the author has once more gone in new directions in this memoir.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022925352

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A Dictionary of the English Language ... To which is prefixed a grammar of the English language ... The eighth edition by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Miriam Karpilove
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815656876

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A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove Pdf

When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked. In this slapstick novella, Karpilove’s narrator lampoons the gaggle of blundering publishers and editors who put her through the ringer and spit her back out again. Along with A Provincial Newspaper, this captivating collection includes nineteen stories originally published in Forverts in the 1930s, during Karpilove’s time as a staff writer at that newspaper. In the stories, we find a large cast of characters—an older woman navigating widowhood, a writer rebuffed by dismissive audiences, American-born Jewish girls unable to communicate with Yiddish-speaking immigrants, and a painter so overcome with jealousy about his muse’s potential lover that he misses his opportunity with her—each portrayed with both sympathy and irony, in ways unexpected and delightful. Also included are Karpilove’s recollections of her arrival in Palestine in 1926, chronicled with the same buoyant cynicism and witty repartee that is beloved by readers of her fiction.