Genres In Dialogue

Author : Andrea Wilson Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521774330

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Genres in Dialogue by Andrea Wilson Nightingale Pdf

This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues. The author argues that Plato's 'dialogues' with traditional genres are part and parcel of his effort to define 'philosophy'. Before Plato, 'philosophy' designated 'intellectual cultivation' in the broadest sense. When Plato appropriated the term for his own intellectual project, he created a new and specialised discipline. In order to define and legitimise 'philosophy', Plato had to match it against genres of discourse that had authority and currency in democratic Athens. By incorporating the text or discourse of another genre, Plato 'defines' his new brand of wisdom in opposition to traditional modes of thinking and speaking. By targeting individual genres of discourse Plato marks the boundaries of 'philosophy' as a discursive and as a social practice.

Author : Andrea Wilson Nightingale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : OCLC:848664298

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Genres in Dialogue by Andrea Wilson Nightingale Pdf

Author : Adrian J Wallbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321453

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Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute by Adrian J Wallbank Pdf

Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.

Author : Adrian J Wallbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317321460

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Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute by Adrian J Wallbank Pdf

Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.

Author : Daniel C. O'Connell,Sabine Kowal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781461435297

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Dialogical Genres by Daniel C. O'Connell,Sabine Kowal Pdf

This work gives a thorough revision of history through a psychological approach to verbal interaction between listeners and speakers. This book offers a large amount of information on the psychology of language and on psycholinguistics, and focuses on a new direction for a psychology of verbal communication. Empirical research includes media interviews, public speeches, and dramatic performances.

Author : Luz Gil-Salom,Carmen Soler-Monreal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269829

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Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres by Luz Gil-Salom,Carmen Soler-Monreal Pdf

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present volume investigate individual voices, both those assumed by the writer and those attributed to others, and how they act interpersonally and become explicit in the discourse. From a number of different research approaches, contributing authors focus on various textual components: self-mention, impersonation, attribution markers, engagement markers, attitude markers, boosters, hedges, reporting verbs, politeness strategies and citations. The collection is unusual in that it addresses these issues not only from the perspective of English, but also from that of Spanish and Italian. It thus represents a refreshing reassessment of the contrastive dimension in the study of voice and dialogic relations, taking into consideration language, specialised fields and genre. The volume will appeal to researchers interested in language as multidimensional dialogue, particularly with regard to different written specialised texts from different linguistic backgrounds. Novice writers may also find it of help in order to attain a greater understanding of the dialogic nature of writing.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452162935

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Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers Pdf

If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why? In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation. Can you believe that?

Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226083421

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Poetry and Its Others by Jahan Ramazani Pdf

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system—“suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse,” in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetry’s animated dialogue with other genres and discourses. Poetry generates rich new possibilities, he argues, by absorbing and contending with its near verbal relatives. Exploring poetry’s vibrant exchanges with other forms of writing, Ramazani shows how poetry assimilates features of prose fiction but differentiates itself from novelistic realism; metabolizes aspects of theory and philosophy but refuses their abstract procedures; and recognizes itself in the verbal precision of the law even as it separates itself from the law’s rationalism. But poetry’s most frequent interlocutors, he demonstrates, are news, prayer, and song. Poets such as William Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden refashioned poetry to absorb the news while expanding its contexts; T. S. Eliot and Charles Wright drew on the intimacy of prayer though resisting its limits; and Paul Muldoon, Rae Armantrout, and Patience Agbabi have played with and against song lyrics and techniques. Encompassing a cultural and stylistic range of writing unsurpassed by other studies of poetry, Poetry and Its Others shows that we understand what poetry is by examining its interplay with what it is not.

Author : John Reich
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341474

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Exploring Movie Construction and Production by John Reich Pdf

Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students¿ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300244885

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On the Happy Life by Saint Augustine Pdf

A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s inaugural work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are the “Cassiciacum dialogues,” which have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. In this second, brief dialogue, expertly translated by Michael Foley, Augustine and his mother, brother, son, and friends celebrate his thirty-second birthday by having a “feast of words” on the nature of happiness. They conclude that the truly happy life consists of “having God” through faith, hope, and charity.

Author : Jean-François Vallée,Dorothea B. Heitsch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080208706X

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Printed Voices by Jean-François Vallée,Dorothea B. Heitsch Pdf

Prevalent but long-neglected genres such as dialogue have recently been attracting attention in Renaissance studies. In view of the pervasive and varied nature of this genre's use in the European Renaissance, it has become crucial to widen the perspective so as to take into account more diverse approaches to this hybrid form. For this reason, Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée have assembled a broad collection of essays by international scholars that presents comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical inquiry into this neglected area. The contributors ? who bring with them different linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds ? examine dialogue from a variety of perspectives, taking into account various factors linked to the upsurge of the genre in the Renaissance. These factors include the emergence of a complex and multifarious subjectivity, the advent of modern utopias, the social and political importance of courtliness, the rise of print culture, religious and scientific controversy, the prevalence of pedagogy and rhetorical culture, the ethos of humanism, the gendering of dialogue, and Renaissance 'logocentrism.' Discussed are some of the most important works in Italian, French, German, Neo-Latin, and English, as well as some lesser known texts, making Printed Voices a truly essential volume for the Renaissance scholar.

Author : Wendy Despain
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781439875391

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Writing for Video Game Genres by Wendy Despain Pdf

This book, written and edited by members of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Game Writing Special Interest Group, follows the acclaimed Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing to deliver practical advice from seasoned veterans on the special challenges of writing for first-person shooter games (FPS), role-playing games (R

Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000712131

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Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature by Philip Major Pdf

Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley’s life and writings merit.

Author : Emmanuela Bakola,Lucia Prauscello,Mario Telò
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107355507

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Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres by Emmanuela Bakola,Lucia Prauscello,Mario Telò Pdf

Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.

Author : Vijay K. Bhatia,Eleonora Chiavetta,Silvana Sciarrino
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823378334

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Variations in Specialized Genres by Vijay K. Bhatia,Eleonora Chiavetta,Silvana Sciarrino Pdf

The book is an edited volume of carefully selected articles by eminent scholars focusing on the specialist knowledge transmission through genre variation, particularly on the issues of standardization and hybridity. The main focus was to analyse discursive popularization in the contexts and domains of natural sciences, law, and commerce, viewed in a diachronic perspective. The scholars involved have concentrated their studies on the creative transformation, hybridization, and even bending of genres used to popularise scientific, legal and commercial discourse for different communicative purposes and audiences, thus extending the conventional genre boundaries to disseminate specialized knowledge. The proliferation of specialized knowledge has indeed created a growing need to convey expert knowledge to a variety of addressees, with different levels of shared understanding and expertise. Such disciplinary knowledge can only be conveyed through various subtle manipulations of generic conventions keeping in mind the aims, the users, the media, the social contexts, and the domain with which specific knowledge is associated.