Languages Of The Night

Author : Barry McCrea
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300190564

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Languages of the Night by Barry McCrea Pdf

This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars – such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the Irish language – caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections that were formative of modernist writing. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist conception of Irish as a lost, perfect language deeply affected the work of James Joyce; the disappearing dialects of northern France seemed to Marcel Proust to offer an escape from time itself. Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the origins and meaning of European literary modernism, Barry McCrea shows how the vanishing languages of the European countryside influenced metropolitan literary culture in fundamental ways.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781668034903

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The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction. “We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks to the language of the night.” —Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator. The book and each thematic section are brilliantly introduced and contextualized by Susan Wood, a professor at the University of British Columbia and a literary editor and feminist activist during the 1960s and ’70s. A fascinating, intimate look into the exceptional mind of Le Guin whose insights remain as relevant and resonant today as when they were first published.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374534756

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's seminal work.

Author : Janet Halfmann
Publisher : Star Bright Books
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781595723949

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Good Night, Little Sea Otter by Janet Halfmann Pdf

Little ones will soon settle down for bedtime just like Little Sea Otter as she snuggles with Mama in a cozy bed of sea kelp and calls good night to all her ocean friends—sea lions, sea snails, seagulls, seals, and sea urchins. They all reply. The gently rocking seas and Mama's loving arms soon send Little Sea Otter to dreamland.

Author : Berthold Delbrück
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015024513031

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Introduction to the Study of Language by Berthold Delbrück Pdf

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371560

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Pdf

A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Author : Peter Leese,Julia Barbara Köhne,Jason Crouthamel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Memory in art
ISBN : 9781487508968

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Languages of Trauma by Peter Leese,Julia Barbara Köhne,Jason Crouthamel Pdf

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101011317

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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Pdf

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breath­takingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.

Author : Erin Asai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Sedik language
ISBN : UOM:39015023966990

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The Sedik Language of Formosa by Erin Asai Pdf

Author : Robert Gordon Latham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$C191477

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham Pdf

Author : Washington Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Hidatsa Indians
ISBN : ONB:+Z228558500

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Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa by Washington Matthews Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5XH3

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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Bruce Tate,Ian Dees,Frederic Daoud,Jack Moffitt
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781680504743

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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate,Ian Dees,Frederic Daoud,Jack Moffitt Pdf

Great programmers aren't born--they're made. The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you through basic installation and "Hello, World," we aim higher. Each language in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks will take you on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of our time. You'll learn seven exciting languages: Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris. Learn from the award-winning programming series that inspired the Elixir language. Hear how other programmers across broadly different communities solve problems important enough to compel language development. Expand your perspective, and learn to solve multicore and distribution problems. In each language, you'll solve a non-trivial problem, using the techniques that make that language special. Write a fully functional game in Elm, without a single callback, that compiles to JavaScript so you can deploy it in any browser. Write a logic program in Clojure using a programming model, MiniKanren, that is as powerful as Prolog but much better at interacting with the outside world. Build a distributed program in Elixir with Lisp-style macros, rich Ruby-like syntax, and the richness of the Erlang virtual machine. Build your own object layer in Lua, a statistical program in Julia, a proof in code with Idris, and a quiz game in Factor. When you're done, you'll have written programs in five different programming paradigms that were written on three different continents. You'll have explored four languages on the leading edge, invented in the past five years, and three more radically different languages, each with something significant to teach you.

Author : William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNL6G9

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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6JYN

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf