Reading Duncan Reading

Author : Stephen Collis,Graham Lyons
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609381165

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Reading Duncan Reading by Stephen Collis,Graham Lyons Pdf

Collis and Lyons (Simon Fraser University, Canada) enlist US and a few international contributors in English, American studies, and poetry to probe the poetry of Robert Duncan. Part 1 traces a variety of Duncan's influences and derivations. Some topics include textual poetics and the politics of reading in Duncan's "Night Scenes," and poetic abdication in Duncan and Laura Riding. Part 2 examines poets who in some way derive from Duncan, with discussion of quotation in the poetry of Duncan and Ronald Johnson, Jerome Rothenberg and the dream of "A Poetry of All Poetries," and anarchism and the practice of derivative poetics in Duncan and John Cage. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Amanda Driscoll
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385755078

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Duncan the Story Dragon by Amanda Driscoll Pdf

"Duncan the Dragon loves to read--but he keeps accidentally lighting his book on fire. He wants to get to the end of his story, so he tries to find a friend to read to him."--

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520272620

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The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan Pdf

"What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) developed into an expansive and unique quest for a poetics that would fuel Duncan's great work into the 1960s and 1970s. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the writings of H.D., Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and many others, Duncan's wide-ranging work is especially notable for illuminating the role women played in creating literary modernism"--From publisher description.

Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316134354

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Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan Pdf

A paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn--now a motion picture starring Uma Thurman and Anna Sophia Robb! Kit Gordy sees Blackwood Hall towering over black iron gates, and she can't help thinking, This place is evil. The imposing mansion sends a shiver of fear through her. But Kit settles into a routine, trying to ignore the rumors that the highly exclusive boarding school is haunted. Then her classmates begin to show extraordinary and unknown talents. The strange dreams, the voices, the lost letters to family and friends, all become overshadowed by the magic around them. When Kit and her friends realize that Blackwood isn't what it claims to be, it might be too late.

Author : Sam Duncan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441107589

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Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development by Sam Duncan Pdf

Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and distinctly 'adult' ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred years, adults have formed themselves into reading circles to read and discuss novels on a weekly or monthly basis. Why then are reading circles rarely used, or studied, in formal adult literacy provision? This book explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of a wider examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world. It discusses reading as both an individual and a communal act and investigates the relationship between literature and literacy development, practice and pedagogy (including a reassessment of the controversial approaches of reading aloud and phonics for adults). Sam Duncan reviews a case study of an adult reading circle in a large London further education college and identifies the wider implications for the teaching and learning of adult emergent reading, for the use and understanding of reading circles and for how we understand the novel reading experience more broadly.

Author : James Duncan,Derek Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134721252

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Writes of Passage by James Duncan,Derek Gregory Pdf

Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.

Author : Dennis Duncan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324002550

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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan Pdf

A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521416009

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Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 by Duncan Wu Pdf

A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

Author : Sam Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429632570

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Oral Literacies by Sam Duncan Pdf

This is the first book to focus exclusively on an examination of early 21st-century adult reading aloud. The dominant contemporary image of reading in much of the world is that of a silent, solitary activity. This book challenges this dominant discourse, acknowledging the diversity of reading practices that adults perform or experience in different communities, languages, contexts and phases of our lives, outlining potential educational implications and next steps for literacy teaching and research. By documenting and analysing the diversity of oral reading practices that adults take part in (on- and offline), this book explores contemporary reading aloud as hugely varied, often invisible and yet quietly ubiquitous. Duncan discusses questions such as: What, where, how and why do adults read aloud, or listen to others reading? How do couples, families and groups use oral reading as a way of being together? When and why do adults read aloud at work? And why do some people read aloud in languages they may not speak or understand? This book is key reading for advanced students, researchers and scholars of literacy practices and literacy education within education, applied linguistics and related areas.

Author : James Ross
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809307146

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They Don't Dance Much by James Ross Pdf

Called by Raymond Chandler “a sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story of a North Carolina town,” this tough, realis­tic novel exemplifies Depression literature in the United States. Falling somewhere between the hard-as-nails writing of James M. Cain and the early stories of Ernest Hemingway, James Ross’s novel was for sheer brutality and frankness of language considerably ahead of his reading public’s taste for realism untinged with sentiment or profundity. In his brilliant Afterword to this new edition, George V. Higgins, author of the recent best-seller Cogan’s Trade, pays tribute to Ross for his courage in telling his story truthfully, in all its ugliness. The setting of They Don’t Dance Much is a roadhouse on the outskirts of a North Carolina town on the border with South Carolina, complete with dance floor, res­taurant, gambling room, and cabins rented by the hour. In the events described, Smut Milligan, the proprietor, seeks money to keep operating and commits a brutal murder.

Author : Max Bazerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476700311

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The Power of Noticing by Max Bazerman Pdf

A “must-read” (Booklist) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills. Imagine your advantage in negotiations, decision-making, and leadership if you could teach yourself to see and evaluate information that others overlook. The Power of Noticing provides the blueprint for accomplishing precisely that. Max Bazerman, an expert in the field of applied behavioral psychology, draws on three decades of research and his experience instructing Harvard Business School MBAs and corporate executives to teach you how to notice and act on information that may not be immediately obvious. Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples and using many of the same case studies and thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, Bazerman challenges you to explore your cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details you are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. His book provides a step-by-step guide to breaking bad habits and spotting the hidden details that will change your decision-making and leadership skills for the better, teaching you to pay attention to what didn’t happen, acknowledge self-interest, invent the third choice, and realize that what you see is not all there is. While many bestselling business books have explained how susceptible to manipulation our irrational cognitive blind spots make us, Bazerman helps you avoid the habits that lead to poor decisions and ineffective leadership in the first place. With The Power of Noticing at your side, you can learn how to notice what others miss, make wiser decisions, and lead more successfully.

Author : Anna Dewdney,Reed Duncan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101998564

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Llama Llama Loves to Read by Anna Dewdney,Reed Duncan Pdf

Anna Dewdney's Bestselling Llama Llama series continues with Llama learning to read! Llama Llama learns at school. Counting, writing, reading, rules. Friends and school -- there's nothing better. Llama learning all the letters! Anna Dewdney's beloved Llama Llama is growing up and learning to read! Throughout the school day, the teacher helps Llama Llama and the other children practice their letters, shows word cards, reads stories, and brings them to the library where they can all choose a favorite book. By the end of the day, Llama Llama is recognizing words and can't wait to show Mama Llama that he's becoming a reader!

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:gb61015896

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The Opening of the Field by Robert Duncan Pdf

Author : James Maynard
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sublime, The, in literature
ISBN : 9780826358899

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Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime by James Maynard Pdf

This book examines three historical phases of the poet Robert Duncan's writing within the aesthetic and philosophical context of a pragmatist sublime. The author traces Duncan's poetics of process - which like process philosophy is predicated on conditions of change and plenitude - to the pragmatist tradition of William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead. Working from this theoretical framework, and using the archival resources of the Robert Duncan Collection housed in the University of Buffalo's Poetry Collection, James Maynard examines Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry.

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520324848

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Robert Duncan by Robert Duncan Pdf

This volume in the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan series gathers a far-reaching selection of Robert Duncan’s prose writings including most of his longer and more well-known essays along with other prose that has never been widely available. Ranging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, the forty-one titles reveal a great deal about Duncan’s life in poetry—including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors. Evocative and eclectic, this work delineates the intellectual contexts and sources of Duncan’s poetics, and opens a window onto the literary communities in which he participated.