Speaking Volumes

Author : Patricia Howell Michaelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804740755

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Speaking Volumes by Patricia Howell Michaelson Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Speaking Volumes focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading. It studies the period's discourses on 'woman's language' and contrasts them with the linguistic practices of individual women. The book also argues that the oral performance of literature was important in fostering domesticity and serving as a means for women to practise authoritative speech. Utilizing a range of evidence gleaned from language texts, schoolbooks, diaries, letters, conduct books, and works of literature (notably the novels of Jane Austen), the author shows how eighteenth-century English women strategically used the stereotype of 'woman's language' while insisting implicitly that gender was not always the most salient feature of their identities.

Author : Jane Setter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198813842

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Your Voice Speaks Volumes by Jane Setter Pdf

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in an accessible and engaging account that will appeal to anyone interested in how we use our voices in daily life.

Author : Bradford Morrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453290675

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Speaking Volumes by Bradford Morrow Pdf

From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia. Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their forms, Speaking Volumes collects poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction on historic, forbidden, repurposed, mistranslated, imaginary, lost, and life-changing books—books of every ilk.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781430325598

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Speaking Volumes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905233639

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NOT QUITE RIGHT FOR US. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106016263268

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Speaking Volumes by Alessandro Barchiesi Pdf

In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue - in the protected space of the whispering bookcase - as loaded with allusion and intertextuality. This collection of essays by the classicist Alessandro Barchiesi examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of illusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition. The book provides perspectives on the literary self-consciousness of the Latin poets, the allusive density of their texts, and the conflict between poetry and power in the Augustan age. The conflict between classicists and the texts they comment on, argue over and theorise about is also examined. Among the recurring topics in this book are the impact of intertextuality on the form of epic and epistle, the strategic significance of allusive poetics in a political context, and the importance of reading and interpretation as poetic themes.

Author : Sky Gilbert
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554902910

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Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert Pdf

?Brother Dumb is the memoir of a reclusive American literary icon. Brother Dumb is a how-to manual for meaningful critical engagement with the real world. Brother Dumb is a celebration of innocence, youth, and altruism. Brother Dumb is a true story of self-imposed exile. . . . Brother Dumb is also a work of fiction. Brother Dumb begins in the mid-40s, but spans decades, delving deep into the five tortured relationships that have shaped one writer s psycho-sexual history but it also details his bitter literary decline and withdrawal from public life. Brother Dumb is a

Author : Allan C. Weisbecker
Publisher : Bandito Books, LTD.
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979711701

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Can't You Get Along with Anyone? by Allan C. Weisbecker Pdf

When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence ofIn Search of Captain Zero,most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering,Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise,Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa Rica.

Author : Carole Molchany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1478773138

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The Silent Speak Volumes by Carole Molchany Pdf

One woman proves that painfully shy children can become successful, even when raised by an emotionally unstable mother. In The Silent Speak Volumes, a mother responds to her grown child's question: "Why don't we know more about your childhood, Mom?" This sweet yet painfully honest memoir examines one woman's formative years, in which her mother's words and actions were not always rooted in loving guidance. Despite her resulting low self-esteem and crippling shyness, the author is able to overcome the emotional manipulation of her past in order to find success and happiness. Her memoir was written for her children, but it's a story that will resonate with everyone.

Author : George Gerbner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429979279

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Invisible Crises by George Gerbner Pdf

According to the contributors to this volume, the communications media deliberately blank out critical conditions and developments whose imagery would pose unacceptable challenges to the dominant structures of culture-power. Such "invisible crises" include the suppression of information about the dehumanization and stigmatization of groups of people; the drift toward ecological suicide; the neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; the way in which television corrupts the electoral process; and the promotion of practices which drug, poison and kill. The book asks why the media are, in the view of contributors, withholding vital information from the public, and focuses on the increasing concentration of culture-power that, it is argued, keeps these truths from public view.

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131688058

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The Boy who Loved Books by John Sutherland Pdf

A memoir in the tradition of Lorna Sage's Bad Blood and Blake Morrison's When Did You Last See your Father? John Sutherland's childhood ended abruptly the day his father was killed at the beginning of World War Two - happily before he could kill any Germans. John's widowed mother fell in love with a new man and decamped to Argentina, leaving John to be looked after by various relatives - some more suited to raising children than others. It was an odd, unsettled childhood and John took refuge in books. He quickly learned how to fit in without disturbing people, and, in doing so, began to store up resentments as a child. These resentments, with the trigger of alcohol in later life, would one day explode - serially and for many years. The Boy Who Loved Books is an account of a disrupted childhood, but it is also an account of one man's often desperate love affair with reading matter. Books in many ways changed his life, propelling him to university, and sustaining him in the dark times that were to come. It is also a record of the shifting twentieth century and the profound changes that shook society and its ways of dealing with children in the institutions of family, school and university.

Author : Bruno Munari
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0811847748

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Speak Italian by Bruno Munari Pdf

This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gestures--a language not found in any dictionary. Photos.

Author : Kate DiCamillo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536213614

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The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo Pdf

When a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health. When he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1596061693

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Ubik by Philip K. Dick Pdf

The screenplay version of the seminal sf novel, out of print for more than two decades.

Author : Julia Cook,Anita DuFalla
Publisher : Boys Town Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934490587

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Decibella and Her 6-Inch Voice by Julia Cook,Anita DuFalla Pdf

Isabella is a spirited girl who enjoys shouting out her thoughts, ideas and feelings. In fact, she loves using her loud voice so much; it’s earned her the nickname “Decibella!” Young readers will be entertained as they see how Isabella learns the “five volumes” of voice and discovers that different situations require a different tone. This book shows kids how and when to use their five voices – whisper, 6-inch, table-talk, strong speaker and outside. It is part of the Communicate with Confidence series, which emphasizes skills to help young children be better communicators.