The Sleeping Dictionary

Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703251

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The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey Pdf

From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT. In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even love seem within reach, she remains trapped by what she is . . . and is not. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule, Kamala uses her hard-won skills—for secrecy, languages, and reading the unspoken gestures of those around her—to fight for her country’s freedom and her own happiness.

Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520927834

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Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Pdf

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655544071

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Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703169

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The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey Pdf

Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives. Original.

Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351186670

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The City of Palaces by Sujata Massey Pdf

An orphaned girl. A cruel twist of fate. A spectacular adventure. Bengal, 1930. Young Pom’s life changes forever when her family is wiped out in a devastating flood. She becomes a maidservant in a British boarding school where she discovers her gift for languages. Amidst the drudgery of her duties, she finds unexpected friendship and experiences the stirrings of first love. However, tragedy strikes and she is forced into hiding. Alone and desperate, she is recruited into a brothel for English officers. She hopes this secretive, decadent world will shield her from the demons of her past. But fate intervenes, and our heroine is on the run again—to Calcutta, the city of palaces, where she finds herself caught up in the rising tide of Indian nationalism. Changing her name to Kamala, she creates a new life for herself, one that holds the promise of happiness and true love . . . until her past returns haunt her. Filled with romance, danger, intrigue and betrayal, The City of Palaces is a lush, sprawling saga about a feisty young heroine and her struggle for survival. ‘Sujata masterfully weaves her heroine’s life with India’s struggle and fight for freedom and gives us an elegant piece of Indian history wrapped beautifully in Pom’s story’—Amulya Malladi, author of The Mango Season

Author : Patricia Anderson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539598

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Revitalization Lexicography by Patricia Anderson Pdf

In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781101971024

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Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson Pdf

In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192805762

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The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Pdf

"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Author : John Sparagana,Mieke Bal
Publisher : Project Tango: Artists and Wri
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076002784739

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Sleeping Beauty by John Sparagana,Mieke Bal Pdf

"Just as his work intervenes in existing images, so, too, do Bal's explorations qualify existing concepts. Together, they have given rise to something wholly new: a one-artist dictionary that simultaneously reenvisions the untapped interactions of images with words and the potential forms of the book itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Claudine Dervaes,John Hunter
Publisher : Solitaire Publishing Inc
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English language
ISBN : 0933143400

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The UK to USA Dictionary by Claudine Dervaes,John Hunter Pdf

An A to Z ("Zed") of terms and expressions that differ in British English vs. American English. Dictionary format with UK terms and expressions and their US equivalents first, followed by US terms and expressions and the UK equivalents next. Also includes pages of rhyming slang, pronunciation differences, spelling differences, conversion charts and more. Great for travelers, Anglophiles, expatriates and anyone who has a love of languages!

Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616959104

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The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey Pdf

The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse?

Author : Nonieqa Ramos
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781541577619

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The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary by Nonieqa Ramos Pdf

A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection A 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms--complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's both hilarious and fearsome, slowly Macy reveals why she acts out, why she can't tell her incarcerated father that her mom's cheating on him, and why her best friend needs protection . . . the kind of protection that involves Macy's machete.

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641711982

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Rick Steves Portuguese Phrase Book and Dictionary by Rick Steves Pdf

Olá! From ordering vinho verde in the Douro Valley to making new friends in Lisbon, it helps to speak some of the native tongue in Portugal. Rick Steves offers well-tested Portuguese words and phrases that come in handy in a variety of situations. Inside you'll find: Key phrases for use in everyday circumstances, complete with phonetic spelling An English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English dictionary Tips for small talk and local lingo with Rick's signature sense of humor A tear-out cheat sheet for continued language practice as you relax on the beach (no internet connection required!) Informative, concise, and practical, Rick Steves Portuguese Phrase Book & Dictionary is an essential item for any traveler's pocket.

Author : Tori Large
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0746080522

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Illustrated Dictionary of Maths by Tori Large Pdf

Illustrations and simple definitions covering such areas as number sense and operations, algebra, basic geometry, and data representation.

Author : Ariadne Green
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0446677523

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Ariadne's Book of Dreams by Ariadne Green Pdf

Organized into an easy-to-use, alphabetical dictionary format, a guide to dream interpretation focuses on both classic and contemporary dream symbols and explains how dreams can reveal hidden truths about the physical, emotional, and metaphysical realms of life. Original.