Unleaving

Author : Melissa Ostrom
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250132826

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Unleaving by Melissa Ostrom Pdf

In a book that is both urgent and timely, Melissa Ostrom explores the intricacies of shame and victim-blaming that accompany the aftermath of assault. After surviving an assault at an off-campus party, nineteen-year-old Maggie is escaping her college town, and, because her reporting the crime has led to the expulsion of some popular athletes, many people—in particular, the outraged Tigers fans—are happy to see her go. Maggie moves in with her Aunt Wren, a sculptor who lives in an isolated cabin bordered by nothing but woods and water. Maggie wants to forget, heal, and hide, but her aunt’s place harbors secrets and situations that complicate the plan. Worse, the trauma Maggie hoped to leave behind has followed her, haunting her in ways she can’t control, including flashbacks, insomnia and a sense of panic. Her troubles intensify when she begins to receive messages from another student who has survived a rape on her old campus. Just when Maggie musters the courage to answer her emails, the young woman goes silent.

Author : Robyn McCallum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135581299

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Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction by Robyn McCallum Pdf

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity, ideas which pervade and underpin adolescent fictions. Although the humanist subject has been systematically interrogated by recent philosophy and criticism, the question which lies at the heart of fiction for young people is not whether a coherent self exists but what kind of self it is and what are the conditions of its coming into being. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction has a double focus: first, the images of selfhood that the fictions offer their readers, especially the interactions between selfhood, social and cultural forces, ideologies, and other selves; and second, the strategies used to structure narrative and to represent subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

Author : Philip Kennicott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393635379

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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?

Author : Francis Katamba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134847525

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English Words by Francis Katamba Pdf

English Words aims to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general, especially among introductory students who do not intend to specialize in linguistics.

Author : Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780797496989

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Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1 by Rinos Mwanaka Pdf

Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, comprises of 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, and 1 playwright from North America and Africa regions: professors, leading theorists and researchers. The contributors are: Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, Biko Agozino, poets; A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, storytellers; Paris Smith, Sheree Rene Thomas, and journalists; Kenneth Weene and several other essayists, street poets, academicians, musicians, visual artists... This collection is vibrant, discursive, penetrating, and is invaluable to literary and language experts, poetry collections, social and human scientists, political theorists, race theorists, development practioners, students, general readers and many others.

Author : Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos
Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781779064929

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When Escape Becomes the Only Lover by Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos Pdf

When Escape Becomes the only Lover is a continuation and crystallization of issues dealt with in A Portrait of Defiance. The poet deals with a broad subject matter, love in all its forms, spirituality; this spirituality is individual it is the artist’s spiritual world. He deals with dreams, voice, word, numbers, poet’s vocation, wars, language, etc… He is the prophet of his dreams, his world, his future… There is strong experimentation and innovativeness in the writing, in the text, in form, in style, in content matter, the writer is a discoverer, every horizon is a life horizon. There is the dissecting of that space where art criticism meets art mimesis, and this space is offered as the future of art criticism. The storyteller refuses to die thus the collection proffers escape as the ultimate lover who can help us deal with the insanities of our time.

Author : Jacques Lezra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804727783

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Unspeakable Subjects by Jacques Lezra Pdf

In readings that link works of Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Descartes with current debates in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary and cultural criticism, the author reassesses the grounds of literary and philosophical history as a materialist practice of eventful reading.

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472050901

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Still on Call by Richard Stern Pdf

"Richard Stern is a literary treasure."---Scott Turow --

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Children
ISBN : UCSC:32106009605467

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Travellers in Time by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134879946

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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by Peter Hunt Pdf

The International Companion Encyclopedia answers these questions and provides comprehensive coverage of children's literature from a wide range of perspectives. Over 80 substantial essays by world experts include Iona Opie on the oral tradition, Gillian Avery on family stories and Michael Rosen on audio, TV and other media. The Companion covers a broad range of topics, from the fairy tale to critical theory, from the classics to comics. Structure The Companion is divided into five sections: 1) Theory and Critical Approaches 2) Types and Genres 3) The Context of Children's Literature 4) Applications of Children's Literature 5) The World of Children's Literature Each essay is followed by references and suggestions for further reading. The volume is fully indexed.

Author : Diana Senechal
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610484114

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Republic of Noise by Diana Senechal Pdf

"In this book, Diana Senechal confronts a culture that has come to depend on instant updates and communication at the expense of solitude. Schools today emphasize rapid group work and fragmented activity, not the thoughtful study of complex subjects. The Internet offers contact with others throughout the day and night; we lose the ability to be apart, even in our minds. Yet solitude plays an essential role in literature, education, democracy, relationships, and matters of conscience. Throughout its analyses and argument, the book calls not for drastic changes but for a subtle shift: an attitude that honors solitude without descending into dogma"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Wenhua Shi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781794894464

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RPM 2020 by Wenhua Shi Pdf

RPM Fest is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, video, VR, expanded cinema and audiovisual performance. We are looking for any work that experiments with the formal possibilities or hybrid form of film, video audiovisual, animation, expanded cinema and VR under 15 minutes. RPM Fest is sponsored by the Art Department and Cinema Studies Program at UMass-Boston.

Author : W. David Shaw
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442697263

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Secrets of the Oracle by W. David Shaw Pdf

What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written. Wisdom literature exists in two shaping forms - the aphorism, geared towards the past, and the oracle, a revolutionary impulse looking to the future. Secrets of the Oracle discusses both types of wisdom, finding them in the works of poets and philosophers from Tennyson and Zeno to Yeats and George Berkeley, from Browning and Schleiermacher to T.S. Eliot and F.H. Bradley. The book also discusses the contribution to wisdom of Jesus and the author of Ecclesiastes, of Abraham Lincoln and Norman Maclean. Part celebration of wisdom found and part lament for wisdom lost, Secrets of the Oracle is convincing in its assertion that wisdom articulates what is and offers creative visions of the future.

Author : Judith Larner Lowry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780520249561

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The Landscaping Ideas of Jays by Judith Larner Lowry Pdf

This volume "celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home". Organized by season, the author offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials. She demonstrates to gardeners in California how to boost native plant diversity while attracting wildlife and conserving water.

Author : Donna Lee Brien,Quinn Eades
Publisher : UWAP Scholarly
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 1742589626

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Offshoot by Donna Lee Brien,Quinn Eades Pdf

Offshoot includes essays in life writing methodologies and approaches, as well as a series of creative work-poetry and prose-that engages with current life writing. This collection highlights the development and influence of the genre in the twenty-first century. Starting from the premise that life writing is a significant component of both contemporary artistic practice and scholarship, Offshoot provides a necessary re-evaluation of the mode, its contemporary sub-generic incarnations, as well as methodological and practical approaches. The book presents research on a wide range of approaches, including both traditional areas-such as literature and creative writing-and areas that have not previously been associated with life writing scholarship. With its multifaceted readings, Offshoot signals a shift in life writing research tending towards an expansive, hybrid, experimental, and rhizomic approach. [Subject: Life Writing, Education, Literature]