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Book SynopsisExploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances provide a window into the diversity of human culture.Using a genre-based approach, this book takes a globalized perspective and promotes intercultural exchange and understanding. It presents students with in-depth examples of a wide range of fascinating traditions, as well as the understanding of how such traditions are studied. In explicating key concepts and applying these to specific practices and performances, students are introduced to the fundamentals in the study of human culture and creativity. Topics include mythology, folktales, legends, dance, music, trance states, magic, the spirit world, internet folklore, festivals, street art, subcultural style, rituals, celebrations, and body art and tattoo traditions.Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mytho

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Book SynopsisThe Pro Milone numbers among Cicero''s most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero''s own archenemy. Clodius'' death, Milo''s trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero''s defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero''s language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.Trade Review'The text takes up roughly 30 pages; the commentary takes up 260 pages - over eight pages for each page of text. It is hardly necessary to say that K. has covered, often at length, every point, whether textual, grammatical, syntactical, prosodic, or historical that the student could seek guidance on… It is hard to imagine any need for another commentary on Pro Milone for many years.' Colin Leach, Classics for All'The book will also appeal to an audience with diverse scholarly interests due to its inclusion and excellent treatment of a variety of topics from historical context to rhetorical theory …' Georgina Longley, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Pro Milone and Cicero's career; Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and the aftermath; Historical background; Historical timeline; Argument and outline of the speech; Cicero's style; Revision and publication; Text and transmission; Text: Pro Milone; Commentary.

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Book SynopsisScholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake’s affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake’s gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake’s Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake’s work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake’s bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake’s ‘dark visions of torment’.Trade Review‘These essays investigate how Blake’s major texts—e.g., Jerusalem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The [First] Book of Urizen, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion—arose in conjunction with the Gothic novel in English literature. Addressing a little-recognized facet of Blake studies, the collection examines Blake’s works from aesthetic, architectural, and political Gothic perspectives. A lucid and accessible introduction precedes the essays, which will stretch nonspecialist readers. Several essays focus on Blake’s visual content: David Baulch’s entry reads Gothic iconography in the illustrations of Blake’s Jerusalem, and Jason Whittaker analyzes Blakean references in films by Ridley Scott, with an emphasis on Prometheus. Peter Otto finds the political and social upheavals of Gothic novels to be similarly contained in Blake’s monstrous present with horrified reactions to the alien bodies in The Book of Urizen. Other essays address philosophical readings of Blake’s Deleuzian multiplicity and his counter-Kantian sublime with sophisticated subtlety. This collection is not for the fainthearted, but neither is Blake. Psychological, mythological, and sociological, this collection will draw the reader into the many layers of Blake’s verbal and visual media.’C. L. Bandish, Bluffton University‘William Blake’s Gothic Imagination is more than it promises to be – a ‘major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersections with the Gothic’ – it is a landmark in Blake scholarship. While many of us may be familiar with Blake’s popular reception, reading Blake’s art through the lens of the Gothic is a relatively new and rewarding critical undertaking.’ Sibylle Erle Bishop Grosseteste University, British Association of Romantic Studies‘An ambitious and expansive volume, Bundock and Effinger have opened a new field of enquiry relevant to Blake studies, gothic scholarship, and the broader field of aesthetic theory, particularly as it relates to political power and sexuality. It is to be hoped that their call for further scholarship into the intersection of Blakean verse and gothic horror will not go unanswered.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Such uncanny moments of uncomfortable intimacy occur throughout Bundock and Effinger’s collection and point to a fascinating, if sometimes unconscious, self-reflexivity that is not often found in many historicist analyses of Blake’s work.’European Romantic Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger Part I: The bounding line of Blake’s Gothic: forms, genres, and contexts1. ‘Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic relations – David Baulch2. The horror of Rahab: towards an aesthetic context for William Blake’s ‘Gothic’ form – Kiel Shaub3. The Gothic sublime – Claire ColebrookPart II: The misbegotten 4. Dark angels: Blake, Milton, and Lovecraft in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – Jason Whittaker5. William Blake’s monstrous progeny: anatomy and the birth of horror in The [First] Book of Urizen – Lucy Cogan6. Blake’s Gothic humour: the spectacle of dissection – Stephanie CodsiPart III: Female space and the image7. The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake’s archaeologies of the present – Peter Otto8. Female spaces and the Gothic imagination in The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion – Ana Elena González-TreviñoPart IV: Sex, desire, perversion 9. The horrors of subjectivity/the jouissance of immanence – Mark Lussier10. ‘Terrible Thunders’ and ‘Enormous Joys’: potency and degeneracy in Blake's Visions and James Graham's celestial bed – Tristanne ConnollyBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake’s affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake’s gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake’s Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake’s work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake’s bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake’s ‘dark visions of torment’.Trade Review‘These essays investigate how Blake’s major texts—e.g., Jerusalem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The [First] Book of Urizen, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion—arose in conjunction with the Gothic novel in English literature. Addressing a little-recognized facet of Blake studies, the collection examines Blake’s works from aesthetic, architectural, and political Gothic perspectives. A lucid and accessible introduction precedes the essays, which will stretch nonspecialist readers. Several essays focus on Blake’s visual content: David Baulch’s entry reads Gothic iconography in the illustrations of Blake’s Jerusalem, and Jason Whittaker analyzes Blakean references in films by Ridley Scott, with an emphasis on Prometheus. Peter Otto finds the political and social upheavals of Gothic novels to be similarly contained in Blake’s monstrous present with horrified reactions to the alien bodies in The Book of Urizen. Other essays address philosophical readings of Blake’s Deleuzian multiplicity and his counter-Kantian sublime with sophisticated subtlety. This collection is not for the fainthearted, but neither is Blake. Psychological, mythological, and sociological, this collection will draw the reader into the many layers of Blake’s verbal and visual media.’C. L. Bandish, Bluffton University‘William Blake’s Gothic Imagination is more than it promises to be – a ‘major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersections with the Gothic’ – it is a landmark in Blake scholarship. While many of us may be familiar with Blake’s popular reception, reading Blake’s art through the lens of the Gothic is a relatively new and rewarding critical undertaking.’ Sibylle Erle Bishop Grosseteste University, British Association of Romantic Studies‘An ambitious and expansive volume, Bundock and Effinger have opened a new field of enquiry relevant to Blake studies, gothic scholarship, and the broader field of aesthetic theory, particularly as it relates to political power and sexuality. It is to be hoped that their call for further scholarship into the intersection of Blakean verse and gothic horror will not go unanswered.’Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Such uncanny moments of uncomfortable intimacy occur throughout Bundock and Effinger’s collection and point to a fascinating, if sometimes unconscious, self-reflexivity that is not often found in many historicist analyses of Blake’s work.’European Romantic Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger Part I: The bounding line of Blake’s Gothic: forms, genres, and contexts1. ‘Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic relations – David Baulch2. The horror of Rahab: towards an aesthetic context for William Blake’s ‘Gothic’ form – Kiel Shaub3. The Gothic sublime – Claire ColebrookPart II: The misbegotten 4. Dark angels: Blake, Milton, and Lovecraft in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – Jason Whittaker5. William Blake’s monstrous progeny: anatomy and the birth of horror in The [First] Book of Urizen – Lucy Cogan6. Blake’s Gothic humour: the spectacle of dissection – Stephanie CodsiPart III: Female space and the image7. The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake’s archaeologies of the present – Peter Otto8. Female spaces and the Gothic imagination in The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion – Ana Elena González-TreviñoPart IV: Sex, desire, perversion 9. The horrors of subjectivity/the jouissance of immanence – Mark Lussier10. ‘Terrible Thunders’ and ‘Enormous Joys’: potency and degeneracy in Blake's Visions and James Graham's celestial bed – Tristanne ConnollyBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland. -- .

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Book SynopsisPhilip Roth returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life.

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Book SynopsisThe War Nerd takes on Homer in a new translation; a classic gory, funny, tragic story in today's language.

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Book SynopsisSet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a background of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland. The poet William Butler Yeats is a central figure in the Irish literary revival, while Maud Gonne, a political activist, is passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence. But this is not a dissertation about Yeats’ work, nor is it about the history of the day or the political involvements of Maud Gonne. It is a love story, containing some of the most poignant poems ever written.

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Book Synopsis''A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure to read.'' Marina Warner''A rich account of what modern readers have made of Kafka ... finds room not only for the many sides of him but for a whole smörgåsbord of legacies and afterlives that explode the cliché of the Kafkaesque'' ObserverFranz Kafka was one of the most influential, and enigmatic, writers of the twentieth century. His books, with their mysterious courts and monstrous insects, have had an influential reach across literature, music, art and film. But who, exactly, was Franz Kafka?Karolina Watroba tells Kafka''s story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka''s birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are in part homages to the great man himself.Metamorphoses is a non-chronological journey through Kafka''s life, drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers through time. It is a both an exploration of Kafka''s life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.

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Book Synopsis'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way.Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five years the hosts of Always Take Notes podcast have posed their nosiest questions to some of the world's greatest writers. The result is a compendium of frank and frequently entertaining guidance for living a creative life. From the early failures that shaped them to the daily challenges of writing and the habits that keep them on track, literary luminaries offer guidance to inspire.Featuring:Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Enright, Candice Carty-Williams, Christina Lamb, Colin Thubron, Colum McCann, David Mitchell, Elif Shafak, George Packer, Hadley Freeman, Hollie McNish, Ian McEwan, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Jeffrey Archer, Joanne Harris, Kate Mosse, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Kit de Waal, Louise Doughty, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Maggie Fergusson, Mark Haddon, Marlon James, Max Hastings, May Jeong, Merve Emre, Monica Ali, Niall Ferguson, Nikesh Shukla, Oliver Bullough, Orlando Figes, Patrick Kingsley, Rory Stewart, Rosie Nixon, Ruth Ozeki, Ruth Padel, Sam Knight, Samanth Subramanian, Samira Shackle, Sara Baume, Sebastian Junger, Simon Lancaster, Simon Scarrow, Stig Abell, Terri White, Tessa Hadley, Tim Rice, Toby Young, Tracy Chevalier, William Boyd, William Dalrymple, and many more...Trade Review'Anyone who takes writing seriously will find this book both fascinating and useful' -- Joe Moran * author of First You Write A Sentence *'Inspiring and very useful' -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * author of Write It All Down *'For anybody who is interested in what it means to write and to be a writer, this is a very lovely book' -- Kate Mosse * author of the Languedoc Trilogy *

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Book SynopsisThe story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential women in fashion history. During a visit to St. Moritz at the end of World War II, Chanel shared intimate details of her life, loves and fashion philosophy with her life-long friend, Paul Morand. Only coming to light after Chanel's death, her intimate recollections reveal the secrets behind her success and the captivating charm that made her a true iconTrade Review“It’s an interesting memoir because it's all about what she thinks not what she did.” —David Patrick Columbia, The New York Social Diary “Morand was a citizen of the world, with a sharp eye and a neat turn of phrase.” —The Tablet “This enchanting, tiny book is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco. It’s written in her voice (‘that voice that gushed forth from her mouth like lava’) and in her words (‘those words that crackled like dried vines’), and though it's full of lies, omissions and contradictions, there’s enough raw truth in it to reflect the extraordinary woman who was Chanel, even though glimpsed shard by shard in a broken mirror. —The Spectator “Paul Morand recaptures a WWII-era conversation between the author and the fashion icon.” —Publishers Weekly “Morand was the all-round aesthete.” —Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

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Book SynopsisQuizzes, puzzles, anagrams and wordsearches to test your knowledge of the inexhaustible and powerfully imagined worlds of The Inimitable Boz, as Charles Dickens liked to be called.

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Book SynopsisTranspacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the Mexican most renowned poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Higa Oshiro.Trade Review“This important volume offers a deeper understanding of the literary and cultural production by and about Nikkeijin. The chapters not only explore novels, short stories, poems and art but also a telenovela and are written by a group of intergenerational scholars. An essential book to those who want to understand the historical, literary, cultural, and social relations between Latin America and Japan in a way that is striking, unique, and academically robust.” — Araceli Tinajero, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, USA.“The collection of essays compiled in this book addresses the unique perspective of Nikkei communities without succumbing to orientalist notions of Japaneseness’, offering fresh insight into the diversity of Nikkei cultural representations, often exoticized in Western academic circles. The multidisciplinary nature of the book makes it an important reference for scholars and researchers in a variety of academic fields.” — Randy Muth, Kio University, Nara, Japan.“These essays are themselves ukiyo-e, or ‘pictures of a floating world’: together they constitute a signal contribution to the emerging field of ‘Trans-Pacific Studies’. Presented by some of the field’s outstanding researchers, these perceptive analyses — foregrounding complex relations between Japan on the one hand and Mexico, Peru and Brazil on the other — offer virtual case studies in the manner in which transnational flows and intercultural identities have materialized in today’s global modernity.” — Eugenio Matibag, Iowa State University, lowa, USA. "Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American, Nikkeijin makes an important and timely contribution to the emerging field of Transpacific Studies. The collection offers insightful comparative analysis, a critically astute introductory essay, and original, wide-ranging, and erudite contributions. Written with meticulous research and deep expertise on cultural connections between Latin America and Asia, it represents a significant contribution to the field because of its sustained focus on the Japanese - Latin American cultural production through not only aesthetic form but also social phenomena such as immigration. It is a necessary book that allows readers to see in detail how the complex cultural identity of the Latin American Nikkeijin is constructed. This rigorous and sophisticated volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars in Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Transpacific Studies." — Gorica Majstorovic, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish, Stockton University, Galloway, USA.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The “Japanese Community” in Brazil and its Literary Production: The Functioning of “Death” in Matsui Tarô’s Literary Fiction Nora Juurmaa Chapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazil in Nikkei Cultural Production Ignacio López-Calvo Chapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “Corazón Sencillo” by Augusto Higa Oshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer Barbara Mauthes Chapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada’s Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in ‘El poema de Okusai’ Luyue Wang Chapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki’s Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through A Japanized Lens Maja Zawierzeniec Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough public opinion has always existed, it becomes an acknowledged political subject in both the Oxford English Dictionary (1864) and the Barsetshire Chronicle and Parliamentary Novels of Anthony Trollope contemporaneously with 1) the penetration of the press into local issues and 2) the entire question of which publics were to be represented. Public opinion hence is a composite of parliamentary law-making as well as a kind of appellate division for society's social (and judicial judgments), providing an alternative narrative. It differs from gossip in the nineteenth-century novel insofar as it contains no instruction manual (don't tell anyone, who told you but...), but can be manipulated by a variety of new informational platforms to not merely impact, but constitute decision-making. Detached from any unitary authority and often anonymously narrated, public opinion, like the orphan-figure of nineteenth-century literature, is a discourse discontinuous from history, tradition, class alignments, and foundational origins to become a law unto itself.

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Book SynopsisSir Edward ‘Eddie’ Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who led a remarkable life. Always at the heart of the establishment, he was Winston Churchill’s longest serving Private Secretary and close friend. Marsh harboured a passion for young men - poets, painters and actors - to whom he devoted his money, time and connections. His numerous protégés included luminaries such as Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, and Ivor Novello to name but a few. Preferring to work behind the scenes, Marsh also edited the work of several acclaimed writers; Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, Siegfried Sassoon and many others owe a debt to Marsh whose hand burnished their work. Sharon Mather's biography of Edward Marsh is set against the backdrop of the extraordinary events of the first half of the twentieth century, and is seen through the prism of his illustrious friendships.

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Book SynopsisHer first volume of poems for adults by Anni Llŷn is the eighth title in the popular Tonfedd Heddiw series which provides a platform for new poets to publish their work for the first time.

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Book SynopsisIsabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work has been exhibited in the Tate Gallery. Growing up in London, Sudan and Wales, with a cold and distant father and an isolated mother, Adonis explores the nature of identity, culture and desire as shaped by her childhood impressions of her parents.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Young was the son of gentleman farmer Henry Young who owned Cotchford Farm in the mid-nineteenth century. At the age of just twenty-three William left the farm for what we might now term a 'gap year’ working in Canada. This book, based on his own diary from 1854/5, tells the fascinating story of his journey via Liverpool and onwards on a three-masted schooner to New York, Buffalo and eventually Lake Erie. The voyage had its own perils, a long way from transatlantic travel today. Unbeknown to our diarist, the ship he travelled on was part of a criminal enterprise and eventually suffered both mutiny and wreck. In the mill towns on Lake Erie Young proves an indispensable worker both on crops and stonework. Just as he is about to return to England he is beset with difficulties..... His is a young, clear voice on life a hundred and sixty years ago.

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Book SynopsisThis book advances social scientific interest in a field long dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn about the world beyond their immediate sensory experience and, even in an era of interactive electronic media, the bedtime story remains a cherished part of most children’s daily routine. Storytelling is thus the first abstract formal learning method we encounter as human beings. It is also probably transcultural; perhaps even an immanent part of the human condition. Narratives are, at heart, sequences of events and presuppose and reinforce particular cause-and-effect relationships. Inevitably, they also construct unconscious biases, prejudices, and discriminatory attitudes. Storying (a term we use in this book to encompass stories, storytellers and storytelling) is complex, and this book seeks to make sense of it. Table of Contents1: Introduction.- 2: Narratives in (in)authenticity: The Early Career Academic.- 3: Women, bullying and the construction industry: A story of veiled gender dynamics.-4: Clinical advance through ethnographic storytelling: Towards an enacted organizational role for the hospital visitor.- 5: Two-and-One: Discovering my story in participants' pregnancy narratives.- 6: Exploring polyvocal stories of space, place, movement and migration.- 7: Whose story is it anyway? Hashtag campaigns and digital abortion storytelling.- 8: Storytime in the Craft Beer Bar: narratives, gobbets and segments.- 9: Arbitrage and Autopoiesis in Police Sergeants’ Stories: more than “canteen culture”.- 10: Restorying Trauma: Child Sexual Abuse.- 11: Personal and Ethnic Bildungen: Cross-cultural Storytelling in Singaporean-British Writer PP Wong’s The Life of a Banana.- 12: Telling stories, building bridges, and constructing Milton Keynes: Storytelling practice and research working together.- 13: The personal statement: a tool for developing the pedagogical potential of storytelling in business management education?.

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Book SynopsisAre you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at least the most common problems here. Technical terminology searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to translators, and scientists who need to present their work in languages other than English.

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Book SynopsisPromiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributorsart and social practitioners, researchers, and educatorswho have been researching and writing about caring infrastructures and promiscuous care for the past several years. This interdisciplinary publication comprises essays, visual schematics and scores, personal letters, recipes, and conversations, which emerge from the work of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Promiscuous Infrastructures calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another within and beyond the shared context of a structurally dispassionate institution that requires innovation, expediency, and accountable results. The promiscuity it explores is defined by a collective refusal of efficiency, and favors generosity, care, love, and attention. Together, the group and their interlocutors address themes ranging from institutional change, communal responsibility and accountability practices, mental health and collective care, hospitality and hosting, soil, counter-histories, intergenerational learning, joy and collective grief and the poetics of imagining otherwise.

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Book SynopsisFrom 2010 to 2014, the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg set out to trace over two millennia of research on Greek particles within and beyond ancient Greek. Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse builds on this scholarship and analyzes particle use across five genres: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography.

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Book SynopsisThe 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity.Trade ReviewGiven the fluidity with which [Schmidt] ranges across the canon (as well as quite a bit beyond it), one is tempted to say that he carries English literature inside his head as if it were a single poem, except that there are sections in The Novel on the major Continental influences, too—the French, the Russians, Cervantes, Kafka—so it isn’t only English. If anyone’s up for the job, it would seem to be him… Take a breath, clear the week, turn off the WiFi, and throw yourself in… The book, at its heart, is a long conversation about craft. The terms of discourse aren’t the classroom shibboleths of plot, character, and theme, but language, form, and address. Here is where we feel the force of Schmidt’s experience as an editor and a publisher as well as a novelist… Like no other art, not poetry or music on the one hand, not photography or movies on the other, [a novel] joins the self to the world, puts the self in the world, does the deep dive of interiority and surveils the social scope… [Novels] are also exceptionally good at representing subjectivity, at making us feel what it’s like to inhabit a character’s mind. Film and television, for all their glories as narrative and visual media, have still not gotten very far in that respect, nor is it easy to see how they might… Schmidt reminds us what’s at stake, for novels and their intercourse with selves. The Novel isn’t just a marvelous account of what the form can do; it is also a record, in the figure who appears in its pages, of what it can do to us. The book is a biography in that sense, too. Its protagonist is Schmidt himself, a single reader singularly reading. -- William Deresiewicz * The Atlantic *[Schmidt] reads so intelligently and writes so pungently… Schmidt’s achievement: a herculean literary labor, carried off with swashbuckling style and critical aggression. -- John Sutherland * New York Times Book Review *If you want your books a bit quieter and more extensive chronologically, then do try poet Michael Schmidt’s 700-year history of the novel, The Novel: A Biography, which covers the rise and relevance of the novel and its community of booklovers in a delightful tale, not at all twice-told, that reminds us of exactly why we read. -- Brenda Wineapple * Wall Street Journal *A wonderful, opinionated and encyclopedic book that threatens to drive you to a lifetime of rereading books you thought you knew and discovering books you know you don’t. -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *The Novel: A Biography is a marvel of sustained attention, responsiveness, tolerance and intelligence… It is Schmidt’s triumph that one reads on and on without being bored or annoyed by his keen generosity. Any young person hot for literature would be wise to take this fat, though never obese, volume as an all-in-one course in how and what to read. Then, rather than spend three years picking up the opinions of current academics, the apprentice novelist can learn a foreign language or two, listen, look and then go on his or her travels, wheeling this book as vade mecum. -- Frederic Raphael * Literary Review *In recent years, while the bookish among us were bracing ourselves for the bookless future, stowing our chapbooks and dog-eared novellas in secret underground bunkers, the poet and scholar Michael Schmidt was writing a profile of the novel. The feat itself is uplifting. Bulky without being dense or opaque, The Novel: A Biography belongs on the shelf near Ian Watt’s lucid The Rise of the Novel and Jane Smiley’s livelier user manual, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. Taking as his guide The March of Literature, Ford Madox Ford’s classic tour through the pleasures of serious reading, Schmidt steers clear of the canon wars and their farcical reenactments. He doesn’t settle the question of whether Middlemarch makes us better people. He isn’t worried about ‘trigger warnings.’ And he doesn’t care that a Stanford professor is actively not reading books. Instead, with humor and keen insight, he gives us the story of the novel as told by practitioners of the form. The book is meant for ordinary readers, whose interest is not the death of theory or the rise of program fiction, but what Schmidt calls, in a memorable line, ‘our hunger for experience transformed.’ -- Drew Calvert * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Novel is one of the most important works of both literary history and criticism to be published in the last decade… The reason Schmidt’s book is so effective and important has to do with its approach, its scope, and its artistry, which all come together to produce a book of such varied usefulness, such compact wisdom, that it’ll take a lot more than a few reviews to fully understand its brilliant contribution to literary study… Here, collected in one place, we have the largest repository of the greatest novelists’ opinions and views on other novelists. It would take the rest of us going through countless letters and essays and interviews with all these writers to achieve such a feat. Schmidt has done us all a great, great favor… Maybe the most complete history of the novel in English ever produced… [A] multitudinous achievement… Schmidt [is] an uncannily astute critic… Schmidt’s masterpiece… Schmidt’s writing is a triumph of critical acumen and aesthetic elegance… [The Novel] is a monumental achievement, in its historical importance and its stylistic beauty… It is, itself, a work of art, just as vital and remarkable as the many works it chronicles. -- Jonathan Russell Clark * The Millions *Rare in contemporary literary criticism is the scholar who betrays a love for literature… How refreshing, then, to encounter in Michael Schmidt’s The Novel: A Biography not a theory of the novel, but a life. And what a life it is… Schmidt arranges his examination both chronologically and thematically, taking into account the influences and developments that have shaped the novel for hundreds of years. The Novel is at once encyclopedia, history, and ‘biography.’ …[Schmidt’s] lyrical prose weaves together literary analysis, biography, and cultural criticism… Another delightful aspect of The Novel consists of the surprising and insightful connections Schmidt finds among writers… The Novel is more revelatory (and interesting) than a merely chronological account would be. -- Karen Swallow Prior * Books & Culture *[Schmidt] is a wonderful and penetrating critic, lucid and insightful about a dizzying range of novelists. -- Nick Romeo * Daily Beast *Show[s] how much is to be gained by the application of unfettered intelligence to the study of literature… Schmidt seems to have read every novel ever published in English… This is as sensitive an appreciation of Fielding’s style (all those essayistic addresses to the reader that introduce each of the eighteen books of Tom Jones) as any I’ve ever read. And what Schmidt does for Fielding he does equally well for Ford Madox Ford, Mary Shelley, and (by my count) about 347 others… [Schmidt’s] sensibilities are wholly to be trusted. -- Stephen Akewy * Open Letters Monthly *I was left breathless at Michael Schmidt’s erudition and voracious appetite for reading. -- Alexander Lucie-Smith * The Tablet *[Schmidt] has written what claims to be a ‘biography’ of the novel. It isn’t. It’s something much more peculiar and interesting… Illuminating and fascinating. And because the book makes no pretense to objectivity, the prose is engaging and witty… [A] marvelous book… If there is a future for encyclopedic books ‘after’ the internet, this is a model of how it should be done. -- Robert Eaglestone * Times Higher Education *The title and the length of Michael Schmidt’s book promise something more than an annotated chronology. This is not a rise of, nor an aspects of, nor even a theory of, the novel, but a nuanced account of the development of an innovative form… Schmidt’s preferences are strong and warm. He admires a range of authors from Thomas Love Peacock and Walter Scott to Anthony Burgess and Peter Carey… The Novel: A Biography incidentally provides the material for one to make a personal re-reading list. -- Lindsay Duguid * Times Literary Supplement *[Schmidt] prove[s] his wide-ranging reading tastes, his ability to weave a colorful literary tapestry and his conviction that the novel is irrepressible. * Kirkus Reviews *If focusing on the events surrounding one novel isn’t enough, or is too much, Michael Schmidt offers an eclectic variety in The Novel: A Biography. At 1,160 pages, this hefty volume features 350 novelists from Canada, Australia, Africa, Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the Caribbean and covers 700 years of storytelling. But Schmidt does something different: while the book is arranged chronologically, the chapters are theme-based (e.g., ‘The Human Comedy,’ ‘Teller and Tale,’ ‘Sex and Sensibility’) and follow no specific outline, blending author biographies, interviews, reviews, and criticism into fluid narratives… This is a compelling edition for writers and other readers alike; a portrayal that is aligned with Edwin Muir’s belief that the ‘only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.’ -- Annalisa Pesek * Library Journal *I toast a certainty—the long and fruitful life of poet, critic, and scholar Michael Schmidt’s book, The Novel: A Biography. Readers for generations will listen through Schmidt’s ear to thrilling conversations, novelist to novelist, and walk guided by Schmidt through these 1200 pages of his joyful and wise understanding. -- Stanley MossMichael Schmidt is one of literature’s most ambitious champions, riding out against the naysayers, the indifferent, and the purse holders, determined to enlarge readers’ vision and rouse us all to pay attention. Were it not for his rich and adventurous catalogue of publications at Carcanet Press, and the efforts of a few other brave spirits at other small presses (such as Bloodaxe Books) the landscape of poetry in the U.K. would be depopulated, if not desolate. He has now turned his prodigious energies to telling the story of the novel’s transformation through time: a Bildungsroman of the genre from a persevering and unappeasable lover. -- Marina Warner

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Book SynopsisThis Companion brings together a wealth of information about the perennially fascinating lives and writings of the Brontë sisters. In addition, wide-ranging articles enable the reader to see them in their literary and social context, and to trace their enduring influence on the work of other writers.Trade ReviewThe anniversary edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës is a carefully compiled, extended reissue of the comprehensive volume of scholarship first published in 2003. Its timely publication contributes to the exciting increase in scholarship on the Brontë siblings to commemorate the bicentenaries of their births. * Tamara S. Wagner, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era *Brontë scholars will be pleased to see Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith's magisterial The Oxford Companion to the Brontës: Anniversary edn., with A-Z entries for almost anything, as well as a chronology, maps and longer entries for broader topics. * Pamela K. Gilbert, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *I have spent many happy hours dipping in and out and reading it over the last few months wondering where to start to extoll is virtues and joys This really is a glorious book, it is a treasure trove of information and a must have for all Bronte lovers. * Random Jottings *Wonderfully detailed * Christopher Hirst and Christina Patterson, Independent *This book is a must...A treasure trove of a book * Brian Maye, Irish Times *impressively academic and comprehensive * Times Literary Supplement *It's as authoritative as you'd expect, with more than 2,000 entries ... Even if you are not an academic seeking facts, you could browse absorbingly for hours. * Harry Mead, The Northern Echo *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceEditors and ContributorsClassified Contents ListAbbreviationsChronologyMapsNote to the ReaderTHE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE BRONTËS: A-ZDialect and Obsolete WordsBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe familiar literary-critical category of ''graveyard poetry'' has made the eighteenth--century churchyard a commonplace in the period''s cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the afterlife. By contrast, Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre shows how the churchyard takes on a new shape and a fresh importance for a counter--tradition of women and labouring--class poets, for whom this landscape is a resting place with no closure. In work by Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Charlotte Smith, and John Clare-but also for Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, and William Wordsworth -- the churchyard emerges as a contested space of social life through a shared focus on the body as the instrument of labour. Churchyard Poetics focuses on how these poets use genres like georgic, pastoral, topographical poetry, and elegy to locate the churchyard in a broader terrain of laborious life, disarranged in the

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the bestselling Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, this wide-ranging, compact guide has been fully revised and updated. In over 5,500 A-Z entries, it covers all aspects of English literature and constitutes an indispensable reference for English students, teachers, and anyone else who loves literature.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book. * Henry Hitchings, The Times Literary Supplement *a work of extraordinary value ... No library, no matter how small, can claim not to be able to afford at least one copy of this invaluable and almost incomparable, reference book. Another authoritative reference work of remarkable value will be welcome news to those libraries which found themselves unable to purchase the full edition. * Library Review *No guide could come more classic than The Oxford Companion to English Literature ... the literary reference source of first resort ... indispensable ... . Contemporary international writing is excellently covered ... excellent chronology * Malcolm Bradbury, The Times *Always good company * Ian Sansom, Guardian *Everybody with an interest in English literature will want to own it * David Sexton, Evening Standard *Remains irresistible * Sue Gaisford, Harpers & Queen *Continues to stand out as distinctive, authoritative, and a work of excellence * Reference Reviews *Increasing user-friendliness and a nice "up to date" feel * Reference Reviews *Sumptuous volume. * Ferdinand Mount, Standpoint *Detailed, clear and lively accounts. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *A classic now made contemporary, this really is a boon companion. * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *Birch and the contributors have done an excellent job. * Sameer Rahim, Daily Telegraph *Excellence is in the details. * Times Literary Supplement, Henry Hitchings *It offers companionable assistance; it's your pal in literary need. * John Sutherland, Sunday Times *It is a fascinating, compact and readable reference work. * Day by Day *accessible, readable * Mail on Sunday *If you are at all interested in literature, then this is your essential reference book * Writers News *Table of ContentsPREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE TO THE READER; CONCISE COMPANION; APPENDICES

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Book SynopsisFélix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s.Trade Review'In these stirring pages Bifo produces a rhythmic map of Félix Guattari's thought that resonates with the contemporary discords of cognitive labour. Tones of intimacy and abstraction combine in haunting chords of unhappy politics and philosophical triumphs. Strains of oracularity take flight in political insights more Buddhist than Leninist. Immensely protective of Félix as both teacher and friend, Bifo ensures that the refrains of Guattari's processes of subjectivation do not petrify into academic givens but continue to sing their extraordinary singularity and make new becomings available for those engaged in tomorrow's struggles. Bifo invites his readers to share the intensities of conceptual and political creativity, productively despair of the fragility of the psyche and the environment, and rejoice in a philosophical friendship with the conviction to head straight into chaos. Bifo's Félix is a netizen before the letter; semio-chemist of molecular evolution; analyst of an unconscious redesigned for getting things done together; and a trusted fellow militant. In this remarkable book there is more than enough sharable affect available to counteract the attenuations of revolutionary desire under infocapital.' - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair in Technoculture, Lakehead University 'Félix Guattari was the bridge between French poststructuralism and Italian autonomism, the thinker and militant who, more than anyone else, made possible the synthesis of those currents that now looms so large in debates over globalization, network culture and cognitive capitalism. Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is a major Italian media theorist and activist, an agent provocateur who deserves to be as well known to Anglophone readers as Agamben, Negri or Vattimo. Bifo's book does many things at once: it introduces readers to the thought of Guattari (and Deleuze, who for once gets second billing) in a lively and agile manner; it offers a moving tribute to a departed friend and ally as well as a meditation on friendship as the necessary condition of thought and action; it creates new philosophical concepts of unhappiness and depression that are crucial for understanding the present; and much more. This book should be essential reading for everyone who is concerned with nihilism and deconstruction, biopower and the multitude, bare life and the state of exception in short, everyone who wants to confront the twenty-first century on its own terms.' - Timothy S. Murphy, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsPreface: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography; G.Mecchia & C.J.Stivale Introduction: Cartographies in Becoming PART I The Happy Depression Integrated World Capitalism Planetary Psychopathia Postmediatic Affect PART II User's Manual Deleuze and the Rhizomatic Machine Why is Anti-Oedipus the Book of the '68 Movement? Kafka, Hypertext and Assemblages The Tantric Egg Chaosmosis The Provisional Eternity of Friendship Interview with Franco Berardi 'Bifo', July 11 2005; G.Mecchia Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1900, eleven years prior to her masterpieceEthan Frome, Edith Wharton''s novella The Touchstone explores the emotional complexities of love and betrayal. Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn. Glennard?s psychological anguish as he grapples with his guilt and the repercussions of his actions presents a poignant narrative of human conscience and morality.

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Book SynopsisThe four private speeches contained in this collection were functional artefacts whose object was to persuade a jury numbered in hundreds by manipulating both the facts of the case and the prejudices, beliefs and attitudes of the Athenian man-in-the-street. It is as vehicles of persuasion that Dr Carey and Dr Reid seek primarily to treat the speeches, using their commentary to shed light on how well the speeches perform their function. The speeches have also been chosen for their value as documents of Athenian law, commerce and private life. The commentary explains as far as possible any obscurities in these fields and also deals with matters of linguistic interest. While intended mainly for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools, the book will be of interest to all classical scholars. The introduction, which provides a brief survey of the Athenian legal system and the trade of the speechwriter, requires no knowledge of Greek and should interest students of classicalTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the text; Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches: 54. Against Conon; 37. Against Pantaenetus; 39. Against Boeotus; 56. Against Dionysodorus; Commentary; Index.

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Book SynopsisExplodes the myth that Lewis was a misogynist and shows how his approach to women is pertinent to contemporary culture.Trade Review“A remarkably fine tribute to C.S. Lewis.” -- Walter Hooper, literary advisor to the C.S. Lewis Estate, United Kingdom“Thanks! Someone needed to write this book.” -- Eric Metaxas, New York Times best-selling author of Miracles, Bonhoeffer, 7 Men, and others.“Excellent for both fans of Lewis and for scholars. Rich in truth and wisdom for the twenty-first century. A most welcome contribution to closure on the vital question of Lewis’ views on gender.” -- Dr J. Stanley Mattson, Founder and President, The C.S. Lewis Foundation, Redlands, California.“This book brings new light, thought, and perception to the subject of women in C.S. Lewis’ life and writings. These essays are full of shared wisdom and cogent argument that will challenge your perceptions of Lewis and his world.” -- Brian Sibley, writer and broadcaster known for his highly acclaimed BBC serializations of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings."Finally, here is a book that properly places Lewis in his socio-cultural setting for a thorough and positive examination of nearly every aspect in which women touched his life – from created literary characters, professional acquaintances, familial relationships, literary references, to the deep marital love that so blessed his life with Joy. This collective work of prominent Lewis scholars is an extraordinary and vital read for any Lewis enthusiast.” -- Deborah Higgens, PhD, former Director of the C.S. Lewis Study Centre, Oxford; Professor of Medieval Literature, La Sierra University, California; author of Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments 11INTRODUCTIONSWas C.S. Lewis sexist? Is he relevant today?Carolyn Curtis 13Not mere mortalsDr Mary Pomroy Key 21SECTION ONELewis, the man – and the women in his life 27Chapter OneThe enduring influence of Flora LewisDr Crystal Hurd 31Chapter TwoWhat do we make of Lewis’ relationship with Mrs Moore?Paul McCusker 41Chapter ThreeHelen Joy Davidman (Mrs C.S. Lewis) 1915–1960: a portraitDr Lyle W. Dorsett 53Chapter FourFire and Ice: why did Lewis marry Joy Davidman rather thanRuth Pitter?Dr Don W. King 65Chapter FiveThe Divine Comedy of C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. SayersDr Crystal L. Downing 73Chapter SixOn Tolkien, the Inklings – and Lewis’ blindness to genderDr Alister McGrath 79Chapter SevenC.S. Lewis and the friends who apparently couldn’t really havebeen his friends, but actually wereColin Duriez 85SECTION TWOLewis, the fiction author – how girls and women areportrayed in his novels 93Chapter OneAre The Chronicles of Narnia sexist?Dr Devin Brown 95Chapter Two“The Abolition of Woman”: gender and hierarchy in Lewis’Space TrilogySteven Elmore 109Chapter Three“She is one of the great ones.” The radical world of The Great DivorceDr Joy Jordan-Lake 121Chapter FourThe Pilgrim’s Paradox: female characters in The Pilgrim’s RegressDr David C. Downing 127Chapter FiveNew perspectives: Till We Have Faces, The Four Loves, and other worksAndrew Lazo 135SECTION THREELewis, the poet – surprises from his poetry 145Chapter OneSetting the man–woman thing to rightsBrad Davis 147Chapter TwoBridging the chasm between usKelly Belmonte 155Chapter ThreeGetting our goddesses together: Lewis and the feminine voicein poetryRevd Dr Malcolm Guite 161SECTION FOURLewis, the influencer – how his life and literature impact thetwenty-first century discussion about women 169Chapter OneJack, the “old woman” of Oxford: sexist or seer?Dr Monika B. Hilder 173Chapter TwoA generation longing for C.S. LewisBrett McCracken 187Chapter ThreeFrom feminist to mere ChristianDr Mary Poplin 191Chapter FourLewis as teacher and servant… and my respectful disagreementon women as priestsRevd Dr Jeanette Sears 199Chapter FiveOn women’s roles in the church: Lewis’ letters to me as a child litmy wayKathy Keller 209Chapter SixC.S. Lewis on love and sexDr Holly Ordway 217Chapter SevenMistress for pleasure or wife for fruit?Dr Michael Ward 223Chapter EightDorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis: comrades against the zeitgeistKasey Macsenti 233SECTION FIVELewis, the mentor – how his views on women impact mine 243Chapter OneLewis inspired me to speak out for womenRandy Alcorn 245Chapter TwoOn being the father of immortals: lessons from “The Weight of Glory”John Stonestreet 253Chapter ThreeMore than a fairy princess: what Narnia teaches about being strong,courageous womenChristin Ditchfield 261CONCLUSIONWhat do Lewis’ life and literature reveal for today’s culture?Carolyn Curtis 265Questions for Reflection and Discussion 276Endnotes 278

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Book SynopsisThis Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way of thinking about the feminist historiography of printing as we confront the presence and particular character of letterpress in a digital age. This Element is divided into four sections: the first, ''Historicizing'' traces the critical histories of women and print through to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The second section, ''Learning,'' offers an analysis of some of the modes of discourse and training through which women and gender minorities have learned the craft of printing. The third section, ''Individualizing'' offers brief biographical vignettes. The fourth section, ''Writing,'' focuses on printers'' own written reflections about letterpress. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CoTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Historicizing; 2. Learning; 3. Individualizing; 4. Writing; Coda: Letterpress at a Distance; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Writing Short Stories has been revised and updated to provide a complete guide to the craft of writing short stories. It emphasizes the importance of voice as a foundation for work on characterization, imagery, dialogue and pace, as readers move from their first sketches to working on more complex narrative structures.Ailsa Cox guides readers through key aspects of the craft, providing a variety of case studies of classic and contemporary core texts. The wide range of writers discussed include Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Mansfield, Angela Carter, Alice Munro, Ali Smith, Iphgenia Baal, Octavia E. Butler and William Gibson. The diversity and flexibility of the short story genre is highlighted throughout, along with the specific challenges the writer faces. The book considers a range of genres, such as fantasy, science fiction, horror, autobiography, romance, comedy and satire. The new edition also includes extra insights into getting published, includ

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