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Book SynopsisHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studiesThe Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the Unite the Right rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist and antisemitic slurs in Charlottesville, and the targeted racist and sexist harassment of Star Wars' Asian American actress Kelly Marie Tran all have one thing in common: they demonstrate the collective power and underlying ugliness of fandoms. These fans might feel victimized or betrayed by the content they've intertwined with their own identities, or they may simply feel that they're speaking truth to power. Regardless, by connecting via social media, they can unleash enormous amounts of hate, which often results in severe real-world consequences.Fandom Is Ugly argues that reactionary politics and media fandoms go hand in hand, and to understand one, we need to understand the other. Mel Stanfill push

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Book SynopsisWhat is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.Trade ReviewMorrison’s new book of essays, The Origin of Others, shows that the sick, sad world in which her novels are set is an old one—one that she yearns to lean out of, one we’re falling right back into instead. The Origin of Others is, at once, a critique, memoir, and writer’s notebook; the Nobel Prize–winning author explicates the observations and inspirations behind some of her most prized novels. The book draws from her Norton Lectures, in which she discusses race, borders, history, and other literary heavyweights such as Flannery O’Connor and Ernest Hemingway. Readers could consider this book a companion to her Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, if they want a pellucid look at the racial minefield throughout American literature. -- Kaila Philo * The Millions *It is hard not to want more than an afternoon with her incisive mind…Her essays are richly embellished with anecdote and memory, but grounded in literary analysis. Morrison looks to literature as a potent site of prejudicial tuition…Drafted in the months before Brexit and Donald Trump, it is hard not to see The Origin of Others as politically prescient. -- Beejay Silcox * The Australian *For those who want to understand better the process of inventing others, its literary past, and the tendency in us all to dismiss others clamoring for a sense of belonging, The Origin of Others is a must-read. Morrison’s fans will appreciate her hauntingly clear reading of the times, even while she remains true to her literary aesthetic. New readers can look to this text as a foray into the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of our time. With the same revolutionary simplicity as Martin Buber’s I and Thou, Morrison reminds us once again that whatever can be said of the self is always determined by how one stands in relation to the other. -- Audrey Thompson * Christian Century *If you’ve ever wanted to take a peek into the brilliant mind of Toni Morrison, look no further than her latest book. In The Origin of Others, Morrison dissects all the thematic elements that frequent her work, and sheds light on what inspires her and what keeps her up at night. Based on her Norton Lectures, the renowned novelist delves deep into how literature has shaped society’s perceptions of race over the years, as well as how some of her most beloved books came to be. Plus, it has a brilliant introduction from Ta-Nehisi Coates! -- Gina Mei * Shondaland *Pulitzer– and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Morrison analyzes the language of race and racism and the classification of people into dehumanizing racial categories in American culture… Lyrically written and intelligently argued, this book is on par with Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination and The Black Book. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *This is an intriguing and timely series of reflections on race, fear, belonging and otherness. -- Louise Kennedy * The ARTery *This volume collects the great novelist’s Norton lectures at Harvard University, giving those of us who didn’t get to attend a glimpse at Morrison’s thoughts on race and otherness, and how these things affect literature and lives around the world. * The Millions *[A] slender but profound volume. -- Tom Beer * Newsday *The Origin of Others is a must read. -- Tara Block * PopSugar *From legendary writer and thinker Toni Morrison comes a book that deals with one of the thorniest topics of our time: race…What is race? What motivates us to construct otherness? What makes us so afraid of one another? Probing, brilliant, and beautifully rendered, The Origin of Others is destined to become one of the major sociological texts of our time. -- Elizabeth Kiefer * Refinery29 *Every literature lover who dreams of studying with Toni Morrison will devour The Origin of Others, a new collection of her Harvard lectures on race, literature, and otherness. -- Angela Carone * San Diego Magazine *What is sure to be her most personal and self-reflecting work in nonfiction yet, Morrison delves further into the themes that have always been crucial to her canon: race, politics, history, identity, et al. -- Maura M. Lynch and Jinnie Lee * W Magazine *Morrison explores how cultures, societies, and individuals develop the notion of the Other, the reasons for it, the perceived benefits of distinguishing based on what many insist are racial traits despite the slipperiness of concepts of race…In this slim volume, Morrison shares again her enormous talent for examining the complexity of race and racial identity, the inhumanity that results from ‘othering’ a fellow human being, the justifications for cruelty that has resulted in romanticized images of slavery and oppression, and how the perversity of racism reverberates through centuries. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *Melding memoir, history, and trenchant literary analysis, Nobel Prize laureate Morrison offers perceptive reflections on the configuration of Otherness…As sharp and insightful as one would expect from this acclaimed author. * Kirkus Reviews *May be [Morrison’s] most comprehensive look at race in America to date. * Pacific Standard *[Morrison] traces through American literature patterns of thought and behavior that subtly code who belongs and who doesn’t, who is accepted in and who is cast out as ‘Other.’ …The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world. -- Nell Irvin Painter * New Republic *The Origin of Others gives readers around the world a chance to take a peek inside the insightful mind of one of America’s most celebrated novelists… Equal parts challenging and engaging, reading The Origin of Others is like learning from the literary legend herself. -- Sadie Trombetta * Bustle *It is hard not to read Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others in the light of recent disturbing political developments in the U.S… Morrison considers the fetishization of skin color and the questions posed by our era of mass migration, and offers elegant reminders of some well-known but still unpalatable facts… She shows how a single word choice in a Hemingway novel can exploit and fortify any number of racialized fetishes and revulsions, and she also explains, with a dispassionate attention to technique, why and how Hemingway made such choices as a writer, the useful short cuts they allowed him to take for the purposes of narrative and character and mood. -- Lidija Haas * The Guardian *Morrison trains her well-aimed pen at the themes that only a titan such as herself can so gracefully take on like race, fear, borders and the mass movement of people, for example. -- Lesley-Ann Brown * NBC News *Toni Morrison is the one of the great contemporary analysts of race and identity…Here she develops in a more concerted way than we find in her earlier work the means by which racist ideologies obliterate the possibility of knowing others, and stifle the chance we are afforded to gain knowledge of ourselves…Morrison draws on a series of episodes from [America’s] literature and history, and examines them in relation to salient moments from her own life. The resulting work is transformative, exhilarating, distressing. And acutely and urgently necessary…The Origin of Others is full of insights. They are made all the more persuasive by Morrison’s elegant, plangent prose, and by her refusal to exclude herself from those mythologies of otherness of which we are all the unhappy legatees. To read this wise, probing and inspiring book is to acquaint yourself with a writer who is a foe of that inheritance and a vital friend of the human project. -- Matthew Adams * The National *In a series of essays that provides equally unique insights into American literary history and Morrison’s own mind, The Origin of Others explores how otherness, particularly racial difference, is socially constructed, and the ways Morrison has always worked to explore and confound that construct through her writing. -- Emily Lever * The Literary Show Project *The Nobel Prize–winning novelist employs literary criticism, history, and memoir to illustrate how power imagines difference in order to legitimize oppression… As Barack Obama completed a two-term presidency, and his attorneys general launched investigations into police brutality across the country, it seemed reasonable to assume that the United States was finally preparing to acknowledge and address the structural racism that underpins its society. The intervening year has exposed that as a dangerous assumption, and made required reading of a book that, in any sane version of the present, should have marked how much progress had recently been made and how far was yet to go. -- Ben Eastham * Art Review *[Morrison] is doing what she does best, using historical, personal and current events to explore how racism continues to divide society. Drawing on issues of globalization and the mass movement of people, she explores how the presence of others contributes to belonging. The book is as good as I had expected. Morrison’s narrative is both powerful and chilling as she takes us on a journey that shocks and enlightens but forever reminds us that, ‘The definition of Americanness (sadly) remains color for many people.’ -- Kalwant Bhopal * Times Higher Education *A slim volume that contains multitudes. It can be read in one sitting, yet it’s a book that readers will likely return to frequently for its conceptual richness, catholic knowledge, and political imagination…Literature, Morrison argues throughout The Origin of Others, is central to shaping social imaginations of hate, and conversely, literature has the potential to help us envision better worlds and better futures…Morrison deftly moves between literary analysis, personal memoir, historical research, critical theory, and politics. And moreover, she does so with incredible clarity and grace. Her intended audience is not specialists in narrow fields, but wide and broad publics…We live in a regime in which nation-states can blind us from seeing the tragedies and genocides unfolding beyond our artificial borders. Toni Morrison's latest book challenges us in subtle and profound ways to see beyond such artifices. We need literary fictions to see the many violences of our political fictions. -- Ryan Poll * PopMatters *In this era of stark division, distrust and state-sponsored xenophobia, it is hard to imagine a more timely and laudable message than the plea for understanding, with its separation of the fact of culture from notions of racial essentialism, and its implicit faith in the importance, and transformative power, of literature. -- Clifford Thompson * Times Literary Supplement *The autobiographical moments in The Origin of Others are the most interesting paragraphs within this book. Peeking into the life of this Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s personal life to understand her concerns for black America, provides a logical solution in shaping black identity—control our narrative… The Origin of Others moved me to be more conscious of what type of language and behavior I, a hip-hop journalist and aspiring historian, put into the world. -- Darryl Robertson * VIBE *A painful and powerful study of race as it affected [Morrison’s] writing and her reading. The book is clear and challenging. Attitudes are eloquently investigated. -- Eavan Boland * Irish Times *There is another aspect to otherness: how we cope, survive, rationalize and discriminate by creating, in our minds and habits, others. No book addresses this more profoundly than Toni Morrison’s small book of essays, The Origin of Others…It’s Trumpism that makes her insights essential now…Morrison addresses the ‘romancing of slavery’ in our literature and history. She looks carefully at what ‘being or becoming a stranger’ means in American life. She analyzes our fetishes with darkness, our preoccupations with blackness and the tropes we perpetuate regarding Africa: menace, depravity, incomprehensibility. This is not easy, comforting reading for a Christmas morning, but it is a book we need to be talking about. -- Jon M. Sweeney * America *Morrison expertly dissects the nuanced conversations around race and why they matter. -- Shalayne Pulia * InStyle *Morrison has much to say about events that are not only on the American mind, but the global one, as she ranges over nostalgic returns to slavery, the pervasive use of racial epithets by white writers, and the forced migration of an unprecedented number of displaced people…In The Origin of Others, Morrison revisits ways of reading American literature, but also expands her scope to ponder the meaning of race itself, and how it lodges itself in both individual and collective imaginaries. -- Yogita Goyal * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisJames Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce's life and history with his books, it also shows how Joyce celebrated his own experiences in Dublin.Table of Contents1: Story and sound 2: Dubliners 3: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 4: Ulysses 5: Finnegans Wake 6: Conclusion: Elite past or democratic future? Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisDon Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift''s Gulliver, Stendhal''s Julien Sorel, Melville''s Ahab, Dostoyevsky''s Underground Man, Ibsen''s Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg''s Captain (in The Father), Kafka''s K., and Joyce''s autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others.from Paranoia and ModernityParanoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of symptomsgrandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions of persTrade ReviewThis ambitious book traces the workings of paranoia through a dizzying variety of texts, not only 'Cervantes to Rousseau,' but Sophocles to Pynchon, including detailed readings of the Gawain Poet, Luther, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Leibniz, Locke, Pope, Swift, and Hemingway. * Renaissance Quarterly *

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Book Synopsis''He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others''.So Virginia Woolf described the ''common reader'' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as many others. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer of genius.Trade ReviewVirginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness" * Guardian *Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition * New York Times *Virginia Woolf was a great writer. Her voice is distinctive; her style is her own; her work is an active influence on other writers and a subtle influence on what we have come to expect from modern literature -- Jeanette Winterson

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Book SynopsisWar and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred, or tolerated injustice and violence in any form. Yet among literary critics and rival writers, it has become a commonplace to disparage Tolstoy''s thought while praising his art. In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy''s work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, she analyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy''s art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy''s work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review... excellent short biograph[y]. * Donna Tussing Orwin, Slavonic and East European Review *Knapp has succeeded in writing a worthwhile introduction to Tolstoy, perfectly suited to the classroom or, for that matter, anyone with some curiosity and two hours of quiet. Even Tolstoy scholars will appreciate her insights and, more importantly, her ability to connect seemingly divergent aspects of this notoriously unstable genius. * Martin Denver, Russian Review *A superb short work. * Paradigm Explorer *Liza Knapp has given us the ideal introduction to Tolstoy a marvellous synthesis and critique that takes his ideas and philosophy as seriously as his novels. Brilliantly written and useful. * Jay Parini, author of The Last Station *Dazzling. Compelling. Moving! Knapp brilliantly illuminates the inseparability of Tolstoys art and thought and how a cherished childhood game inspired both. * Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University *Table of Contents1: From "Ant Brothers" to loving all as brothers and sisters 2: Tolstoy on War and on Peace 3: Tolstoy on love 4: Tolstoy on death 5: What Tolstoy believed 6: What then must we do? 7: Tolstoy's art and Tolstoy's devices Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisHow do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure and the Arts offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting.The arts direct us to intimate and particularized relationships - with the people represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them. When we listen to music or look at a purely abstract painting, or when we drink a glass of wine, can we enjoy the experience without verbalizing our response? Do our interpretative assumptions, our awareness of technique, and our attitudes to fantasy, get in the way of our appreciation of art, or enhance it? As the book examines these questions and more, we discover how curiosity drives us to enjoy narratives, ordinary jokes, metaphors, and modernist epiphanies, and how narrative in all the arts can order and provoke intense enjoyment. Pleasurable inTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Jokes, Poems, Understanding ; 2. Emotions and Narrative ; 3. Beyond Words: Sensation, Abstraction, and Form ; 4. Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique

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Book SynopsisFiguring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem is this: how did these writers bring their imagination home in the Zionist century? Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi finds that the same diasporic conventions that Hebrew writers practiced in exile were maintained throughout the first half of the twentieth century. And even after 1948, when the state of Israel was founded but East Jerusalem and its holy sites remained under Arab control, Jerusalem continued to figure in the Hebrew imagination as mediated space. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Day War that the temptations and dilemmas of proximity to the sacred would become acute in every area of Hebrew politics and culture. Figuring Jerusalem ranges from classical texts, biblical and medieval, to the post-1967 writings of S. Y. Agnon and Yehuda Amichai. Ultimately, DeKoven Ezrahi shows that the wisdom Jews acquired through two thousand years of exile, as inscribed in their literary imagination, must be rediscovered if the diverse inhabitants of Jerusalem are to coexist.Trade Review“Figuring Jerusalem, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi’s most far-ranging and ambitious book, is a morally bracing and politically urgent argument against spatially literalizing the sacred in Jerusalem. Instead, DeKoven Ezrahi offers a persuasive plea for the quotidian, in which the symbolism of the holy is not confused with the physical space of the holy. Her defense of ordinary existence's preciousness begins with Genesis, moves through Maimonides, and culminates in insightful readings of Agnon and Amichai.” * Robert Alter, author of 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary' *“This beautifully written, brilliantly argued study reveals the Jewish imagination to be predicated on distance from Jerusalem as the physical source of holiness. Return and redemption are endlessly deferred, as texts and their metaphors become surrogates for literal proximity to the sacred. DeKoven Ezrahi’s cautionary tale about the dangers of the contemporary cult of the land, and of Jerusalem in particular, is couched in breathtaking, indeed revolutionary readings of the Binding of Isaac, the Song of Songs, Maimonides, and especially Agnon and Amichai. A book of great cultural urgency for our times that makes an invaluable contribution to the field of Jewish studies and beyond.” * Chana Kronfeld, author of 'The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai' *“Written between the brackets of war and poetry, this stunning literary archeology aims an unflinching—but loving—gaze at the world’s most desired, and therefore contested, city. A modern guide for the perplexed, this book opens the gates of Jerusalem anew, revealing the literal and figurative touchstone of religious imagination, political longing, and artistic invention. A tour de force.” * James Carroll, author of 'The Truth at the Heart of the Lie' and 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited our Modern World' *"People have been waiting for this book because of how it situates the fraught issues of Jerusalem’s current politics within the city’s historical status as a poetic object. DeKoven Ezrahi’s lyrical, provocative account of Jerusalem as metaphor and allegory across a variety of sacred, literary, and philosophical texts will enrich scholarly discourse, illuminating for readers how a 'diaspora poetics' has infused the city and its memory with a unique sense of place.” * Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Why Jerusalem? The Politics of Poetry Introduction “This House, which is called by My Name” Part 1 Literary Archaeologies 1 “Yes, you did laugh!”: The Secret of the Akeda 2 “You are as majestic as Jerusalem”: The Song and the City 3 “Apples of gold in ornaments of silver”: Maimonides’s Guide to the Poetic Imagination Part 2 Agnon’s Dilemma 4 “What may this be likened to?”: Agnon and the Poetics of Space 5 “Every day I have regretted not having stood in the breach”: Agnon in Jerusalem Part 3 Amichai in the Breach 6 “He comes out of a swimming pool or the sea . . . and he laughs and blesses”: Yehuda Amichai, Poet of the Sacred Quotidian 7 “Visit my tears and the east wind, which is the true Western Wall”: Amichai in Jerusalem Coda Acknowledgments: Ancient Debts and Ongoing Gratitude Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA sociological history of literary studyboth as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound.No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of literaturehas been organized, both historically and in the modern era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of a professionalism that betrays the discipline's relation to its amateur precursor: criticism. In a series of timely essays, Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the perennial churn in Trade Review“In Professing Criticism, [Guillory] takes on an even bigger question: What is literary criticism—specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically sophisticated textual readings generated by academic critics—really for?" -- Jennifer Schuessler * The New York Times *"Professing Criticism is a sociology of criticism, an argument about how, during the twentieth century, the practice evolved from a wide-ranging amateur pursuit, requiring no specialist training or qualifications, into a profession and a discipline housed within the academy. . . . The profession of literary study as it is currently institutionalized in the university may not be the place from which the journey toward a future criticism begins. To sit alongside Guillory on his high perch, or maybe a branch or two higher, is not to dream of the past or to mourn the present. It is to scan new horizons for the second coming of the critic." -- Merve Emre * The New Yorker *"The most penetrating, and in some ways most original, study we have of the forces that have shaped the history of literary study, especially in the US. . . . Professing Criticism does not fit any familiar category: it is the work of an original intelligence taking seriously the various responsibilities involved in trying to understand how the present state of literary study emerged out of its history." -- Stefan Collini * London Review of Books *"For those of us who value not only literature but the idiosyncratic legacy of academic literary studies, Guillory does not bring good or welcome news. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s wrong." -- Evan Kindley * New York Review of Books *"[Guillory’s] goal is to understand how the practice of criticism, which flourished in the journalism of the 19th century, became a university discipline. . . . The questions Guillory poses have a long history but a new urgency before what seems like a precipice: Will literary studies continue as a professional activity, and if so, in what form? And might professionalism itself inhibit the changes that need to happen in the field?" -- Nicholas Dames * The Nation *"Three decades ago, Guillory’s influential Cultural Capital attacked the whole premise of the canon wars. The combatants assumed that it mattered meaningfully for creation of an inclusive social world what people read in literature classrooms. They mistook or substituted the exclusionary classroom for a possibly inclusive social world. These arguments are revisited and deepened in Professing Criticism, which warns against examining 'the school' in isolation from the total world." -- Sarah Brouillette * Public Books *"Professing Criticism will set the terms of discussion about the English department for a long time. But it will resonate outwards, too — historians of the humanities writ large will find in this book enormous resources, though they will need to be translated carefully from one disciplinary setting to others." * The Chronicle of Higher Education *“If there is a more thoughtful, penetrating, insightful, trenchant, acerbic, scathing or original analysis of a scholarly discipline than John Guillory’s Professing Criticism, I have yet to see it. Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation.” * Inside Higher Ed *“Professing Criticism offers a brilliantly exacting, politically confronting analysis of why the study of literature is unlike other disciplines of the university and what its distinctive history means for its ability to serve a clear social purpose today. Fearless in his account of how and why we practitioners of criticism so often misplace and exaggerate our contributions to political life, Guillory defines the terms for the conversations we need to be having now: conversations about the scope and purposes of criticism in a public sphere where literature is no longer central; about the relation of print to unrestricted digital media platforms; about the diversity of the demand for writing today and our role in teaching it; and about the forms of knowledge we can offer a society in which interpretation of texts is a specialist way of making sense of the world.” * Helen Small, University of Oxford *“Professing Criticism is the distillation of a lifetime’s quest by one of our most deeply learned, searching, and principled literary scholars to understand literary studies in its long history of changing extrinsic relations with society, internal tectonic shifts as a discipline, and current structural diminishment. Guillory’s grand argument about literary studies as part of the sociology of knowledge is sweeping, and his analyses of the perennial confusions about the objects and modes of literary criticism are acute. ‘These conditions must be acknowledged if the professoriate is ever to overcome its tendency to construct literary study as something more than it can be and less than it should be,’ he writes—a sentence that captures the poised essence of his challenge to, yet affirmation of, literary study as a diminished, but not therefore to be relinquished, discipline.” * Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Professing Criticism is ambitious and impressively learned, an extraordinarily deep and illuminating immersion in the history and sociology of professionalism, European literature, and critical theory." -- Michael Stern * The American Prospect *"Professing Criticism offers a rigorous assessment of the major tendencies in contemporary literary studies and a strong argument for the continuing relevance of English in the 21st-century university." * Literary Review *"John Guillory's Professing Criticism is in every way an admirable book. It is deeply learned, sharp in its observations, unquestionably sincere in its effort to rehabilitate and reorganize the study of literature, and above all correct: literary study has indeed lost sight of its original, underlying purpose, has become too dispersed in its curricular organization, and has become helplessly caught in the shifting winds of every new and passing critical trend that comes along." * The Reading Experience *"John Guillory has written a thoughtful and wide-ranging book in which he refuses to let the aura of crisis prompt him to blame literary colleagues who abandoned some supposedly perfect approach to chase critical fashions, or on students allegedly concerned only to prepare for lucrative professions." * Critical Inquiry *"An exhaustive and careful history of the institutional study of literature that contextualizes its roots from ancient Greece to the modern American multiversity." * Law & Liberty *"Professing Criticism is a thorough and complex work of scholarship. It’s also a bracing call for literary scholars to significantly reform how they think about their profession and its relationship to their students and the reading public in general. At its core is a challenge that is simultaneously reasonable and radical: professors of literary study must be more modest in their aims and promises to suit the realities of their field in the twenty-first century." * Public Discourse *"Professing Criticism is so comprehensive an analysis of the field of criticism that it even contains an argument in defense of scholarly projects that are thirty years (or thereabouts) in the making. This is a book that aspires to see the profession of literary study steadily and see it whole: from the origins of academic literary study to the 'method wars' of the past two decades, from the difficulties besetting the evaluation of scholarship in the humanities to the collapse of the academic job market and the consequences of that collapse for graduate programs, from the place of composition in English departments to the rise of global English, Professing Criticism has an argument for you." -- Michael Bérubé * Cultural Critique *"It deserves to be read and pondered by everyone teaching in departments of English and modern languages." -- Ritchie Robertson * Modern Language Review *"A very knowledgeable and incisive analysis of the state of literary studies today." * Australian Book Review *"One of the most brilliant recent accounts of our subject. . . Guillory’s reading of the reciprocity of document and monument is genuinely illuminating and important when it comes to literary research." * Modern Philology *"John Guillory has produced a virtuoso display of what scholarship at its most honest, self-aware best can accomplish." * College Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Part One: The Formation and Deformation of Literary Study Chapter 1 Institution of Professions Chapter 2 Professing Criticism Chapter 3 Critique of Critical Criticism Part Two: Organizing Literature: Foundations, Antecedents, Consequences Chapter 4 Monuments and Documents: On the Object of Study in the Humanities Chapter 5 The Postrhetorical Condition Chapter 6 Two Failed Disciplines: Belles Lettres and Philology Chapter 7 The Location of Literature Chapter 8 The Contradictions of Global English Part Three: Professionalization and Its Discontents Chapter 9 On the Permanent Crisis of Graduate Education Chapter 10 Evaluating Scholarship in the Humanities Chapter 11 Composition and the Demand for Writing Chapter 12 The Question of Lay Reading Conclusion: Ratio Studiorum Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisJames Boyd White addresses questions about how we imagine the world, and ourselves, and others within it. Also how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Robert Merrett tackles our ancestors' world of eating and drinking with relish. Tapping into a lifetime's knowledge of literary texts, leavened with rare archival sources scattered throughout France, and more discursive readings into British, French, and Canadian history, he compellingly demonstrates that eating and drinking were part and parcel of the overall movement towards the Enlightenment and cultural imperialism." Donald W. Nichol, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.Trade Review'An invaluable and engrossing re-evaluation of the Publishers Series, providing stimulating international comparisons and a lasting and important contribution to modern social and cultural history' - James Raven, Professor in Modern History, University of Essex, UK 'The phenomenon of the publisher's series - so central to 18th and 19th-century publishing and reading practices - has never before been considered so fully. In the sheer breadth of the new material they encompass, enabling comparisons across time and space, these volumes will prove invaluable to students and scholars alike.' - Mary Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. Wondering about 'the Causes of Causes'. The Publisher's Series, its Cultural Work and Meanings PART II: The Series, the Academy, and the World; J.Spiers The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946, J.B.Hench The Spanish Collections of Herder Verlag: International Catholic Literature; A.C.Viro Adamantios Korais' The Greek Library (1805-1827): An Ingenious Publisher and The Making of a Nation; N.Yakovaki Fabricating a National Canon: The Role of Richard Bentley and George Robertson in Developing and Marketing the Australian Library; A.Rukavina Series for Women in 19th Century Netherlandsl; L.Kuitert Leonard Bast's Library: Aspiration, Emulation and the Imperial National Tradition; R.Fraser Negotiating the List: Launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and Author Contracts; S.Towheed Household Words: An Account of the 'Bengal Family Library'; A.Gupta Great Books by the Millions: J. M. Dent's 'Everyman Library'; T.I.Seymour 'The Green and the Gold': Publisher's Series in 19th-century Ireland; E.Tilley One Series After Another: The Macmillan Company of Canada; R.Panofsky Index

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Book SynopsisWounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. By examining the creative permutations of the wound metaphor, Covington argues for the centrality of the charged imagery, and language itself, in shaping the self-representations of an age.Trade Review"Covington's study presents a fluently written and engaging analysis of the imagery of this most bloody, fractured, and scarred period of English history." - American Historical Review"Covington carefully combines contemporary linguistic theory and philosophy of the abject with extensive archival research to demonstrate that metaphor, in Paul Ricoeur s words, 'shatter[s] and increase[s] our sense of reality by shattering and increasing our language.' Likewise, this book increases our sense of the reality of early modern woundedness." - Renaissance Quarterly"Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor is admirably engaging and thoughtful, bringing a new perspective to study of the civil wars of the 1640s...an investigation of language at the very basic levels of speech and description, but worked through a very contemporary historiographical nexus that leads to a very satisfying study." - The Times Higher Education Supplement "Covington probes the development of a pervasive and disturbing figure of speech through a broadly informed and richly detailed analysis of key early modern political and cultural texts. Covington's sophisticated comparison of legal tracts, historical accounts, political polemics,spiritual treatises,and amorous verse shows how they all fuse spectacular images of strength and mutilation in a century of civil war andthus perpetuate and transform older ideas of martyrdom and redemptive suffering." - Richard C. McCoy, Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation "A fascinating, wide-ranging and - dare I say - penetrating study, combining high theory and close reading with effects so powerful they sometimes distress, even wound." - Diane Purkiss, Keble College, Oxford University and author of Literature, Politics and Gender in the English Civil WarTable of ContentsIntroduction The Wounded Body Politic Law's Breakages The Wounds of War The Lesions of Love Wounds of the Soul Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIncorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world, and an ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.Trade Review"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too... This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray's notion of a community without gender wars is important." -- Library Journal "[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carry provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." -- Religious Studies Review "It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." -- Ascent MagazineTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition The Time of Life Eastern Teachings The Way of Breath Being I, Being We The Family Begins with Two Approaching the Other as Other Mixing: A Principle for Refounding Community

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Book SynopsisA polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism and question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centring on these concernsTrade Review" ... provocative insights." --Nineteenth-Century Literature "... a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "... a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wordsworth and Romanticism in the Academy: John Rieder2. Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off: Peter T. Murphy3. A Home for Art: Painting, Poetry and Domestic InteriorsMary A. Favret4. A Voice from across the Sea: Communitarianism at the Limits of RomanticismAnne Janowitz5. The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of LaborKurt Heinzelman6. Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt's Keswick Escapade and sarah Hazlitt's JournalSonia Hofkosh7. Why Should I Wish for Works?: Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary CultureLucinda Cole and Richard G. Swartz8. History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic MomentNanora Sweet9. Trans-figuring Byronic IdenityNicola J. Watson10. Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine MarketMark L. Schoenfield11. An Embarrassing Subject: Use Value and Exchange Value in Early Gothic CharacterizationAndera Henderson12. Liquidating the Sublime: Gossip in Scott's Novels Jan B. Gordon13. Romantic Criticism: The State of the ArtMarjorie LevinsonNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisConcepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton, David Aers takes a longer view of these key issues in Christian theology. With meticulous attention to the texts of medieval and early modern theologians, poets, and popular writers, this book argues that we can understand the full complexity of the history of various teachings on the doctrine of election only through a detailed diachronic study that takes account of multiple periods and disciplines. Throughout this wide-ranging study, Aers examines how various versions of predestination and reprobation emerge and re-emerge in Christian tradition from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. Starting with incisive readings of medieval works by figures suchTrade Review“This is a marvelous and original monograph, both deeply learned and eloquently written. I have no doubt that Versions of Election will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of religious history and thought, both in the medieval and early modern periods.” —Nicolette Zeeman, author of The Arts of Disruption"While Langland, Aquinas, Calvin, and Milton are the major figures in the chapters devoted to them, Aers's reach extends to many more thinkers.... Versions of Election serves as a solid primer for the entirety of predestination theology over the period." —Milton Quarterly"Aers has spent his career exploring soteriological questions of election and his expertise shines on every page through detailed and sophisticated readings of complex doctrinal texts." —Sixteenth Century Journal

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art.Trade Review“This is an excellent collection of essays assembled to address an important and challenging question: How can we be emotionally moved by, or learn from, fictional narratives—stories composed of persons, things, and events that we know don't exist? The writers address this question from a variety of perspectives and consider a wide range of examples from literature, drama, and film. The result is a lively, informed, thought-provoking discussion of the contentious borderland between art and actuality. The editors have made excellent choices, and the contributors have written clear-headed, incisive essays. This is a first-rate collection that everyone interested in literary aesthetics, the psychology of narrative, or the theory of fiction will need to have. But, more than that, it's a book that anyone curious about the bearing of fictional narratives on the way we think and feel about things in real life will want to read.”—Ronald Moore,University of Washington“There is plenty to entertain and stretch the mind in these probing essays by prominent contemporary philosophers. Fresh insight is provided on intractable issues concerning narrative and emotion, with vivid discussion of actual cases from movies like Memento and Sunset Boulevard, to one of Goethe’s lyric poems, sad songs by the likes of Leonard Cohen, discovery plots in tragic drama, and multiple novels and plays. It is the detail of the examples that brings the topics to life and marks the distinctive contribution of this engaging book.”—Peter Lamarque,University of York“The contributors to Narrative, Emotion, and Insight address and explore topics of fundamental concern in aesthetics: Can narrative art—inclusive of music, theater, film, and poetry—convey and confirm truths? Can engaging with it educate us about the world or ourselves? What risks do tendencies to narrativize our lives carry? Whatever our verdict on the educative value of narrative art, the first-rate thinkers in this beautifully written volume offer original arguments and insightful analysis.”—Daniel D. Hutto,University of Hertfordshire“Narrative, Emotion, and Insight is a stunning collection of essays on narrative and the arts. Bringing together the most distinguished figures in the field, it offers exciting new reflections on the nature and significance of narrative in film, literature, music, theater, and life. The essays work together to reveal deep connections among the many different philosophical contexts in which narrative plays a part, generating important new insights and pointing to rich new areas of study.”—Marya Schechtman,University of Illinois, Chicago“Stemming from a 2006 conference in Philadelphia, this collection of nine papers in analytic aesthetics gives a fair impression of recent academic preoccupations.”—M. Donougho Choice“The chapters of Narrative, Emotion, and Insight are individually very strong, some first rate: there are some real gems and nothing to seriously complain about. Taken as a whole, the book provides important correctives and advances appropriately modest, convincing but nevertheless deeply insightful claims about the importance of narrative art. It successfully brings to light issues that anyone interested in the philosophy of narrative and emotion should care about and opens the way for new and promising work in this domain.”—Daniel D. Hutto Mind“Noël Carroll and John Gibson’s Narrative, Emotion, and Insight is a thoughtful and wide-ranging anthology in the philosophy of the arts. . . . The resulting essays are as different from one another as one would expect given the open-ended nature of the project, and the essays, on the whole, are also very good: Derek Matravers’ and Peter Goldie’s chapters are particular standouts.”—James Harold Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“[Narrative, Emotion and Insight] is a rewarding read that will be useful to those working in philosophy of the self, personality psychology, and ethics in addition to aesthetics and philosophy of art.”—Rafe McGregor Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionJohn Gibson 1 Life, Fiction, and NarrativePeter Goldie 2 Telling Stories: Narration, Emotion, and Insight in MementoBerys Gaut 3 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset BoulevardNoël Carroll4 Thick NarrativesJohn Gibson 5 Narrative, Emotions, and AutonomyAmy Mullin 6 Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, and Goethe’s “Wandrers Nachtlied II”Richard Eldridge 7 Rubber Ring: Why Do We Listen to Sad Songs?Aaron Smuts 8 Discovery Plots in TragedySusan L. Feagin 9 Imagination, Fiction, and DocumentaryDerek Matravers List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our timeTrade Review“Chatty, affable . . . [and] an eloquent endorsement of the writing class as nurturing and galvanizing community.”—Joe Moran, Times Literary Supplement“The insights on workshop dynamics, the smart observations, the loving attention to words and voice, the wisdom acquired by many years of reading, writing, and teaching, make this a valuable, entertaining, and accessible study of writing.”—Robert Morgan, Cornell University "The wisdom of a superb, experienced writer and inspired teacher are here distilled for our pleasure. We have much to learn from Delbanco's maturity, broad perspective and erudition—not least his kindness and encouragement when all is said and done, his devotion to literature and to all those who struggle to achieve it."—Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell"This book is a tribute to rigor, to close reading, to paying attention. Reading it is like participating in an exclusive workshop taught by a master of the craft."—Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train"Superb writer, erudite scholar, wise teacher—Delbanco makes the written word sing, and how. No reader of this book—itself an impassioned work of literature—will ever take writing for granted again.”—James Carroll, author of Constantine’s Sword"Nicholas Delbanco has long been not only one of America’s finest writers but also teachers of the craft. And Why Writing Matters is his generous gift to us all—filled with wisdom, revelations, and, of course, exquisite writing. We might not have been able to attend his masterclass on the power of words, but thankfully we can cherish these pages, which prove it."—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

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Book SynopsisThe Rise Of The Spectacle: Critical Practice in a Modern Age, 1950-1958 Going International: Creoles, Criticism, and the French Colonial Subject,1960- 1996 Rationalizing Empire: Scientific Management, Colonial Education, and Cultural Placing Holocaust and Revolution: Communist Ethics, Lol V. Stein, and La Douleur Transatlantic Connections: Wright's Black Boy and Duras's Colon Girl Diaspora and Cultural Displacement: Linda Lê and Tran Anh Hung Works CitedTable of ContentsThe Rise Of The Spectacle: Critical Practice in a Modern Age, 1950-1958 Going International: Creoles, Criticism, and the French Colonial Subject,1960- 1996 Rationalizing Empire: Scientific Management, Colonial Education, and Cultural Placing Holocaust and Revolution: Communist Ethics, Lol V. Stein, and La Douleur Transatlantic Connections: Wright's Black Boy and Duras's Colon Girl Diaspora and Cultural Displacement: Linda Lê and Tran Anh Hung Works Cited

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Book SynopsisLINDEN PEACH is Reader in Contemporary Literature, Loughborough University. He was previously Principal Lecturer and Head of the School of English, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. He is the author of Toni Morrison, Macmillan Modern Novelists Series, 1995, and his other publications include: Angela Carter, Macmillan 1997; Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (Seren Books, 1993); and, with Angela Burton, English as a Creative Art: Literary Concepts Linked to Creative Writing (Fulton, 1995).

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Book SynopsisMeaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing interactions between the two, and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax, neurology, philosophy of language, and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning.Comics and diagrams appear throughout to keep the reader engaged; and end-of-chapter quizzes, data-collection exercises, and opinion questions are employed along with more traditional exercises and discussion questions. In addition, the book features copious examples from real life and current events, along with boxes describing linguistic issues in the news and interesting and accessible research on topics like swearing, politics, and animal communication. Students will emerge ready for deeper sTrade Review"Betty Birner’s new book is an ideal guide for students’ magical mystery tour of the fascinating intricacies of pragmatics and semantics. Professor Birner clearly introduces landmark research in linguistics, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines, inspiring and helping students begin exploring meaning-language connections for themselves."Sally McConnell-Ginet, Linguistics, Cornell University, USATable of ContentsList of boxesList of figuresList of truth tablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. What is language? Linguistics The rules of language Language change Research in linguistics Philosophy of language: How meaning works Types of meaning Where is meaning located? The philosophers weigh in, beginning with: Frege Russell Strawson Donnellan The upshot Semantics and pragmatics Discourse models and possible worlds Exercises2. Semantics I: Word meaning What is a word? Where words come from Historical descent Other sources of new words Lexical relations Approaches to word meaning Componential analysis Other primitive-based approaches Prototype theory and The Great Sandwich Controversy Exercises3. Semantics II: Sentence meaning Truth and meaning Sentential relations Logical operators Negation Conjunction Disjunction The conditional The biconditional Propositional logic Analytic statements Synthetic statements Predicate logic Predicates and constants Variables Quantifiers Ambiguity and scope Exercises4. Pragmatics I: The Cooperative Principle Reprise: Semantics vs. pragmatics The Cooperative Principle The maxims The maxim of Quantity The maxim of Quality The maxim of Relation The maxim of Manner Revisiting Grice’s problem Tests for conversational implicature Implicature and pragmatic theory Conventional implicature The Gricean world view Pragmatics after Grice Explicature Impliciture Neo-Gricean theory Relevance theory Boundary disputes Exercises5. Pragmatics II: Speech acts Speech acts Performatives Constatives Types of speech acts: first pass Indirect speech acts Felicity conditions Felicity conditions, speech acts, and the Cooperative Principle Types of speech acts: second pass Politeness theory Exercises6. Language structure The Chomskyan revolution Sound structure Word structure Morphemes Allomorphs Words Parts of speech Structure and function Representing word structure Other ways of building words Sentence structure Ambiguity and constituency Representing sentence structure Expanding our grammar Structural ambiguity So what’s the point? Exercises7. Interfaces I: Semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy Reference and the semantics/pragmatics boundary What do we refer to when we refer? Deixis and anaphora Indexicals Deixis Personal deixis Spatial deixis Temporal deixis Discourse deixis Anaphora Reference resolution Cataphora Anaphora and phrase types Definiteness Definiteness as uniqueness Definiteness as familiarity Presupposition Testing for presupposition Presupposition triggers Theories of presupposition Accommodation Exercises8. Interfaces II: Structure and meaning Semantic roles Argument-structure alternations Information structure Preposing Postposing Argument reversal Inference Open propositions Constructions The type/token distinction Exercises9. Meaning and human cognition Language and the brain Brain structure Neurons Aphasia Language and thought Does the language I speak affect my view of reality? Language use and world view Advertising Politics and public policy Language and prejudice Connecting the dots Exercises10. Meaning, minds, and machines The nuts and bolts Natural-language processing Artificial intelligence Data mining Deep learning Meaning and the self Bodies and minds Language and consciousness Exercises References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussedKorean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.Drawing on narrative theory and cultural studies, the book makes a compelling argument about how to analyze the production and consumption of Korean media within and beyond its national boundary with critical eyes. The author shows how transmedial narrative studies (narrative studies across media) offers analytical and theoretical lenses through which one can interpret new and emerging media forms and contents. Furthermore, she explores how these forms and contents can be better understood when they are contextualized within specific time and place using the cultural, social, and political concepts and precepts of the region. ThTrade Review“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbangprovides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, India“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang provides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Korean Literature Wave: Transcultural and Transnational Reading of The Vegetarian and Bad Friend 2. Korean Webtoon Wave: Narratological, Technological, and Medial Innovations of Korean Digital Comics 3. Korean Mukbang Wave: Making Sense of Eating and Broadcasting and Its Techno-Mediated Narrative Environment

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Book SynopsisEcolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By is a ground-breaking book which reveals the stories that underpin unequal and unsustainable societies and searches for inspirational forms of language that can help rebuild a kinder, more ecological world. This new edition has been updated and expanded to bring together the latest ecolinguistic studies with new theoretical insights and practical analyses.The book presents a theoretical framework and practical tools for analysing the key texts which shape the society we live in. The theory is illustrated through examples, including the representation of environmental refugees in the media; the construction of the selfish consumer in economics textbooks; the parallels between climate change denial and coronavirus denial; the erasure of nature in the Sustainable Development Goals; creation myths and how they orient people towards the natural world; and inspirational forms of language in nature writing, Japanese haiku and Native American writing. This edition provides an updated theoretical framework, new example analyses, and an additional chapter on narratives. Accompanied by a free online course with videos, PowerPoints, notes and exercises (www.storiesweliveby.org.uk), as well as a comprehensive glossary, this is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the areas of Discourse Analysis, Environmental Studies and Communication Studies.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition:'Ecolinguistics is sensitively written, cogently argued, and invaluable to all discourse analysts and critical ecologists. Given the urgency of the crisis we are facing, this book is not so much timely as overdue.' Emma Franklin, Discourse and Communication'Although the book is written with academic rigour, and addresses matters of such grave concern as climate change and factory farming, the honesty, lightness, and humanity of Arran Stibbe’s prose make it a pleasure to read. These qualities are themselves an expression of a greatness of heart that ultimately underpins his work.' Anthony Nanson, Language & Ecology'[Ecolinguistics] is cogent, accessible and well argued, but most significant is the unified and comprehensive framework that it provides.' Robert Poole, Critical Discourse Studies'The detailed descriptions of studies are insightful and interesting to read for scholars at all levels working on the relationship between discourse and society.' Michelle Riedlinger, Discourse and SocietyTable of ContentsPreface to the second edition AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Ideologies Chapter 3: Framing Chapter 4: Metaphors Chapter 5: Evaluations Chapter 6: Identities Chapter 7: Convictions Chapter 8: Erasure Chapter 9: Salience Chapter 10: NarrativesChapter 11: Conclusion Appendix: Sources of data GlossaryReferences Index

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Book SynopsisThis book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas. We look at reading in four different ways: as linguistic process, personal experience, collective experience, and as classroom practice. We think about how reading influences a life, how it changes over time, how we might return at different stages of life to the same reading, how we might respond differently to ideas read in an L1 and L2. There are 44 teaching activities, all founded on research that explores the nature, value and impact of reading as an authentic activity rather than for language or study purposes alone. We consider what this means for schools and classrooms, and for different kinds of learners. The final part of the book provides practical stepping stones for the teacher to become a researcher of their own classes and learners. The four parts of the book offer a virtuous join between reading, teaching and researchinTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Abbreviations Series Editors PrefaceIntroductionBecoming a reading teacherWhy should a teacher of reading engage with research?Ten questions about readingWhat this book is notWhat this book is PART ONE From research to implications A Framing reading as linguistic processQuestion 1: What are we doing when we read? Question 2: What are the different reasons and ways people read? Question 3: What knowledge do we bring to our reading? Question 4: What is the relationship between L1 and L2 reading? B Framing reading as personal experienceQuestion 5: Why and how do people read for pleasure? Question 6: Can reading change the way we think and feel? C Framing reading as collective experience Question 7: How far and in what ways is reading a collective act? D Framing reading as pedagogy Question 8: What pedagogies are used in the teaching of reading?Question 9: How should teachers of reading teach language?Question 10: What does it mean to be an effective teacher of reading? Our beliefs and principlesPART TWO From implications to application A Teaching reading as linguistic processQuestion 1: What are we doing when we read?Activity 1.1 All in one: the shape of wordsActivity 1.2 Word chain race Activity 1.3 Learner generated word race Activity 1.4 Run-on sentences: seeing and hearing sentence boundariesActivity 1.5 Text shopping: what’s next in the text?Activity 1.6 Reading aloud and holistic readingActivity 1.7 Storytelling: stories without barriers Question 2 What are the different reasons and ways people read?Activity 2.1 Reading the landscape: noticing and acting in the linguistic landscapeActivity 2.2 Bits and pieces: choosing your favourite bits in a longer textActivity 2.3 Wikipedia race: searching for something specific Activity 2.4 Information slant: separating facts and opinionsActivity 2.5 Why I read: personal reading behavioursQuestion 3 What knowledge do we bring to our reading?Activity 3.1 Rhyme race: reading and soundsActivity 3.2 Word bags: knowing about wordsActivity 3.3 Language detectives: reading and language patternsActivity 3.4 Text guessing: reading and text typesActivity 3.5 Reading between the lines: reading for nuanceActivity 3.6 Border crossing: reading culturally Question 4 What is the relationship between L1 and L2 reading? Activity 4.1 Book covers crossing borders Activity 4.2 Text memory game Activity 4.3 First language story sharingActivity 4.4 Talking to the author: asking questions about a textActivity 4.5 Comprehending across languagesB Teaching reading as personal experienceQuestion 5 When and how do people read for pleasure? Activity 5.1 Feeling stories Activity 5.2 The dream book competition: understanding reading preferencesActivity 5.3 Reading spurs and blocks Activity 5.4 Profiles of lifelong readersQuestion 6 Can reading change the way we think and feel?Activity 6.1 Nobel Prize champions: books which changed the way we thinkActivity 6.2 Re-reading over time: returning to childhood storiesActivity 6.3 Reading in layersActivity 6.4 Personal reading historiesC Teaching reading as collective experienceQuestion 7 How far and in what ways is reading a collective act? Activity 7.1 Performing readingActivity 7.2 Dream circles: building reading circlesActivity 7.3 Choosing togetherActivity 7.4 Reading shaping the childD Teaching and training reading pedagogyQuestion 8 What pedagogies are used in the teaching of reading?Activity 8.1 Communicating with textsActivity 8.2 Text activities: interacting with texts Activity 8.3 Task-based reading and the real worldActivity 8.4 Activity detective: mining for principlesQuestion 9 How should teachers of reading teach language?Activity 9.1 Genre-bending: unravelling text typesActivity 9.2 Language doctor: unravelling a textQuestion 10 What does it mean to be an effective teacher of reading? Activity 10.1 Finding a star teacher 1: criteria for stardomActivity 10.2 Finding a star teacher 2: Asking questionsActivity 10.3 Star teacher of reading competition Activity 10.4 Walking into the shoes of star teachers PART THREE From application to implementation A Becoming a reading teacher: connecting with othersB Becoming a reading teacher: know yourself as a readerC Building reading resourcesD Building a reading assessment strategyE Reading for many kinds of learnersF Reading for different kinds of classesG Reading outside the classroomH Creating a reading cultureI ConclusionPART FOUR From implementation to research Introduction: researching as a teacherA Researching reading as linguistic processResearch Idea 1: How does cultural knowledge help us read a text?Research Idea 2: What are the differences in the way learners process LI and L2 texts?Research Idea 3: Does translanguaging help reading in the L2? Research Idea 4: How many words do my learners need to understand for a text to be readable? B Researching reading as personal experience Research Idea 5: What makes readers choose books?Research Idea 6: What are the triggers for reading enjoyment in my own reading life? C Researching reading as collective experienceResearch Idea 7: Do reading communities make a difference to my learners? Research Idea 8: How do my learners interact in self-run reading groups?D Researching reading pedagogy Research Idea 9 What kind of questions do I use in the reading classroom?Research Idea 10 What are the qualities of successful reading lessons? Final reflections: the virtuous circle Reference ListIndex

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Book SynopsisClinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology is a practical guide that provides linguistically grounded approaches to clinical practice. It introduces key linguistic disciplines and discusses how they form a basis for assessment and treatment of individuals with communication differences or disorders. Written by experts in linguistics and communication disorders, each chapter provides clinicians with a foundational understanding of linguistics as it applies to spoken and signed languages and underscores the importance of integrating linguistic theories into clinical decision-making. The book is divided into two parts that focus on the applications of linguistics to speech and language differences and disorders in both children and adults. The chapters cover the full range of linguistic domains including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Applications to a wide range of populations including chilTable of ContentsPart 1. Applications to Child Speech & Language Differences & DisordersChapter 1: Phonetics & PhonologyBeyond the phonemeShelley L. Velleman & Claudia I. Abbiati (University of Vermont)Chapter 2: MorphosyntaxUsing linguistic theory to frame assessment and intervention of morphosyntactic skills inchildrenStacy K. Betz (Purdue University Fort Wayne)Chapter 3: ProsodyAcquisition of prosody and linguistically-based approaches to assessment and interventionJill Thorson (University of New Hampshire)Chapter 4: SociolinguisticsUse of linguistic theory to inform the assessment and treatment of developmental language disorder within African American EnglishJanna B. Oetting (Louisiana State University), Jessica R. Berry (South Carolina State University) & Kyomi D. Gregory-Martin (Pace University)Chapter 5: Sign LanguageSigned language structure and considerations for speech and language intervention with deaf childrenJames McCann (Gallaudet University), Lauren Kelley (Houston Independent School District) & David Quinto-Pozos (University of Texas at Austin)Part 2. Applications to Adult Speech & Language Differences & DisordersChapter 6: Phonetics & PhonologyThe phonetics and phonology of intelligibility: The functional importance to intelligibilityof speech soundsNaomi Gurevich (Purdue University Fort Wayne) & Heejin Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Chapter 7: MorphosyntaxVerb and sentence impairments in aphasia: Theory, assessment, and treatmentRoelien Bastiaanse (Center for Language and Brain)Chapter 8: SemanticsContextual variability of word meaning: Implications for the treatment of acquired language disordersChristopher M. Grindrod (Purdue University Fort Wayne)Chapter 9: Pragmatics Discourse Assessment and Treatment in Traumatic Brain InjuryShaun Stephens (University of Vermont), Carl Coelho (University of Connecticut) & Michael S. Cannizzaro (University of Vermont)Chapter 10: ProsodyProsody: Linguistic and clinical perspectivesJennifer Cole (Northwestern University), Allison Hilger (University of Colorado Boulder), & Shivani Patel (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford)Chapter 11: SociolinguisticsThe linguistics of accentedness: How phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistic considerations impact clinical intervention of accent modificationNaomi Gurevich & Talia Bugel (Purdue University Fort Wayne)

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically. The study: draws on a bespoke corpus of 2.5 million words of written materials and transcribed classroom recordings, provided by the project''s partner schools; combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to the corpus data to explore linguistic variation across school levels, registers and subjects; describes the procedures of corpus compilation and analysis of written and spoken academic language, showing how modern corpus tools can be applied to this far-reaching social and educational issue; uncovers differences and similarities between the academic language that school children are exposed to at primary and secondary school, contrasting this against the backdrop of the non-academic language that they encounter o

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especiallybut not exclusivelyas explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversationsabout the history of gender a

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Book SynopsisContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years. Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL, there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT). Many practitioners wonder how they can do CLIL' if their main classes are focused on English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This volume addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of various CLIL practitioners in the EFL context of Japan. Chapters outline the CLIL methodology, the differences in hard CLIL' (subject led) and soft CLIL' (language-oriented) before focusing on the EFL interpretations of soft-CLIL. Although the distinction of hard CLIL and soft CLIL has been mentioned in several publications, this is the first book-length exploration of this issue, featuring chapters examining expectations, challenges, material support, implementatiTrade Review"This volume articulates how CLIL has become a tour de force for further developing English language teaching in the Japanese context. Relevant for educators worldwide, it describes key success drivers for applying CLIL across the educational spectrum. Authored by leading experts in the field, the easy-access chapters answer key questions that educators often have when considering if CLIL is possible to implement in their schools, and how to do it successfully. Insights on common strands between theory and practice, and descriptions of how CLIL models can be designed, make this publication a comprehensive and invaluable contribution to the field."-David Marsh PhD, FRSA (Finland)"At a time in CLIL research and pedagogy when it is key to take into account the specificities across contexts and types of CLIL, this excellent book is a unique contribution to the role of CLIL in EFL classrooms. It addresses relevant issues in soft CLIL such as translanguaging, focus on form, materials or assessment, providing a rich source of information for both researchers and educators." -Ana Llinares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)Table of ContentsIntroduction—CLIL in Japan: The case for Soft CLIL in the EFL context 1. ‘How would you like your CLIL?’: Conceptualising Soft CLIL 2. Meeting the challenges of realizing Soft CLIL in EFL classes in Japan 3. Focus on form for content and language integration 4. Concept-centred Soft CLIL: Uncovering concepts in EFL content 5. Pedagogical translanguaging in primary school Maths CLIL lessons 6. Authenticity and motivation in Soft CLIL materials 7. Assessing Soft CLIL 8. The potential of Soft CLIL in light of the diffusion of innovation theory 9. Conclusion—Implications of and challenges for practicing Soft CLIL and a way forward

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Book SynopsisEnglish Grammar: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English grammar and its place in society. Rather than taking a prescriptive approach, this book helps the reader become aware of the social implications of choices they make to use standard or non-standard (regional/dialect) forms. Readers will consider:â what grammar is and how it fits into the structure of language;â how grammar functions in the school curriculum, the press, broadcasting and social media, as well as how these outlets reflect and reinforce our attitudes towards grammar;â differences between speech and writing, as well as between formality and informality;â major different approaches to theorising and describing grammar from important grammarians, including Noam Chomsky and Michael Halliday. Featuring a glossary of key terms and practical tips and insights from the author's 50+ years of language teaching experience around the world, this book is for Table of Contents1 Everyone knows what grammar is … don’t they?2 From words to sentences3 The Grammar Toolbox4 The Grammar Toolbox Continued5 Theories and thinkers6 Word of mouth: Grammar in action7 Grammar policy, grammar politics and grammar police8 Grammar in the public eyeGlossary of grammar termsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisPractice is a recurring and popular theme in language education. However, the concepts of practice and automatization have recently received renewed theoretical and practical interest and are increasingly being explored from the skill acquisition theory and cognitive psychology perspectives.In this volume, leading scholars discuss the optimal types, amounts, and schedules of practice for specific language structures and skills, as well as for various types of learners and learning contexts, to facilitate second language development. They illuminate how practice is instantiated for specific groups of teachers and learners in diverse institutionalized contexts, such as foreign language curriculum development, intelligent computer-assisted language learning systems, task-based language teaching, and study abroad. Furthermore, original methodological syntheses of extant research on practice and automatization are presented, along with guides for conducting empirical research on tTable of ContentsList of contributors AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction: Practice and Automatization in a Second LanguageYuichi SuzukiPART I FoundationsChapter 2 Explicit learning at the initial stages of SLA: Optimizing input and intake processingYuichi Suzuki, Tatsuya Nakata, and John RogersChapter 3 Skill learning theories and language teaching: Different strokes for different folksMasatoshi SatoPART II Teaching Approaches and ContextsChapter 4 Situating practice in a limited-exposure, foreign languages school curriculum Emma Marsden and Rachel HawkesChapter 5 Supporting individualized practice through Intelligent CALLSimon Ruiz, Patrick Rebuschat, and Detmar MeurersChapter 6 Integrating systematic practice into task-based language teachingCraig LambertChapter 7 Practice in study abroad contextsKevin McManusPART III Methodological SynthesisChapter 8 A synthesis of L2 practice research: What is “practice” and how has it been investigated?Ryo Maie and Aline GodfroidChapter 9 Measuring automaticity in a second language: A methodological synthesis of experimental tasks over three decades (1990-2021)Yuichi Suzuki and Irina ElgortChapter 10 Measuring speaking and writing fluency: A methodological synthesis focusing on automaticityShungo Suzuki and Andrea RévészChapter 11 Conclusion: Future directions of practice and automatization researchYuichi SuzukiIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan.With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of âJapanâ, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai KafÅ, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, ItÅ Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada YÅko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus.A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas who wish to align their work with the field of digital humanities. Trade Review"Introduction to Digital Humanities provides a concise and accessible guide… the volume would be a valuable reference for humanities researchers and practitioners aiming to further enhance their work by digital approaches, for novices trying to embark on a DH project, as well as for teachers and students in humanities disciplines seeking to keep up with the DH trend in their instruction and learning."--Yali Shi, School of Foreign Studies, Jiangnan University, ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Reasons to engage with the digital humanitiesChapter 2: Dealing with digital ephemerality Chapter 3: Possibilities and limitations of digital toolsChapter 4: Working with textChapter 5: Working with images and visualizationsChapter 6: Working with performancesChapter 7: Expanding your project’s reachChapter 8: Making space and time for digital humanities projectsFurther readingBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the applied linguistic anthropology (ALA) framework.Written in accessible language and at a level equally legible for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text connects theory and practice by sketching out relevant historical background, introducing theoretical and conceptual underpinnings, illustrating with case studies, discussing a wide range of key issues, and explaining research methodologies. Using a general-to-specialized content structure, the expert authors then show readers how to apply these principles and lessons in communities in the real world, to become advocates and change agents in the realm of language and social justice. With an array of useful pedagogical resources and practical tools including discussion questions and activities, reflTrade Review"Rooted in a profound commitment to engaged scholarship, Avineri and Baquedano-López’s An Introduction to Language and Social Justice is a pathbreaking contribution which powerfully synthesizes diverse insights and generously offers multiple entry points for dynamic praxis linking communication to the creation of more just societies." Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University, USA"As a comprehensive review of the tenets of language and social justice research, An Introduction to Language and Social Justice adeptly synthesizes a heretofore heterogeneous collection of scholarship into one unified text. The book is expertly designed as a pedagogical tool with social justice principles at its base."Robin Conley Riner, Marshall University, USATable of ContentsFiguresTablesPreface Chapter 1: Applied Linguistic Anthropology and Social JusticeChapter 2: Centering Language: A Lexicon for Language and Social Justice Issues (LSJIs)Chapter 3: What Is: Applied Linguistic Anthropological Methods for LSJI InquiryChapter 4: What Has Been: Deepening the Connections between Past and PresentChapter 5: What Could Be: Relationships, Aspirations, and ActionsChapter 6: Now What Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices in their writing.Each section includes a short overview of a grammatical topic accompanied by exercises for raising the studentsâ awareness of and skills in using specific grammatical structures. It focuses on the practical and rhetorical functions of grammatical structures as they are used in expository and analytic writing, rather than on de-contextualized grammatical rules. Students will develop a repertoire of grammatical choices and understand the strategic reasons for making these choices in their writing for various audiences. It particularly attends to the structures that present the most difficulty for college students from multilingual communities and communities where a non-standard dialect of English is used on a daily basis. This textbook can be used as a core textbook for grammar course as well as a supplementary text for composition courses. It is also suitable for courses tailored to multilingual, advanced non-native, or non-standard speakers of English.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Understanding Sentence Parts Chapter 2. Using Effective Punctuation Chapter 3. Verbs: The Center of the Action Chapter 4. Nouns: Tools for Complex Reading and Writing Chapter 5. Using Grammatical Tools for Clarity Appendix A. Editing for Subject-Verb Agreement Appendix B. Editing for Verb Tense Consistency Appendix C. Editing for Punctuation Appendix D. Frequently Confused Words

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1951, this volume covers the transition period between the years of Renaissance influence and the dawn of 19th Century Romanticism. The book analyses the theories and judgments of various critics and their bearing on literary appreciation. The opening chapter concentrates on the account of French doctrines of the 17th Century which is essential as the necessary background of English critical activities for the best part of two centuries. Later chapters discuss the main lines of the development and the more significant critics. Trade Review‘…this solid and useful book on this great period in English criticism should have contemporary appeal beyond the classrooms… Professor Atkins’s comments on individual authors and works are always judicious… his history is likely to be permanently valuable.’ The New Statesman‘The history of criticism is tangled, often repetitive… and Professor Atkins has once more sorted out the threads during a period, with a thoroughness readers of his volume on English Renaissance criticism will recognise…’ The Spectator‘…a scholar of wide learning and accomplishment…’ Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. The Break with Renascence Tradition: New French Influences i) Neo-Classicism ii) More Liberal Doctrines 2. The Transitional Stage: Davenant, Hobbes, Cowley, Sprat and Dryden i) Poetry ii) Prose Style iii) Drama 3. New French Influences: Rymer, Mulgrave, Temple, Wotton, Phillips, Wolseley and Collier i) Influence of Rapin and Boileau ii) Reaction to Perrault and Fontenelle iii) Interest in Early Native Literature iv) Contemporary Problems 4. ‘The Father of English Criticism’ Dryden i) Nature and Art of Poetry ii) Forms of Poetry: Epic iii) Critical Standards and Judgments 5. Neo-Classicism Challenged: Dennis, Addison, Pope, Swift, Welsted and Blackwell 6. The Widening Outlook: Lowth, Young, Gray, the Wartons, Hurd i) Influence of ‘Longinus’ ii) Antiquarian Interests 7. Shakespeare Criticism: Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Johnson, Kames, Mrs. Montagu and Morgann i) Work of Editors ii) Shakespeare Studies 8. The Great Cham of Literature: Johnson i) Critical Standards and Methods ii) Literary Theory 9. Critical Cross-Currents: Fielding, Sheridan, Cowper, Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke, Kames, Reynolds and Beattie i) Littérateurs ii) Philosophers iii) Art Critics iv)Minor Contributors 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe popularity of such widely known works as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two volumes of domestic sketches. Organized around the themes of influence and intertextuality, this collection places Jackson firmly within the literary cohort of the 1950s. The contributors investigate the work that informed her own fiction and discuss how Jackson inspired writers of literature and film. The collection begins with essays that tease out what Jackson's writing owes to the weird tale, detective fiction, the supernatural tradition, and folklore, among other influences. The focus then shifts to Jackson's place in American literature and the impact of her work on women's writing, campus literature, and the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. The final two essays examine adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House and Jackson's influence on contemporary American horror cinema. Taken together, the essays offer convincing evidence that half a century following her death, readers and writers alike are still finding value in Jacksonâs words.Table of ContentsTable of contents to come

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