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Big Finish Productions Ltd Doctor Who Main Range 221 - The Star Men
Book SynopsisAstronomical navigation is a tricky business. To help Adric with his studies, the Doctor sets course for Gallius Ultima -a planet on the edge of the Milky Way, housing one of the most impressive observatories ever constructed. But the TARDIS arrives to find Gallius U in a state of emergency, tracking the return of the Explorer-class ship Johannes Kepler from its mission into the heart of the mysterious Large Magellanic Cloud. A mission that met with disaster...To find out what overtook the crew of the Johannes Kepler, the Doctor and his companions must journey into the heart of the Cloud...and beyond, into the darkness of another reality altogether. The universe of the Star Men. The Star Men marks the first of a trilogy of stories reuniting the 1982 TARDIS crew for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor - Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton). Director Barnaby Edwards is not only an overworked director for Big Finish productions, but on top of many audiobook voice-over duties, he's also the main Dalek operator in TV's Doctor Who.Sue Holderness takes an overdue dramatic role in this story, but is best known for playing Boycie's wife Marlene in much-loved sitcoms Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass. Guest star Sophie Wu will be familiar to any fans of cult film hits Kiss-Ass and Kick Ass 2, or the much missed spooky BBC series The Fades. CAST: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sue Holderness (Kala Tace), Sophie Wu (Autumn Tace), Peter Guinness (Rovus), Damian Lynch (Fell/ Lom), Kris Dyer (Nomar/ Vedrin / Surgical Robot/ Pilot), Barnaby Edwards (Computer).
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The History Press Ltd Voices from the Trenches
Book SynopsisA treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand accounts from British tommies' of life and death in the trenches during the First World War. This is the story of the men who held the front line in France and Flanders. It is a graphic account of a strange and seemingly unending style of life and death in all their facets. It is a unique approach, an anthology interwoven with a continuous commentary so that the reader is always kept aware of the context of the writing. The balanced and un-emotive approach cannot, however, fail to leave the reader deeply moved. Domestic life in the line: accommodation, food and drink, wiring and carrying, the whole day and night routine are investigated, as are the operational aspects of trench life raiding and patrolling in no-man's-land and the German lines. Actual battle experience is also featured, but one of the most interesting parts of the book is devoted to the attitudes of front line soldiers, officers and their men, to each ot
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University of California Press The Lyric Myth of Voice
Book SynopsisHow did voice become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Ultimately, music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Editorial Principles Introduction 1 • The Poet Sings 2 • The Orfeo Act 3 • Civilizing Song 4 • Domesticating the Tenth Muse 5 • Sublime Suffering and the Good Mother Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
Book SynopsisA deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people. Trade Review"In this elegant book, Liz W. Faber plays intellectual alchemist, swirling methodologies to unearth the roots of our sociological interactions with digital technologies via the auditory, and not merely the visual domain. The Computer’s Voice furthers our belated attention to the soundtrack, both of our media texts but also our lived experience, by deftly deploying feminist theories of (dis)embodiment."—Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University"Liz W. Faber has written a highly accessible and fascinating history of talking computers, from evil sci-fi mainframes to the smartphones we keep in our pockets. This deep dive into computing, vocalization, and gender explains how the digitized voices we often take for granted have a hidden history and politics all their own."—Mar Hicks, author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing"The Computer’s Voice is an ambitious theoretical project, but also a well-argued and informative interdisciplinary study of the intersections between popular culture, gender, and computer history."—Ancillary Review "Faber's grasp of computer vocalizing as an instrument not only of humanizing technology but also of ‘genderizing’ discourse allows her to consider myriad aspects of sentient ‘computer life.’"—CHOICE
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Listening to the Voices of the Dead
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Ebury Publishing The Voice: 40 years of Black British Lives
Book SynopsisLaunched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as celebrating Black Britain's success stories. From hard hitting news reports covering the murder of Stephen Lawrence to championing the likes of Sir Lewis Hamilton and Idris Elba, the newspaper has campaigned, celebrated and educated people for the last forty years.As well as celebrating amazing successes in sport, politics and the arts, The Voice documented everyday life in the community, from the emergence of a Black middle class in the '90s and the achievements of Black entrepreneurs to how different facets of the community were explored in contemporary music and literature. Since its small beginnings in Hackney, The Voice has also become a fantastic training ground for prominent journalists and figures including former politician Trevor Phillips, broadcaster Rageh Omaar and writer Afua Hirsch. Today, The Voice is Britain's longest running and only Black newspaper.Told through news reports, editorials and readers' personal letters, this emotive book documents the social history of Black Britain over the last four decades. Each chapter is illustrated with amazing newspaper pages from The Voice's extensive archives as well as iconic and dramatic front covers from 1982 to the present day.With a foreword from Sir Lenny Henry and written by former and current Voice journalists, this powerful book is a celebration of the ground-breaking paper which gave a voice to the voiceless.
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State University of New York Press The Scene of the Voice
Book SynopsisBrings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.
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University of California Press The Voice of The Tambaran
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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University of Minnesota Press The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
Book SynopsisA deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people. Trade Review"In this elegant book, Liz W. Faber plays intellectual alchemist, swirling methodologies to unearth the roots of our sociological interactions with digital technologies via the auditory, and not merely the visual domain. The Computer’s Voice furthers our belated attention to the soundtrack, both of our media texts but also our lived experience, by deftly deploying feminist theories of (dis)embodiment."—Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University"Liz W. Faber has written a highly accessible and fascinating history of talking computers, from evil sci-fi mainframes to the smartphones we keep in our pockets. This deep dive into computing, vocalization, and gender explains how the digitized voices we often take for granted have a hidden history and politics all their own."—Mar Hicks, author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing"The Computer’s Voice is an ambitious theoretical project, but also a well-argued and informative interdisciplinary study of the intersections between popular culture, gender, and computer history."—Ancillary Review "Faber's grasp of computer vocalizing as an instrument not only of humanizing technology but also of ‘genderizing’ discourse allows her to consider myriad aspects of sentient ‘computer life.’"—CHOICE
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The University of Chicago Press The Voice as Something More Essays toward
Book SynopsisPapers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More," held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.
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University of Massachusetts Press A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher,
Book SynopsisOn June 8, 1982, Ronald Reagan delivered a historic address to the British Parliament, promising that the United States would give people around the world “a voice in their own destiny” in the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism. While British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated Reagan’s visit and thanked him for putting “freedom on the offensive,” over 100,000 Britons marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square to protest his arrival and call for nuclear disarmament. Reagan’s homecoming was equally eventful, with 1,000,000 protesters marking his return with a rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park—the largest protest in American history up to that point. Employing a wide range of previously unexamined primary sources, Anthony M. Eames demonstrates how the Reagan and Thatcher administrations used innovations in public diplomacy to build back support for their foreign policy agendas at a moment of widespread popular dissent. A Voice in Their Own Destiny traces how competition between the governments of Reagan and Thatcher, the Anglo-American antinuclear movement, and the Soviet peace offensive sparked a revolution in public diplomacy.Trade Review “In this meticulously researched book, Eames deftly musters new archival material from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the important story of how the Reagan and Thatcher governments worked together to successfully combat antinuclear feeling in the 1980s. A timely book with implications for effective public diplomacy today.”—Nicholas J. Cull, author of Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age “This is a truly engaging and insightful work that sheds much-needed light on a vital and neglected area of the late Cold War.”—Aaron Donaghy, author of The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy
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University of Akron Press The Lost Voices of the Great War
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Taylor & Francis Voices of the Other
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University of Texas Press The Voice of the Masters
Book Synopsis By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support for an authoritative discourse that seriously misrepresents Latin American literature. In The Voice of the Masters, González Echevarría attempts to uncover the workings of modern Latin American literature by creating a dialogue of texts, a dynamTrade Review. . . a challenging book for the reader, bold, innovative, and profound, as one would expect from Roberto González Echevarría. * Hispanic Review *...breaks new ground in the interpretation of Latin American literature. * World Literature Today *Language and authority may well be inseparable. Unfortunately, as these essays point out, the reality of Latin America reflects excessive abuses on both counts. The Voice of the Masters clearly reflects the need for a more pluralistic Latin American society in which divergent ideologies are allowed to be expressed without fear of native or foreign interference. * Times of the Americas *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preamble 1. The Case of the Speaking Statue: Ariel and the Magisterial Rhetoric of the Latin American Essay 2. Doña Bárbara Writes the Plain 3. The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/The Rhetoric of Dictatorship 4. Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice 5. Los reyes: Cortázar’s Mythology of Writing 6. Biografía de un cimarrón and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution 7. Literature and Exile: Carpentier’s “Right of Sanctuary” “Meta-End,” by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Translated, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes Notes Index
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The History Press Ltd Scottish Voices from the Second World War
Book SynopsisPresents the experiences of Scottish soldiers during the Second World War in their own words. This book includes descriptions ranging from the brutal hardships suffered by General Slim''s ''forgotten'' 14th Army as it fought its way through Burma to the large scale onslaught of the D-Day landings to the deprivations of the Siege of Malta.
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The University of Chicago Press Hearing Things Voice Method in the Writing of
Book SynopsisQuestioning the role of the human voice within the field of philosophy this text examines philosopher Stanley Cavell's viewpoint, the relation between his pervasive authorial voice and his equally powerful, though less discernible, impulse to produce a set of usable philosophical methods.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: A Prelude to the Study of Voice and Method 2: Voices 3: Criteria and Crisis 4: The Model of Reading 5: Reading and Its Reversals App: Stanley Cavell: A Brief Account Notes Principal Works of Stanley Cavell Selected Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Voice Coachs Toolkit
Book SynopsisThe Voice Coach''s Toolkit identifies the primary professional vocal coaching opportunities and the avenues by which a student or early career coach can navigate the vocation.For purposes of this book, the Voice Coach is defined as someone who coaches the spoken voice in three precise areas: the teaching artist, the professional film/TV/theatre coach, and the professional voice-user coach. These three coaching worlds are broadly defined and each area includes in-depth interviews and practical advice from top coaches along with the author's personal expertise.The book can be read in sections or as a whole, making it as useful for early career coaches as it is for those looking to expand their vocal coaching career or vocal pedagogy students who need a broad survey of all three areas.Trade Review"This is an exciting and enriching book for both the actor to understand the importance of the vocal coach (VC) for the speaking voice but also for the director who must see the need to engage with the VC at the commencement of the production process. This book has painstakingly documented lived experiences of vocal coaches thereby creating job avenues for upcoming coaches." — Abímbọìlá Stephen-Adésinà, Arts Fellow, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria"In The Voice Coach’s Toolkit, Pamela Prather has written a book that is personal, accessible and very practical. As well as telling us the journey of her own experiences as a vocal coach, Pamela has interviewed a wide range of teachers that allows us to hear a variety of stories and receive the perspectives and insights acquired from a professional life in the field of voice. A great read!" — Andrea Haring, Executive Director, The Linklater Center for Voice and Language"I have often been asked, 'How and what do I do?' Although I am now a 'retired' voice professional, this book gave me a very comprehensive definition of my/our professional life journey. It was so rewarding to hear colleagues and former students reflect on the specifics and dynamics of 'how' we relate to our assignments and clientele. I kept saying to myself, 'YES!'" — Barry Kur, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University School of Theatre"This book is like attending a complete voice conference over a number of days, and then having a tea date with them afterwards to continue the conversation. Each session is packed full of useful advice from experienced professionals. It is a must-read resource for all voice coaches and those just getting into the field. Well done, Pamela!" — Betty Moulton, former president of VASTA and Professor Emerita, University of Alberta (Canada)"Providing a comprehensive introduction to the field of voice coaching and full of wonderful advice from experienced voice coaches, The Voice Coach's Toolkit is an excellent resource both for the beginner and the established professional." — David Carey, formerly Resident Voice and Text Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA"What an honor to be included in Pamela Prather’s remarkably inspiring and practical The Voice Coach’s Toolkit. Her interviews of world renown leaders of this field make the reader feel they are in the room listening to personal conversations and stories – gleaning the pathways so they can join in and enter this profession themselves." — Jan Gist, Professor of Voice, Speech, Dialects, Old Globe/ University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program"The world of voice coaching is changing as fast as the rest of our lives, and Pamela Prather’s handbook addresses important new themes as well as perennial principles. Her presentation of various subtypes of coaching will especially help those new to the field." — Joanna Cazden MFA, MS-CCC, Holistic Voice Rehabilitation"Pamela Prather takes her readers on a remarkable deep dive into the expansive world of voice coaching. This engaging toolkit succeeds at conveying the nuance and complexity involved in professional voice care, all while maintaining a uniquely flowing and conversational writing style." — Michael Lerner, MD, Laryngologist, Division of Otolaryngology, Yale School of Medicine"Aún con la visibilidad que ha alcanzado la profesión en años recientes, el camino para llegar a ser docente de voz sigue siendo confuso. Prather ha tenido el buen tino y la bondad de poner en un solo sitio múltiples recursos de gran utilidad, especialmente para quienes comenzamos en este andar de la voz escénica. (Even with the visibility that the profession has achieved in recent years, the path to becoming a voice teacher remains confusing. Prather has had the good sense and kindness to put multiple very useful resources in one place, especially for those of us who are just starting out on this stage voice journey)." — Oscar Quiroz, MFA Acting Candidate, Michigan State University and Former Voice Teacher, National School of Dramatic Art of Honduras"Prather’s engaging resource for voice professionals, The Voice Coach's Toolkit, is a well-organized interwoven series of interviews that guides one to a rich understanding of approaches. The interviews with luminaries in the field – some of whom are no longer with us – are treasures." — Patricia Raun, Professor of Theatre, Virginia Tech"The Voice Coach’s Toolkit by Pamela Prather is an invaluable resource for new and established voice, speech and dialect coaches who want to build a career. In an ever expanding field, this book brings together the numerous strands – both methodologies and practitioners – to provide ways and means for navigating training, best practices in teaching and coaching, and building a profitable business." — Rena Cook, former Head of Voice at the School of Drama, University of Oklahoma and founder of Vocal AuthorityTable of ContentsSection I 1. What is a Voice Coach? 2. The Voice Coach as Teaching Artist (VCTA) 3. The Professional Voice Coach for Actors (PVCA) 4. The Professional Voice User Coach (PVUC) 5. Vocal Health Topics for the Voice Coach Section II Introduction to Words of Wisdom List of Interviewees Words of Wisdom: Interviews with the Experts Appendix: Pamela’s Vocal Health Care Tips Interviewee Biographies Bibliography
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Voices from the Plain of Jars Life under an Air
Book SynopsisDuring the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighbouring Laos. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort.
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Taylor & Francis The Life of Voices
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The University of Chicago Press The Voice of Egypt
Book SynopsisUmm Kulthum was a celebrated musical performer in the Arab world, and her songs still permeate the international airwaves. This, the first English-language biography, chronicles her life and career. In particular, it examines her success in a society which discouraged women from public performance.
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HardPress Publishing The Voice of Thanksgiving a Selection of Passages in Prose and Verse from Various Christian Authors by the Compiler of The Invalids Own Book Signing Herself L.A.D.
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University of Notre Dame Press Finding the Voice of the Church
Book SynopsisFinding the Voice of the Church is written for a broad audience interested in the challenges facing the contemporary Catholic Church. These challenges are ones that should concern all Christians, not only Catholics. Noted scholar and commentator George Dennis O'Brien poses (and answers) three provocative questions: What is the proper voice of the church? Is there a voice of Christian faith? Can what is said about Christianity be fundamentally distorted by how it is said? Through his clear and relevant discussion of the basic content of Christianity, O'Brien concludes that the primary voice of Catholic Christianity, the papal teaching voice, must be radically re-understood if the Church is to be the proper medium and voice of the gospel message.O'Brien begins with the primary voice of the Church: baptism, gospel, and Eucharist. He contends that too much official teaching from the Roman magisterium to the local pulpit reverses the order of the ancient formula lex oTrade Review“A philosopher by training and a cradle Catholic, O'Brien has a deep commitment to his religious tradition and strong opinions about how it is being handed on. Reading this in the preface, I was buoyed by the hope that Finding the Voice of the Church would be a book nurtured by a mature faith sufficiently critical to cut deep and sufficiently grace-filled to offer healing-minus academic jargon. I think the author succeeds. . . . Finding the Voice of the Church is not theology-lite; neither are its rewards. For careful readers, it can nourish hope, strengthen faith and maybe complicate the intent of Matt 23:9.” —America “To be both a defender of the faith and an advocate of church reform is not easy. King Henry VIII failed spectacularly in that mission, but in his new book George Dennis O’Brien succeeds wonderfully. . . . Employing a masterly command of philosophy, theology, literature, drama, and art, O’Brien proposes another theological approach. . . . [This] book will help committed believers understand the solid ground on which they stand without flattening that ground or pretending to map it completely. . . . I find O’Brien’s book to be original, astute, and praiseworthy.” —Commonweal “This is a contemporary and passionate revisioning of authority in the Roman Catholic Church from the perspective of a committed layman. O'Brien articulates two viewpoints, or ‘voices,’ that seemingly encapsulate the debate in modern Catholicism regarding faith and ecclesiology. . . . Somewhat philosophical, the text, complete with eight pages of endnotes, is easily understood and devoid of much theological jargon. Recommended for all libraries interested in theological titles.” —Library Journal “O'Brien here offers his opinions on the state of the Catholic Church. O'Brien calls for the church to take on a voice that is more listening and therapeutic than didactic and moral.” —Choice “In response to the divide between papal teaching and the opinions of both the Catholic left and the Catholic right, O'Brien opens an inquiry into what the voice of Christian faith is and to what extend, and by what means, the church is capable of being the medium for the Gospels. He looks at the papal voice and official teaching, from the Roman Magisterium to the local pulpit. He also proposes ways in which the church can re-envision the structure and tone of its teaching to be a more authentic voice of the faithful.” —Conscience “It is a soul-searching exploration, a challenge to the status quo, a thinking-out-loud, an invitation to reassess. . . . But those who are open to the stimulation of looking at the Church in an unconventional way will be impressed with the wit and wisdom of a grandfather who loves the Church and knows it can do better.” —St. Anthony Messenger “In this very important work, O'Brien employs all the his ample philosophical acumen to bring us through a consideration of who speaks for the church and how such a one must speak in order to be heard . . . . This book is an important contribution to the many volumes claiming to examine the problems in the Catholic Church today. However, this work emerges above the others in its fascinating consideration of the religious persona and its ability to transform the reader's suppositions about the very nature of faith and teaching.” —Catholic Library World “George Dennis O'Brien thinks the Church has lost its voice. . . . [He] has something to say about how the church should speak to its members and the world at large (and about what the church should say), and he is ready to tell Rome and the rest of us how to recover our voice. And after reading Finding the Voice of the Church, I think the Vatican, the U.S. bishops, the clergy, and the folks in the pews could do a lot worse than pulling up a chair and giving O'Brien-and one another-a good hard listen.” —U.S. Catholic “Finding the Voice of the Church seems to offer something for most everyone. . . . George Dennis O'Brien has listened to and sounded a wide variety of voices to establish a solid foundation and to suggest a voice for the church in the world today.” —CatholicBooksReview.org "As the church finds itself in what O'Brien describes as a ‘profound crisis’, (xi) the author sets about with humor and exaggeration, but serious intent, to describe a way in which the church can begin, not to change or even to reform, but to begin a process of listening so that it can understand the value of the voices of the concerned from all parts of society, within and outside the Catholic Church." —American Catholic Studies
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University of Minnesota Press Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of
Book SynopsisTrade Review "ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i"An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies JournalTable of ContentsPapa Kuhikuhi / Table of ContentsKa Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / AcknowledgmentsʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary NationalismKa Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index
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University of Wales Press Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech and Death in the
Book SynopsisThe Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and unsettling voices: from half-heard ghostly murmurings and the admonitions of the dead, to the terrible cries of the monstrous nonhuman. Gothic Utterance offers the first book-length study of the role such voices play in the Gothic tradition, exploring their prominence and importance in the American literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century. This book argues that the American Gothic foregrounds the overpowering affect and distressing significations of the voices of the dead, dying, abjected, marginalised or nonhuman, in order to undertake a sustained interrogation of what it means to be and speak as an American in this period. The American Gothic imagines new forms of relation between speaking subjects, positing more inclusive and expansive forms of community. Gothic Utterance also emphasises the ethical demands attending our encounters with Gothic voices: the Gothic suggests that how we choose to hear and respond to these voices says much about our relationship with the world around us, its inhabitants - dead or otherwise - and the limits of our own subjectivity and empathy.Trade Review"Articulately and elegantly written, the force of this groundbreaking book goes in two directions. It reflects powerfully on the role of utterances, voices, and sounds of all kinds in the Gothic; and it develops a strong argument about the centrality of vocal utterance to the development and establishment of American cultural self-conception." --David Punter, University of Bristol -- David Punter, University of Bristol * University of Wales Press *"With its fascinating focus on ventriloquism and unintelligible speech, animal noises, and other types of sound, Jimmy Packham’s Gothic Utterance issues a clarion call to attend to the neglected roles of voice and sound in American Gothic and the Gothic more broadly. Researchers into the Gothic will want to listen carefully to what it has to say!" --Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University * University of Wales Press *"The Gothic is always telling people something they don’t want to hear: our consciences can’t be killed; past sins, our own or our ancestors’, will ultimately be revealed; and we’re generally not who we think we are. In Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech, and Death in the American Gothic, Jimmy Packham demonstrates how frequently, in US fiction of the long nineteenth century, the Gothic literally speaks, through the voices of the dead, the undead, and the dying, as well as the traumatized, the outcast, the nonhuman, and the wilderness. . . . a fresh rereading of a wide swath of nineteenth-century American texts." * American Literary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: American Biloquism Part I: Gothic Utterance and Selfhood 1. Deadly Locution and Delphic Shrieks: Haunted Significance and the Self 2. Cries and Whispers: Spectral Voice, Community and Gothic Consciousness Part II: Voices, Soundscapes, Histories 3. Howls and Echoes: Frontier Gothic and the Voice of the Wilderness 4. (Dis)embodied Utterance and the Peripatetic Voice: Hearing the Haunted Plantation 5. Squawking Soldiers and the Babbling Corpse: War-torn Words and Civil War Gothic Conclusion: Quoth the Gothic
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Kodansha America, Inc A Silent Voice Complete Collector's Edition 2
Book SynopsisThe award-winning modern classic about a girl who can't hear and her bully, which inspired the acclaimed anime film from Kyoto Animation, returns in a beautiful, two-volume collector's edition. This deluxe, large-sized hardcover extends from the second half of volume 4 through the end of the series, as well as over fifty pages of content never published in English before, such as the early drafts of the story, behind-the-scenes details from creator Yoshitoki Oima, and color art and concept sketch galleries. Collectors and new readers alike won't want to miss it!
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Voice Made Visible MultiOctave Voice Training and
Book SynopsisVoice Made Visible is an exploration of voice training and performance practice based on the use and application of Multi-Octave Vocal Range techniques.Multi-Octave is understood as the arsenal of sounds that exists uniquely within each human voice, beyond the comfortable average octave that we use in everyday life. In Voice Made Visible, Rafael Lopez-Barrantes builds on the voice work created by Alfred Wolfsohn and developed by Roy Hart and his company in France to assist students, artists, and those interested in the performing arts with their vocal practice. He draws from over three decades of multi-cultural performance and teaching, sharing the three fundamental pillars of his system: Fiction, News, and Body Source. This book will help readers unfold their understanding of the voice by strengthening it and inspire them to create new vocal paths for the stage, camera, and voice acting, as well as for their own personal expressive growth.Table of Contents1. Beginnings 2. Voice Made Visible 3. The Prerequisites: Fiction and News 4. Sound Grounding 5. The Industry of Breath and Alignment 6. The Foundational Pillars: The Body Sources 7. Training ~Conclusion: The Universe in a Lid....
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The University of Michigan Press A Question of Voice
Book SynopsisOffers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities.
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University of Toronto Press The Voice of Newfoundland
Book SynopsisThe Voice of Newfoundland studies cultural and political changes in Newfoundland from 1939 to 1949 by taking a close look at the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland's radio programming and the responses of their listeners.Trade Review'The Voice of Newfoundland is a work of subtlety and imagination that provides a compelling view of the dialectic between broadcaster and audience in the creation of culture. It deserves an international audience and should be standard reading for PhD fields in Canadian history.' -- Bill Parenteau Canadian Historical Review: vol 91:04:10
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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Our Voice of Fire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHer powerful and necessary work is required reading for all readers seeking to better know the realities and buried truths of the Indigenous experience. * Booklist (starred review) *Morin writes honestly and compassionately … Her narrative provides an important window into an experience that needs far more mainstream attention. * Liber Review *Brandi Morin's storytelling is accessible, powerful, and clear. ... She is a brave and vulnerable storyteller who brings greater empathy and understanding into the lives of Indigenous people and the cycles of intergenerational trauma and yet manages to get up again and again in hope. * Miramichi Reader *[Morin] comes to view her life story as intertwined with those of others, particularly other Indigenous women … In her candour, she calls on us, as readers, to be good visitors in her narrative. * Literary Review of Canada *Morin’s writing is very satisfying. … Cathartic and evocative, Our Voice of Fire is a beautiful memoir … [and] a wake-up call to Canada’s settlers and the politically indifferent. * Cloud Lake Literary *
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Taylor & Francis Voices of the Other
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Silence Voice and the InBetween
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins seeks to dismantle the deficit discourses generated through research about people as agency-less and, by extension, objects of study.The book argues that, regardless of marginalisation, people create spaces of liminality where they seek control over their lives by navigating the structures that exclude them. Challenging the false binary of silence as violence and voice as power, the book introduces the idea of an in-between liminal space' which is created by people to navigate conditions of oppression and move towards a politically stable and inclusive world.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, international development, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations, sociology and media studies. It will be an important resource for courses incorporating gender, feminist and postcolonial perspectTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Theorising Liminal Spaces of Silence, Voice and the ‘In-Between’ During Political Instability, Precarity and Violence Part 1: Silence, Voice and the In-Between 1. Writing In-Between: Research, Resistance, and Academic Practices 2. Exilic Narrations of Syria’s Trauma: From a Politics of Being Perceived to a Politics of Perceiving 3. Queering Silence: Beyond Binaries Through Queer Readings of Texts on Silence 4. Silencing Speech and Spoken Silence in War Memorialisation in Japan Part 2: Agency in the Face of Trauma, Memory and Survival 5. How Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence Navigate Silence and Voice 6. Liminal Activism: Kosovar Wartime Sexual Violence Survivors’ Resisting Dynamics and Women’s Rights Organisations’ Defense 7. Silence, Multi-Modal Testimony, and Wartime Sexual Violence 8. Voicing and Silencing in Tandem: Feminist Activism on Abortion in Argentina and Turkey Part 3: Exploring Empowerment and Activism: Women’s Bodies in a Dangerous World 9. The Silence/Voice Synergy of Yazidi Women’s Agency During and After ISIS 10. Afghan Women and the Burqa Trope: Mapping Agency in Liminality 11. Space of Loud Silences: Digital Media Start-Ups and Women’s Experiences of Gukurahundi Atrocities
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University of Chicago Press Debate of the Romance of the Rose The Other Voice
Book SynopsisIn 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. This work gives context to this debate.Trade Review"The Other Voice series is a timely contribution to our understanding of the nature and extent of the participation of women and profeminist supporters in early modern European culture and society.... This series highlights the interest of early modern women's literary lives, allowing wives, sisters, and mothers to step out from the shadows and assume the place that is rightfully theirs on the literary stage." - Pollie Bromilow, Journal of European Studies
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The University of Chicago Press Dark Voices W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk. It offers a reading of his work from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Dead Voice Law Philosophy and Fiction in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bringing together a multitude of discourses with subtlety and deftness, Jesús R. Velasco undertakes a rare interpretation of the Siete Partidas and offers far-reaching and compelling conclusions." * Simone Pinet, Cornell University *"In his sophisticated literary treatment of the Siete Partidas, Jesús R. Velasco shifts the disciplinary frame away from legal history in a move that will be welcomed by scholars interested in medieval law and sovereignty." * Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Dead Voice Chapter 2. Vernacular Jurisdiction Chapter 3. Revenant Manuscripts Chapter 4. Legislating Friendship Chapter 5. Sensitive Souls Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Notre Dame Press Voice of the Hammer The Meaning of Work in
Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of literary representations of work, this work explores how late medieval authors, influenced by the labor-related crises of the fourteenth century, sought to articulate the meaning of work in fresh and contrasting ways. It analyzes the Middle English terms to show how words for work were related to status and class attitudes.Trade Review"Nicola Masciandaro makes it clear that this is about the literary representation of work in the poetry of late fourteenth-century England, and the role given to work in the construction of the self. A thought-provoking book with some very clever ideas, which are beautifully expressed."—Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 108:1, January 2009"As a study of the socio-cultural and historical conceptions of work, both manual and poetic, in the Middle Ages, The Voice of the Hammer is a book which is valuable for Middle English scholars and medievalists interested in the exchange between medieval literature and medieval economics. Its comprehensive scope is useful, and it provides a good survey of the field of economic history in Middle English literature."—Comitatus, volume 38 (2007)
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University of California Press Voice of the Living Light
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Hildegard of Bingen, ranging from medieval theology to medicine to music, offer an understanding of how one woman could transform so many of the traditions of the world in which she lived.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Madeline Caviness Florence Eliza Glaze Margot Fassler Joan Ferrante
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Of the Diaspora Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (of the
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State University of New York Press The Scene of the Voice
Book SynopsisBrings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.The recent turns to affect and aesthetics in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences have been productive for reflecting on the crucial role sensibility plays in the constitution of the social. However, these scholarly developments construct their interventions by dismissing the attention to language that was central to the linguistic and cultural turns of previous eras and by claiming that language is an obstacle to experiencing the reality of difference to which they maintain only sensibility can grant access. By analyzing the figure of the voice in the work of Martin Heidegger and the continental thinkers who follow him, The Scene of the Voice shows that the dismissal of language in favor of sensibility requires overlooking their common connection in the problem of mimesis. As this book ultimately argues, artificially separating language and sensibility results in a failure to encounter affect, the relation to difference affect is said to name, and the experience of thinking affect is taken to provoke.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Voice of Science
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Voice of an Angel
Book Synopsis'Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues . In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory.' - Helen Dunmore, The TimesEveryone, including her family, thought Ward Gibson would marry Daisy Mason.Trade ReviewQueen of raw family romances * Telegraph *Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues . . . In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory * Helen Dunmore, The Times *Catherine Cookson soars above her rivals * Mail on Sunday *
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The Nacelle Company Voices from Krypton
Book SynopsisHailed as possibly the most comprehensive oral history of Superman to be committed to print, Voices From Krypton combines over 85 years of Superman's legacy into a sweeping tale of how the champion of the oppressed became one of the world's most recognizable pop culture icons. Not only does this epic collection include interviews with Superman favorites like Henry Cavill, Tom Welling, and Zack Snyder, Voices From krypton also dives into the Tim Burton directed Nicholas Cage movie that never happened. You might think you know Superman, but you haven't yet read Voices From Krypton.
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University of Massachusetts Press A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher,
Book SynopsisOn June 8, 1982, Ronald Reagan delivered a historic address to the British Parliament, promising that the United States would give people around the world “a voice in their own destiny” in the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism. While British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated Reagan’s visit and thanked him for putting “freedom on the offensive,” over 100,000 Britons marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square to protest his arrival and call for nuclear disarmament. Reagan’s homecoming was equally eventful, with 1,000,000 protesters marking his return with a rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park—the largest protest in American history up to that point. Employing a wide range of previously unexamined primary sources, Anthony M. Eames demonstrates how the Reagan and Thatcher administrations used innovations in public diplomacy to build back support for their foreign policy agendas at a moment of widespread popular dissent. A Voice in Their Own Destiny traces how competition between the governments of Reagan and Thatcher, the Anglo-American antinuclear movement, and the Soviet peace offensive sparked a revolution in public diplomacy.Trade Review “In this meticulously researched book, Eames deftly musters new archival material from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the important story of how the Reagan and Thatcher governments worked together to successfully combat antinuclear feeling in the 1980s. A timely book with implications for effective public diplomacy today.”—Nicholas J. Cull, author of Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age “This is a truly engaging and insightful work that sheds much-needed light on a vital and neglected area of the late Cold War.”—Aaron Donaghy, author of The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy
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University of Texas Press Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
Book SynopsisA selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture.Table of Contents Introduction The Day They Let the Lions Loose, by Emilio Carballido The Camp, by Griselda Gambaro The Library, by Carlos Maggi In the Right Hand of God the Father, by Enrique Buenaventura The Mulatto’s Orgy, by Luisa Josefina Hernandez Viña: Three Beach Plays, by Sergio Vodánovic
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University of Wisconsin Press The Fractured Voice Silence and Power in
Book SynopsisConfronts the trope of muteness in Imperial Roman literature, arguing that this understanding of silence is incomplete. Amy Koenig shows that the Roman perception of silence was more complicated than a simple binary and that authors used voiceless characters to interrogate the concept of voicelessness in ways that would be taboo in other contexts.Trade Review“Pulling together a dizzying array of materials and concepts from disparate fields, The Fractured Voice is a transformative study of speech in the ancient world. Impressive scholarship supports an adroit, wholly original, and convincing argument that avoids the previous, reductive approaches to the motif of speech loss in Roman literature.”—Bartolo Natoli, author of Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid “Koenig brings a fresh perspective to the understanding of silence in the culture of the Roman empire, showing that loss of voice can unlock new possibilities of expression that allow the mute person to signify facts and feelings otherwise difficult or dangerous to communicate. Those interested in Roman literature, cultural history, and disability studies stand to learn a great deal from this book.”—Silvia Montiglio, author of Silence in the Land of LogosTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Tongueless Nightingale Chapter 1. The Embodied Voice: Conflict and Constraint in Galen’s Writings Chapter 2. The Mute Goddess: Speechlessness, Divinity, and Power in Ovid’s Fasti Chapter 3. The Dancer’s Silence: Ovidian Myths of the Voice and Roman Pantomime Chapter 4. The Instrument of the Voice: Body, Mind, and Music in the “Second Sophistic” Greek Novels Chapter 5. Nova vox: (Re)gaining a Voice in the Ass Novels Epilogue: Mea lingua Christus: Muteness and Martyrdom Notes References Index
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Ediciones Paids Ibrica, S.A. La voz del valle The Voice of The Valley
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HardPress Publishing Clara Roscom Or the Path of Duty
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