Author:
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: texts, approaches, critical, cultural, contemporary
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0748620443
ISBN-13: 9780748620449
Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, including established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticis
Authors:Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: texts, pictures, material, anthology, craft, memory, medieval
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-12-17
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0812218817
ISBN-13: 9780812218817
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern histo
Authors:Eugene Francis Kaelin, Ellen J. Bur,
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editio
Keywords: texts, value, inquiry, book, series, burns, edited, textuality, phenomenology, literary, art, ellen
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 904200665X
ISBN-13: 9789042006652
Texts on Texts and Textuality argues the case for an American phenomenology as applied to works of literary artworks. The argument is made by a surrounding frame (the Preface and the Afterword) that encloses ten chapters. The chapters are divided into two parts: the phenomenological theory and practical criticism. In making his case, Kaelin traces the development in the American academic tradition from the American New Criticism through structuralism to the French nouvelle critique. He calls his theory "phenomenological structuralism," and shows its derivation from American pragmatism (context
Author:
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: protestant, texts, nonconformist, century, nineteenth
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0754638502
ISBN-13: 9780754638506
This is a series of four substantial volumes designed to demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist harbingers in the 16th century to the end of the 20th century. It represents a major project of the Association of Denominational Historical Societies and Cognate Libraries. Each volume comprises a general introduction followed by texts illustrative of such topics as theology, philosophy, worship, socio-political concerns, and so on. Prepared by a team of 12 editors, all of whom are expert in their areas, and drawn from
Author: World Trade Organizatio
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: trade, texts, legal, negotiations, organization, world, round, results, uruguay, multilateral
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 2000-01-13
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521785804
ISBN-13: 9780521785808
The agreements negotiated in the Uruguay Round, which form the legal framework of the World Trade Organization, will govern world trade into the twenty-first century. This volume covers both the original and the updated General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the Agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the new procedures for dispute settlement, and the legal framework for the World Trade Organization. This is the definitive reference for all practicing and academic trade lawyers, an essential holding for all
Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: Shell Educatio
Keywords: level, practice, fluency, texts
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1425803989
ISBN-13: 9781425803988
Coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski, this selection of engaging texts for Grade 1 will make reading enjoyable for students so that they will want to read, reread, and perform! Research has shown that readers who engage in regular repeated readings improve their word recognition, reading rate, comprehension, and overall reading proficiency. As students regularly read and perform these age-appropriate texts, they improve their decoding, interpretation, and ultimately comprehension of the materials. A variety of genres are included: poetry and rhymes, song lyrics, readers t
Author: John O?Keefe
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Keywords: texts, shimmer
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 155936002X
ISBN-13: 9781559360029
