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Dialogue and Devianceby Robert S. Sturges
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00This book traces the historical relationship between male-male erotic desire and the genre of literary or philosophical dialogue. It describes three literary-philosophical traditions, each of which originates in a different Platonic dialogue whose subsequent influence can be traced, first, through the Roman and medieval periods; second, through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods; and, finally, through the modern and postmodern periods. Sturges demonstrates that various forms of erotic deviance have been differently valued in these different periods and cultures, and that dialogue has consistently proven to be the genre of choice for expressing these changing values. This study provides a valuable historical perspective on current debates... more...
Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Designby Wolfgang Minker; Gary Geunbae Lee; Satoshi Nakamura; Joseph Mariani
Springer 2011; US$ 259.00"Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design" covers key topics in the field of spoken language dialogue interaction from a variety of leading researchers. It brings together several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction, as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure. These topics are all part of the general research and development within the area of discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on dialogue systems; corpora and corpus tools and semantic and pragmatic modelling of discourse and dialogue. more...
Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles and Endsby Nancy Kress
F+W Media 2011; US$ 14.99Get Your Readers' Attention -- And Keep It -- From the First World to the Final Page Translating that initial flash of inspiration into a complete story requires careful crafting. So how do you keep your story from beginning slowly, floundering midway, and trailing off at the end? Nancy Kress shows you effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your story?essential lessons for strong start-to-finish storytelling. - Hook readers, agents, and editors in the first three paragraphs. - Make and keep your story?s implicit promise to the reader. - Build drama and credibility by controlling your prose. - Consider the price a writer pays for flashbacks. - Reveal character effectively throughout your story. Get the... more...
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