Language Arts & Disciplines : Literacy

Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism Thomas Doucherty--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century.ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary John Barrell--changing critical responses to Wordsworth's "heroic version of masculinity." Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity Simon Shepherd--nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora Vijay Mishra; Bisexuality, heterosexuality and wishful theory Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews, index. Holcroft IA Tale of Mystery,--a melo-drame and ICaleb Williams more...

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"Understanding Reading" revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971. In the sixth edition, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading - linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social - and on what is involved in learning to read. more...

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This short guide to creative writing for children is based on the author's own successful writing course. Andrew Melrose provides guidance on every aspect of the process of writing for children. more...

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Writing With, Through, and Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language elaborates an understanding of writing, its influences on our interpretations of experience and identity, and its potential for enabling individuals to learn about and connect to the world beyond themselves. Rather than considering writing a process, the author describes it as a system, an ecology that engages the individual in a variety of socially constituted and interacting systems. The book examines the pedagogical and curricular implications of this approach to writing, considering what it means to write and teach writing in ways that understand and acknowledge the ecological character of writing. This is an illuminating text for a wide audience of faculty, professionals, and graduate students in English, writing, education, and women's studies/feminist theory. more...

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From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture were accompanied by an explosive growth in the use of written texts. This book considers how writing, reading, and disseminating texts led to new ways of thinking and new forms of expression and behaviour. more...

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