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Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections)
by null Serena DyerThe making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.
The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics (Palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-century Writing And Culture)
by Marcus Waithe Claire WhiteThis volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour. It questions assumed areas of affinity and difference, beginning with the labour politics of the early nineteenth century and their common root in the French Revolution. It also scrutinises the received view of France as a source of a ‘leisure ethic’, and of British writers as either rejecting or self-consciously mimicking French models. Individual essays consider examples of how different writers approached their work, while also evoking a broader notion of ‘work ethics’, understood as a humane practice, whereby values, benefits, and responsibilities, are weighed up.
The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction
by Mary WilsonIn The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking their movements across the architectural borders separating indoors and outdoors and across the physical doorways between rooms, Wilson illuminates the ways in which the servants who open doors symbolize larger social limits and exclusions, as well as states of consciousness. The relationship between female servants and their female employers is of particular importance in the work of female authors, for whom the home and the novel are especially interconnected sites of authorization and domestication. Modernist fiction, Wilson shows, uses domestic service to tame and interrogate not only issues of class, but also the overlapping distinctions of racial and ethnic identities. As Woolf, Stein, Larsen, and Rhys use the novel to interrogate the limitations of gendered domestic ideologies, they find they must deploy these same ideologies to manage the servant characters whose labor maintains the domestic spaces they find limiting. Thus the position of servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not just as characters, but as conditions for the production of literature and of the homes in which literature is created.
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England
by Joanna PicciottoIn seventeenth-century England, intellectuals of all kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures. Reinvented as the agent of innocent curiosity, Adam was central to the project of redefining contemplation as a productive and public labor. It was by identifying with creation’s original sovereign, Joanna Picciotto argues, that early modern scientists, poets, and pamphleteers claimed authority as both workers and “public persons.” Tracking an ethos of imitatio Adami across a wide range of disciplines and devotions, Picciotto reveals how practical efforts to restore paradise generated the modern concept of objectivity and a novel understanding of the author as an agent of estranged perception. Finally, she shows how the effort to restore Adam as a working collective transformed the corpus mysticum into a public. Offering new readings of key texts by writers such as Robert Hooke, John Locke, Andrew Marvell, Joseph Addison, and most of all John Milton, Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England advances a new account of the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.
Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century
by Ellen Malenas LedouxMotherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.
Labor Pains: Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & the Development of the Self (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Carolyn MaiborThis book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality through this emphasis on labor. In doing so she challenges the traditional view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal issues, and opens the work of Hawthorne and Alcott to new feminist readings.
Labor Pains: New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by Christin Marie TaylorFrom the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary Left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism influenced southern fiction about black workers, offering a new view of work and labor.At the height of the New Deal era and its legacies, Taylor examines how southern literature of the Popular Front not only addressed the familiar stakes of race and labor but also called upon an imagined black folk to explore questions of feeling and desire. By poring over tropes of black workers across genres of southern literature in the works of George Wylie Henderson, William Attaway, Eudora Welty, and Sarah Elizabeth Wright, Taylor reveals the broad reach of black radicalism into experiments with portraying human feelings.These writers grounded interrelationships and stoked emotions to present the social issues of their times in deeply human terms. Taylor emphasizes the multidimensional use of the sensual and the sexual, which many protest writers of the period, such as Richard Wright, avoided. She suggests Henderson and company used feeling to touch readers while also questioning and reimagining the political contexts and apparent victories of their times. Taylor shows how these fictions adopted the aesthetics and politics of feeling as a response to New Deal–era policy reforms, both in their successes and their failures. In effect, these writers, some who are not considered a part of an African American protest tradition, illuminated an alternative form of protest through poignant paradigms.
The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile
by Jane D. GriffinBy producing literature in nontraditional forms—books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children’s toys—Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state censorship and independent of capitalist definitions of value. In The Labor of Literature Jane D. Griffin studies amateur and noncommercial forms of literary production in Chile that originated in response to authoritarian state politics and have gained momentum throughout the postdictatorship period. She argues that such forms advance a model of cultural democracy that differs from and sometimes contradicts the model endorsed by the state and the market. By examining alternative literary publications, Griffin recasts the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship as a time of editorial experimentation despite widespread cultural oppression and shows how grassroots cultural activism has challenged government-approved corporate publishing models throughout the postdictatorship period. Griffin’s work also points to the growing importance of autogestión, or do-it-yourself cultural production, where individuals combine artisanal forms with new technologies to make and share creative work on a global scale.
Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567�667
by Laurie EllinghausenLooking at texts by non-aristocratic authors, in this studythe author investigates the relationship between nascent early modern notions of professional authorship and the emerging idea of vocation - the sense that one's identity is bound up in one's work. The author analyzes how the concept of labor as a calling, which was assisted by early modern experiments in democracy, print, and Protestant religion, had a lasting effect on the history of authorship as a profession. In so doing, she reveals the construction of an approach to early modern authorship that values diligence over the courtly values of leisure and play. This study expands the scope of scholarship to develop a cultural history that acknowledges the considerable impact of non-aristocratic poets on the idea of authorship as a vocation. The author shows that our modern, post-Romantic notions of the professional writer as materially impoverished-and yet committed to his or her art-has recognizable roots in early modern England's workaday lives.
Labor and Desire
by Paula RabinowitzThis critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse disappeared during the decade. She focuses on the ways in which sexuality and maternity reconstruct the "classic" proletarian novel to speak about both the working-class woman and the radical female intellectual.Two well-known novels bracket this study: Agnes Smedley's Daughters of Earth (1929) and Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps (1942). In all, Rabinowitz surveys more than forty novels of the period, many largely forgotten. Discussing these novels in the contexts of literary radicalism and of women's literary tradition, she reads them as both cultural history and cultural theory. Through a consideration of the novels as a genre, Rabinowitz is able to theorize about the interrelationship of class and gender in American culture.Rabinowitz shows that these novels, generally dismissed as marginal by scholars of the literary and political cultures of the 1930s, are in fact integral to the study of American fiction produced during the decade. Relying on recent feminist scholarship, she reformulates the history of literary radicalism to demonstrate the significance of these women writers and to provide a deeper understanding of their work for twentieth-century American cultural studies in general.
La Vita Nuova (Penguin Classics)
by Dante Alighieri Barbara ReynoldsIn this celebration of a poet's passionate love for the woman he worshiped from afar, Dante weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. La Vita Nuova records the poet's adoration of Beatrice, the celestial figure who would ultimately guide him through his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. <p><p> In addition to its appeal as a sublime meditation on the anguish and ecstasy of love, this volume also serves as a treatise on the art and technique of poetry. Dante's commentaries explicate each poem, further refining his concept of romantic love as the initial step in the spiritual development that culminates in the capacity for divine love. His unconventional approach — drawing upon personal experience, addressing readers directly, and writing in Italian rather than Latin — marked a turning point in European poetry, when writers departed from highly stylized forms in favor of a simpler style. This complete and unabridged edition features the distinguished translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
La valeur des informations: Ressorts et contraintes du marché des idées
by Bertrand LabassePourquoi les messages qui nous plaisent nous plaisent-ils ? Derrière cette question simple se cache l’un des plus vieux problèmes théoriques de la communication, mais aussi l’un des plus importants dans le bouillonnement contemporain des contenus culturels, politiques, médiatiques et distractifs. Cette recherche s’attaque à ce défi sous un angle nouveau, au moyen d’une approche interdisciplinaire et expose de façon très stimulante les ressorts cognitifs et sociaux qui expliquent les logiques de production et de réception des multiples messages – triviaux ou érudits – en concurrence pour l’attention du public. La clarté de sa construction permettra à chacun de suivre pas à pas les étapes d’une quête captivante menée pendant plus de vingt ans sur des contextes discursifs aussi variés que le journalisme, la littérature ou la communication scientifique et médicale. Au fil d’un cheminement méthodique dont la rigueur n’exclut pas l’humour, on découvre comment des facteurs psychologiques et normatifs similaires, connus de longue date mais rarement rapprochés jusqu’à maintenant, s’exercent conjointement et comment ils contribuent globalement à façonner, pour le meilleur ou le pire, la société ultracommunicante dans laquelle nous vivons. Publié en français.
La traduction spécialisée: Une approche professionnelle à l'enseignement de la traduction
by Marco A. Fiola Federica ScarpaCet ouvrage présente les fondements théoriques et les principes méthodologiques de la traduction spécialisée en général, et plus particulièrement de la traduction spécialisée de l'anglais vers le français. Il s'ouvre sur une description des particularités des langues de spécialité portant sur une typologie des textes et une classification des genres textuels. Une étude comparative fait ressortir les similitudes et les différences qui marquent la langue de spécialité par rapport à la langue générale. L'ouvrage présente ensuite des stratégies à adopter dans la traduction d'un texte à partir de trois perspectives : les caractéristiques textuelles et rhétoriques du texte spécialisé, les aspects morphosyntaxiques de la langue de la spécialité et finalement, les aspects lexicaux et terminologiques du type textuel. Des chapitres entiers abordent les caractéristiques de la traduction de textes spécialisés, la notion d'équivalence, la méthodologie de la traduction spécialisée et le contrôle de la qualité des traductions. L'ouvrage se termine par un chapitre sur les débouchés qui s'offrent au langagier qui s'apprête à entreprendre une carrière de communicateur interlinguistique spécialisé.
La traduction raisonnée, 3e édition: Manuel d’initiation à la traduction professionnelle de l’anglais vers le français (Pédagogie de la traduction)
by Jean Delisle Marco A. FiolaCe manuel, dont la visée est essentiellement pratique, propose une méthode d’initiation à la traduction professionnelle, par opposition aux exercices de traduction axés sur l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère. Il répond aux exigences particulières de formation des futurs traducteurs de métier et s’adresse tout particulièrement, mais non exclusivement, aux étudiants des programmes universitaires de traduction. Son domaine est celui des textes pragmatiques généraux, formulés selon les normes de la langue écrite et en vue d’un apprentissage dans le sens anglais - français. Le manuel renferme 9 objectifs généraux d’apprentissage, 75 objectifs spécifques, 85 textes à traduire, 253 exercices d’application, un glossaire de 275 notions, une bibliographie de 410 titres et des milliers d’exemples de traduction.Published in French.
La traduction en citations: Florilège (Regards sur la traduction)
by Jean DelisleTraduire, ce n’est pas écrire » / « Traduire n’est rien d’autre qu’écrire » « On naît traducteur, on ne le devient pas » / « Le métier de traducteur, ça s’apprend » Qu’en pensent Victor Hugo, Madame de Sévigné, Octavio Paz ou Umberto Eco? Et qu’en disent les théoriciens de la traductologie, comme Antony Pym ou Sherry Simon? Les idées s’entrechoquent allègrement dans ce florilège de citations : autant d’auteurs et de traducteurs, autant de partis pris sur l’acte de traduire. La traduction en citations contient plus de 2700 aphorismes, définitions, éloges, épigrammes, jugements, témoignages ou traits d’esprit sur la traduction, les traducteurs et les interprètes. Ces citations ont été glanées chez plus de huit cent auteurs, de l’Antiquité à nos jours et sont classées sous une centaine de thèmes tels que Art ingrat, Belles infidèles, Éloge du traducteur, Humour, Limites de la traduction, Traduire au féminin ou Vieillissement des traductions. Ce petit bijou, agréable à lire et à relire, est un incontournable sur la table de chevet de tout traducteur et de tout lecteur curieux. Sourires en coin garantis.
La Roches Einführung in den praktischen Journalismus
by Gabriele Hooffacker Klaus MeierWie wird man heute Journalist? Wo und in welchen Funktionen arbeiten Journalisten? Wie verändern die neuen Medien den Journalistenberuf? Wo kann man Journalismus lernen? Wie findet man Kontakt zu einer Redaktion? Wie recherchiert man eine Story? Kann der Journalist objektiv informieren? Wie schreibt man eine Nachricht? Was sind die Besonderheiten von Bericht, Reportage, Interview, analysierendem Beitrag und Feature sowie von Kommentar, Glosse und Rezension? Auf diese Fragen gibt die neu bearbeitete 20. Auflage erprobte und bewährte Antworten, aber auch Auskünfte über den neuesten Stand journalistischer Arbeitstechniken und Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten. Vor dem Hintergrund des digitalen Journalismus wurde das Kapitel zum Thema Recht völlig neu gefasst. Aufwändig recherchiert und überarbeitet wurden die Wege in den Journalismus, insbesondere die immer wichtiger werdenden Studiengänge an Hochschulen.
LA RELATERIA: 15 relatos diferentes + 15 cócteles clásicos = la combinación perfecta
by Romi Llanas¡15 relatos diferentes + 15 cocktail clásicos! La combinación perfecta. <P><P>Romi Llanas (Principado de Andorra 1961) cursó estudios de gestión y dirección de Empresa, viviendo durante años en la Costa del Sol, Málaga. <P>El interiorismo marca la trayectoria de esta emprendedora apasionada por la escritura, que ha recorrido medio mundo para completar su identidad personal y profesional. <P><P> A raíz del encargo de unos cuentos infantiles para la Ilustradora Lorena Torrado, se lanza a participar en un concurso de relatos, que posteriormente ha dado lugar a la edición de este libro. <P> Actualmente reside a caballo entre Benahavis (Málaga) y Madrid donde tiene su estudio de diseño.
La Récréation class 1 - MIE
by Par Hanna Khodabocus"La Récréation" est un livre géant conçu pour stimuler l'éveil à la littératie chez les élèves de première année. L'histoire se déroule pendant la récréation à l'école, où Sara et le narrateur jouent à cache-cache avec leurs amis, tandis que d'autres enfants participent à des courses, jouent au ballon, à la marelle ou simplement discutent. L'atmosphère dynamique et diversifiée de la récréation est illustrée à travers différentes activités des enfants. Cependant, l'ambiance ludique est brièvement interrompue lorsque Robin se blesse, soulignant l'importance de la prudence pendant le jeu. La cloche sonne, annonçant la fin de la récréation et le retour en classe. Ce livre vise à susciter l'interaction des élèves en les incitant à partager leurs expériences pendant la récréation, tout en développant leur compréhension du vocabulaire et en encourageant des activités créatives basées sur le thème de la récréation.
La Place Pb
by Annie Ernaux P.M. WetherillLa Place looks at a daughter’s relationship with her father. In a fragmented and retrospective way the narrator describes her feelings of separation and betrayal that arise when education and marriage place her in a social class with different values, language, tastes and behaviour. She explores the ways in which individual experience is related to class and group attitudes and at the same time tells us a great deal about French society in general since the turn of the century. It is a concentrated text, cut through with irony and may be read in different ways. La Place will be an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses.
La Petite Fadette: Opéra-comique En 3 Actes (classic Reprint)
by George SandSet in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to a highly respected farm family. When young Landry meets Fadette, whose very name suggests that she is a witch, he is captivated by the girl despite her lowly status and disreputable family. Sylvinet soon follows suit. Fadette’s relationship with the twins defies the patriarchal norms of French society as well as the expectations of the village, resulting in a tale of love, courage, and clever strategy winning out over superstition and prejudice.Often regarded as a simple country tale, Sand’s novel is layered with meaning, including subtle nods to the burgeoning desire for political and sexual equality in nineteenth-century France. This thoughtful critical translation by Gretchen van Slyke brings the complexity of the original story to life. Her introduction explores the autobiographical and political dimensions of the novel, and her translation preserves the rustic charm and archaic flavor of Sand’s language.An invaluable contribution to French literary studies and nineteenth-century literature studies, this new edition ensures that La Petite Fadette will be read by generations to come.
La Miglior Guida per Imparare Qualsiasi Lingua in Maniera Facile & Veloce: Impara una lingua in 1 settimana
by Sophia SoarezUna guida dettagliata per imparare qualsiasi lingua in modo facile e veloce Questa guida ti aiuterà ad imparare la nuova lingua in 1 settimana e ti insegnerà trucchi e suggerimenti per diventare madrelingua della nuova lingua. Sulla base di fatti scientifici, questo libro ti spiegherà: - il modo più semplice per imparare una nuova lingua - Come impiegare il tuo tempo in modo efficace - Come diventare un madrelingua - Come imparare la corretta pronuncia della nuova lingua - Come posizionare la bocca per una pronuncia corretta - Come memorizzare le parole di una nuova lingua - Come rimanere motivati - Come migliorare l'accento Se vuoi imparare una nuova lingua in una settimana e diventare un madrelingua, allora questo libro fa per te. -> Scorri fino all'inizio della pagina e fai clic su Aggiungi al carrello per acquistare immediatamente Disclaimer: Questo autore e / o il / i proprietario / i dei diritti non fanno rivendicazioni, promesse o garanzie circa l'accuratezza, la completezza o l'adeguatezza dei contenuti di questo libro e declina espressamente la responsabilità per errori e omissioni nei contenuti all'interno di esso. Questo prodotto è solo per riferimento.
La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype (Italian and Italian American Studies)
by Penelope Morris Perry WillsonThe idea of the “mamma italiana” is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, but it has also been seen as shaping the lived experience of modern-day Italians of both sexes, as well as influencing perceptions of Italy in the wider world. This interdisciplinary collection examines the invented tradition of mammismo but also contextualizes it by discussing other, often contrasting, ways in which the role of mothers, and the mother-son relationship, have been understood and represented in culture and society over the last century and a half, both in Italy and in its diaspora.
La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth
by Sandra Messinger CypessOf all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Maria - La Malinche - Malintzin, an American Indian woman who was given as a gift to Cortés. This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.
La màgia d'escriure
by José Antonio MarinaLa gran creació de la intel·ligència és la capacitat d'expressar, dir, comunicar-nos, escriure. És el moment de la gran síntesi, deposar en net. El que sentim confusament, allò que sabem en termes generals, el que ens passa pel cap com una sospita o un desig de premonició adquireix precisió i fermesa. Aquest també és un llibre de màgia, com ho era La màgia de llegir. Tracta de la transfiguració de la realitat. El que eren les coses, esdeveniments, passions, es transforma en paraules. Hi pot haver màgia més gran? A La màgia d'escriure ens acostem a la intel·ligència que crea mitjançant paraules i ens preguntem: com podem ensenyar a escriure a l'escola, a l'educació secundària? Com podem els adults aprendre a escriure? En aquest llibre, però, hi ha una tercera part. També hem entrat a l'habitació de treball de molts escriptors per descobrir-hi els seus secrets, els mecanismes més ocults de la creativitat. Hem fet de cronistes d'allò que és meravellós. I, després, hem intentat fer una pedagogia de la creació literària. No se'ns pot acusar de ser massa humils. José Antonio Marina i María de la Válgoma.
La màgia de llegir
by José Antonio MarinaLlegir és una necessitat urgent pública i privada. La vida humana transcorre entre paraules. La nostra intel·ligència és lingüística i la nostra convivència, íntima o política, també. Aquest llibre és una introducció poètica, científica i pràctica a la lectura. Un manual per a pares, mestres, professors de secundària i per a lectors curiosos. Però, bàsicament, és un llibre de màgia. Barreja receptes i consells per fer encanteris prodigiosos. Els que divideixen la màgia en blanca i negra s'equivoquen. Obliden que la màgia més poderosa i magnífica és la del negre sobre el blanc. L'escriptura, i la lectura, és clar, que n'és el complement, d'on surten fades i dracs, mons nous i mons antics, personatges, històries, sentiments, lleis, poemes i equacions. El llenguatge va transfigurar l'espècie humana. Tant de bo La màgia de llegir faci el mateix amb vosaltres.