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Literatures from Northeast India: Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate
by K M Baharul IslamThis book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language, ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices. A region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity, the literature from Northeast India is representative of varied histories, languages, socio-cultural and religious practices. The book highlights the distinct use of language, forms, cultural symbols and metaphors which articulates the unique experiences of conflict, beauty and culture in this area. Focussing on the translingual and transcultural aspects of these literary works it examines the dynamics between literature, language and their socio-cultural influences. The book pays attention to themes of representation, identity and power to showcase voices and perspectives of dissent, criticism and introspection. It explores contemporary critical approaches to literature from the Northeast, by re-examining the idea of the centre and the periphery and the position of subaltern literary voices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, language, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690 (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)
by a foreword JardineOriginal and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation And The Long Nineteenth Century (New Comparisons In World Literature Series)
by Regenia GagnierThis book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact rather than national boundaries, the author draws attention to the global scope of literatures and geopolitical commodities as actants in world affairs, as in processes of liberalization, democratization, and trade, but also to the distinctiveness of each local environment at its moments of transculturation. Based in extensive experience in collaborative, multilingual, interdisciplinary networks, the book synthesizes existing theoretical scholarship, provides original case studies of world-historical Victorian and modern writers, and articulates a new interdisciplinary methodology for literary studies in a global context. It will be of interest to Victorianists, modernists, comparatists, political theorists, translators, and scholars of world literatures, world ecology, and globalization.
Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (Literary Disability Studies)
by Elizabeth J. DonaldsonLiteratures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health. The collection contains essays on canonical authors and lesser known and sometimes forgotten writers, including Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, Hannah Weiner, Mary Jane Ward, Michelle Cliff, Lee Maracle, Joanne Greenberg, Ann Bannon, Jerry Pinto, Persimmon Blackbridge, and others. The volume addresses the under-representation of madness and psychiatric disability in the field of disability studies, which traditionally focuses on physical disability, and explores the controversies and the common ground among disability studies, anti-psychiatric discourses, mad studies, graphic medicine, and health/medical humanities.
Literatures of Urban Possibility (Literary Urban Studies)
by Lieven Ameel Jason Finch Markku SalmelaThis book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover, by engaging with issues such as city planning, mass housing, gentrification, informal settlements and translocal identities, the book shows imaginative literature at work outlining what possibility means in cities.
Literature’s Elsewheres: On the Necessity of Radical Literary Practices
by Annette GilbertAn examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present.What is a literary work? In Literature&’s Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical, experimental works from the 1950s to the present that occupy the liminal zone between art and literature. These works—by American Artist, Allison Parrish, Natalie Czech, Stephanie Syjuco, Fiona Banner, Elfriede Jelinek, Dan Graham, Robert Barry, George Brecht, and others—represent a pluralized literary practice that imagines a different literature emerging from its elsewheres. Investigating a work&’s coming into being—its transition from &“text&” to &“work&” as a social object and pragmatic category of literary communication—Gilbert probes the assumptions and foundations that underpin literature, including the ideologies and power structures that prop it up. She offers a snapshot from a period of recent literary and art history when such central concepts as originality and authorship were questioned and experimental literary practices ranged from concrete poetry and Oulipo to conceptual writing and appropriation literature. She examines works that are dematerialized, site-specific, unique copies of other works, and institutional critiques. Considering the inequalities, exclusions, and privileges inscribed in literature, she documents the power of experimental literature to attack these norms and challenges the field&’s canonical geographic boundaries by examining artists with roots in North and South America, East Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The cross-pollination of literary and art criticism enriches both fields. With Literature&’s Elsewheres, Gilbert explores what art can&’t see about the literary and what literature has overlooked in the arts.
Literature’s Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape
by William StroebelStories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East—recovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, &“pacifying&” the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood. This imposition of borders not only uprooted peoples from their place in the world; it also displaced many of their stories from a place in world literature. In Literature&’s Refuge, William Stroebel recovers and weaves together work by fugitive writers, oral storytellers, readers, copyists, editors, and translators dispersed by this massive &“unmixing&” of populations and the broader border logic that it set in motion. Stroebel argues that two complementary forces emerged as a template for the Eastern Mediterranean&’s cultural landscape: the modern border, which reshuffled people through a system of filters and checkpoints; and modern philology, which similarly reshuffled their words and works. Philologists and publishers defined modern literature by picking apart, extracting, reformatting, or dispossessing refugee and diasporic texts across a racialized borderscape—a gray zone of semi-inclusion and semi-exclusion, semimobility and immobility.Stroebel reaches into the chinks and crannies of this borderscape to reconstitute the rich textual geography between Greek Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam, between Greek-script, Arabic-script, and Latin-script literary traditions at the edges of Europe and the Middle East. Doing so, he offers a new methodological toolkit for rewriting the modern borderscapes of world literature.
Literaturpreise: Geschichte und Kontexte (Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur #5)
by Christoph Jürgensen Antonius WeixlerIn der „Logik der Konkurrenz um kulturelle Legitimierung“ zur Etablierung spezifischer intellektueller „Auslese- und Bestätigungsinstanzen“ (Bourdieu) spielen Literaturpreise eine herausragende Rolle. Das Ritual ‚Literaturpreis‘ führt mit den preisstiftenden Institutionen, Verlagen, Autoren, Medien, Literaturkritikern sowie Leser*innen alle wesentlichen Instanzen des literarischen Feldes zusammen. Es signalisiert und beeinflusst auf diese Weise auch aktuelle literarische Tendenzen. So werden Prozesse und Strategien sichtbar, die eine Nobilitierung bzw. Kanonisierung ästhetischer wie (literatur)politischer Wertmuster abzielen. Der Band diskutiert diese Zusammenhänge durch Fallbeispiele zu Autor*innen, Preisen, Jurys oder Vergabeinstanzen ebenso wie durch strukturelle oder typologische Perspektiven auf Funktionen, Begriffe, Konzepte oder ideologische Dimensionen der Literaturpreisvergabe.
Literaturunterricht: Rekonstruktion einer Handlungspraxis aus der Sicht von Schülerinnen und Schülern
by Katharina RoseliusZiel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, im Rahmen der Institution Schule Möglichkeiten literarischer Bildung zu eruieren. Die Studie geht dabei schonungslos mit ihren eigenen Voraussetzungen um, entlarvt den Wunsch der Autorin nach eben diesen bildenden Momenten im Literaturunterricht. Gerade die empirisch evidente Verhinderung von Bildung im Literaturunterricht wird am Ende zum Horizont, vor dem sich literarische Bildung als Möglichkeit, als Nische, abzeichnet. Das Besondere aber jenseits dieser Möglichkeit ist der sezierende Blick, mit dem die Paradoxien der sozialen Praxis „Literaturunterricht“ freigelegt werden. Eine wesentliche, nicht zu überschätzende Leistung für die literaturdidaktische Forschung besteht im Wechsel der Beobachtungsform und der dadurch bedingten alternativen Gegenstandskonstitution von Text, Subjekt und Lektüre. Diese Verschiebung des Blickwinkels fordert den momentan dominierenden Kompetenzdiskurs mit seinem essentialistischen Text- und Lektürekonzept zur Selbstreflexion heraus.
Lithuanian Dictionary: Lithuanian-English, English-Lithuanian (Routledge Bilingual Dictionaries)
by Bronius Piesarskas Bronius SveceviciusAn invaluable resource for linguists, learners and users of Lithuanian, this is the first dictionary of the language generally available in the West for a number of years. Special supplemental section includes a guide to Lithuanian pronunciation and grammar. Over 25,000 entries in each section make this a standard reference.
Litigation-PR: Alles was Recht ist
by Alexander Schmitt-Geiger Andreas Köhler Lars Rademacher Alice SchwarzerDieses Buch fasst die aktuelle Diskussion um die Bedeutung und Funktion der strategischen Rechtskommunikation zusammen. Ausgehend vom amerikanischen Vorbild hat sich die Kommunikationsberatung in und um Gerichtsverfahren in Deutschland und Europa sprunghaft ausgebreitet. Im vorliegenden Band kommen wichtige Vertreter der theoretischen Fundierung und Weiterentwicklung des Feldes ebenso zur Sprache wie die führenden Vertreter der Praxis auf Seiten des Journalismus, der Staatsanwaltschaften bzw. Gerichte und der Beratung.
Litmosphere - Functional Grammar & Communication in English Part-1 (Bilingual)
by Prof. M.A. Job"Functional Grammar & Communication in English (Part 1)" is a bilingual study aid tailored for first-semester students pursuing B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., BBA, and BCA degrees under Calicut University. Authored by Prof. M.A. Job, Part 1 focuses on literature, presenting diverse works spanning poetry, prose, and drama. Organized into four thematic modules—Literature Initiation, Creative Thinking and Writing, Critical Thinking, and Perspectives—it features pieces by notable authors such as Louis MacNeice, D.H. Lawrence, and Naguib Mahfouz. Each work is supported by bilingual explanations and exercises to deepen comprehension and foster critical analysis. Designed to enhance literary appreciation and examination readiness, this study aid serves as a vital resource for students navigating the foundational texts of their curriculum.
Litmosphere - Functional Grammar & Communication in English Part-2 (Bilingual)
by Prof. M.A. Job"Functional Grammar & Communication in English (Part 2)" is a bilingual study aid designed for first-semester students pursuing B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., BBA, and BCA degrees under Calicut University. Authored by Prof. M.A. Job, this part focuses on functional grammar and communication skills, offering practical tools to improve language proficiency and professional interaction. It covers essential topics like sentence structure, parts of speech, punctuation, and effective writing, alongside modules on verbal and non-verbal communication techniques. With bilingual explanations and exercises, it caters to diverse learner needs, helping students master the basics of grammar and communication critical for academic and career success.
Little Artist's First 100 Words
by Tenisha BernalThe perfect primer for young, artistic minds, this sturdy board book perfect for children ages 0-3 introduces little ones to 100 items used by different artists!From color wheels to computers, each page in this unique first words book is filled with tools used by different artists!Little ones can discover all the tools that artists need, from the camera equipment for photographers, supplies for painters, appliances for architects, and more. The combination of traditional and modern devices makes this the perfect gift for today's parents and their budding creatives!
Little Bear: And Other Native American Animal Tales (Book Treks)
by Cheyenne CiscoLittle Bear: And Other Native American Animal Tales
Little Bird and the Bath (Into Reading, Level D #57)
by Eve Browne Melissa WebbNIMAC-sourced textbook
Little Birds with Broken Wings
by David Martin"These pages represent the accumulated wisdom of more than thirty years that David Martin has spent as a writer, teacher, editor, and inspiration. Fine Lines (a literary journal) has been his gift to the world, a champion of literacy and lyricism, a 'lighthouse' to countless writers of all ages, from all over the globe, but it is not his only gift. In this collection of his writing, Martin invites us to see the world through his attentive eyes, bearing witness to what endures, what matters: a mother's love, the flicker of a firefly, the mystery of a dream, a beloved teacher, a triumphant student, the power of myth, and most of all, the written word. Inside his vision, readers are shown the richness, challenges, and rewards of the individual's effort to write, as he says, 'my own internal rhythms and play my own tunes.' This book is a song, a gift, in which we can all take pleasure." -Dr. John Price, Department of English, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Little Chef's First 100 Words
by Tenisha BernalHere's a baby's First Words book with a culinary twist! This oversized board book introduces little ones to 100 different kitchen utensils!Little Chef's First 100 Words introduces babies and toddlers to items that can be found in the heart of the home: the kitchen. This book presents everything from cooking utensils and common appliances to international cookware and baking supplies. Detailed illustrations and brightly colored backgrounds are sure to engage even the youngest of cooking enthusiasts. This is the perfect gift for budding chefs and an essential addition to any little chef's—or little baker's—library!
Little Eurekas
by Robyn SarahA reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it.
Little Hide and Seek: Words (Little Hide and Seek)
by DKThe Little Hide and Seek series encourages a life-long love of reading and is guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. Hunt for first words with your toddler in Little Hide and Seek: Words. Your child will want to return to this eBook again and again as they try to spot all the different words from around the home and outdoors. With five themed hide-and-seek scenes and a teddy hiding in each one, your toddler will love learning about first words. Look, learn, and play together. For Kobo Vox Only
Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture
by Anita Clair FellmanBeyond their status as classic children's stories, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books play a significant role in American culture that most people cannot begin to appreciate. Millions of children have sampled the books in school; played out the roles of Laura and Mary; or visited Wilder home sites with their parents, who may be fans themselves. Yet, as Anita Clair Fellman shows, there is even more to this magical series with its clear emotional appeal: a covert political message that made many readers comfortable with the resurgence of conservatism in the Reagan years and beyond. In Little House, Long Shadow, a leading Wilder scholar offers a fresh interpretation of the Little House books that examines how this beloved body of children's literature found its way into many facets of our culture and consciousness-even influencing the responsiveness of Americans to particular political views. Because both Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, opposed the New Deal programs being implemented during the period in which they wrote, their books reflect their use of family history as an argument against the state's protection of individuals from economic uncertainty. Their writing emphasized the isolation of the Ingalls family and the family's resilience in the face of crises and consistently equated self-sufficiency with family ac Fellman argues that the popularity of these books-abetted by Lane's overtly libertarian views-helped lay the groundwork for a negative response to big government and a positive view of political individualism, contributing to the acceptance of contemporary conservatism while perpetuating a mythic West. Beyond tracing the emergence of this influence in the relationship between Wilder and her daughter, Fellman explores the continuing presence of the books-and their message-in modern cultural institutions from classrooms to tourism, newspaper editorials to Internet message boards. Little House, Long Shadow shows how ostensibly apolitical artifacts of popular culture can help explain shifts in political assumptions. It is a pioneering look at the dissemination of books in our culture that expands the discussion of recent political transformations-and suggests that sources other than political rhetoric have contributed to Americans' renewed appreciation of individualist ideals
Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century
by Thomas DohertyThe biggest crime story in American history began on the night of March 1, 1932, when the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was snatched from his crib in Hopewell, New Jersey. The news shocked a nation enthralled with the aviator, the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. American law enforcement marshalled all its resources to return “Little Lindy” to the arms of his parents—and perhaps even more energized were the legions of journalists catering to a public whose appetite for Lindbergh news was insatiable.In Little Lindy Is Kidnapped, Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction and its aftermath. Beginning with Lindbergh’s ascent to fame and proceeding through the trial and execution of the accused kidnapper, Doherty traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime of the century.” He casts the affair as a transformative moment for American journalism, analyzing how the case presented new challenges and opportunities for each branch of the media in the days before the rise of television. Coverage of the Lindbergh story, Doherty reveals, set the template for the way the media would treat breaking news ever after. An engrossing account of an endlessly fascinating case, Little Lindy Is Kidnapped sheds new light on an enduring quality of journalism ever since: the media’s eye on a crucial part of the story—itself.
Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches (Literary Criticism And Cultural Theory Ser.)
by Adam McKibleLittle magazines made modernism happen. These pioneering enterprises were typically founded by individuals or small groups intent on publishing the experimental works or radical opinions of untried, unpopular, or underrepresented writers. Recently, little magazines have re-emerged as an important critical tool for examining the local and material conditions that shaped modernism. This volume reflects the diversity of Anglo-American modernism, with essays on avant-garde, literary, political, regional, and African American little magazines. It also presents a diversity of approaches to these magazines: discussions of material practices and relations; analyses of the relationship between little magazines and popular or elite audiences; examinations of correspondences between texts and images; feminist modifications of the traditional canon or histories; and reflections on the emerging field of periodical studies. All emphasize the primacy and materiality of little magazines. With a preface by Mark Morrisson, an afterword by Robert Scholes, and an extensive bibliography of little magazine resources, the collection serves both as an introduction to little magazines and a reconsideration of their integral role in the development of modernism.
Little Plane Learns to Write
by Stephen SavageThe best thing about flight school is that Little Plane gets to learn how to sky-write! He adores practicing ARCS! He excels at practicing DIVES! But not everything is easy and fun. Little Plane loathes practicing LOOPITY-LOOPS. They make him dizzy.Find out what it will take to make Little Plane learn how to write in this little book about big dreams from award-winning author Stephen Savage.A Neal Porter Book
Little Readers, Big Thinkers: Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades
by Amy StewartYoung learners are full of questions and wonderings, so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity. Author Amy Stewart brings her manageable approach to close reading in Little Readers, Big Thinkers: Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades . With Stewart guiding, you'll be able to harness the big thinking we know is inside their inquisitive minds.She showcases ways that close reading can teach even the youngest students new ways to enjoy texts, think about them critically, and share that thinking with peers and adults.With its description of the pillars of close reading, multiple lesson sequences for grades K-2, and real-life classroom scenarios, Little Readers, Big Thinkers offers a trove of insights: What close reading is (and is not )How to encourage students to read like detectives-Ways to weave close reading practices into your lessonsHow to cultivate real reading, organic thinking, and deep conversationWhich books invite amazing learning and thinking experiencesBy giving young minds a great foundation, close reading will become a stepping stone to a lifelong love of reading.