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A no-nonsense guide to academic writing
Do you have a long essay, dissertation, or thesis to write? This short guide is for international students, mature students, all students uncertain as to how to proceed.
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Covering violence
Reporting on violence is one of the most problematic features of journalistic practice-the area most frequently criticized by the public and those on the receiving end of that coverage. Now in its second edition, Covering Violence remains a crucial guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible r...
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Overcoming the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education
This book proposes solutions to the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education in diverse contexts. The research draws attention to how understanding and responding to gentrification of language programs is part of the broader fight for racial and educational justice for i...
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Social information research
Social Information Research, co-edited by Gunilla Widen and Kim Holmberg communicates current research looking into different aspects of social information as part of information behaviour research. There is a special emphasis on the new innovations supporting contemporary information behavior an...
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Critical race theory in lis
This volume of Advances in Librarianship moves beyond providing information related to diversity or multiculturalism and will instead focus on racism, white supremacy, and colorblindness and its effects in the work of librarians and the communities they serve through the theoretical and analytica...
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Mass mediated representations of crime and criminality
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume features social science research that examines the practices, patterns and messages related to representations of crime in mass media around the world.
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Current issues in libraries, information science and related fields
This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It examines the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes. The chapters are grouped in two categor...
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Journalism, economic uncertainty and political irregularity in the digital and data era
Analysing the evolving industry as it turns to the help of digital technologies such as algorithms and cloud computing to reach and engage local and global audiences, Journalism, Economic Uncertainty and Political Irregularity in the Digital and Data Era explores the challenges journalism faces i...
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Second language and heritage learners in mixed classrooms
This book addresses the complexity of mixed language classroom learning environments in which heritage learners and second language learners are concurrently exposed to language learning in the same physical space. It offers best practices and reproducible pedagogical initiatives and methodologie...
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Sociolinguistics and language education
This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across various language education contexts.
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Northrop frye and others, volume i
Eminent Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he never wrote anything extensive: Aristotle, Longinus, Joachim of Floris, Giordano Bruno, Henry Reynolds, Robert Burton, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé...
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Northrop frye and others, volume ii
In this second installment of a three-volume series, Northrop Frye expert Robert D. Denham continues his invaluable examination of a number of significant but understated influences that informed the intellectual vision of the renowned literary theorist and critic. Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans...
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Eight men speak
The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.
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Double-voicing the canadian short story
The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro’s 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk’s work is a singularly original exploration of the layered “double-voicing” in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers.
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Northrop frye and others, volume iii
Literary critic Northrop Frye was inspired by a great many writers and others. Robert Denham pursues in this third instalment his examination of lesser-known influences on Frye.
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Advancing research on positive psychology in sla
This book takes stock of the expanding body of research in positive psychology within the field of second language acquisition. Critically evaluating the scope, validity and future direction of the approach, it generates space for academic debate and offers a forward-looking agenda for further st...
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A framework for task-based learning and teaching
This new edition builds on Jane Willis’s classic textbook to reflect the changing needs and priorities of language teachers in today’s classrooms. The book has been revised and expanded to reflect the widespread use of technology and the internet in language classrooms, as well as recent debates ...
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Vocabulary knowledge and acquisition
This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the state of the art of vocabulary description, acquisition, theory, pedagogy and assessment. It synthesises current vocabulary research and from it creates the new Complex Integrated Incremental Perspective (CIIP), which serves as the framework for ...
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Tolstoy together
“You know how, very occasionally in your life, there’s a ‘before and after’ reading experience? Well, reading War and Peace with Tolstoy Together has been that for me—a milestone not just in reading but in living.”—Michael Langan From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to Y...
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Neurocomputational poetics
This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
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Chernobyl trauma and gothic
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of surviv...
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Universality and utopia
This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
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Sexual violence and literary art
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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Being of two minds
Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literatur...
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The poetics and politics of invective humor
Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come...
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Words from india in the west
This edited volume critically assesses different aspects of five literary genres – novels, poetry, short-stories, drama, and non-fictional prose – contributed to by the Indian diasporic writers settled principally in North America and Europe.
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Malaysian crossings
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.
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Reading between the lines
When postcommunist libraries discarded a large number of books, was it a “bibliocide”—as it was labelled by some media in Croatia? This book offers an innovative and original interpretation of postsocialist transition and post-Yugoslav memory.
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Dante's divine comedy
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul aft...
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The racial unfamiliar
John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received...
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Imaging the scenes of war
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its c...
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Look round for poetry
Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not ...
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Aging moderns
What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.
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The new slave narrative
Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered co...
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Viral modernism
Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Elizabeth Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for th...
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Plagiarama!
Offers a novel reading of the abolitionist writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum.
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We need silence to find out what we think
This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite—or maybe...
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Cold war reckonings
Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.
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On the horizon of world literature
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that co...
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Infectious liberty
Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a ...
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Information
Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it.
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Entanglements
This book challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.
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Poetics of liveliness
Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. Poetics of Liveliness moves across scales to explore the realms of molecules, fibers, tissues, and clouds.
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Revolution in poetic language
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Novel shocks
Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the ...
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Modernist commitments
Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagem...
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Literature in motion
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice,...
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Techno-magism
Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-print media, both the print, pictorial art, and theater of that era as well as communicative technologies invented afterward, including photography...
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The best american magazine writing 2022
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 presents a range of outstanding writing on timely topics, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism.
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The perilous public square
The Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted threats to free expression. They go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism.
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