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Understanding personification / by Johnson, Robin(Robin R.)(CARDINAL)474536;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Explains what personification is and how it can improve a story.750L
Subjects: Discourse analysis, Literary; Figures of speech in literature; Figures of speech; Literary style; Personification in literature; Personification;
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Author unknown : tales of literary detection / by Foster, Donald W.,1950-(CARDINAL)766579;
Subjects: English language; English language; Anonymous writings; Literary style; Authorship; Literary forgeries and mystifications.;
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Speaking in hunger : gender, discourse, and consumption in Clarissa / by Frega, Donnalee,1956-(CARDINAL)644553;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.; Eating disorders in literature.; Hunger in literature.; Women in literature.; Anorexia nervosa in literature.; Human body in literature.; Power (Social sciences) in literature.; Discourse analysis, Literary.; Epistolary fiction, English; Women and literature;
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Sister in sorrow : life histories of female Holocaust survivors from Hungary / by Rosen, Ilana.(CARDINAL)680747; Bloom, Sandy,1955-(CARDINAL)488014;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and indexes.Brainstorming about the life histories of women Holocaust survivors -- Mother-daughter discourse: a literary-psychoanalytical analysis of five life histories -- The Holocaust experience of its listeners and readers: a phenomenological-hermeneutic analysis of ten life histories -- A journey without a conclusion.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust;
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The First book of Samuel / by Tsumura, David Toshio.(CARDINAL)682578;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Bible.;
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Negotiating a perilous empowerment : Appalachian women's literacies / by Locklear, Erica Abrams.(CARDINAL)504002;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index.Appalachia on our pages: situating Appalachian literacy and literary analysis -- Shaping biscuit dough and rolling out steel: responding to literacy commodification in The dollmaker -- Narrating socialization: Linda Scott Derosier's memoirs -- "Overcoming" backgrounds: competing discourses in The unquiet earth -- Invasion of the mountain teachers: literacy campaigns and conflicts in Lee Smith's work.
Subjects: American literature; Literacy in literature.; Women; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.; Women.; Womyn.;
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Negotiating a perilous empowerment : Appalachian women's literacies / by Locklear, Erica Abrams.(CARDINAL)504002;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index.Appalachia on our pages: situating Appalachian literacy and literary analysis -- Shaping biscuit dough and rolling out steel: responding to literacy commodification in The dollmaker -- Narrating socialization: Linda Scott Derosier's memoirs -- "Overcoming" backgrounds: competing discourses in The unquiet earth -- Invasion of the mountain teachers: literacy campaigns and conflicts in Lee Smith's work.
Subjects: American literature; Literacy in literature.; Women; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Civil tongues & polite letters in British America / by Shields, David S.,1951-author.(CARDINAL)338733;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Overture: the promise of civil discourse -- Belles Lettres and the Arenas of Metropolitan conversation -- Coffeehouse and tavern -- Tea tables and salons -- Rites of assembly -- The clubs -- The college, the press, and the public -- Gaining admission -- Toward the polite republic.In urban areas from Boston to Charleston, the elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in a variety of private venues to communicate and interact. David Shields looks into the taverns, tea rooms, salons, coffee houses, card parties, clubs, and fraternities where these displays of civility took place. He argues that such spaces, formed outside the domain of the state, became key sites for elite discursive formation, for the articulation and enactment of the values of civility. In an important reinterpretation of early American literary history, he argues that the belles lettres generated for and within these institutions in fact represent a powerful colonial genre involving experimentation with manners and social identities. By examining the language and forms of various "texts"--Including conversations, letters, privately circulated manuscripts, and other forms of expression - he reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.
Subjects: Etiquette; Social interaction; Associations, institutions, etc.; Literature and society; English language;
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Meander, spiral, explode : design and pattern in narrative / by Alison, Jane,1961-author.(CARDINAL)669922;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258).Primary elements. Point, line, texture ; Movement and flow ; Color -- Patterns. Waves ; Wavelets ; Meanders ; Spirals ; Radials or explosions ; Networks and cells ; Fractals ; Tsunami? -- Epilogue.As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: "For centuries there's been one path through fiction we're most likely to travel-- one we're actually told to follow--and that's the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald's Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc-- or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her "museum of specimens" include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let's leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); Discourse analysis, Narrative.; Writing.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Bewilderments : reflections on the Book of Numbers / by Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb,author.(CARDINAL)760926;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Flags in the wilderness -- Madness and civilization -- Desire in the wilderness -- 'Sing--now!--to God': Miriam and Moses -- Bewilderments -- Black sun: Moses and Job -- 'From another shore': Moses and Korah -- Heart of stone, heart of flesh -- 'Wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen?"': Balaam and Moses -- To be or not to be: a tale of five sisters -- 'Let me see that good land': the story of a human life."From one of the most acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, the third book in her award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both before and after the devastating report of the spies, the narrative centers on the people's desire to return to Egypt, to undo the miraculous work of the Exodus. This view of the wilderness history invites us to a different kind of listening to the many cries of distrust, lament, resentment that issue from the Israelites throughout the Book of Numbers. Is there a way to integrate this narrative of dark murmurings, of obsessive fantasies of return to Egypt, with the celebration of a love-intoxicated wilderness discourse? The question touches not only on the language the Israelites speak but also on the very nature of human utterance. Who are these people? Who are we who listen to them? What effect does the cumulative trauma of slavery, the miracles of Exodus, the revelation at Sinai have on a nation that is beginning to speak? In Bewilderments, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg posits fascinating answers to these questions through the magnificent literary, scholarly, and psychological analysis of the text that is her trademark"--
Subjects: Bible.;
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