This book is designed so that writers, teachers, and students can begin to incorporate the insights of linguistics into their study of communication and writing. It has two main purposes. One is to demystify some of the most worthwhile and powerful linguistic theories that illuminate written discourse. Basic linguistic principles and theories are outlined. The primary purpose is to present a way in which these theories can be developed into practical techniques and methods for dealing with the writing and editing of texts. Oriented toward userspeople who are seeking methods to improve their writingthe book contains numerous examples and exercises. Topics covered: the linguistic study of language; the cognitive processing of information; using non-traditional grammars; achieving cohesion and coherence; creating global coherence through macrostructures; and the pragmatic and sociolinguistic parameters of written communication.

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story Sweat was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, Sweat stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. In Sweat Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. Sweat exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular.

This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of Sweat, and a second story, The Gilded Six-Bits. Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, Characteristics of Negro Expression, and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington.

In Engendering the Republic of Letters Susan Dalton analyses the lives of four of the most famous salon women in France and the Venetian republic in the late eighteenth-century - Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Giustina Renier Michiel, and Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini who all lived through the events that transformed Western culture, including the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.

The history of the black women writers in America, their struggle for recognition, and their contributions to American literature.

From the great monuments of Greek antiquity we can glean much of the glory of ancient Greece. But what can we know about the people who designed and built the Parthenon and the Acropolis? What did they eat and wear? What was expected of women? And how did they fill their leisure hours? Two eminent German professors, who set about answering these and many other questions, begin their exploration of this period with the architectural achievements of the Greeks, which stand as such powerful cultural expressions of Greek society. The authors have uncovered myriad aspects of Greek life -- whether it be the architectural ground plan for one of the oldest Greek temples, or Greek music and education -- and have produced a thoroughly researched, instructive and entertaining book which will appeal to scholar and layman alike. 

The great Roman monuments go a long way to providing an insight into this once powerful and highly developed culture. But while we may marvel at the ingenuity of their aqueducts and viaducts, the splendour of their amphitheatres and the beauty of their mosaics and ornamentation, what do we know about the daily lives of the people who designed and built them? How did they furnish and light their houses? What did they eat and wear? What actually went on in the amphitheatres, gymnasia and baths? The authors have used the architectural achievements of the Romans as a basis for unravelling the intricacies of this society. 

Cultuurfilosofische causerie over aspecten van de taal.

Geschiedenis van de antieke stad Palmyra in Syrië.

Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this volume, Gordimer, who has been described by her peers as a formidable visitor from the future, the leviathan of South African letters and almost always as a gifted writer with extraordinary powers of observation, is paid homage by fellow writers from South Africa and other parts of the world. The book comprises readings, tributes, fiction, poetry, interviews and photographs which engage directly and indirectly with Gordimer's work and her still unfolding legacy.

When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

Een prachtig geïllustreerde praktische gids die het hiërogliefenschrift van de oude Egyptenaren toegankelijk maakt. Leert u de betekenis van de belangrijkste hiërogliefen waardoor de essentie van teksten in tempels en musea begrijpelijk wordt. Specifieke kennis vooraf of een groot taalgevoel zijn hiervoor geen voorwaarden.

Literatuurwetenschappelijke essays over Nederlandse dichters.

Walkers well-focused, clearly written essays demonstrate the conformity and the challenges to conventional expectations defining 'women poets.' Walker's work makes a significant contribution to an often neglected area of American literary history. --Library Journal

Based on close reading and explication of the texts, Walker brings fresh insights to each poet. --Choice

... Walker has devised an original analysis that puts a new spin on the works and lives of these poets. --New Directions for Women

Concentrating on Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Louise Bogan, Walker analyzes the highly stylized self-images--from Lowell's androgyne to Millay's body-conscious romantic--projected by these women who attempted to renegotiate the terms upon which they could function successfully as poets.

For beginners and advanced students, for study or reference ... at home or in the classroom.

Het Liegend Konijn brengt twee keer per jaar, in april en oktober, een gevarieerd beeld van de actuele poëzie. Ieder nummer bevat nieuwe, niet eerder gepubliceerde gedichten van telkens een dertigtal dichters: uit het nest geroofd. Honderden dichters hebben in de voorbije jaren aan het tijdschrift meegewerkt. Ze vormen een bont gezelschap van jonge debutanten, rijpe poëten en oude meesters. Diversiteit en respect voor uiteenlopende poëtica’s liggen aan de basis van een unieke mix. Ieder nummer is een kleurrijke waaier van onze hedendaagse poëzie. Jozef Deleu (1937) stichtte in 2003 Het Liegend Konijn en is er de enige redacteur van. Hij is ook dichter, prozaïst, essayist en samensteller van onder meer het Nieuw Groot Verzenboek. Hij was stichter en hoofdredacteur (1957-2002) van het Vlaams-Nederlandse tijdschrift Ons Erfdeel, het Franstalige tijdschrift Septentrion en de jaarboeken De Franse Nederlanden en The Low Countries.

The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power, Sally Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid, and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign.

Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.

Van de vijftiende tot in de zeventiende eeuw schreven rederijkers vlammende pleidooien voor hun kunst, de retorica. Hun dichterschap had zelfs een goddelijke status: aanvankelijk stelden zij hun kunst in dienst van de rooms-katholieke kerk. Met de komst van de reformatie veranderde de mening van de kerk: ze werden zelfs door de rooms-katholieken vervolgd. Overzicht van hun rol, hun opkomst en ondergang, en van de relatie tussen literatuur, religie en maatschappij.

This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there.

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles's latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices.

My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: language and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age.

We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet.

Published to accompany a Rijksmuseum van Oudheden exhibition tour of Australia and New Zealand organised by the Western Australian Museum, from December 1997 to April 1999.

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