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Reading the Past
Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528849
Reading the Past
Author : C. B. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520074316
Book Description
Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.
Runes
Author : Raymond Ian Page
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520061149
Book Description
Describes the ancient writing system used by Northmen, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings, and the inscriptions found in Scandanavia, the British Isles, and North America.
Cuneiform
Author : C. B. F. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520061156
Book Description
Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.
Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Soul
Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1506469108
Book Description
Join award-winning author Mitali Perkins as she explores the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times. Through works by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary uncles and aunts, Perkins unpacks wisdom to help us thrive.
Re/reading the past
Author : J.R. Martin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027296022
Book Description
Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timely in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial world where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to historians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
Historical Fiction
Author : Sarah L. Johnson
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 159158129X
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the historical fiction genre that explains its general characteristics, its appeal to readers, benchmark and representative titles, and publishing trends.
Reading the Past Across Space and Time
Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137558857
Book Description
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War.
Reading Historical Fiction
Author : Kate Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137291540
Book Description
This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation.
Japanese Ghost Stories
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241381282
Book Description
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray
