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1) Summary, Analysis & Review of Stephanie Dray's and Laura Kamoie's America's First Daughter by Instar
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Stephanie Dray's and Laura Kamoie's America's First Daughter by Instaread Preview: America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha Patsy" Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based on Jefferson's letters and actual historical events, the novel imagines Patsy's struggles to remain loyal to her father while following her own heart during America's turbulent post-Revolutionary...
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ crea un particular tipo de escritura en la que lo sobrenatural, lo insólito, no es el otro lado, sino que se incorpora al plano de la realidad, de la cotidianidad. La magnitud de su obra, literaria y periodística, no cabe en la etiqueta fácil del "realismo mágico". A García Márquez no hay que simplificarlo con le mármol y la canonización. es necesario, eso sí, leerlo y releerlo, para advertir que su alquimia de gitano...
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In the world of books and literature, "hype" is associated with bestsellerism - the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity. Quite often though, a hyped bestseller is met with a skeptic criticism of poor language, a badly constructed plot, a predictable story line, or all three. The bestseller...
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Son textos que nacen de la experiencia, tentativos y frágiles como muchas cosas que tienen que ver con la creación literaria, y que tienen el mérito de poder ser leídos como interesantes aproximaciones al oficio de escribir, y también como entretenidos relatos de escritores y escritoras que nos hablan del desafío de enfrentar la pantalla o la hoja en blanco. (Ramón Díaz Eterovic).
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Aktuell - kritisch - facettenreich.
Die neue Ausgabe mit Interviews, Porträts, Hintergrundgeschichten und vielen
Rezensionen zu ausgewählten Neuerscheinungen.
Sein Eden des Erzählens, der Erinnerung und der Verzauberung durch das Wort lag mitten in Barcelona: Zum ersten Todestag unternehmen wir einen Streifzug durch das erfolgreiche, enorm verwinkelte, biblio-literarische Gesamtwerk von Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Coverfoto); marokkanische Geschichte...
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The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary anthologies in Canada, and how can we trace their history? What role have anthologies played in the formation of Canadian literary taste? How have anthologies influenced the training of...
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Los textos incluidos en este libro abordan algunos de los problemas cuyo conocimiento, reflexión, propuestas, trayectos y experiencias consideramos que pueden aportar a la formación tanto de docentes de Educación Básica como de padres de familia interesados en el, cada día más necesario, espacio del fomento a la lectura. En sus páginas el lector podrá adentrarse en una reflexión histórica sobre las prácticas de la lectura infantil; hallará...
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Reconnecting Reading and Writing explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college. Reconnecting Reading and Writing draws on broad perspectives from history and international work to show how and why reading should be reunited with writing in college and high school classrooms. It presents an overview of relevant research on reading and how it can best be used to support and enhance writing...
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All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt...
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This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms.
This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice,...
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Readers of Vaneigem's now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.
Written some thirty-five years after the May "events," this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. "How...
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Perfect gift for book lovers, writers and your book club
Book lovers rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations.
Readers of Jane Mount's Bibliophile will delight in:
• Touring the world's most beautiful bookstores
• Testing their knowledge of the written word with quizzes
• Finding their next great read in lovingly curated stacks...
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Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book creators, novelists, illustrators, teachers...
The lessons they recall are inspiring, instructive, and illuminating. And, the books they remember resonate as influential reading choices for families.
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Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books on politics, history, art & culture, as well as literary fiction. This volume is a collection of the site's very best reviews on art, culture & theory. Contributors include...
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During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over...
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NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two decades, until the Ballantine editions were published here in America. By late 1950s, however, the books were selling well and beginning to change the face of...
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This collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such legendary figures as: Aeschylus, Ernest Hemingway, John Ruskin, Woody Allen, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Scribner, Maya Angelou, Franz Kafka, George Bernard Shaw, Jane Austen, Helen Keller, Wallace Stevens, Francis Bacon, Malcolm X, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Groucho Marx, William...
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Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book presents for the first time the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing and on language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and...
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From civil rights and Black Power to the New Left and gay liberation, the 1960s and 1970s saw a host of movements shake the status quo. The impact of feminism, anticolonial struggles, wildcat industrial strikes, and antiwar agitation were all felt globally. With social strictures and political structures challenged at every level, pulp and popular fiction could hardly remain unaffected. Feminist, gay, lesbian, Black and other previously marginalized...
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