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Dyslexia and Your Newly Diagnosed Child: Parenting Essentials, Tips, and Strategies to Help Your Child
by Rebecca Bush CALT, LDTDyslexia and Your Newly Diagnosed Child gives caregivers the practical guidance, tools, and knowledge they need to support the newly diagnosed 6- to 9-year-old in their lives.While caregivers may feel a sense of relief when their child receives a dyslexia diagnosis, now knowing why reading was such a struggle, they also face a lot of uncertainties about the future. This book offers insights, strategies, and tips for caregivers to support their child&’s learning and immediately address reading and writing challenges, while also nurturing areas like working memory, listening skills, and friendships, all of which can be indirectly impacted by dyslexia.This guide delivers:AN ESSENTIAL PRIMER: Understand dyslexia with a clear and simple introduction—perfect for caregivers who are just beginning their journey and learning about dyslexia.POWERFUL KNOWLEDGE: Receive expert insights designed for caregivers new to dyslexia. Develop a deeper understanding of your child&’s needs and confidently interact with educators, therapists, administrators, and doctors.EVERYDAY GUIDANCE: Use practical strategies to foster your child&’s learning and strengths. Implement visual cues to help with sound blending, brainstorm and use secret hand signals when listening comprehension is overwhelming, turn daily tasks into games, encourage your child to take ownership and establish reading routines at home, and help them describe their dyslexia to self-advocate and seek assistance. Prepare them to learn and overcome challenges effectively.EASY-TO-NAVIGATE PAGES: Soak up information right away with spacious layouts, bulleted lists, and helpful labels for busy parents.SUPPORT TO GROW AND LEARN TOGETHER: Observe and track your child&’s progress with reflection questions—identify what works, what needs improvement, and where you might need additional support.With this book as a road map, caregivers can take the driver&’s seat and guide their child toward independence and confidence until they&’re ready to take over.
Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress (Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction)
by Wessam ElmeligiDystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeligi to formulate a poetics of literary theory to read Arabic literature, this book examines Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of social causes of psychological distress. The selected novels combine works by authors already established in studies by Western scholars and many that have not been translated before or have not received enough scholarly attention, yet. The novels represent an array of Arab countries, including Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian, Syrian, and Tunisian authors. It also highlights the contribution of women authors to Arabic speculative fiction. This book enriches the conversation about what is quite possibly a significant speculative fiction turn in the Arabic novel, as well as provides a new theoretical approach to read such complex and innovative literature.
Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)
by Douglas A. VakochCaught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity’s greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind’s current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.
Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain (Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures)
by Javier Irigoyen-GarcíaInsults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.
Dänisch lernen in 15 Minuten am Tag für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Anna MateevaSie wollen Dänisch lernen, aber der Gedanke, stundenlang Vokabeln und Grammatik zu pauken, schreckt Sie ab? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie! In kurzen, auf 15 Minuten pro Tag begrenzten Lektionen bringt es Ihnen auf einfache und unterhaltsame Weise die dänische Sprache näher. So erfahren Sie im Handumdrehen alles Wichtige über Grammatik, Aussprache und übliche Redewendungen. Durch regelmäßigen Wiederholungsfragen können Sie Ihr Wissen testen und mit Hilfe des zum Download verfügbaren Audiomaterials auch die Aussprache üben. Nach nur drei Monaten beherrschen Sie die Grundlagen spielend.
Días contados: Crónicas sobre la eternidad de este presente
by Fabrizio MejíaLas mejores historias de Fabrizio Mejía: trece crónicas, desde 1989 hasta 2010, que cubren desde la caída del Muro de Berlín hasta las «memorias de un dealer» en el DF. «Este libro es sobre el futuro. O, mejor, de cómo el presente se nos convirtió en una eternidad. Comienza en 1989 cuando se habló del fin de las ideologías y de la historia: ya todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, somos los últimos. Fue una época muy narcisa: ningún futuro vendrá después de nosotros. Nos la presentaron como una teoría pero, en realidad, no pasó de ser una eternidad hechiza, pirata, falsa. Lo que siguió fue casi tan apasionante como la caída del Muro de Berlín (no se cayó, la gente lo tiró) porque los futuros posibles aparecieron por todos los rincones: místicos, recicladores, magos de la autoayuda, la disolución de la muerte, el Viagra, el socialismo caribeño que se negó a morir, la resistencia temporal, el exilio, las drogas, la red. Esta reunión de crónicas me habla ahora de esos futuros que probamos en veinte años sin encontrar uno que satisficiera a todos.» Fabrizio Mejía Madrid
Días de lectura (Serie Great Ideas #Volumen 5)
by Marcel ProustIdeas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. En estos inspiradores ensayos sobre por qué leemos, Proust explora todos los placeres y padecimientos que ofrecen los libros, y explica además la belleza de Ruskin y su obra y el goce que supone perderse como niños en la literatura. Comentarios sobre la colección Great Ideas:«De veras que la edición es primorosa y pocas veces contenido y continente pueden encontrarse mejor ensamblados y unidos. ¡Qué portadas! Para enmarcar. [...] Ante las Great Ideas, solo cabe quitarse el sombrero. ¡Chapeau!»ABC «Taurus propone un doble envite con este lanzamiento. Por un lado aumenta su compromiso con el ensayo; por otro, recupera el gusto por la estética. A los volúmenes se les ha proporcionado una portada delicada y cuidada (copian el original británico) que invita a la lectura.»La Razón «Un fenómeno editorial.»The Guardian «Aparte de los contenidos, en general muy bien elegidos, son tan bonitos que si los ven seguro que cae alguno.»El País «Ideas revolucionarias, crónicas de exploraciones, pensamientos radicales... vuelven a la vida en estas cuidadísimas ediciones, muy atractivas para nuevos lectores.»Mujer Hoy «Grandes ideas bien envueltas. De Cicerón a Darwin, esta colección entra por los ojos.»Rolling Stone «Original y bella iniciativa la emprendida por Taurus con su colección Great Ideas.»Cambio 16 «Hay libros inmortales, libros únicos que contienen pensamientos y reflexiones capaces de cambiar el mundo, tesoros en miniatura reagrupados en la colección Great ideas.»Diario de León
Días de muertos
by Alma GuillermoprietoDos artículos de Alma Guillermoprieto, galardonada este año con el Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades. Días de muertos y Un centenar de mujeres son dos textos recogidos en la antología Desde el país de nunca jamás, una colección de artículos de Alma Guillermoprieto publicados entre 1980 y 2008 en The Washington Post, The New Yorker y The New York Review of Books. A través de un minucioso y descarnado retrato, la periodista mexicana explora la compleja realidad de América Latina de los últimos años. Días de muertos es una reflexión sobre el impacto y corrosión que ha provocado el narcotráfico en la sociedad mexicana. La periodista se centra en la ciudad de Sinaloa como paradigma de la crisis en México; un reflejo de violencia, criminalidad y corrupción desatadas a raíz de la guerra de las drogas. El segundo texto, Un centenar de mujeres, es una crónica escalofriante escrita en 2003 sobre los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua. Guillermoprieto pone el foco en la historia de José Rayas, un importante líder sindicalista cuya hija de dieciséis años fue asesinada. El caso no fue suficientemente investigado y permanece rodeado de incógnitas. Rayas, al igual que la mayoría de familias afectadas por esta ola de feminicidios, nunca sabrá si se hizo justicia, si se investigó el asesinato en profundidad ni si se arrestó al verdadero asesino. A día de hoy, los crímenes de Ciudad Juárez aún continúan envueltos en la más absoluta impunidad. Sobre Desde el país de nunca jamás:«Magistral. América Latina ya tiene su Orwell.»David Remnick «Alma Guillermoprieto se enfrenta a la vida con un cuaderno y un bolígrafo en la mano. Es su forma de vida. Es su pasión. Y la disfruta con toda la intensidad posible.»Milenio «Su periodismo temerario, al igual que sus espléndidas descripciones y sus retratos de personajes, son fascinantes.»The Wall Street Journal «Una maravillosa lectura, repleta de humanidad, astucia, curiosidad y conocimiento.»The New York Times Book Review
Dúvidas de Inglês, Expressões e Phrasal Verbs
by Sergio Casado Rodríguez Beatriz AntunesEste é um livro projetado para estudantes de nível intermediário de inglês que querem completar seu vocabulário com alguns phrasal verbs e expressões idiomáticas e para resolver dúvidas comuns que geralmente aparecem durante o aprendizado.
D’un islam textuel vers un islam contextuel: La traduction du Coran et la construction de l’image de la femme (Regards sur la traduction)
by Naïma DibLa mise en tutelle de la musulmane est-elle cautionnée par le Coran? L'idée de l'infériorité de la femme est-elle réellement inscrite dans le Coran? Telles sont les questions auxquelles l'auteure tente de répondre dans le présent ouvrage. Elle se penche sur les diverses approches adoptées par des penseurs réformistes musulmans, dont elle expose les enjeux sociaux, politiques et culturels ainsi que les finalités. Elle procède à une analyse comparative du Coran et d'un certain nombre de traductions françaises et anglaises, à l'issue de laquelle elle fait émerger une conception de la femme et du monde différente de celle proposée par les traductions. Elle explore ensuite le discours social commun, discours auquel participe la traduction, et qui se révèle empreint d'une vision androcentrique dans laquelle l'infériorité de la femme découle d'une construction humaine, inspirée par un besoin de domination. Grâce aux analyses sémiotique et sociohistorique, l'auteur démontre que le Coran peut être lu autrement et ce qui en ressort est une conception plus égalitaire de l'homme et de la femme. Publié en français
E Deus Criou a Mulher: Mulheres e Teologia
by Anselmo Borges Isabel CaldeiraA teologia feminista surge da rebelião das mulheres contra o seu apagamento e silenciamento pelas religiões dominadas pela visão patriarcal. Daí a importância das suas interrogações, dos textos, das suas revisões da história, da sua reformulação das crenças e das práticas religiosas. Mas, como nos diz Juan José Tamayo, não esqueçamos que a causa da emancipação e da igualdade (não clonada) das mulheres não é só assunto de mulheres, mas sim de todos os cidadãos e cidadãs comprometidos na luta contra a discriminação sexual.
E Is for Environment: The ABCs of Conservation
by Lucy CurranA is for Atmosphere, B is for Biodiversity, C is for Conservation, and so on in this delightful concept book that teaches young readers the ABCs of the natural world around us (and how to protect it).From jungles to recycling to wildlife preserves, each letter of the alphabet is represented by a word and image that reflects everything from the rainforest to the savannah to the depths of the ocean, as well as animal life across the continents. Readers will be inspired to join the movement to conserve species and find out how they can make a difference (because you're never too young to start saving the world!).
E Is for Evergreen: A Washington Alphabet
by Roland Smith Marie SmithTraverse through the hemlocks, ferry between the islands, or take in the scent of fresh picked apples with authors Marie and Roland Smith in E is for Evergreen: A Washington Alphabet. This children's pictorial provides a fascinating journey through our 42nd state--the only state to be named after a president. Beginning readers will enjoy the simple rhymes and vivid illustrations while older children discover many detailed facts in the sidebar expository. Washington natives and visitors alike will enjoy learning why the Peace Arch spans two countries and what role folklore tells us Paul Bunyan played. Find out what began in Spokane in 1910 and which important city was once known as Black Bear Place.
E Nesbit: Author Study Activities for Key Stage 2
by Helen BromleyThis innovative series is designed to help primary teachers plan focused sessions on the work of popular, well-loved and valued authors, both classic and contemporary. Each book contains a range of activities for use directly in the classroom, covering biographical information about the author; a review of the author's work and a summary of major themes in his/her key texts; key language features of the author; frameworks to help children analyze, evaluate and compare texts, and to develop personal opinions of authors' works; ideas for writing modeled on or developed from key texts; speaking and listening opportunities; drama and role play ideas; and references to video, CD-ROM, websites and ICT activities. Inside each book is a full-color pullout poster illustrating the work of the author, which also has a set of challenges for children on the back. First published in the 1900s, Edith Nesbit's classic stories - including tales about the Bastable family, Five Children and It, The Treasure Seekers and The Railway Children - are still very popular indeed. This book presents activities on which to build a study of E. Nesbit's work, including: developing philosophical discussions on a variety of topics; ideas for writing - both narrative and non-narrative; ways of encouraging children to analyze text through devising games for others to play; promoting research skills - including critical reflection on internet use; investigating changes in language; comparing televisual and written versions of text; and work on cross-curricular themes, including history and geography.
E(n)stranged: Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture
by Nilgun Bayraktar Alberto GodioliVariously translated as “estrangement,” “enstrangement” or “defamiliarization,” Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever. This collection offers new insights into the theories and practices of ostranenie across various languages and cultures, with a particular focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. Our current era is marked by a dramatic redefinition of the normal and the strange, the familiar and the weird. The rise of far-right populism has increasingly normalized xenophobic and nativist stances previously confined to the fringes of the political spectrum. Additionally, the climate crisis has led to the ongoing renegotiation of the concepts of normalcy and emergency amid widespread efforts to adapt to the “new (ab)normal.” Exploring defamiliarization provides a unique perspective to comprehend and question these processes and their profound cultural implications. Focusing on ostranenie also offers valuable insights into how aesthetic forms serve a political function. Defamiliarization can take on various forms, including retro-futuristic dystopias, stylized films, and darkly humorous cartoons and memes. It can be an effective tool for political activation that relies on formal innovation rather than superficial emotional engagement. This collection brings together the work of a group of scholars examining defamiliarization across different media. It explores questions such as: How can we differentiate between various forms of defamiliarization and analyze their effects on the reader/viewer? How is defamiliarization connected to the weird, the eerie, or the uncanny? As a result, the collection offers an updated theoretical framework for understanding the wide range of emergent artistic and literary practices of e(n)strangement in the current era and their significant political affordances. Chapter 6 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com
E-Government: Information, Technology, and Transformation (Advances In Management Information Systems Ser.)
by Hans J SchnollThis book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government> refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate and provide their opinion on government websites. This volume in the Public Solutions Handbook Series focuses on various e-government initiatives from the United States and abroad, and will help guide public service practitioners in their transformation to e-government. The book provides important recommendations and suggestions oriented towards practitioners, and makes a significant contribution to e-government by showcasing successful models and highlighting the lessons learned in the implementation processes. Chapter coverage includes: Online fiscal transparency Performance reporting Improving citizen participation Privacy issues in e-governance Internet voting E-government at the local level
E-Writing
by BooherAre you guilty of e-mail "trigger finger"? Do you constantly "cc" people you never even see? What are today's rules for conducting business over the Internet? Now, The Elements of Style meets "the Miss Manners of memos" in the ultimate writing guide for the digital age. In an era when written communication in the workplace is more crucial than ever, at a time when many professionals all but completely eschew face-to-face dealings, E-writing is poised to become the new bible of business writing. Accessible and inviting, this Web-savvy "how-to" book promises to transform anxious e-mail hacks and mediocre memo writers into eloquent electronic scribes in no time at all. Inside, you will learn how to: combat counterproductive e-mail habits write authoritatively and persuasively, with a clear message that generates quick action handle e-mail and letter correspondence efficiently and effectively select an appropriate style for the audience you're addressing heighten your professional image, self-confidence, and career prospects. Practicing what she preaches, award-winning communicator and bestselling author Dianna Booher writes in a refreshingly straightforward style and has organized E-writing to make on-the-spot referencing a snap. Keep it handy; refer to it often -- and your online mailbox will never be the same again.
E-Z American Sign Language, 3rd Edition (Barron's E-Z Series)
by Elizabeth Stewart David Stewart Lisa DimlingA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness
by Laura DietzOn any given day, millions of people will read e-books. Yet many of us will do so while holding them apart from 'real books'. The fact that a book can be worthy – of our time, money, respect, even love – without being 'real' is a fascinating paradox of twenty-first century reading. Drawing on original data from a longitudinal study, Laura Dietz investigates how movement between conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books serves readers in unexpected ways. The cultural value of e-books remains an area of intense debate in publishing studies. Exploring the legitimacy of e-books in terms of their 'realness' and 'bookness', Dietz enriches our understanding of what e-books are, while also opening up new ways of thinking about how we imagine, how we use, and what we want from books of every kind. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
E. B. White: The Essayist as First-Class Writer
by G. Douglas AtkinsThis is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist.
E. E. Cummings
by Susan CheeverFrom the author of American Bloomsbury ("Beguiling" --Publishers Weekly), Louisa May Alcott ("Fascinating . . . Another splendid piece of work with hidden depths by Susan Cheever"--Michael Korda), and Home Before Dark ("Moving and brilliantly restrained"--The New York Times Book Review), a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets, our generation's beloved heretic. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight, he was, after Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in the United States. E. E. Cummings was and remains controversial. He has been called "a master" (Malcolm Cowley); "hideous" (Edmund Wilson). James Dickey called him a "daringly original poet with more vitality and more sheer uncompromising talent than any other living American writer." In Susan Cheever's rich, illuminating biography we see Cummings's idyllic childhood years in a mythic part of Cambridge, Massachusetts (the Cummings house was within calling distance of Harvard professor William James, who first introduced Cummings's parents); his Calvinist father--distinguished Harvard professor and sternly religious minister of the Cambridge Congregational Church; his mother--loving, attentive, a source of encouragement, the aristocrat of the family, from Unitarian writers, judges, and adventurers. We see Cummings--slight, agile, playful, a product of a nineteenth-century New England childhood, bred to be flinty and determined; his love of nature ("here my enormous smallness entered Her illimitable being"); his sense of fun, laughter, mimicry; his desire from the get-go to stand conventional wisdom on its head, which he himself would often do, literally, to amuse. At Harvard, he roomed with John Dos Passos; befriended Lincoln Kirstein; read Latin, Greek, and French; earned two degrees; discovered alcohol, fast cars, and burlesque at the Old Howard Theater; and raged against the school's conservative, exclusionary upper-class rule by A. Lawrence Lowell. In Cheever's book we see that beneath Cummings's blissful, golden childhood the strains of sadness and rage were already at play. He grew into a dark young man and set out on a lifelong course of rebellion against conventional authority and the critical establishment, devouring the poetry of Ezra Pound, whose radical verses pushed Cummings away from the politeness of the traditional nature poem toward a more adventurous, sexually conscious form. We see that Cummings's self-imposed exile from Cambridge--a town he'd come to hate for its intellectualism, Puritan uptightness ("the Cambridge ladies," he wrote, "who live in furnished souls"), racism, and self-righteous xenophobia--seemed necessary for him as a man and a poet. Headstrong and cavalier, he volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, working alongside Hemingway, Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford . . . his ongoing stand against the imprisonment of his soul taking a literal turn when he was held in a makeshift prison for "undesirables and spies," an experience that became the basis for his novel, The Enormous Room, of which F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men since 1920--one book survives." We follow Cummings as he permanently flees to Greenwich Village to be among other modernist poets of the day--Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Dylan Thomas--and we see the development of both the poet and his work against the backdrop of modernism and through the influences of his contemporaries: Stein, Amy Lowell, Joyce, and Pound.Cheever's fascinating book gives us the evolution of an artist whose writing was at the forefront of what was new and daring and bold in an America in transition.(With 28 pages of black-and-white images.)From the Hardcover edition.
E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry
by Norman FriedmanOriginally published in 1960. In E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry, Norman Friedman argues that critics who have focused on what Cummings's poetry lacks have failed to judge Cummings on his strengths. Friedman identifies a main strength of Cummings as his being a "sensual mystic." The book unpacks Cummings's subject matter, devices, and symbolism, ultimately helping readers develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Cummings's work.
E. L. Doctorow (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction #20)
by Paul LevineDuring his lifetime E. L. Doctorow was a remarkable phenomenon among contemporary American novelists. He was a serious writer who was popular, a political writer who was a stylist, an original writer who was highly eclectic and an historical writer who invented the past. In this study, originally published in 1985, Paul Levine follows Doctorow’s progress as a novelist and traces the development of certain themes that recur in his work including the relationships between history and imagination, between high and popular culture and between political content and radical style. He also examines Doctorow’s notion of the writer as witness and actor and of writing as a subversive activity, two concerns which link him with important writers in Europe and Latin America. The book should provide a valuable and comprehensive coverage of his work to date, including the films of Ragtime and The Book of Daniel.
E. M. Forster and Music
by Tsung-Han TsaiThis book examines the political resonances of E. M. Forster's representations of music, offering readings of canonical and overlooked works. It reveals music's crucial role in his writing and draws attention to a previously unacknowledged eclecticism and complexity in Forster's ideological outlook. Examining unobtrusive musical allusions in a variety of Forster's writings, this book demonstrates how music provided Forster with a means of reflecting on race and epistemology, material culture and colonialism, literary heritage and national character, hero-worship and war, and gender and professionalism. It unveils how Forster's musical representations are mediated through a matrix of ideas and debates of his time, such as those about evolution, empire, Britain's relationship with the Continent, the rise of fascism, and the emergence of musicology as an academic discipline.
E. M. Forster as Critic (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory #3)
by Rukun AdvaniThis title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction towards socio-literary criticism and propaganda for art within the political and cultural context of post-Great War Britain. The book argues for Forster’s continuing importance as much more than a skilful novelist. It will be of interest to students of English cultural history, literary theory and criticism, and the work of E. M. Forster.