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En Comunidad: Lessons For Centering The Voices And Experiences Of Bilingual Latinx Students
by Carla Espana Luz Yadira HerreraDrs. Carla Espana and Luz Yadira Herrera's schooling and teaching journey reveal the power of educators to create either liberating or dehumanizing spaces and experiences for bilingual Latinx students. En Comunidad brings bilingual Latinx students' perspectives to the center of our classrooms. Its culturally and linguistically sustaining lessons begin with a study of language practices in students' lives and texts, helping both children and teachers think about their ideas on language. These lessons then lay out a path for students' and families' storytelling, a critical analysis of historical narratives impacting current realities, ways to develop a social justice stance, and the use of poetry in sustaining the community. As the largest group of bilinguals in the U.S., bilingual Latinx students need teachers to not just welcome them into their classrooms, but also to advocate with and for them, for their languages, and for their lives. En Comunidad offers classroom-ready lessons that amplify the varied stories and identities of Latinx children. Each sequence of lessons follows a critical bilingual literacies framework for any educator teaching bilingual Latinx children and: - focuses on issues of language, literacies, and power - recommends carefully-curated texts and multimodal resources featuring Latinx voices - centers a translanguaging pedagogy that honors bilingual Latinx students' language practices. "In this book, Espana and Herrera treat seriously the idea that the cultural and linguistic practices of Latinx children are legitimate and should be made central to their educational experiences. It is a must-read for all educators who work with Latinx students." -Nelson Flores, Ph.D., Penn Graduate School of Education
En Región. Cuentos completos 1
by Juan BenetTodos los cuentos de Juan Benet ambientados en Región, algunos de los cuales jamás llegaron a publicarse en ningún otro volumen. Pese a que se lo recuerda sobre todo como un extraordinario novelista, conviene recordar que Juan Benet debutó como cuentista, con Nunca llegarás a nada (1961), y que fue un maestro del género. El presente volumen reúne todos los relatos que transcurren en el universo mítico ideado por el autor. Se constituye de este modo un compendio de algunas de las piezas fundamentales de la narrativa benetiana, a la que esta colección sirve de perfecta introducción. Así, el genio de Benet brolla desde la primera mención de Región hasta las cinco narraciones que, organizadas como si de una composición musical se tratase, llevan por título Variaciones sobre un tema romántico. Texto establecido a la luz de los manuscritos del autor. Incluye, a modo de epílogo, «En Región» (1998), de Francisco García Pérez.Manuel Vicent dijo:«En estos cuentos se halla toda la imaginería primordial de Benet y algunos de ellos son estelares dentro de su bibliografía.»
En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral
by Cadena SER«Usted habrá escuchado hablar alguna vez del sonido SER. Sepa que es el conjunto de buenas prácticas que permite identificar a cualquiera de las emisoras de esta cadena de radio "a simple oído".»Antonio Hernández-Rodicio, director de Cadena SER En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral detalla los hábitos necesarios para expresarse y tratar la información como el mejor periodista radiofónico y, en definitiva, para ejercer un periodismo eficaz, riguroso y ético. Aunque las normas y consejos que recoge nacieron con el fin de unificar el método, los principios y las formas expresivas que configuran la personalidad de una cadena emblemática, su utilidad rebasa la de ese y cualquier otro medio, y se extiende a cualquier persona que se vaya a poner delante de un micrófono, una cámara o un público. «La época en la que este libro sale al mercado se caracteriza por lo que eufemística y agramaticalmente sedenomina "era de la posverdad"; palabra esta última que ocupa el lugar de lo que veníamos llamando mentira, manipulación o bulo. »Por eso las empresas informativas y sus profesionales acreditados se hacen cada vez más imprescindibles ante ese maremágnum donde todo vale; y pueden constituirse en el refugio de las noticias contrastadas y de las narraciones elaboradas con una perspectiva ética al servicio de la sociedad.»Álex Grijelmo
En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral
by Cadena Ser«Usted habrá escuchado hablar alguna vez del sonido SER. Sepa que es el conjunto de buenas prácticas que permite identificar a cualquiera de las emisoras de esta cadena de radio "a simple oído".»Antonio Hernández-Rodicio, director de Cadena SER En antena. Libro de estilo del periodismo oral detalla los hábitos necesarios para expresarse y tratar la información como el mejor periodista radiofónico y, en definitiva, para ejercer un periodismo eficaz, riguroso y ético. Aunque las normas y consejos que recoge nacieron con el fin de unificar el método, los principios y las formas expresivas que configuran la personalidad de una cadena emblemática, su utilidad rebasa la de ese y cualquier otro medio, y se extiende a cualquier persona que se vaya a poner delante de un micrófono, una cámara o un público. «La época en la que este libro sale al mercado se caracteriza por lo que eufemística y agramaticalmente sedenomina "era de la posverdad"; palabra esta última que ocupa el lugar de lo que veníamos llamando mentira, manipulación o bulo. »Por eso las empresas informativas y sus profesionales acreditados se hacen cada vez más imprescindibles ante ese maremágnum donde todo vale; y pueden constituirse en el refugio de las noticias contrastadas y de las narraciones elaboradas con una perspectiva ética al servicio de la sociedad.»Álex Grijelmo
En busca de Bolívar
by William OspinaLa biografía del libertador bajo la óptica de William Ospina. «Bastó que muriera para que todos los odios se convirtieran enveneración, todas las calumnias en plegarias, todos sus hechos enleyenda. Muerto, ya no era un hombre sino un símbolo. La América Latinase apresuró a convertir en mármol aquella carne demasiado ardiente, ydesde entonces no hubo plaza que no estuviera centrada por su imagen,civil y pensativa, o por su efigie ecuestre, alta sobre los Andes. Porfin en el mármol se resolvía lo que en la carne pareció siempre a puntode ocurrir: que el hombre y el caballo se fundieran en una sola cosa. <P><P>Aquella existencia, breve como un meteoro, había iluminado el cielo desu tierra y lo había llenado no sólo de sobresaltos sino de sueñosprodigiosos.»William Ospina La biografía del libertador bajo la óptica de William Ospina. «Bastó que muriera para que todos los odios se convirtieran enveneración, todas las calumnias en plegarias, todos sus hechos enleyenda. Muerto, ya no era un hombre sino un símbolo. La América Latinase apresuró a convertir en mármol aquella carne demasiado ardiente, ydesde entonces no hubo plaza que no estuviera centrada por su imagen,civil y pensativa, o por su efigie ecuestre, alta sobre los Andes. Porfin en el mármol se resolvía lo que en la carne pareció siempre a puntode ocurrir: que el hombre y el caballo se fundieran en una sola cosa.Aquella existencia, breve como un meteoro, había iluminado el cielo desu tierra y lo había llenado no sólo de sobresaltos sino de sueñosprodigiosos.»William Ospina
En cuestión de segundos
by Abraham Stern¿Hasta qué punto puede una mala decisión cambiar el destino de nuestras vidas? <P><P>Ricardo Galán, presidente de una compañía constructora, ha logrado superar una infancia de abandonos, trastornos y limitaciones, para forjarse a sí mismo como hombre íntegro, respetado profesional y empresario. <P>Su matrimonio con Daniela Beltrán -hija de un hombre desalmado que nunca aceptó la relación-, se expone constantemente al abuso de un padre que se ha prometido reubicar a su hija con un hombre de mejor estirpe. <P>A pesar de la belleza e inteligencia de su esposa, a la que ama por sobre todas las cosas, Ricardo extraña, al punto de la frustración, la espontaneidad sexual en su vida conyugal. <P>Presionado socialmente por sus socios, participa en una aventurilla erótica que al principio se mostraba inofensiva, pero termina convirtiéndose en una estrepitosa caída. La tentación enfrenta a Ricardo y sus principios morales, con los demonios más oscuros de su pasado y con una enfermedad que creyó haber superado, poniendo en riesgo su matrimonio y una vida que ya nunca volverá a ser la misma, descubriendo así, que entre el cielo y la tierra todo se sabe, y es allí donde, en cuestión de segundos, nacen las verdaderas historias y mueren la gran mayoría de los engaños. <P><P>¿Hasta qué punto puede una mala decisión cambiar el destino de nuestras vidas? ¿Debe un ser humano perder los privilegios de toda una vida llena de virtudes por un desliz? ¿Se pierde, por ello, el derecho a una segunda oportunidad? <P>Sobre estas interrogantes divagan los protagonistas de En cuestión de segundos, una novela que, bajo la apariencia de un machismo socialmente aceptado, evoluciona hasta lograr una transformación psicológica que termina por desnudar la debilidad de una sociedad hispanoamericana con una noción de hombría totalmente distorsionada.
En el lugar de los hechos
by Jorge ZarzaEl lector encontrará en este libro lecciones de periodismo de primer nivel, así como el rostro más humano del reportero que con igual rigor implacable cubre las secuelas de una matanza de inocentes o la pasión religiosa de una Semana Santa en algún lugar del mundo. Jorge Zarza es uno de los reporteros con más prestigio internacional de México: sus coberturas respecto a un atentado terrorista, la tragedia humana ante un desastre natural o la voz rasgada de quienes sobreviven a un enfrentamiento armado confirman su rigor periodístico y su tenacidad para informar desde el lugar de los hechos. El destacado comunicador comparte en estas páginas qué hay detrás de cada reportaje, qué obstáculos deben superarse para informar desde el corazón de la catástrofe. Cuenta su experiencia terrible en Estados Unidos cuando asistió a la ejecución de un acusado mexicano; cuáles fueron las emociones captadas durante el rescate de los mineros en Chile en 2010; su dolor ante los cadáveres de mujeres, ancianos, niños, durante una matanza paramilitar; el rostro de la desolación después de los atentados de Atocha; cómo informar ante el legado sombrío de los huracanes Paulina o Jova. En estas páginas se encuentra la trayectoria de más de 25 años al servicio de la información: testimonios, anécdotas, confesiones, que el reportero asimila con profesionalismo para lograr la nota; el detalle de las horas de hambre y miedo en zonas de devastación, la ilusión en los rescates de vidas humanas, el fervor de los creyentes durante las visitas del Papa o las exigencias de los políticos, todo en un libro lleno de pasión e intenso amor al periodismo.
En el vientre de la ballena
by George OrwellUno de los ensayos más célebres de George Orwell, en el que disecciona el ambiente social y literario en la Europa de los años treinta. <P><P>En el vientre de la ballena es un ensayo dividido en tres partes donde el autor emplea el relato bíblico de Jonás y la ballena para ejemplificar la actitud conformista imperante en los años treinta, periodo caracterizado por la pasividad e indiferencia ante las graves circunstancias políticas y sociales que se vivían entonces. <P>Tras un turbulento comienzo de siglo marcado por la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa y la Guerra Civil española, y con la inminente declaración de una nueva guerra, parte de la sociedad parecía haberse rendido y dejado de luchar. <P>Orwell ve en el escritor norteamericano Henry Miller el reflejo de esta conducta, plasmada en su primera obra Trópico de Cáncer. A pesar de que Orwell admiraba la obra y la prosa del ecritor, creía que, dada su falta de denuncia y compromiso político, éste aceptaba la barbarie de la época; un acto en sí de gran irresponsabilidad. <P>George Orwell examina también el panorama de la literatura inglesa de los años veinte y treinta. Destaca las grandes diferencias entre las generaciones de escritores-autores de principios de siglo como James Joyce, T.S. Eliot y Ezra Pound -frente a la generación de entreguerras de W.H. Auden y Stephen Spender-, y la respuesta de todos ellos ante los grandes conflictos sociales y políticos que les tocó vivir.
En los márgenes: Conversaciones sobre el placer de leer y escribir
by Elena FerranteEl «cuarto propio» de Elena Ferrante: las lecciones de literatura de la autora que más intriga al mundo, con más de veinte millones de lectores «La voz de Elena Ferrante, junto a la de sus personajes —no solo Lila y Lenù, sino todas las mujeres que hablaron en sus novelas—, nos dicen en este libro: aquí estoy yo».Annalena Benini, Il Foglio «Una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra».Milena Busquets La maravilla de descubrir la lectura y la escritura desde la infancia, los recuerdos de las primeras páginas escritas, sus olores y lugares, y luego los grandes hallazgos, desde los nombres canónicos de la literatura universal hasta las autoras que la han iluminado, impregnan estas lecciones magistrales que ha impartido Elena Ferrante invitada por la Cátedra Umberto Eco de la Universidad de Bolonia. En este recorrido histórico y personal por la inspiración y su vocación de escritora, la autora más enigmática de la actualidad desvela también sus consejos sobre la creación de personajes y la trama. Desde Shakespeare hasta Gertrude Stein, pasando por las obras de Diderot, Jane Austen o Virginia Woolf, y culminando con Dante y su Beatrice, Ferrante entrelaza lecturas y reflexiones con su propia obra y su vida, sobre las que por primera vez se confiesa en una nueva intimidad con sus lectores. La crítica ha dicho sobre este libro:«Un viaje extraordinario que se adentra en la construcción de sus obras maestras».Riccardo de Paolo, Il Mattino «Si alguien todavía duda de si las novelas de Ferrante las ha escrito un hombre, os aseguro que En los márgenes disipará cualquier asomo de duda».Quotidiano Nazionale «Otro libro ineludible de Elena Ferrante».Libri e Parole «Una fusión coral de talentos femeninos».Michaela K. Bellisario, IoDonna «Ferrante evoca los orígenes de la escritura y el sentido de la ortografía [...] a través del diálogo que tienen sus textos con otros. No falta ninguno de sus referentes: de Virginia Woolf a Diderot pasando por Emily Dickinson».La Repubblica «Cuatro ensayos públicos, íntimos y antagónicos sobre la escritura».Il Sole 24 Ore La crítica ha dicho sobre Elena Ferrante:«En mi mesilla de noche están los diarios de Virginia Wolf, los relatos de Chéjov y las novelas de Elena Ferrante».Leïla Slimani «No se dejen engañar. El mayor misterio no es quién es o quién deja de ser Elena Ferrante [...]: el misterio es su escritura y su capacidad de evocación. Un fenómeno torrencial, magnético, imparable».Quico Alsedo, El Mundo «El tiempo ha demostrado que a la ferocidad de su escritura y al ritmo de sus relatos nadie es capaz de resistirse. [...] La sensación que tienes al leerla es como si te abriesen en canal para enseñarte tus vergüenzas, las entrañas. Es incómoda y adictiva».Marina García Diéguez, Revista Mercurio «Una maestra retratista de todo lo que nos preocupa, de todo lo que nos duele. Es difícil encontrar alguien de quien decir esto y que aún esté entre nosotros. Que en vida ya sea un clásico».Víctor M. González, GQ «Ferrante me han tenido atado al sillón, leyendo y celebrando».Juan Marsé «Me ha capturado. Me ha causado un gran impacto».Elizabeth Strout
En marcha An Intensive Spanish Course for Beginners
by Carmen Garcia del Rio Eva MartinezEn Marcha is an intensive course in Spanish for beginners. Systematic and comprehensive, it takes the student from beginner's to upper intermediate level in one year. Carefully graded exercises and expert grammatical explanations are combined with lively activities and an attractive presentation to develop the four key skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The material is organised in 8 units, each unit introduces new language and provides a variety of activities to practise that language, with clear instructions guiding the student and regular summaries of key points.The units also provide sections for self-study which consolidate material learnt in class, as well as a full key to the exercises. Additional material includes audio files to accompany the book available free to download at www.routledge.com/cw/rio, a grammar reference index, and lists of essential vocabulary in easy-to-learn groups.
Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics of Performance
by Angelia PoonAngelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised, and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings
by Natalie LawrenceA fascinating journey through 15,000 years of history, exploring the incredible variety of monstrous creatures we have created and what they can tell us about ourselves.The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare. From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. For millennia, monsters have helped us to manage the extraordinary complexity of our minds and to deal with the challenges of being human. In Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence delves into 15,000 years of imaginary beasts and uncovers the other-worldly natural history that has evolved with our deepest fears and fascinations. Join Lawrence on a tour of prehistoric cave monsters, serpentine hybrids, deep-sea leviathans and fire-breathing Kaiju. Discover how this monstrous menagerie has shaped our minds, our societies and how we see our place in nature.
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
by Maria TatarHighly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim's landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar's book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.
Enchanted Incognito
by W. I. ZardSo you want to hear my miserable tale? Bad idea. Go live vicariously through a girl whose life worked out the way she planned. A girl who didn't wake up one morning and find that her relatively simple, albeit disconnected life had been turned upside down and filled with the darkest of magic and worst of curses. Here I thought the SATs and college applications were complicated! Have you ever felt so completely lost and out of place you wondered if your life was really even yours? Well I have. I've lived most of my life feeling as though I were trapped in someone else's, so when I found out that I was born a witch, it all started to fall into place. That is until I met the tall, dark and mysterious Elliot and realized that dating in the mortal world has got nothing on the complication, desire and mistrust that surrounds romance in the magical world. It doesn't help that our families are mortal enemies either. Did Romeo and Juliet have to suffer plagued curses and time travel in their struggle? I think not. As tragic as their tale was, they were fully responsible for their fate, but not Athiya and Elliot. No, our story was completely out of our control.
Enchanted Islands: Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France
by Mary D. SheriffIn Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Enchanted Objects
by Allan HepburnEnchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged.Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.
Enchanted Shows: Vision and Structure in Elizabethan and Shakespearean Comedy about Magic (Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama)
by Elissa HareThe book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.
Enchantment
by C. Stephen JaegerWhat is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma--and indeed, in his award-winning Envy of Angels, Jaeger himself brilliantly parsed the ability of charismatic teachers to shape the world of medieval learning. In Enchantment, he turns his attention to a sweeping and multifaceted exploration of the charisma not of individuals but of art.For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented. Charismatic art makes us want to live in the higher world that it depicts, to behave like its heroes and heroines, and to think and act according to their values. It temporarily weakens individual will and rational critical thought. It brings us into a state of enchantment.Ranging widely across periods and genres, Enchantment investigates the charismatic effect of an ancient statue of Apollo on the poet Rilke, of the painter Dürer's self-portrayal as a figure of Christ-like magnificence, of a numinous Odysseus washed ashore on Phaeacia, and of the black-and-white projection of Fred Astaire dancing across the Depression-era movie screen. From the tattoos on the face of a Maori tribesman to the haunting visage of Charlotte Rampling in a film by Woody Allen, Jaeger's extraordinary book explores the dichotomies of reality and illusion, life and art that are fundamental to both cultic and aesthetic experience.
Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Nick Davis Nandini DasThis volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica
by Javier Gutiérrez-RexachThe Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica provides comprehensive coverage of the major and subsidiary fields of Spanish linguistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced and arranged alphabetically within three main sections: Part 1 covers linguistic disciplines, approaches and methodologies. Part 2 brings together the grammar of Spanish, including subsections on phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Part 3 brings together the historical, social and geographical factors in the evolution of Spanish. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors from across the Spanish-speaking world the Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica is an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish, and for anyone with an academic or professional interest in the Spanish language/Spanish linguistics.
Encounter: Essays
by Milan Kundera“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author’s signature themes with personal reflections and stories.
Encountering China’s Past: Translation and Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)
by Lintao Qi Shani TobiasThis book features articles contributed by leading scholars and scholar-translators in Translation Studies and Chinese Studies from around the world. Written in English, the articles examine the translation of classical Chinese literature, from classics to poetry, from drama to fiction, into a range of Asian and European languages including Japanese, English, French, Czech, and Danish. The collection therefore provides a platform for readers to make comparative and critical readings of scholarship across languages, cultures, disciplines, and genres. With its integration of textual and paratextual materials, this collection of essays is of potential interest to not only academics in the area of Translation Studies, Chinese Studies, Literary Studies and Intercultural Communications, but it may also appeal to communities outside the academia who simply enjoy reading about literature.
Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT (Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series)
by Whitney S. MayContributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Whitney S. May, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen King’s novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part film adaptation and the inspiration for a resurgence of the evil clown figure in popular culture, IT's influence is undeniable, yet scholarship to date is almost exclusively devoted to the adaptations rather than the novel itself. Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s “IT” considers the pronounced cultural fluctuations of IT's legacies by centering the novel within the theoretical frameworks that animate it and ensure its literary and cultural persistence. The collection explores the ways the novel, so like its antagonist, replicates (or disavows) the icons of various canons and categories in order to accomplish specific psychological and cultural work. Gathering the work of scholars from diverse professional and disciplinary vantage points, editor Whitney S. May has curated an anthology that spans discussions of American surveillance culture, intergenerational conflict, the legacies of settler colonialism and Native American representation, serial-killer fanaticism, and more. In this volume, we read the protagonists’ constellations of countermoves against Pennywise as productive outlines of critique effectuated by the richness of the clown’s reflective power. The essays are therefore thematically arranged into a series of four categories of “counter”—countercurrents, countercultures, counterclaims, and counterfeits—where each supplies a specific critical lens through which to view Pennywise’s disruptions of both culture and cultural critique.
Encounters With Archetypes: Integrated ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 4-5
by Tamra Stambaugh Emily Mofield Eric Fecht Kim KnaussEncounters With Archetypes integrates the study of archetypes with the concept of encounters. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and features accelerated content, creative products, differentiated tasks, engaging activities, and the use of in-depth analysis models to develop sophisticated skills in the language arts. Through the lens of encounter, students will examine the patterns, symbols, and motifs associated with common archetypes by analyzing fictional and informational texts, speeches, and visual media. Students will follow various archetype encounters with conflicts and challenges to explore questions such as “How do archetypes reflect the human experience?” and “How do archetypes reveal human strengths and weaknesses?" Ideal for gifted classrooms or gifted pull-out groups, the unit features texts from Sandra Cisneros, Louis Untermeyer, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou; biographies of Oprah Winfrey, Mother Teresa, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; a speech from President Ronald Reagan; a novel study featuring Wonder by R. J. Palacio and/or Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan; and art from Pieter Bruegel. Grades 4-5