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AQA GCSE English Language Grades 1-5 Student Book
by Robert Francis Steve Eddy Keith Brindle Harmeet Matharu Sarah ForrestExam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Target grade improvement at every level and enable each student to reach their potential by boosting the knowledge and skills they need to understand the demands of the new AQA GCSE English Language examinations.- Focus completely on exam preparation and success as you are led question by question through both exam papers- Deliver higher levels of improvement and lift student performance with examiner insight that explains exactly what the examiner is looking for in each question- Differentiate your teaching for varying ability levels with this tiered Student's Book that teaches and develops the exam skills students need, using accessible, less-daunting texts with extra help to break down the questions- Support progression through the grades with annotated student responses that show how to improve answers- Build students' confidence and ensure readiness for exam conditions with practice questions and examination tips- Enhance students' reading skills through extensive practice for exam questions on the 19th century texts- Emphasise the importance of rolling revision with this ideal tool for students to use across the yearsWe will not be submitting these resources to AQA for approval. Instead, our author team of senior examiners and teachers have matched these resources to the new specification and assessment objectives.
AQA GCSE English Language Grades 1-5 Student's Book
by Hachette UkAQA GCSE English Language delivers more support in understanding and preparing for the new question types and exam-paper structure than any other course, coaching your students to their all-important Grade 5. - Developed by an author team with unparalleled experience in teaching, examining and delivering student progression - Target your teaching with this Grade 1-5 Student's Book; supports the content and exam skills students' need, using accessible, less-daunting texts - Provides extra support for breaking down and accessing the questions - Deliver higher levels of improvement and lift student performance by tackling each section of the exam papers in detail helping students reach their potential - Support students' progression through the grades with annotated responses and student-friendly mark schemes - Build students' confidence and ensure readiness for exam conditions with mock exam papers, examination tips and question practice We will not be submitting these resources to AQA for approval. Instead, our author team of senior examiners and teachers have matched these resources to the new specification and assessment objectives.
AQA GCSE English Language Grades 5-9 Student's Book
by Hachette UkTarget grade improvement at every level and enable each and every student to fulfil their potential by boosting the knowledge and skills they need to understand the demands of the new AQA GCSE English Language examinations. AQA GCSE English Language delivers more support in understanding and preparing for the new question types and exam-paper structure than any other course, coaching your students to their all-important Grade 5 and beyond. - Developed by an author team with unparalleled experience in teaching, examining and delivering student progression - Target your teaching effectively with this Grade 5-9 Student's Book; includes texts of greater demand, extending students' knowledge and targeting the top grades - Deliver higher levels of improvement and lift student performance by tackling each section of the exam papers in detail helping more students reach grades 8 and 9 - Support students' progression through the grades with annotated and graded student responses - Build students' confidence and ensure readiness for exam conditions with mock exam questions, examination tips and question practice We will not be submitting these resources to AQA for approval. Instead, our author team of senior examiners and teachers have matched these resources to the new specification and assessment objectives.
AQA GCSE English Literature Working with the Poetry Anthology and the Unseens
by Alan HoweSupport your students in developing the skills required to understand and respond to every studied poem in the 2015 AQA Poetry Anthology. - Teaches students how to analyse seen and unseen poems by moving gradually from first impressions to detailed explorations with thought-provoking questions at each stage - Provides approaches to learning all 30 poems in the AQA Anthology, including vital guidance for writing comparison answers - Ensures students are prepared for examination with a focus on the skills needed to succeed and how to tackle the different question types in Paper 2
AQA GCSE English Literature Working with the Poetry Anthology and the Unseens Student Book
by Alan HoweSExam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017upport your students in developing the skills required to understand and respond to every studied poem in the 2015 AQA Poetry Anthology- Teaches students how to analyse seen and unseen poems by moving gradually from first impressions to detailed explorations with thought-provoking questions at each stage- Provides approaches to learning all 30 poems in the AQA Anthology, including vital guidance for writing comparison answers- Ensures students are prepared for examination with a focus on the skills needed to succeed and how to tackle the different question types in Paper 2
AS & A2 Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide For Aqa (Essentials)
by Peter Wall Antony Bateman Claire Mortimer Sarah Casey BenyahiaAS & A2 Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA is a comprehensively updated new edition offering advice and guidance to help students pass AS and A2 Media Studies. Written by a team of experienced teachers and examiners, the book offers clear and engaging pathways through all the areas covered in the Media Studies curriculum, providing students with: • Revision Activities • Exam Tips and reminders • Definitions of key terms • Past paper questions • References to examiners reports. The authors also offer essential background information to help Media Studies students understand wider contexts and theoretical perspectives, as well as giving the lowdown on how exams are marked, how to manage self-study and approaching final examinations.
ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Michael D. Harris Paul Carter Harrison Pellom McDaniels III‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals.
ASL Skills Development (The Effective Interpreting Series)
by Carol J. Patrie Joe Dannis Dawn Sign Press StaffPresents exercises to refine skills in American Sign Language. Topics include: main idea comprehension, summarizing, lexical substitution, paraphrasing of propositions and discourse, visual form, and meaning.
ASL at Work: Student Text
by Samuel K. Holcomb DawnSignPress Staff Rico Peterson William Newell Cynthia Ann Sanders Barbara Ray Holcomb Frank Caccamise National Technical Institute for the Deaf Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education StaffDivided into 16 instructional units ASL at Work is designed to enable students to develop the skills and knowledge needed to communicate effectively with their Deaf co-workers students and clients in work and social settings. <p><p>Each instructional unit in the Student Text has a Unit Overview with learning outcomes a listing of vocabulary full grammatical and language culture and community explanations and a practice and review section with accompanying DVD which provides students with targeted outside of the classroom practice to develop expressive and receptive skills. The Student Text is beautifully illustrated throughout with clearly drawn sign grammatical and vocabulary illustrations.Each unit on the ASL at Work Student DVD provides a Sample Expressive Dialogue Comprehension Dialogues and Narratives and demonstration of Expressive Practice Prompts to give students practice outside of the classroom with both receptive and expressive skills.
ASL-To-English Interpretation: Say It Like They Mean It
by Jean Elaine KellyThe focus of ASL to English: Say it Like They Mean It, is not about how we, the interpreters, think the English interpretation should be presented, but rather, how would an English speaking consumer with no understanding of Deaf Culture best understand the voiced message. The task of producing an appropriate interpretation from ASL to English is often noted as being the more difficult of the two interpreting tasks. With only two years in most interpreter education programs, students may not have a full comprehension of what is expected in ASL to English interpretation.This book looks at difficulties and issues that can arise as interpreters work between ASL and English, with exercises at the end of every chapter. ASL to English Interpretation: Say It Like They Mean It will not only give students currently studying interpreting an opportunity to learn how to interpret from ASL to English, but will also give students the opportunity to discuss and work on the task of the English interpretation with their teacher and fellow students.This book is identical to ISBN 0-916883-38-8, it is just perfect-bound instead of spiral-bound, which required a new ISBN.
ASVAB Test Prep Flash Cards: Essential Vocabulary (Exambusters ASVAB Workbook #1 of 8)
by Ace Inc.<P><P><i>Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.</i><P><P> 500 frequently tested ASVAB words every high school student should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary! Improve your reading comprehension and conversation. <P><P>Includes sample sentence, part of speech, pronunciation, succinct, easy-to-remember definition, and common synonyms and antonyms. <P>EXAMBUSTERS ASVAB Prep Workbooks provide comprehensive, fundamental ASVAB review--one fact at a time--to prepare students to take practice ASVAB tests. Each ASVAB study guide focuses on one specific subject area covered on the ASVAB exam. From 300 to 600 questions and answers, each volume in the ASVAB series is a quick and easy, focused read. Reviewing ASVAB flash cards is the first step toward more confident ASVAB preparation and ultimately, higher ASVAB exam scores!
Aamod Sampurn-Sanskritam class 8 - Maharashtra Board: आमोदः सम्पूर्ण-संस्कृतम् ८वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Pune"आमोदः सम्पूर्ण-संस्कृतम्" आठवीं कक्षा के छात्रों के लिए तैयार की गई संस्कृत पाठ्यपुस्तक है, जो भाषा सीखने की एक रोचक और व्यावहारिक दृष्टि प्रस्तुत करती है। इसमें संस्कृत व्याकरण, शब्दावली, वाचन, लेखन, और संवाद कौशल को विकसित करने के लिए विभिन्न पाठ्य सामग्रियों को शामिल किया गया है। पुस्तक में संस्कृत भाषा के बुनियादी नियमों के साथ-साथ भारत की सांस्कृतिक और दार्शनिक विरासत को भी उजागर किया गया है। इसमें चित्रमय कथाएँ, संवाद, श्लोक, व्याकरणिक अभ्यास और रोचक गतिविधियाँ दी गई हैं, जो छात्रों को भाषा सीखने में सहायता करती हैं। इसके अतिरिक्त, यह पाठ्यपुस्तक विद्यार्थियों में आत्म-अभिव्यक्ति, तार्किक चिंतन और संस्कृत भाषा के प्रति रुचि विकसित करने में मदद करती है।
Aananda Sanyukta-Sanskritam class 10 - Maharashtra Board: आनन्दः संयुक्त-संस्कृतम् १०वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक संस्कृत भाषा, व्याकरण और साहित्य का गहन अध्ययन प्रस्तुत करती है। इसमें विद्यार्थियों को संस्कृत भाषा की महत्ता समझाने के साथ-साथ नैतिक शिक्षा और भारतीय संस्कृति की जानकारी दी गई है। पुस्तक में भारतीय संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) के तहत नागरिकों के मूलभूत कर्तव्यों का वर्णन किया गया है, जिसमें राष्ट्रध्वज और राष्ट्रगीत का सम्मान, राष्ट्रीय एकता की रक्षा, पर्यावरण संरक्षण, वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने जैसे विषय शामिल हैं। साहित्यिक भाग में संस्कृत के प्रसिद्ध ग्रंथों और कथाओं का संकलन है, जैसे "आद्यकृषक: पृथुवैन्य:", जिसमें कृषि की उत्पत्ति और महत्व को दर्शाया गया है, तथा "व्यसने मित्रपरीक्षा", जो सच्चे मित्र की परख पर आधारित एक शिक्षाप्रद कथा है। इसके अलावा, "सूक्तिसुधा" में नीति वचन और जीवनोपयोगी शिक्षाएँ दी गई हैं। संस्कृत व्याकरण, समास, सन्धि, लकार, विभक्ति, धातु-रूप, तथा वाक्यरचना पर भी विशेष ध्यान दिया गया है। यह पुस्तक छात्रों को न केवल संस्कृत भाषा में दक्ष बनाती है, बल्कि उनमें संस्कृत साहित्य, नैतिक मूल्यों और भारतीय परंपराओं के प्रति जागरूकता भी उत्पन्न करती है।
Aananda Sanyukta-Sanskritam class 8 - Maharashtra Board: आनन्दः संयुक्त-संस्कृतम् ८वीं कक्षा - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneयह पुस्तक दसवीं कक्षा के छात्रों के लिए तैयार की गई है, जिसमें संस्कृत भाषा की मूल बातें, व्याकरण, साहित्य, और भारतीय संस्कृति पर जोर दिया गया है। इसमें विभिन्न पाठों के माध्यम से विद्यार्थियों को संस्कृत साहित्य, नैतिक शिक्षा और जीवन मूल्यों की जानकारी दी जाती है। पुस्तक में भारतीय संविधान के अनुच्छेद 51(A) के तहत नागरिकों के मूलभूत कर्तव्यों का उल्लेख किया गया है, जिसमें संविधान का पालन, राष्ट्रध्वज एवं राष्ट्रगीत का सम्मान, राष्ट्रीय एकता की रक्षा और वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने जैसे बिंदु शामिल हैं। इसके अलावा, संस्कृत साहित्य के कुछ प्रसिद्ध कथाएं और श्लोक संकलित किए गए हैं, जिनमें "आद्यकृषक: पृथुवैन्य:", "व्यसने मित्रपरीक्षा", और "सूक्तिसुधा" जैसे अध्याय प्रमुख हैं। इनमें नीति और नैतिकता से जुड़ी शिक्षाएं दी गई हैं। अंततः, यह पुस्तक छात्रों को संस्कृत भाषा की महत्ता समझाने के साथ-साथ उसे दैनिक जीवन में उपयोग करने की प्रेरणा देती है। इसमें प्राचीन ग्रंथों से प्रेरित विचार और जीवनशैली के महत्वपूर्ण पहलू भी शामिल हैं।
Aaroh Bhag-1 Vitan Bhag-1 class 11 - Goa Board: आरोह भाग-१ वितान भाग-१ कक्षा ग्यारहवीं - गोवा बोर्ड
by Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Alto Betim Goaयह पुस्तक ग्यारहवीं कक्षा के विद्यार्थियों के लिए तैयार की गई है और भाषा के साथ साहित्यिक समझ विकसित करने पर केंद्रित है। "आरोह" मुख्य पाठ्यपुस्तक है जिसमें आधुनिक और पारंपरिक लेखकों की रचनाएँ शामिल हैं, जैसे प्रेमचंद, मन्नू भंडारी, और कबीर, जो भाषा, संस्कृति, और नैतिक मूल्यों की समझ विकसित करती हैं। इसमें गद्य और काव्य के अलग-अलग खंड हैं, जिनसे साहित्यिक विधाओं का गहरा परिचय मिलता है। "वितान" पूरक पाठ्यपुस्तक के रूप में है, जिसमें समाज, कला, और संस्कृति से संबंधित विविध विषयों पर लेखन प्रस्तुत किया गया है। दोनों खंड मिलकर विद्यार्थियों को सृजनात्मकता, आलोचनात्मक सोच और भाषा कौशल में निपुण बनाने का प्रयास करते हैं। इस पुस्तक का उद्देश्य केवल पाठ रटना नहीं बल्कि प्रश्न पूछने, विमर्श करने और स्वयं सीखने की प्रवृत्ति को बढ़ावा देना है। साहित्य को जीवन से जोड़कर प्रस्तुत करना, और हिंदी साहित्य के ऐतिहासिक विकास को समझना इस पुस्तक का मुख्य ध्येय है।
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
by John C. CharlesAbandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel--novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby.John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency.In an era when "Negro writers" were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the "Negro problem" encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing.
Abbasid Belles-Lettres
by Julia Ashtiany T. M. Johnstone J. D. Latham R. B. Serjeant G. Rex SmithThis volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD. 'Abbasid literature was characterised by the emergence of many new genres and of a scholarly and sophisticated critical consciousness. This volume deals chronologically with the main genres and provides extended studies of major poets, prose-writers and literary theorists. It concludes with a comprehensive survey of the relatively unknown literature of the Yemen to appear in a European language since the manuscript discoveries of recent years. To make the material accessible to non-specialist readers, 'Abbasid authors are quoted in English translation wherever possible, and clear explanations of their literary techniques and conventions are provided. With chapters by leading specialists from the Middle East, Europe and America, the volume represents a wide cross-section of current academic opinion.
Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal Practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities (The New Middle Ages)
by Justyna Rogos-HebdaAbbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle’s, John Lydgate’s and John Gower’s works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching. Spanning the boundaries of manuscript studies, cultural semiotics and text-image approaches to pre-modern written sources, the book studies scribal abbreviations and medieval visuality and links them with modern practices of textuality by combining tools and methods of traditional disciplines employed in the study of historical texts as well as those developed for the analyses of modern discourse. Justyna Rogos-Hebda outlines the main directions in abbreviation studies, describes research methods and considers the broader developments in manuscript studies integrating aspects of materialist philology, multimodality theory, visual pragmatics and visual and code-switching into descriptive-analytical models of medieval textualities. Rogos-Hebda aims to problematize abbreviation within the socio-cultural contexts of medieval mentalities, Christian hermeneutics and Middle English multilingualism to unpack the multilayered motivations for the practices of scribal communities.
Abc X 3: English - Español - François
by Marthe JocelynFrom airplane/avión/avion to zigzag/zigzag/zigzag, Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter have created a unique ABC for the very young. The book works perfectly in three languages, English, Spanish, and French (English, Español, and Français). In each case, deceptively simple paper cuts will delight the eye while young readers explore words in three languages. The book has been carefully constructed to accommodate each language, including the letters which occur in Spanish, but not in English or French. Earlier collaborations by Tom Slaughter and Marthe Jocelyn have received raves from critics. This new addition to their library is yet another excellent introduction to modern art, to words, and this time to the fun of languages
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Critical American Studies)
by Roderick A. FergusonA hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology—Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson—has measured African Americans&’s unsuitability for a liberal capitalist order in terms of their adherence to the norms of a heterosexual and patriarchal nuclear family model. In short, to the extent that African Americans&’s culture and behavior deviated from those norms, they would not achieve economic and racial equality.Aberrations in Black tells the story of canonical sociology&’s regulation of sexual difference as part of its general regulation of African American culture. Ferguson places this story within other stories—the narrative of capital&’s emergence and development, the histories of Marxism and revolutionary nationalism, and the novels that depict the gendered and sexual idiosyncrasies of African American culture—works by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. In turn, this book tries to present another story—one in which people who presumably manifest the dysfunctions of capitalism are reconsidered as indictments of the norms of state, capital, and social science. Ferguson includes the first-ever discussion of a new archival discovery—a never-published chapter of Invisible Man that deals with a gay character in a way that complicates and illuminates Ellison&’s project.Unique in the way it situates critiques of race, gender, and sexuality within analyses of cultural, economic, and epistemological formations, Ferguson&’s work introduces a new mode of discourse—which Ferguson calls queer of color analysis—that helps to lay bare the mutual distortions of racial, economic, and sexual portrayals within sociology.
Abhivyakti Aur Madhyam class 11 and 12 - NCERT - 23: अभिव्यक्ति और माध्यम ११वीं और १२वीं कक्षा - एनसीईआरटी - २३
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadविद्यार्थियों की सहज भाषा अभिव्यक्ति का ताकतवर ज़रिया बने। स्कूली जीवन से ही वे बाहर की विशाल दुनिया में झाँकें, जीवन जगत के अनेक रूपों को समझे-बूझें, रंग-बिरंगे सपनों का ताना-बाना फैलाना सीखें, मुश्किलों को पहचानें और उसका सामना कर सकें यानी अपनी राह तलाशने में या बनाने में वे खुद सक्षम हो सकें। राष्ट्रीय पाठ्यचर्या की रूपरेखा (2005) में इन बिंदुओं पर खासा बल है। इन्हीं को ध्यान में रखकर नए पाठ्यक्रम के तहत उच्चतर माध्यमिक स्तर पर हिंदी पढ़ने वाले विद्यार्थियों के लिए एक ऐसी पुस्तक की परिकल्पना की गई, जो अभिव्यक्ति के अलग-अलग माध्यमों पर केंद्रित हो। अभिव्यक्ति और माध्यम नामक इस पुस्तक की तीन इकाइयाँ हैं- जनसंचार माध्यम और लेखन, सृजनात्मक लेखन और व्यावहारिक लेखन। ये तीनों ही माध्यम एक विशेष बिंदु पर एक-दूसरे से जुड़े हुए हैं और व्यापक रूप से संचार के ही अलग-अलग रूप हैं। साज-सज्जा के लिए तसवीरों के साथ-साथ रेखांकन, स्वतंत्र कार्टून और कैरीकेचर की मदद ली गई है। व्यंग्य के सहारे कार्टून संजीदा बिंबात्मक अर्थ देने में समर्थ होते हैं। जनसंचार, सृजनात्मक लेखन और व्यावहारिक लेखन जैसे विषयों के साथ-साथ कार्टून चित्रों का प्रयोग विद्यार्थियों को अभिव्यक्ति का एक नया माध्यम भी दे सकता है।
Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies
by Gloria ChacónAbiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies.
Abigail Adams: A Writing Life
by Edith B. GellesIn this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides an intriguing first hand account of pivotal historical events and it shows how these events from the Boston Tea Party to the War of 1812 entered the private sphere. Included in the book is a chronology, notes and reference section and a selected bibliography. This book will be a must for all scholars of American literature, history and politics seeking to understand this literary figure.
Abjection and Representation: An Exploration of Abjection in the Visual Arts, Film and Literature
by R. AryaAbjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.
Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)
by John Fletcher Andrew BenjaminThis volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the workings of Kristeva’s thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature. Kristeva’s persistent humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva’s entire oeuvre.