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Trends And Tropes: Some Aspects of African Indigenous Literatures of South Africa
by E.D.M. Sibiya Zilibele MtumaneThis collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics. Each scholar presents findings that are particular to their research, thus making the book a valuable source of knowledge penned in a diversity of writing styles across different literary genres.Seventy per cent of the chapters are written in English and thirty per cent in isiZulu, a gesture towards encouraging research presentations in indigenous languages. Also of interest is that the chapter content covers traditional or largely obsolete forms such as folklore and essays.Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
Trends in Parsing Technology
by Harry Bunt Joakim Nivre Paola MerloComputer parsing technology, which breaks down complex linguistic structures into their constituent parts, is a key research area in the automatic processing of human language. This volume is a collection of contributions from leading researchers in the field of natural language processing technology, each of whom detail their recent work which includes new techniques as well as results. The book presents an overview of the state of the art in current research into parsing technologies, focusing on three important themes: dependency parsing, domain adaptation, and deep parsing. The technology, which has a variety of practical uses, is especially concerned with the methods, tools and software that can be used to parse automatically. Applications include extracting information from free text or speech, question answering, speech recognition and comprehension, recommender systems, machine translation, and automatic summarization. New developments in the area of parsing technology are thus widely applicable, and researchers and professionals from a number of fields will find the material here required reading. As well as the other four volumes on parsing technology in this series this book has a breadth of coverage that makes it suitable both as an overview of the field for graduate students, and as a reference for established researchers in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, language engineering, information science, and cognitive science. It will also be of interest to designers, developers, and advanced users of natural language processing systems, including applications such as spoken dialogue, text mining, multimodal human-computer interaction, and semantic web technology.
Tres ensayos (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by Juan BenetTres deslumbrantes ensayos donde relucen la inteligencia y el dominio del lenguaje de Juan Benet. Juan Benet es la mejor prosa castellana al servicio de una inteligencia deslumbrante. La mejor prueba de ello son estos tres magníficos ensayos: «Valedictoria a Dionisio», un elogio a Dionisio Ridruejo, maestro y amigo; y dos reflexiones sobre la clase política española en los albores de la Transición, «El tonto de la familia» y «Fisiología del pasillo». Una pequeña dosis de un grande de las letras.
Tres ensayos: Adentro! La Ideocis; La Fe (Flash Ensayo #Volumen)
by Miguel De UnamunoTres ensayos del célebre intelectual Miguel de Unamuno que representan la esencia de su pensamiento. Miguel de Unamuno fue un pensador inconformista que vivió en continua lucha contra su contexto histórico. <P><P>Los tres ensayos recogidos aquí, «Civilización y cultura», «La crisis del patriotismo» y «Sobre la consecuencia, la sinceridad» son una muestra de la gran lucidez de su pensamiento, y de los temas que le preocuparon a lo largo de su vida: el destino de la humanidad, el dilema entre lo individual y lo colectivo y la identidad nacional. <P>En «Civilización y cultura» Unamuno reconoce el valor de la historia, que se despliega desde los orígenes del hombre y llega hasta nuestros días, creando culturas y civilizaciones. «La crisis del patriotismo» plantea una nueva idea de patria en España, algo que se discutía en aquella época. <P><P> El intelectual defendió siempre un patriotismo español que respetase las particularidades de cada uno de sus pueblos y que los uniese en libertad, dejando a cada pueblo «desarrollarse según él es». <P> En «Sobre la consecuencia, la sinceridad» Unamuno contrasta su yo interior al yo social para examinar el problema del subjetivismo: cómo nos vemos, cómo somos realmente y cómo nos ven los demás. <P>Unamuno cita a Walt Whitman para destacar que cada persona es varias personas a la vez, alberga multitudes, y se encuentra en constante contradicción con el mundo que le rodea.
Tres guineas (Bolsillo Ser.)
by Virginia WoolfMe desagrada dejar sin contestación una carta tan notable como la suya, una carta que quizá sea única en la historia de la humana correspondencia, pues ¿cuándo se ha dado el caso, anteriormente, de que un hombre culto pregunte a una mujer cuál es la manera, en su opinión, de evitar la guerra? Así empieza este espléndido ensayo de Virginia Woolf, planteado como repuesta a las preguntas de un caballero que pedía su opinión sobre las maneras de evitar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como era habitual en ella, la gran autora aprovecha esta ocasión para analizar en profundidad la discriminación de que era víctima la mujer y reivindicar el derecho a tener la misma educación y oportunidades profesionales que el hombre. Solo así se llegaría a la realidad de un mundo racional y pacífico, donde una dama podría contestar libremente a cualquier pregunta. Setenta y cinco años después de su primera publicación, Tres guineas, que puede leerse como una elaboración de los temasya planteados en Un cuarto propio, es un texto que aun se disfruta con placer e interés, y no solo por la espléndida prosa de Virginia Woolf, sino también por su vigencia: si es verdad que hoy en día las mujeres en Occidente hablan y opinan, la voz que las oye aun es la de un caballero que no ha aprendido a escuchar.
Tres maestros: Bellow, Naipaul, Marías (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by Gonzalo TornéLas lecciones fundamentales de tres clásicos de la literatura contemporánea. Saul Bellow, Sir Vidia Naipaul y Javier Marías son tres autores tan distintos como claves para entender la novela en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En tres ensayos recorridos por la misma admiración inteligente, Gonzalo Torné, uno de los escritores más interesantes del panorama actual, desentraña los motivos por lo que todo lector que se precie debe colocar encima de la pila novelas como Las aventuras de Augie March, Un recodo en el río o Corazón tan blanco.
Tres poetas católicos: Ramón López Velarde, Carlos Pellicer y Manuel Ponce
by Gabriel ZaidPara los juicios convencionales, López Velarde es el cantor de la provincia y de la “íntima tristeza reaccionaria”; Pellicer, el cantor del trópico y “las manos llenas de color”; Ponce, un sacerdote que hacía versos. Pero hay que verlos como miembros de una tribu cuyo contexto se perdió: los poetas y artistas que creyeron posible ser católicos y modernos. El sueño de crear una cultura católica moderna fracasó hasta el punto de que ni siquiera es historiado, de que la tradición crítica recibida no tiene una precaución que diga: hay cosas de la cultura mexicana que nunca entenderás, si ignoras que el catolicismo mexicano soñó con la modernidad. De Gabriel Zaid hemos publicado casi todos sus libros en esta colección.
Tretower to Clyro
by Karl MillerKarl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London. In this last book of essays he turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. Most of them are inhabitants of the North Sea archipelago once known as Great Britain, who are here seen as tribally distinct, as Scottish, English, Irish or Welsh, and as a single society. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century. b bAn introductory essay is centred on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Journeys taken with Seamus Heaney and Andrew O'Hagan to this countryside, and others, are threaded throughout the book. The poets Heaney and Ted Hughes are discussed, together with the fiction of Ian McEwan, the Canadian writer Alistair Macleod, the Irish writer John McGahern and the Baltimorean Anne Tyler. Scotland is a preoccupation of the later pieces, including the letters of Henry Cockburn, a lifelong interest of the author, who is also interested here in foxes and their current metropolitan profile.
Triadic Exchanges: Studies in Dialogue Interpreting
by Ian MasonDialogue interpreting is a generic term covering a diverse range of fields of interpreting which have in common the basic feature of face-to-face interaction between three parties: the interpreter and (at least) two other speakers. The interaction consists of spontaneous dialogue, involving relatively short turns at talk, in two languages. It is usually goal-directed in the sense that there is some outcome to be negotiated. The studies in this volume cover several different fields: courtroom interpreting, doctor-patient interviews, immigration interviews, etc., and involve a range of different languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, More and Austrian Sign Language. They have in common that they view the interpreter as just one of the parties to this three-way exchange, in which each participant's moves can affect each other participant and thus the outcome of the event. In Part I, new research directions are explored in studies which piece together evidence of the ways dialogue interpreters actually behave and the effects of their behaviour. This is followed by two studies which discuss traditional interpreter roles - the 'King's Linguist' in Burkina Faso and the Oranda Tsûji, official interpreters employed in isolationist eighteenth-century Japan to ensure contact with the outside world. Finally, issues involved in training are the subject of two chapters relating to Austria and the UK. The variety of aspects and approaches represented in the volume - linguistic, cultural, pragmatic, historical - offer a rich and fascinating overview of the field of dialogue interpreting studies as it now stands.
Triage: On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life (A Vintage Short)
by Richard RussoA Vintage Shorts Nonfiction Original One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work writers do as they sift through experience and work to cultivate rich interior lives. For authors, this often involves performing triage, a constant assessment of events that helps determine what&’s useful for a story and potentially enduring. But what is at stake when we perform triage? Is an artist&’s interior life an act of generosity or selfishness? Reflecting on a year of reading and meditations on the nature of interiority brought up by a global pandemic and orders to stay at home, Triage is a candid and arresting look at the process that goes into creative work, by one of our most celebrated and bestselling novelists. An ebook short.
The Trial (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesThe Trial (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Franz Kafka Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay
by Aaron SorkinThe brilliant screenplay of the forthcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.Sorkin&’s film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven prominent anti-Vietnam War activists in Chicago. Originally there were eight defendants, but one, Bobby Seale, was severed from the trial by Judge Julius Hoffman—after Hoffman had ordered Seale bound and gagged in court. The defendants were a mix of counterculture revolutionaries such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and political activists such as Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, and David Dellinger, the last a longtime pacifist who was a generation older than the others. Their lawyers argued that the right to free speech was on trial, whether that speech concerned lifestyles or politics. The Trial of the Chicago 7 stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, and Mark Rylance, among others, directed by Aaron Sorkin. This book is Sorkin&’s screenplay, the first of his movie screenplays ever published.
Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue
by Leonard Swidler Reuven Firestone Kalid DuranAuthor Leonard Swidler himself is one of the American originators of the term trialogue (words among three persons), and here he raises it to a new level as he shares the podium with professors Reuven Firestone and Khalid Duran. These three professors, beginning with Firestone and Judaism, present their faith traditions and the challenges as well as possibilities for genuine trialogue. Each offers invaluable insights into the ways they share Hebraic roots and Abrahamic traditions and how their beliefs and practices have evolved through the centuries up to and including the present. Throughout the text, readers are encouraged to pause for reflection and/or discussion of the key points presented by the authors. This is a fascinating, enlightening, and highly recommended introduction to these three great faith traditions and how they evolved and are practiced today.
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
by Jack ZipesFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political
by Tarek El-ArissChallenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy.In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.
Trials of Character
by James M. MayBy its very nature, the art of oratory involves character. Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an audience for good or ill. In this book, James May explores the role and extent of Cicero's use of ethos and demonstrates its persuasive effect. May discusses the importance of ethos, not just in classical rhetorical theory but also in the social, political, and judicial milieu of ancient Rome, and then applies his insights to the oratory of Cicero.Ciceronian ethos was a complex blend of Roman tradition, Cicero's own personality, and selected features of Greek and Roman oratory. More than any other ancient literary genre, oratory dealt with constantly changing circumstances, with a wide variety of rhetorical challenges. An orator's success or failure, as well as the artistic quality of his orations, was largely the direct result of his responses to these circumstances and challenges. Acutely aware of his audience and its cultural heritage and steeped in the rhetorical traditions of his predecessors, Cicero employed rhetorical ethos with uncanny success.May analyzes individual speeches from four different periods of Cicero's career, tracing changes in the way Cicero depicted character, both his own and others', as a source of persuasion--changes intimately connected with the vicissitudes of Cicero's career and personal life. He shows that ethos played a major role in almost every Ciceronian speech, that Cicero's audiences were conditioned by common beliefs about character, and finally, that Cicero's rhetorical ethos became a major source for persuasion in his oratory.
The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James
by David LindleyDavid Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost
by Björn QuiringFocusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the meta-phorical identifi cation of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, phi-losophy and literature. In an enormous variety of texts, from the Greek beginnings of Western literature onward, nature has been described as a courtroom in which an all- encompassing trial takes place and a universal verdict is executed. The first, introductory part of this study sketches an overview of the metaphor’s development in European history, from antiquity to the seventeenth century. In its second, more extensive part, the book concentrates on Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in which the problem of the natural law court finds one of its most fascinating and detailed articulations. Using conceptual tools provided by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, Gilles Deleuze, William Empson and Alfred North Whitehead, the study demonstrates that the conflicts in Milton’s epic revolve around the tension between a universal legal procedure inherent in nature and the positive legal decrees of the deity. The divine rule is found to consolidate itself by Nature’s supple-mentary shadow government; their inconsistencies are not flaws, but rather fundamental rhetorical assets, supporting a law that is inherently “double- formed”. In Milton’s world, human beings are thus confronted with a twofold law that entraps them in its endlessly proliferating double binds, whether they obey or not. The analysis of this strange juridical structure can open up new perspectives on Milton’s epic, as well as on the way legal discourse tends to entangle norms with facts and thus to embed itself in human life. This original and intriguing book will appeal not only to those engaged in the study of Milton, but also to anyone interested in the relationship between law, history, literature and philosophy.
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime
by Jenny C. MannA revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge.Mann explores how Ovid’s version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language’s ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age.Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
by Jr. GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer?a repudiation that eventually inspired generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In "The Trials of Phillis Wheatley," Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition. Writing with all the lyricism and critical skill that place him at the forefront of American letters, Gates brings to life the characters, debates, and controversy that surrounded Wheatley in her day and ours.
The Triangle of Representation
by Christopher PrendergastMoving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?).The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and offers subtle readings of such cultural critics as Raymond Williams, Paul de Man, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, and Hélène Cixous, in addition to penetrating investigations of visual artists like Gros, Ingres, and Matisse and significant insights into Proust and the onus of translating him. Above all, Prendergast's work is a striking display of how a firm grounding in theory is essential for the exploration of art and literature.
Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)
by Paul Baker Jesse EgbertContemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics through a series of parallel empirical studies that use a single corpus dataset to answer the same overarching research question. Ten contributing experts each use a different method to address the same broadly framed research question: In what ways does language use in online Q+A forum responses differ across four world English varieties (India, Philippines, United Kingdom, and United States)? Contributions will be based on analysis of the same 400,000 word corpus from online Q+A forums, and contributors employ methodologies including corpus-based discourse analysis, audience perceptions, Multi-Dimensional analysis, pragmatic analysis, and keyword analysis. In their introductory and concluding chapters, the volume editors compare and contrast the findings from each method and assess the degree to which ‘triangulating’ multiple approaches may provide a more nuanced understanding of a research question, with the aim of identifying a set of complementary approaches which could arguably take into account analytical blind spots. Baker and Egbert also consider the importance of issues such as researcher subjectivity, type of annotation, the limitations and affordances of different corpus tools, the relative strengths of qualitative and quantitative approaches, and the value of considering data or information beyond the corpus. Rather than attempting to find the ‘best’ approach, the focus of the volume is on how different corpus linguistic methodologies may complement one another, and raises suggestions for further methodological studies which use triangulation to enrich corpus-related research.
Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions
by Robert Allen WarriorAs American Indian literature continues to push the boundaries of creativity, its counterpart in criticism has remained content with the narrowest, most parochial focus. <p><p>"Tribal secrets" lays the groundwork for a new and richer American Indian critical studies. In a comparative interpretation of the works of Vine Deloria, Jr., and John Joseph Mathews, two American Indian intellectuals of this century, Robert Allen Warrior recovers a Native American intellectual tradition with profound implications for contemporary Indian critical thought. Warrior presents a narrative account of the literary productions and political and cultural interactions of American Indian writers of this century. <p><p>This neglected history provides a context for Deloria and Mathews, whose work points away from assimilation and accommodation that was favored by their predecessors. Reading these writers, particularly Mathews' novel "Sundown", Warrior identifies new strategies and categories for making sense of American Indian fiction. <p><p>Throughout, Warrior argues that the contemporary reality of Indian people—including issues of economic class, gender inequality, and sexual orientation—can and should be part of a critical understanding of the past, present, and future of Indian America.