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Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
by Bruce Allen DickRichard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright’s long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright’s family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright’s oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin. Wright maintained rewarding associations with playwrights, writers, and actors such as Langston Hughes, Theodore Ward, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Hellman, and took particular inspiration from French literary figures like Jean-Paul Sartre. Dick’s analysis also illuminates Wright’s direct involvement with theater and film, including the performative aspects of his travel writings; the Orson Welles-directed Native Son on Broadway; his acting debut in Native Son’s first film version; and his play “Daddy Goodness,” a satire of religious charlatans like Father Divine, in the 1930s. Bold and original, Thunder on the Stage offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a major American writer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
by SparkNotesThus Spoke Zarathustra (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Philosophy Guides are one-stop guides to the great works of philosophy–masterpieces that stand at the foundations of Western thought. Inside each Philosophy Guide you&’ll find insightful overviews of great philosophical works of the Western world.
Tiananmen Exiles
by Rowena Xiaoqing HeIn the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed citizens in the capital city of Beijing, and those leaders who survived the crackdown became wanted criminals overnight. Among the witnesses to this unprecedented popular movement was Rowena Xiaoqing He, who would later join former student leaders and other exiles in North America, where she has worked tirelessly for over a decade to keep the memory of the Tiananmen Movement alive. This moving oral history interweaves He's own experiences with the accounts of three student leaders exiled from China. Here, in their own words, they describe their childhoods during Mao's Cultural Revolution, their political activism, the bitter disappointments of 1989, and the profound contradictions and challenges they face as exiles. Variously labeled as heroes, victims, and traitors in the years after Tiananmen, these individuals tell difficult stories of thwarted ideals and disconnection, but that nonetheless embody the hope for a freer China and a more just world.
Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture (Asian American History & Cultu #187)
by Belinda KongAn exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang, and Ma Jian-who have written and published about the massacre from abroad. Their outsider/distanced perspectives inform their work, and reveal how diaspora writers continually reimagine Tiananmen's relevance to the post-1989 world at large. Compelling us to think about how Chinese culture, identity, and politics are being defined in the diaspora, Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square candidly addresses issues of political exile, historical trauma, global capital, and state biopower.
Tibetan Calligraphy
by Sarah Harding Sanje ElliottIn Tibetan Calligraphy, Sanje Elliott shows us how to capture the elegance and grace of Tibetan calligraphy without prior knowledge of either Tibetan language or calligraphy. This beautiful book includes many prayers, mantras, and seed syllables to copy and study. Perfect for practitioners, artists, and anyone interested in the Tibetan language.
Tibetan Language for Non-Tibetans: A Beginner's Guide to Writing and Speaking Tibetan (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Konchok TashiThis book serves as a practical guidebook for non-Tibetan beginners who want to learn the Tibetan writing system and conversational Tibetan, but have never studied the language before. Based on modern colloquial Tibetan, it is founded on traditional Tibetan expression as well as the proper shape and style used by Tibetans in their daily lives, enabling learners to connect directly with Tibetans. This book is an outcome of the author’s in-depth research on Tibetan language for the last two and half decades and is the third book in the series of his research work devoted to the ‘Linguistic Studies of the lesser-known/endangered Languages of Indian Himalayas & beyond’. This book features a Foreword from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
Ticket to Write: Writing Skills for Success
by Susan Sommers Thurman William L. GaryTicket to Write, a cutting-edge developmental writing textbook, focuses on contemporary media and issues that stimulate student learning, covers paragraph and essay development simultaneously, and employs a "solutions approach" to grammar.
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
by Ira RosenTwo-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show. It’s a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism, breaking some of the most important stories in TV news. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, and the most formidable 60 Minutes figure: legendary correspondent Mike Wallace.Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace’s top producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace’s work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20, Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo. A master class in how TV news is made, Rosen shows readers how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of 60 Minutes' most sensational stories.Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never-before-told account of the most successful news show in American history.
Tiempos ridículos
by Javier MaríasCon las noventa y seis columnas de este volumen, aparecidas en El País Semanal entre febrero de 2011 y febrero de 2013, Javier Marías cumple diez años de colaboración dominical en este medio. Durante este tiempo se ha convertido en alguien fundamental para infinidad de lectores, que aguardan con impaciencia su dosis semanal de valentía, originalidad, argumentaciones sólidas, sentido del humor y excelente prosa. El periodo aquí cubierto es el de la actual crisis económica y política, por lo que su tono es quizá más amargo que en otras ocasiones. Pero en sus artículos también hay lo que el autor llama «treguas», de modo que el lector encontrará piezas emotivas o divertidas y siempre agudas: sobre la muerte de su tío, el músico Odón Alonso, o el caso Strauss-Kahn, o la nueva Ortografía de la RAE, sobre cómo Mourinho lo ha llevado a ser menos madridista que nunca, o los premios literarios, o sus peripecias en una adusta librería de Viena, o los héroes de los tebeos de su infancia, o la conmovedora carta de un lector... Sin duda Tiempos ridículos enviará a la papelera muchos recortes, porque eso es lo que muchos lectores hacen con las columnas de Javier Marías: las recortan y las guardan, para darse ánimos al releerlas y renovar el placer. «Sí, vivimos tiempos ridículos. Lo peor es que en España la mayoría de la gente se siente en ellos como pez en el agua.» Javier Marías
Tierra sin Dios: Crónica del desgobierno y la guerra en Michoacán
by J. Jesús LemusUna intensa crónica periodística que aborda los acontecimientos históricos que dieron origen al estado fallido en que se convirtió Michoacán en los últimos años. Tras la publicación de Los malditos, Jesús Lemus ha adquirido gran reconocimiento como autoridad en la investigación sobre los orígenes de la problemática que abruma a Michoacán. Con riguroso sentido periodístico, Tierra sin Dios hace un recuento de los hechos más importantes ocurridos en este estado, a fin de poder entender su actual situación de desgobierno. Éste es el resultado de un intenso quehacer periodístico de Jesús Lemus, quien se aproxima a fenómenos sociales en Michoacán tan relevantes en los últimos años como el surgimiento de los grupos de autodefensas y la abrasadora presencia del crimen organizado. He aquí la visión más cercana de la violencia, el abandono del gobierno estatal, la impunidad y la corrupción oficiales en los que se encuentra sumida la población del estado. Tierra sin Dios es una visión distinta, e incluso opuesta, a la cobertura otorgada al caso de Michoacán por algunos medios informativos de corte nacional e internacional. Un libro que comienza con un breve recorrido de los últimos diez gobiernos estatales, y que aborda con puntualidad tanto el debilitamiento de las instituciones, como el asalto al poder por parte de los cárteles de la droga.
Ties That Blind in Canadian/american Relations: The Politics of News Discourse (Routledge Communication Series)
by Richard L. BartonThis volume explores the political impact of journalistic discourse on international -- and especially Canadian/American -- relations. In so doing, it provides a comparative analysis of American and international press accounts of selected Canadian/American issues such as free trade, cruise missile testing, and acid rain. The intention of the book is to enhance understanding of the political significance of journalists' interpretations of Canadian/American affairs, although the communication perspective and method of news analysis of the book are appropriate for the study of the United States' news-mediated relations with other countries. This study also examines the way people negotiate news-mediated political discourse and how that communication process can influence international affairs.
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, And The Interdependent Self (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures In The History Of American Civilization Ser. #2012)
by Gish JenFor author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West. <P><P>Drawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies to her father’s striking account of his childhood in China, this accessible book not only illuminates Jen’s own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self—each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. <P><P>By contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity, the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of one writer’s life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have shaped our experience for millennia, Tiger Writing radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.
TikTok – Memefication und Performance: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge (Digitale Linguistik #2)
by Simon Meier-Vieracker Friederike Fischer Lisa NiendorfGegenstand des interdisziplinären Open-Access-Bandes ist die Videoplattform TikTok, die als eines der meistgenutzten Sozialen Netzwerke große gesellschaftliche Relevanz entfalten konnte und insbesondere in (außer-)schulischen Bildungsbereichen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle spielt. Nach anfänglichem Alarmismus einerseits und Marginalisierung als reines Spaßmedium andererseits wird TikTok insbesondere in internationalen Forschungskontexten längst als kulturwissenschaftlicher Gegenstand ernst genommen. Die auf TikTok zu beobachtenden kommunikativen Praktiken und Genres, in denen aktuelle Ereignisse und Diskurse in plattformtypischer Weise verhandelt und performativ in Szene gesetzt werden, führen stärker noch als andere Soziale Medien die Zeichenmodalitäten Bild, Ton und Sprache zusammen und eröffnen dadurch neue Optionen der Vermittlung, der diskursiven Aneignung und der sozialen Repräsentation. Die grundlegenden Affordanzen der Plattform, insbesondere die Möglichkeit, zu bestehenden Sounds neue Videos zu produzieren, begünstigen dabei einen stark von Intertextualität, Intermedialität und Imitation geprägten Modus von Inszenierung und Performance, der im Anschluss an neuere Forschungen zu digitalen (Bild-)Praktiken als Memefication bezeichnet werden kann. Der Band fragt deshalb danach, wie sich das multimodale Mediensetting von TikTok im Spannungsfeld von Memefication und Performance zu einer charakteristischen Form vernetzter Öffentlichkeit ausgestaltet und welche Vermittlungsoptionen in verschiedenen Praxisfeldern sich hierbei ergeben. Dafür werden unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche Perspektiven gebündelt, welche die Videoplattform als empirischen Untersuchungsgegenstand erschließen und hierfür geeignete theoretische Konzepte und methodische Zugänge entwickeln. Inhaltlich umfasst der Band Beiträge aus den Sprach-, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften, der Film- und Musikwissenschaft, der Ingenieurswissenschaft sowie didaktischen und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen,die in drei Teilen miteinander in Bezug gesetzt werden: Neben TikTok-spezifischen digitalen Praktiken gilt das Interesse dem Status der Plattform in Vermittlungs- und Bildungskontexten sowie in der Wissenschaftskommunikation.
Till Death Us Do Part
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till Death Us Do Part: a charming and delightfully cosy mystery that will keep you hooked!
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till Death Us Do Part: a charming and delightfully cosy mystery that will keep you hooked!
by Penny Stephens'A new star in the crime-writing firmament' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there's one thing Clare does know, it's people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell (Under Discussion)
by Derek PollardSince the publication of From the Abandoned Cities in 1983, Donald Revell has been among the more consistent influencers in American poetry and poetics. Yet, his work has achieved the status it has—his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and awards from the PEN Center USA and American Poetry Review—in a manner that has often tended to belie its abiding significance. This collection of essays, reviews, and interviews is designed to ignite a more wide-ranging critical appraisal of Revell’s writing, from his fourteen collections of poems to his acclaimed translations of French symbolist and modernist poets to his artfully constructed literary criticism. Contributors such as Marjorie Perloff, Stephanie Burt, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Bruce Bond examine key elements in and across Revell’s work, from his visionary postmodernism (“Our words can never say the mystery of our meanings, but there they are: spoken and meaning worlds to us”) to his poetics of radical attention (“And so a poem has nothing to do with picking and choosing, with the mot juste and reflection in tranquility. It is a plain record of one’s entire presence”), in order to enlarge our understanding of how and why that work has come to occupy the place that it has in contemporary American letters.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (G. K. Hall Perennial Bestsellers Ser.)
by C. S. LewisA repackaged edition of the revered author’s retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche—what he and many others regard as his best novel.C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—brilliantly reimagines the story of Cupid and Psyche. Told from the viewpoint of Psyche’s sister, Orual, Till We Have Faces is a brilliant examination of envy, betrayal, loss, blame, grief, guilt, and conversion. In this, his final—and most mature and masterful—novel, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives.
Tilt
by Jean SpracklandJean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.
Tim (Primary Phonics Storybook #Set 1 Book 4)
by Barbara MakarA systematic, phonics-based early reading program that includes: the most practice for every skill, decodable readers for every skill, and reinforcement materials--help struggling students succeed in the regular classroom
Tim O'Brien: The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Literature Ser.)
by Tobey C HerzogThis collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried, contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all of O’Brien’s books. Grounded in through research, Herzog’s work illustrates how O’Brien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing.
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
by Christopher A. BaronTimaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative account of the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean. Like almost all the Hellenistic historians, his work survives only in fragments. Beyond an up-to-date treatment of this important author, this book shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost historians. For Timaeus, much of our evidence is preserved in the polemical context of Polybius' Book 12. When we move outside that framework and examine the fragments of Timaeus in their proper context, we gain a greater appreciation for his method and his achievement, including his use of polemical invective and his composition of speeches. This examination of Timaeus also conveys a broader impression of the major lines of Hellenistic historiography.
Time Bites
by Doris LessingIn this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a century, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays cover an impressive range of subjects, cultures, periods, and themes, yet they are remarkably consistent in one key regard: Lessing's clear-eyed vision and clearly expressed prose.
Time Series Analysis of Discourse: Method and Case Studies (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
by Dennis TayThis volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstrate its potential to complement qualitative approaches in discourse analysis research. The book begins by discussing how time has previously been conceptualized in the literature, drawing on studies from variationist sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis. The volume then segues into a discussion of how TSA is applied in other contexts in which observed values are expected to be dependent on earlier values, such as stock markets and sales figures, and introduces a range of discourse-specific contexts to show how the technique might be extended to analyze trends or shed further light on relevant themes in discourse over time. Each successive chapter features a different discourse context as a case study, from psychotherapy sessions, university lectures, and news articles, and looks at how studying different variables over time in each context – metaphors, involvement markers, and keywords, respectively – can contribute to a greater understanding of both present and future discourse activity in these settings. Taken together, this book highlights the value of TSA as a complementary approach to meaning-based analysis in discourse, making this ideal reading for graduate students and scholars in discourse analysis looking to employ quantitative methods in their research practice.
Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History
by Jaclyn I. PryorPryor illuminates how each artist deploys performance as a tool to render history visible, trauma recognizable, and transformation possible by laying bare the histories and ongoing systems of violence woven deep into our society.