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Bourdieu, Language and the Media
by John F. MylesThis book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'.
Bourdieu, Language-based Ethnographies and Reflexivity: Putting Theory into Practice
by Kate Pahl Michael GrenfellOffering a unique and original perspective on Bourdieu, language-based ethnographies,and reflexivity, this volume provides a nuanced, in-depth discussion of the complex relationship between these interconnected topics and their impact in real-world contexts. Part I opens the book with an overview of the historical background and development of language-based ethnographic research and Bourdieu’s work in this space. Part II presents a series of case studies that highlight a Bourdieusian perspective and demonstrate how reflexivity impacts language-based ethnography. In each study, Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of reflexively-informed objectivity examines the ways in which the studies themselves were constructed and understood. Building on Parts I and II, the concluding set of chapters in Part III unpacks the messiness of the theory and practice of language-based ethnography, and provides insights into what reflexivity means for Bourdieu and in practical contexts. Arguing for a greater reflexive understanding in research practice, this volume sets an agenda for future literacy and language research.
Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
by John O'ConnellNamed one of Entertainment Weekly&’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. &“An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“The only art I&’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.&” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities.In 100 short essays, music journalist John O&’Connell studies each book on Bowie&’s list and contextualizes it in the artist&’s life and work. How did the power imbued in a single suit of armor in The Iliad impact a man who loved costumes, shifting identity, and the siren song of the alter-ego? How did The Gnostic Gospels inform Bowie&’s own hazy personal cosmology? How did the poems of T.S. Eliot and Frank O&’Hara, the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and Anthony Burgess, the comics of The Beano and The Viz, and the groundbreaking politics of James Baldwin influence Bowie&’s lyrics, his sound, his artistic outlook? How did the 100 books on this list influence one of the most influential artists of a generation? Heartfelt, analytical, and totally original, Bowie&’s Bookshelf is one part epic reading guide and one part biography of a music legend.
Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself
by Joseph BruchacThe author shares in this memoir how he came to fully understand, and eventually claim, his Native American heritage, despite his grandparents' unspoken pact to never discuss Grandpa's Abenaki blood.
Bowstring
by Viktor Shklovsky Shushan Avagyan"Myths do not flow through the pipes of history," writes Viktor Shklovsky, "they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar." Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist-the "person out of place," who has turned up in a period where he does not belong and who must search for meaning with a strained sensibility. As Shklovsky experiments with different genres, employing a technique of textual montage, he mixes autobiography, biography, memoir, history, and literary criticism in a book that boldly refutes mechanical repetition, mediocrity, and cultural parochialism in the name of art that dares to be different and innovative. Bowstring is a brilliant and provocative book that spares no one in its unapologetic project to free art from conventionality.
Bowstring
by Viktor Shklovsky Shushan Avagyan"Myths do not flow through the pipes of history," writes Viktor Shklovsky, "they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar." Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist-the "person out of place," who has turned up in a period where he does not belong and who must search for meaning with a strained sensibility. As Shklovsky experiments with different genres, employing a technique of textual montage, he mixes autobiography, biography, memoir, history, and literary criticism in a book that boldly refutes mechanical repetition, mediocrity, and cultural parochialism in the name of art that dares to be different and innovative. Bowstring is a brilliant and provocative book that spares no one in its unapologetic project to free art from conventionality.
Boxes and Books in Early Modern England: Materiality, Metaphor, Containment
by Lucy RazzallIn early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book itself as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects, from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought. These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts and things.
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre
by Harry R. McCarthyBoy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.
Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.
by Jennifer Travis Milette ShamirWe take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by addressing the history and politics of emotion in prevailing narratives about masculinity. How did the story of the emotionally stifled U.S. male come into being? What are its political stakes? Will the "release" of straight, white, middle-class masculine emotion remake existing forms of power or reinforce them? This collection forcefully challenges our most entrenched ideas about male emotion. Through readings of works by Thoreau, Lowell, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and of twentieth century authors such as Hemingway and Kerouac, this book questions the persistence of the emotionally alienated male in narratives of white middle-class masculinity and addresses the political and social implications of male emotional release.
Boys Don't Dance! (Rigby PM Plus Blue (Levels 9-11), Fountas & Pinnell Select Collections Grade 3 Level Q)
by Tom Jellett Rowena LindquistLuke worries that his schoolmates might see him taking his sister to her dancing lesson. To his surprise, he finds that the class looks interesting and that dancing is fun.
Boys and Girls Forever
by Alison LurieIt often seems that the most gifted authors of books for children are not like other writers: instead, in some essential way, they are children themselves. E. Nesbit devoted weeks to building a toy town out of blocks and kitchenware. James Barrie spent his holidays playing pirates and Indians with the four Davies boys. Laurent deBrunhoff, who has continued his father's BABAR series for many years, is still climbing trees at the age of 70. Beatrix Potter preferred the company of animals and pets to that of eligible young dancing partners at balls. In these fascinating studies, Alison Lurie's subjects range from what fairy tales tell us, to children's games and poetry by and for children, from book illustrators to enchanted forests and secret gardens in children's literature.
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
by Susan FisherBoys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.Susan R. Fisher also considers how the representation of the war has changed in Canadian children's literature. During the war, the conflict was invariably presented as noble and thrilling, but recent Canadian children's books paint a very different picture. What once was regarded a morally uplifting struggle, rich in lessons of service and sacrifice, is now presented as pointless slaughter. This shift in tone and content reveals profound changes in Canadian attitudes not only towards the First World War but also towards patriotism, duty, and the shaping of the moral citizen.
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Annette WannamakerBoys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply dismissed as garbage that boys should be discouraged from enjoying. However, examining and making visible the ways masculinity functions in these texts is vital to understanding the broad array of works that make up children’s culture and form dominant versions of masculinity. Such popular texts as Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and Japanese manga and anime often perform rituals of subject formation in overtly grotesque ways that repulse adult readers and attract boys. They often use depictions of the abject – threats to bodily borders – to blur the distinctions between what is outside the body and what is inside, between what is "I" and what is "not I." Because of their reliance on depictions of the abject, those popular texts that most vigorously perform exaggerated versions of masculinity also create opportunities to make dominant masculinity visible as a social construct.
Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context: A Case Study from Malta (Routledge Research in Literacy Education)
by Charmaine BonelloThis book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory. The author confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. The book includes the voices of young boys who experience formal education from the age of five and adds a fresh perspective to existing literature in this area. Drawing on empirical research, the book traces the impact of foundational ideas of gender and early childhood, and makes practical recommendations to help young children experience socially just literacy education. This timely text will be highly relevant for researchers, educators and policymakers in the fields of literacy education, early childhood education, postcolonial education and children’s rights.
Bradbury Beyond Apollo
by Jonathan R. EllerCelebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector." Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing
by Minnesota Humanities CommissionBraided Lives amplifies over forty different voices, bringing their distinctive sounds and stories to high school readers.
Braille Literacy Curriculum
by Diane P. Wormsley" ... supports the goals of the National Agenda, emphasizes outcomes, and presents strategies for incorporating Braille into the total curriculum." Organized around outcomes in three areas: Emergent Literacy, Basic Literacy, Functional Literacy. Presented by grade cluster: Beginning (K-3), Intermediate (4-7), Advanced (8-12).
Braille Literacy: A Functional Approach
by Diane P. WormsleyWormsley (program director, Professional Preparation Program in Education of Children with Visual and Multiple Disabilities, Pennsylvania College of Optometry) describes an approach to braille reading and writing instruction based on students' individual interests, needs, and goals. She offers general guidelines for a functional approach to braille literacy, then offers case studies of how the program can be modified for at-risk learners. The approach works with children and adults learning braille for the first time. B&w photos of instructional materials are included. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Brain Games for 10 Year Olds: Fun and Challenging Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles, and More for Kids
by Gareth MooreStrengthen your fifth grader's logic skills with this unique collection of over 100 engaging and educational illustrated problems!Whether you&’re a teacher or parent, finding the perfect summer bridge book to build your child's resilience and improve their mindset has never been easier! Created especially for 10-year-old kids, Brain Games for 10 Year Olds is packed to the brim with a variety of captivating activities and brain-teasers, including: Sudoku puzzles Mazes Picture codes And so much more! Written by an internationally bestselling puzzle author, Brain Games for 10 Year Olds is the fantastic mix of zany entertainment and mind-bending games to keep your child engaged and delighted as they challenge their minds and learn new skills.
Brain Games for 8 Year Olds: Fun and Challenging Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles, and More for Kids
by Gareth MooreHelp your eight-year-old build resilience, improve their mindset, and broaden their minds with this exciting collection of over 100 head-scratching puzzles!Whether you&’re a teacher or parent, finding new and exciting ways to stimulate your child&’s mind over the summer has never been easier! Specifically designed for eight-year-old children, Brain Games for 8 Year Olds is packed to the brim with a variety of captivating activities and brain-teasers, including: Sudoku puzzles Mazes Picture codes And so much more! Written by an internationally bestselling puzzle author, Brain Games for 8 Year Olds is the perfect mix of zany entertainment and mind-bending games to keep your child engaged and delighted as they learn and sharpen new skills.
Brain Games for 9 Year Olds: Fun and Challenging Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles, and More for Kids
by Gareth MooreDiscover the perfect summer bridge book containing over 100 engaging and educational problems to help your fourth grader strengthen their critical thinking and toughen their minds.Whether you&’re a teacher or parent, finding new and exciting ways to stimulate your child&’s mind has never been easier! Designed especially for nine-year-old children, Brain Games for 9 Year Olds is packed with a variety of captivating activities and brain-teasers, including: Sudoku puzzles Mazes Picture codes And so much more! Written by an internationally bestselling puzzle author, Brain Games for 9 Year Olds is the perfect mix of zany entertainment and mind-bending games to keep your child engaged and delighted as they sharpen their logic and learn new skills.
Brain Teasers for Adults: 75 Large Print Puzzles, Riddles, and Games to Keep You on Your Toes
by Marcel DanesiGive your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest. Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn't throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet "doable" puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay. The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around—the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself. Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you'll find: Choose your difficulty—Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty. 5 Categories—Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways. Clues to use—An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed! Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!
Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching
by J. Richard Gentry Gene OuelletteThe past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries-;and all their exciting implications-;have yet to make their way into most classrooms.In Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching , authors J. Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellette, bring their original, research-based framework of brain words dictionaries in the brain where students store and automatically access sounds, spellings, and meaning. This book aims to fill the gap between the science of reading and classroom instruction by providing up-to-date knowledge about reading and neurological circuitry, including evidence that spelling is at the core of the reading brain.Brain Words will show how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage, including: Incorporating tools to recognize what works, what doesn't, and whyPractical classroom activities for daily teaching and student assessmentInsights about what brain research tells us about whole language and phonics-first movementsDeepened understanding of dyslexia through the enhanced lens of brain scienceWith the insights and strategies of Brain Words , you can meet your students where they are and ensure they gain confidence as readers, spellers, and writers.
Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching
by J. Richard Gentry Gene P. Ouellette"Gentry and Ouellette are cannonballing into the reading research pool, they're making waves, and these waves are moving the field of reading forward."—From the foreword by Mark Weakland, Super Spellers"In this second edition, the authors have written a practical and fascinating resource that helps connect the theory and research of the neurological reading circuitry to classroom practice."—Molly Ness, teacher educator, author, consultantA lot has changed since the original publication of Brain Words. The first edition was very much a call for change, and change has indeed happened! While the science of reading has made real and substantive change within education, there unfortunately remain too many misunderstandings and misinterpretations of what the science of reading is, and stubborn resistance to all it has to offer. Now more than ever it is vital that we work towards an understanding of the science of reading and what it has to say about teaching our students how to read.Written for beginning or seasoned teachers, homeschoolers, teacher educators, as well as parents who want to fully engage in their child’s literacy development, this updated and highly readable new edition presents brain science, reading research, and theory in ways that can be understood and directly applied in teaching, ultimately leading to efficacious science of reading based literacy instruction.Gentry and Ouellette show how an understanding of the science of reading can shape teaching to help make all students literate. Building on their science of reading based framework of “brain words”—dictionaries in the brain where students store and access word spelling, pronunciation, and meaning—the authors offer a wealth of information to transform your thinking and practice. They offer: an updated review of models of reading, developmental theory, and brain research that help explain the reading brain a new exploration of how oral language provides the foundation for learning to read and write, and how elements of oral language directly contribute to literacy learning throughout the school years an evolving critique of classroom practices that aren't as effective as once believed explicit guidance on how spelling can be used to teach the critical skill of word reading a deepened understanding of dyslexia through the lens of the science of reading With the insights and strategies in Brain Words, you can meet your students where they are and ensure that more of them read well, think well, and write well.