Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982148853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.
Philadelphia Fire
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982148853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982148853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.
Philadelphia, 1991-92
Author: George McDonald
Publisher: Prentice Hall Travel
ISBN: 9780133330069
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall Travel
ISBN: 9780133330069
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Philadelphia 1991 Destination Travel Guide
Author: Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Epistemic Stance in English Conversation
Author: Elise Kärkkäinen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027295948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers’ utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027295948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers’ utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Industrial Directory of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Mediterranean Shores of America
Author: Peter Charles Remondino
Publisher:
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Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A Treatise on materia medica, pharmacology, and therapeutics v.2, 1891
Author: John Vietch Shoemaker
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description