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Author: Shaun O'Toole
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134448740
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Develop students' ability to rewrite texts for new contexts, based around the skills specified in assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English.

Author: Robert Paul Metzger
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Presents four essays whose themes are rooted in ancient texts whether they be in the Homeric poetry of Ulysses, the Greek myth of Orpheus, Old Testament archetypes, or the Mayan astronomers of pre-Columbian Mexico.[Book Jacket].

Author: Tessa Whitehouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 019880881X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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An edited collection that studies the making of books in the long eighteenth century and advances understanding of book production and reception from a literary-historical perspective.

Author: Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780310217626
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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This book explores the rapidly growing interdisciplinary area of hermeneutics and its significance for biblical studies, combining wide, fundamental, rigorous, and creative theoretical concerns with practical questions about how we read biblical texts.

Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen (“transformation texts” i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them—the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.

Author: Benjamin Lefebvre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text, toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits children’s literature and culture in order to consider the generic, pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales, films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable for later audiences particularly when—for perceived ideological or political reasons—the textual transformation is not only unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time, offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming explores troubling biblical and historical texts in regards to their portrayal of women and calls for readers to identify the Spirit’s work of grieving over brokenness, brooding over chaos, and transforming the creation.

Author: Alison Ross
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435109806
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Includes material that covers the AQA English literature and English language specification B syllabuses. Offering exam and coursework tips, this title focuses on assessment objectives to help students learn how to achieve maximum results.

Author: H. Steinhoff
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137493798
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.

Author: N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452940584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media in the latter half of the twentieth century has revealed that the relationship between writer and reader is not so simple. From telegraphs and typewriters to wire recorders and a sweeping array of digital computing devices, the complexities of communications technology have made mediality a central concern of the twenty-first century. Despite the attention given to the development of the media landscape, relatively little is being done in our academic institutions to adjust. In Comparative Textual Media, editors N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman bring together an impressive range of essays from leading scholars to address the issue, among them Matthew Kirschenbaum on archiving in the digital era, Patricia Crain on the connection between a child’s formation of self and the possession of a book, and Mark Marino exploring how to read a digital text not for content but for traces of its underlying code. Primarily arguing for seeing print as a medium along with the scroll, electronic literature, and computer games, this volume examines the potential transformations if academic departments embraced a media framework. Ultimately, Comparative Textual Media offers new insights that allow us to understand more deeply the implications of the choices we, and our institutions, are making. Contributors: Stephanie Boluk, Vassar College; Jessica Brantley, Yale U; Patricia Crain, NYU; Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State U; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Thomas Fulton, Rutgers U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; William A. Johnson, Duke U; Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland; Patrick LeMieux; Mark C. Marino, U of Southern California; Rita Raley, U of California, Santa Barbara; John David Zuern, U of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.