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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The academy
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
Notes and Queries
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Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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"Aberdeen Journal" Notes and Queries
Author: The Book Buyer
Author: Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
Author: Christine FergusonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351923323
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siècle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste. In its alignment of scientific, cultural, and popular discourses of human language, Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle stands as a corrective to assessments of best-selling fiction's intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic simplicity.
Lives on the Boundary
Author: Mike RosePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143035460
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The award-winning account of how America's educational system fails it students and what can be done about it Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient—these are the stigmas that define America’s educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate “problem” students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range of students. Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with America’s future. "A mirror to the many lacking perfect grammar and spelling who may see their dreams translated into reality after all." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Vividly written . . . tears apart all of society's prejudices about the academic abilities of the underprivileged." -New York Times
The Ex-Officers Book Union Book Sale Catalogs
Author: Ex-Officers Book UnionPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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