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Book Alitji in Dreamland

Download or read book Alitji in Dreamland written by Nancy Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For children; Pitjantjatjara translation of Alices adventures in wonderland, in which animals and activities are appropriate to Central Australia.

Book The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children s Literature

Download or read book The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children s Literature written by Jan Susina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study of Carroll’s juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations of Wonderland, Susina shows how the Alice books fit into the tradition of literary fairy tales and continue to influence children’s writers. In addition to examining Carroll’s books for children, these essays also explore his photographs of children, his letters to children, his ill-fated attempt to write for a dual audience of children and adults, and his lasting contributions to publishing. The book addresses the important, but overlooked facet of Carroll’s career as an astute entrepreneur who carefully developed an extensive Alice industry of books and non-book items based on the success of Wonderland, while rigorously defending his reputation as the originator of his distinctive style of children’s stories.

Book Narrative as Social Practice

Download or read book Narrative as Social Practice written by Danièle M. Klapproth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Australian culture of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Aborigines. Combining discourse-analytical and pragmalinguistic methodologies with the perspectives of ethnopoetics and the ethnography of communication, this book presents a highly original and engaging study of storytelling as a vital communicative activity at the heart of socio-cultural life. The book is concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues. It engages critically with the theoretical framework of social constructivism and the notion of social practice, and it offers critical discussions of the most influential theories of narrative put forward in Western thinking. Arguing for the adoption of a communication-oriented and cross-cultural perspective as a prerequisite for improving our understanding of the cultural variability of narrative practice, Klapproth presents detailed textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, and contextualizes them with respect to the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. Narrative as Social Practice offers new insights to students and specialists in the fields of narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, folklore study, the ethnography of communication, and Australian Aboriginal studies.

Book The Miniaturists

Download or read book The Miniaturists written by Barbara Browning and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the “mother of forensic science,” who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut toy piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift’s and Lewis Carroll’s preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast---even cosmic---realities.

Book Alitjinya Ngura Tjukurtjarangka

Download or read book Alitjinya Ngura Tjukurtjarangka written by Barbara Ker Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pitjantjatjara translation of the tale that transforms Carrolls creatures into more familiar species for Central Australia, so that the White Rabbit becomes a White Kangaroo with dilly bag and digging sticks.

Book Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture

Download or read book Alice in Wonderland in Film and Popular Culture written by Antonio Sanna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many reincarnations of Carroll’s texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books has been re-negotiated through adaptations, appropriations, and transmediality. The volume is an edited collection of eighteen essays and is divided into three sections that examine the re-interpretations of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in literature, film, and other media (including the branches of commerce, music videos, videogames, and madness studies). This collection is an addition to the existing work on Alice in Wonderland and its sequels, adaptations, and appropriations, and helps readers to have a more comprehensive view of the extent to which the Alice story world is vast and always growing.

Book Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Kennell
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2023-07-31
  • ISBN : 0824896874
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Alice in Japanese Wonderlands written by Amanda Kennell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan's internationally famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo style. In Japan Alice is everywhere--in manga, literature, fine art, live-action film and television shows, anime, video games, clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice's Japanese media environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a set of nineteenth-century British children's books became a vital element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan's myriad adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate. By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media, and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan's proliferation of Alices to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.

Book Value Chain Clustering in Regional Publishing Services Markets

Download or read book Value Chain Clustering in Regional Publishing Services Markets written by Bill Cope and published by Common Ground. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clustering is a process whereby enterprises within a shared value chain cooperatively manage the flow of goods and services from the point of origination to the point of consumption. This volume focuses on the notion of the regional cluster as a tool for value chain management and then discusses specific issues.

Book Encountering Aboriginal Languages

Download or read book Encountering Aboriginal Languages written by William McGregor and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2008 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning the period from first settlement to the present day. The introduction sets the scene for the book by presenting an overview of the history of histories of research on the languages of Australia , and identifying some of the major issues in Aboriginal linguistic historiography as well as directions for future investigations. Part 1 presents three detailed investigations of the history of work on particular languages and regions.The eight papers of Part 2 study and re-evaluate the contributions of particular individuals, most of who are somewhat marginal or have been marginalised in Aboriginal linguistics. Part 3 consists of six studies specific linguistic topics: sign language research, language revival, pidgins and creoles, fieldwork, Fr. Schmidt's work on personal pronouns, and the discovery that Australia was a multilingual continent. Overall, the volume presents two major challenges to Australianist orthodoxy. First, the papers challenge the typically anachronistic approaches to the history of Aboriginal linguistics, and reveal the need to examine previous research in the context of their times - and the advantages of doing so to contemporary understanding and language documentation. Second, the widespread presumption that the period 1910-1960 represented the 'dark ages' of Aboriginal linguistics, characterised by virtually no linguistic work, is refuted by a number of studies in the present volume.

Book Australian National Bibliography  1992

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The publishers weekly

Download or read book The publishers weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bander Snatch

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  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Bander Snatch written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aboriginal History

Download or read book Aboriginal History written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knight Letter

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  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Knight Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discovering World Cultures Through Literature

Download or read book Discovering World Cultures Through Literature written by Gerry Edwards and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering World Cultures Through Literature promotes a better understanding of how different cultures interact with, adapt to, and depend upon their environment. Students will bring home a new appreciation and respect for the dynamic relationship that exists between nature and humanity.

Book Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction

Download or read book Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction written by Cathi Dunn MacRae and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with a fascinating array of definitions by writers, critics, and teenagers, MacRae organizes this elusive genre into manageable categories. Each chapter traces the development of one subgenre, featuring a detailed biographical critique of a contemporary American fantasist within that category.

Book Koori Studies Resource Index

Download or read book Koori Studies Resource Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: