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Book Narrative Chance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780806125619
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Narrative Chance written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hovedsageligt om de moderne, amerikanske, indianske forfattere N. Scott Momaday, LeslieMarmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, og: Gerald Vizenor.

Book No Accident  Comrade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Belletto
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 0199354359
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book No Accident Comrade written by Steven Belletto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an examination of American novels and nonfiction texts, published between 1947 and 2005, that looks at the concept of chance and how it was denied in the Soviet Union.

Book A Chance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cristina Durán
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2021-11-30
  • ISBN : 1637790155
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book A Chance written by Cristina Durán and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Cris and Miguel, creating a family will take a little luck and lots of determination. A Chance is the engrossing, heartwarming story of their struggles and triumphs. The narrative follows Cristina Durán and Miguel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and doctors become part of their daily routine. There is one chance in a thousand that Laia will pull through—and they hold on to that chance with tremendous strength and indomitable joy. Years later, with the same courage and determination, Cristina and Miguel embark on the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia. This time, they face a long period of training, psychological tests, interviews, and formalities before they can even pack their bags. And when they return with Selam, the challenge of reinvention awaits them yet again.

Book The Book of Chance

Download or read book The Book of Chance written by Sue Whiting and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance is a black-and-white thinker until she realises that sometimes there are shades of grey. Chance is in Year 7 and thinks she has it all - a loving mother, dog Tiges, best friend and almost-sister next door. But when a reality TV team makes over her house, she discovers newspaper cuttings from the past that cause her to question the world as she knows it and everyone in it. Then she finds herself caught between two realities, identities and worlds. Face-to-face with the truth, Chance has a very difficult decision to make, which almost splits her in two. This powerful story explores what is true and what is fake in today’s world. And while Chance is all about the truth, she ponders whether "Maybe being truthful was really just a big lie." The Book of Chance by Sue Whiting, Highly Commended, 2021 Davitt Awards Best Children’s Crime Book

Book Chance and Design in Cold War American Narrative

Download or read book Chance and Design in Cold War American Narrative written by Steven Belletto and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse

Download or read book Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse written by Christoph Schubert and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sociolinguistic research on Englishes world-wide, little has been published on the pragmatics of postcolonial varieties. This interdisciplinary volume closes this research gap by providing integrative investigations of postcolonial discourses, probing the interstices between linguistic methodologies and literary text analysis. The literary texts under discussion are conceptualized as media both reflecting and creating reality, so that they provide valuable insights into postcolonial discourse phenomena. The contributions deal with the issue of how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices. They show the ways in which hybrid communicative situations based on ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity result in similarly hybrid social and communicative routines. The central pragmatic paradigms discussed here include im/politeness, speech act conventions, conversational maxims, deixis, humour, code-switching and -mixing, Othering, and linguistic exclusion.

Book Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

Download or read book Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Quincey s Works  Narrative and miscellaneous papers

Download or read book De Quincey s Works Narrative and miscellaneous papers written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Select essays     narrative   imaginative  ed  by D  Masson

Download or read book Select essays narrative imaginative ed by D Masson written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas De Quincey  Narrative and miscellaneous papers

Download or read book The Works of Thomas De Quincey Narrative and miscellaneous papers written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative and miscellaneous papers  With a general index to De Quincey s writings

Download or read book Narrative and miscellaneous papers With a general index to De Quincey s writings written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Narratives and Modern Narratology

Download or read book Medieval Narratives and Modern Narratology written by Evelyn Birge Vitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very interesting collection of topics that centers on critical methodologies and the central problems of medieval alterity.

Book Narration  Identity  and Historical Consciousness

Download or read book Narration Identity and Historical Consciousness written by Jürgen Straub and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and function of the concept of time have been posed – for example by Piaget and other founders of genetic structuralism – they have been concerned predominantly with concepts of "physical", chronometrical time, and related concepts (e.g., "velocity"). All the contributions to the present volume attempt to close this gap. A larger number are especially interested in the narration of stories. Overviews of the relevant literature, as well as empirical case studies, appear alongside theoretical and methodological reflections. Most contributions refer to specifically historical phenomena and meaning-constructions. Some touch on the subjects of biographical memory and biographical constructions of reality. Of all the various affinities between the contributions collected here, the most important is their consistent attention to issues of the constitution and representation of temporal experience.

Book A Chance in the World

Download or read book A Chance in the World written by Stephen Pemberton and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pemberton’s beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey—beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve’s refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow.” —Stedman Graham, author, educator Home is the place where our life stories begin. A Chance in the World is the astonishing true story of a boy destined to become a man of resilience determination and vision. Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it. Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home. A fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, and a Polish last name, he is determined to unravel the mystery of his origins and find his birth family. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears. Through it all, Steve’s story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.

Book Translating Mount Fuji

Download or read book Translating Mount Fuji written by Dennis Washburn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Washburn begins with Ueda's Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) and its preoccupation with the distant past, a sense of loss, and the connection between values and identity. He then considers the use of narrative realism and the metaphor of translation in Soseki's Sanshiro; the relationship between ideology and selfhood in Ogai's Seinen; Yokomitsu Riichi's attempt to synthesize the national and the cosmopolitan; Ooka Shohei's post-World War II representations of the ethical and spiritual crises confronting his age; and Mishima's innovative play with the aesthetics of the inauthentic and the artistry of kitsch. Washburn's brilliant analysis teases out common themes concerning the illustration of moral and aesthetic values, the crucial role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society. He pinpoints the persistent anxiety that influenced these authors' writings, a struggle to translate rhetorical forms of Western literature while preserving elements of the pre-Meiji tradition. A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement.

Book Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication

Download or read book Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication written by Jolanta Artiz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather than simply mirroring or describing it. This collection illustrates the variety of organizational phenomena that might be studied and the range of epistemological and methodological approaches that might be used in discourse analysis techniques.

Book Chance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Uri Shulevitz
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 0374313709
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Chance written by Uri Shulevitz and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older Readers A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020 Booklist Best Books of 2020 Horn Book Fanfare 2020 Booklist Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020 Jewish Journal Twenty of the Best 2020 (Non-Holiday) Jewish Books for Kids A National Jewish Book Award 2020 Finalist for Middle Grade Fiction A 2021 Golden Dome Book Award Selection “Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest.” —Elizabeth Wein, The New York Times Book Review “A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years.” —The Wall Street Journal From a beloved voice in children’s literature comes this landmark memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story. With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one of Farrar, Straus and Grioux’s most acclaimed picture-book creators, details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in Chance. It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish, this heavily illustrated account of determination, courage, family loyalty, and the luck of coincidence is a true publishing event.