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Book Twice upon a Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Wanning Harries
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 069118853X
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Twice upon a Time written by Elizabeth Wanning Harries and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales, often said to be ''timeless'' and fundamentally ''oral,'' have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. The short, subtly didactic fairy tales of Charles Perrault and the Grimms have determined our notions about what fairy tales should be like. Harries argues that alongside these ''compact'' tales there exists another, ''complex'' tradition: tales written in France by the conteuses (storytelling women) in the 1690s and the late-twentieth-century tales by women writers that derive in part from this centuries-old tradition. Grounded firmly in social history and set in lucid prose, Twice upon a Time refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. The conteuses saw their tales as amusements for sophisticated adults in the salon, not for children. Self-referential, frequently parodic, and set in elaborate frames, their works often criticize the social expectations that determined the lives of women at the court of Louis XIV. After examining the evolution of the ''Anglo-American'' fairy tale and its place in this variegated history, Harries devotes the rest of her book to recent women writers--A. S. Byatt, Anne Sexton, Angela Carter, and Emma Donoghue among them--who have returned to fairy-tale motifs so as to challenge modern-day gender expectations. Late-twentieth-century tales, like the conteuses', force us to rethink our conception of fairy tales and of their history.

Book Why Write Poetry

Download or read book Why Write Poetry written by Jeannine Johnson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets have long been defending poetry in prose, and essays by Sidney, Shelley, and others are a familiar and important part of the Anglo-American literary tradition. This book identifies and examines a related genre - the verse defense of poetry - which shares the same impulse that has led to the composition of prose essays: namely, the desire to protect poetry from its detractors and to promote its value as a vital human endeavor. In the last century or so, this impulse to engage questions of poetry's value in poems has become increasingly widespread, and it has dominated the careers of at least five poets: H.D., Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, and Geoffrey Hill. Though these poets espouse very different aesthetic principles, they, like many of their contemporaries, have repeatedly turned to apology in their verse. At first glance, this seems an odd gesture, given that the readers and writers of poetry are those who least need convincing of poetry's worthiness. But questioning poetry in verse is a form of lyric introspection that is productive and well-suited for a modern poet. characterized as one of indifference, defense helps these authors make a claim for poetry's cultural relevance, as well as for its private profit. Jeannine Johnson is a Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University.

Book Developmental Evaluation

Download or read book Developmental Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change. See also Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, edited by Michael Quinn Patton, Kate McKegg, and Nan Wehipeihana, which presents 12 in-depth case studies.

Book The Fact of a Doorframe

Download or read book The Fact of a Doorframe written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1994 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with nature, art, childhood, personal relationships, loneliness, illness, sexuality, memories, and death.

Book The Fact of a Doorframe  Poems 1950 2001

Download or read book The Fact of a Doorframe Poems 1950 2001 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-11-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction. The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

Book Outward

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ed Pavlic
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2021-06-01
  • ISBN : 1452965269
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Outward written by Ed Pavlic and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships Adrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s, while the distinctive political and social visions she achieved during the second half of her career remain inadequately understood. In Outward, poet, scholar, and novelist Ed Pavlić considers Rich’s entire oeuvre to argue that her most profound contribution in poems is her emphasis on not only what goes on “within us” but also what goes on “between us.” Guided by this insight, Pavlić shows how Rich’s most radical work depicts our lives—from the public to the intimate—in shared space rather than in owned privacy. Informed by Pavlić’s friendship and correspondence with Rich, Outward explores how her poems position visionary possibilities to contend with cruelty and violence in our world. Employing an innovative framework, Pavlić examines five kinds of solitude reflected in Rich’s poems: relational solitude, social solitude, fugitive solitude, dissident solitude, and radical solitude. He traces the importance of relationships to her early writing before turning to Rich’s explicitly antiracist and anticapitalist work in the 1980s, which culminates with her most extensive sequence, “An Atlas of the Difficult World.” Pavlić concludes by examining the poet’s twenty-first century work and its depiction of relationships that defy historical divisions based on region, race, class, gender, and sexuality. A deftly written engagement in which one poet works within the poems of another, Outward reveals the development of a major feminist thinker in successive phases as Rich furthers her intimate and erotic, social and political reach. Pavlić illuminates Rich’s belief that social divisions and the power of capital inform but must never fully script our identities or our relationships to each other.

Book Selected Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hélène Aji
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-01-16
  • ISBN : 1443845841
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Hélène Aji and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When the selection occurs during the author’s lifetime, may one assume that the author was involved? What motivates the choice of one poem over another? How do readers’ preferences influence this choice? How do new readers and familiar readers of a poet negotiate the poems that are left out of the selection? The essays in this volume address these questions in a variety of ways, and also provide an overview of poetic writing from modernist poets to the present day, using selections from the 1940s until now. They offer new insight into the uses, both pedagogical and critical, of selection. Because Selected Poems usually address a large general public, these essays have also been written for all those who wish to know more about how these slimmer, more attractive volumes are produced.

Book Rethinking Classroom Participation

Download or read book Rethinking Classroom Participation written by Katherine Schultz and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Schultz examines the complex role student silence can play in teaching and learning. Urging teachers to listen to student silence in new ways, this book offers real-life examples and proven strategies for "rethinking classroom participation" to include all students--those eager to raise their hands to speak and those who may pause or answer in different ways. --from publisher description.

Book American Law Reports Annotated

Download or read book American Law Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lumber World Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Lumber World Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adrienne Rich

Download or read book Adrienne Rich written by Craig Hansen Werner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Name Unknown

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  • Author : Danielle Real
  • Publisher : Danielle Real
  • Release : 2014-03-21
  • ISBN : 149934628X
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Last Name Unknown written by Danielle Real and published by Danielle Real. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addison Walker is a lot of things. Lucky isn't one of them. When she finds herself with a concussion and in dire need of help, Addison has no one to turn to but her unfortunate new neighbor, Kade (Last Name Unknown). She doesn't know a thing about him, but that doesn't stop Addison from being inexplicably drawn to the tall, dark, and dangerously sexy stranger. But when her luck takes a turn for the worse and an attempt is made on her life, Addison finds herself on the run from unknown killers with no idea why. In sheer desperation, Addison reaches out to Kade, a man she barely knows and isn't sure she can trust. Even though he's just as mysterious and dangerous as those who want her dead, desperate times call for desperate measures. In less than forty-eight hours Addison's uneventful existence turns into one full of dodging bullets, tiptoeing through creepy abandoned houses, and tripping over dead bodies all in an attempt to figure out who wants her dead and why. Will Addison figure out the mystery of Kade and her assailants before her bad luck finally turns deadly?

Book Design of Devices and Systems

Download or read book Design of Devices and Systems written by William H. Middendorf and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Details the product and system design process from conceptual, economic, and ethical considerations to modeling, decision making, and testing. Enables engineering educators to satisfy the requirements of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for the design component of engineering curricula. Third Edition features expanded coverage of product liability, engineering standards, patents, system design, computer-aided design, optimum design, reliability, and more. "

Book Design of Devices and Systems  Third Edition

Download or read book Design of Devices and Systems Third Edition written by William H. Middendorf and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-11-14 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Details the product and system design process from conceptual, economic, and ethical considerations to modeling, decision making, and testing. Enables engineering educators to satisfy the requirements of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for the design component of engineering curricula. Third Edition features expanded coverage of product liability, engineering standards, patents, system design, computer-aided design, optimum design, reliability, and more. "

Book The American and English Annotated Cases

Download or read book The American and English Annotated Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Northwestern Reporter

Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annotated Cases  American and English

Download or read book Annotated Cases American and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: