Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
Author: Roy Eriksen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 3110870487
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Before Novels
Author: J. Paul Hunter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780393308617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia
Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context
Author: Ludo Th Verhoeven
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789027241344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children's first and second language are examined in several studies.
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 3110387190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
Fiction and Narrative
Author: Derek Matravers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0199647011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Author: L. Kordecki
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0230337899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context
Author: Arin Keeble
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-05-29
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 3030163539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts engage with the human tragedy and political fallout of the Katrina crisis while simultaneously responding to issues that have characterized the wider, George W. Bush era of American history; notably the aftermath of 9/11 and ensuing War on Terror. In doing so it recognizes important challenges to trauma studies as an interpretive framework, opening up a discussion of the overlaps between traumatic rupture and systemic or, “slow violence.”
Story-telling in the Framework of Non-fictional Arabic Literature
Author: Stefan Leder
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9783447040341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInter- and Transcultural Learning in the Context of Canadian Young Adult Fiction
Author: Grit Alter
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 3643906757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin the past few years transcultural learning has become one of the key terms in TEFL theory. Central concerns in current research include differentiating between inter- and transcultural learning, navigating processes of understanding otherness, and assessing cultural competences. Using these aspects this study investigates texts recommended for cultural learning and key components of implementing literature in ELT. The results call for a more holistic perception of alterity and argue in favour of transcultural literature as a basis for transcultural learning. All of this dissertation is in English. (Subjects: Literary Criticism, Education) [Series: Fremdsprachendidaktik in globaler Perspecktive, Vol. 5]
The Gospel of Mark in Context
Author: Santiago Guijarro
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-04-14
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1666734195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region. Mark's account presupposes the values, institutions, and relationships of the culture in which Jesus and his first followers lived. Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. This temporal and cultural distance between the ancient texts and their present-day readers makes necessary an exegetical effort whose purpose is to recover, as far as possible, the reading scenarios presupposed by these texts. In order to reconstruct these scenarios, exegesis has turned in recent years to the social sciences, whose models permit us to imagine and describe the situations presupposed by these ancient texts. This book aims to show how the use of these scenarios elaborated with the help of the social sciences can contribute to a more considered and respectful reading of Mark's story.
