Plays, Puzzles and Poems

Plays, Puzzles and Poems

Author: Christine Gaylord Johnson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1493162284

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My inspiration comes from my alumni at The University of Virginia, along with my six sisters: Bernita, Gail, Donna, Venus, DeNichole and last but not least, Wanda! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.


The Puzzle of Poetry

The Puzzle of Poetry

Author: John Marsh

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1554814820

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The Puzzle of Poetry offers students a readable, reliable guide to understanding poetry. Instead of carving poems up into their elements, The Puzzle of Poetry describes how experienced readers of poems go about understanding them. Each line, sentence, or syntactical unit in a poem is a clue to the “puzzle.” As with crossword puzzles, figuring out the answer to one clue can help you figure out the answer to others. This book teaches the reader to check what they know in a poem against what else they know to find meaning, a systematic but creative approach that can help language to come alive. Each chapter contains a lively and personal discussion of one part of the art of reading poetry; a short guide to writing about poetry is also included. The book introduces students to a variety of poems, from Anglo-Saxon verse to Hamilton and Jay-Z.


The Puzzle of Poetry

The Puzzle of Poetry

Author: John Marsh

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1770487360

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The Puzzle of Poetry offers students a readable, reliable guide to understanding poetry. Instead of carving poems up into their elements, The Puzzle of Poetry describes how experienced readers of poems go about understanding them. Each line, sentence, or syntactical unit in a poem is a clue to the “puzzle.” As with crossword puzzles, figuring out the answer to one clue can help you figure out the answer to others. This book teaches the reader to check what they know in a poem against what else they know to find meaning, a systematic but creative approach that can help language to come alive. Each chapter contains a lively and personal discussion of one part of the art of reading poetry; a short guide to writing about poetry is also included. The book introduces students to a variety of poems, from Anglo-Saxon verse to Hamilton and Jay-Z.


Poems That Solve Puzzles

Poems That Solve Puzzles

Author: Chris Bleakley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-08-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0192595407

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Algorithms are the hidden methods that computers apply to process information and make decisions. Nowadays, our lives are run by algorithms. They determine what news we see. They influence which products we buy. They suggest our dating partners. They may even be determining the outcome of national elections. They are creating, and destroying, entire industries. Despite mounting concerns, few know what algorithms are, how they work, or who created them. Poems that Solve Puzzles tells the story of algorithms from their ancient origins to the present day and beyond. The book introduces readers to the inventors and inspirational events behind the genesis of the world's most important algorithms. Professor Chris Bleakley recounts tales of ancient lost inscriptions, Victorian steam-driven contraptions, top secret military projects, penniless academics, hippy dreamers, tech billionaires, superhuman artificial intelligences, cryptocurrencies, and quantum computing. Along the way, the book explains, with the aid of clear examples and illustrations, how the most influential algorithms work. Compelling and impactful, Poems that Solve Puzzles tells the story of how algorithms came to revolutionise our world.


The Puzzle / Poems

The Puzzle / Poems

Author: Daniel Abdal Moore

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0578088916

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A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out... Poems of search and devotion to the One, through labyrinthine manifestations... self and its various sheddings.


The Whirl of Words

The Whirl of Words

Author: Jonathan Berkowitz

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1039107133

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Why do word puzzles fascinate us? How do they help develop problem-solving skills? How do they teach us about geography, literature, sports, and popular culture? How are they an international language? Jonathan Berkowitz offers a brief history of wordplay, with insights into puzzles and the brain. He offers tips on how to solve puzzles and explains the educational value of puzzles. Challenges in the form of rebuses, anagrams, codes and cryptograms, crosswords, and wordplay with numbers supply even more fun! The Whirl of Words is a unique, rich, and intriguing tour of a wide variety of word puzzles certain to stimulate a brain work-out.


Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

Author: Rachel Conrad

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-12

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 3030353923

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This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and children’s television), essays foreground the representation of child voices and subjectivities within texts, explore challenges to received notions of childhood, and emphasize the role of child-oriented texts in larger cultural and political projects. Chapters frame themes of spectacle, self, and specularity across the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and writers.


The Good Gray Poet, A Vindication

The Good Gray Poet, A Vindication

Author: William Douglas O'Connor

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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In 1864 the poet, Walt Whitman, was terminated from his job as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior. The reason was that the incoming Secretary of the Department read 'Leaves of Grass' and decided that Whitman was a publisher of vulgar literature. William Douglas O'Connor was a close friend and published this book to defend Whitman and 'Leaves of Grass' by stating that a lot of classic literature is filled with profanity and obscenity and that the book was one of them.