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The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the i…
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- 9781315101262
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- ix, 295 p. ; ill
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- 809.89282 ZIP t
Commitment and beyond : reflections on/of the political in arabic literature …
This book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing…
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- 9783954906130
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- 358 p.
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- 892.709 YVO c
American cities in post-apocalyptic science fiction
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in li…
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- 9781800080980
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- ix, 201 p. : ill
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- 810.9321732 YEA a
Virtual play and the victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional…
Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao propose…
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- 9781108938518
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- vi, 238 p. ; ill
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- 823.809357 GAO v
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 4 pictu…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745319
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- 510 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
Multimodal literacy in school science : transdisciplinary perspectives on the…
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based…
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- 9781003150718
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- XVIII, 267 p.
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- 507.12 MUL m
Literature against criticism : university English and contemporary fiction in…
"This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is b…
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- 9781783742752
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- 248 p. : ill.
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- 809.3 EVE l
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745418
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- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 5 tumbl…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745364
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- 397 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
Ancient greek I : a 21st century approach
In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word end…
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- 9781800642560
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- xxiii, 610 p. : ill. ; 20.3 cm.
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- 488 PEE a
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