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With its focus on issues of personal and social identity, this new thematic reader contains eight essays by writers across gender, race and class lines to ensure student's understanding of how powerful social factors affect everyone's life. It covers all aspects of the reading process from speed of word recognition to sophisticated thinking/comprehension skills.

In the finest tradition of the bestselling Please Take Advantage of the Chambermaid and The World's Stupidest Signs, here is an even more astonishing collection of hilarious signage. Hunting far and wide, our fearless researchers have gathered the silliest instructions, the most bizarre translations and ludicrous memos - the silliestsigns on the planet today. Including: 'Please go slowly round the bend'; 'Manure Please Drive In'; 'Be Careful! Goats like to nibble at your clothes and butt'; and '...

A collection of writing from the literature of childhood. In this anthology Kate Figes has traced aspects of childhood from infancy to parenthood. She has come up with a mix of thoroughly entertaining and provocative writings which range from Wordsworth to Fergal Keane's Letter to Daniel and extracts from the Diariesof Anne Frank. The poems,anecdotes, extracts and short stories in this collection capture different aspects of childhood from different ages, andalso show the way that writers have...

Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse argues that deconstruction can be employed in conjunction with the historically-oriented approach to cultural experience that is favored by Critical Theory. The two discourses that inform this comparative study situate Modernism between evolving traditions that begin with Hegel and Nietzsche, leading on to Adorno's commitment to philosophical aesthetics and Derrida's concern for writing (ecriture). Interrelated discussions of eight m...

A truly global, multicultural, and cross-cultural reader, One World, Many Cultures features 60 selections by major authors from 31 countries. The readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender, region, and nation, challenging students to compare their experiences with the experiences of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe: family life, adolescent relationships...

The Whistling Bird celebrates what were until recently the little-heard voices of women writers from the Caribbean. The anthology includes short stories, poetry, drama, and excerpts from novels - all rich, melodic works written with clarity and conviction.

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point—authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author is, whether or not the author’s identity is even relevant, and what relationship she or he does and does not have to the text. The authors contributing to this collection, however, ask about circumstance...

A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.

The University Orator's job is to create formal presentations, in Latin, to mark historic moments in academic life or, most commonly, to present the honorary degrees which Oxford periodically awards to leading international figures. The distinguished Classical scholar Godfrey Bond, who held the post of Orator between 1980 and 1992, was a master at creating concise biographical portraits in clear, beautifully-constructed Latin. This book contains a collection of his addresses to famous fi...

Including poems, short stories, and personal essays, this collection-culled from a successful contest now in its fourth year-honors the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse. Based on the idea that creative writing aids the healing process, these selections describe the struggle to survive, the difficulty of reconciling past and present lives, and the enduring nature of the human spirit. Told from a survivor's perspective, the tales paint a textured emot...

Now known to the Chinese as the ""ten years of chaos,"" the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution identifies the rhetorical features and explores the persuasive effects of political language and symbolic practices during the period. Xing Lu examines how leaders of the Communist Party constructed and enacted a rhetoric in political contexts to legitimize power and violence and to dehum...

Proust etait fascine par l'etrange et par l'etranger, qui le lui a bien rendu. Sa notoriete de premier auteur " moderne " est nee hors des frontieres hexagonales. Son oeuvre a ete traduite tres tot. D'ailleurs, puisqu'elle est traduite, nous ne lisons sans doute plus de la meme maniere le texte francais, lui aussi devenu " etrange et etranger ". Peut-on imaginer un Proust anglais, italien, americain, turc? Que deviennent les auteurs etrangers une fois entres dans, et assimiles par l'univers prou...

Disruptive pedagogies for archival research In a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many forms, and successfully model mutu...