English Grammar in Use - Practical Exercises (English Grammar in Use - Practical Exercises, #4)
by Anna Stefanowicz-Kocol and Leszek Smutek
Turkey is often visualized as a modern nation-state having a perfect balance of Eastern and Western cultural mores and traditions within dominant ideological constructions and representations, but on closer inspection, one can detect conflicts and contradictions within various texts - particularly in regards to depictions of gender and sexual identity. Upon its foundation as a nation, Turkey embarked on a state-centered, elite-driven path toward modernization and Westernization while also seeki...
The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster and tragedy to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives the diamond to her as a birthday present, but the same night, it is stolen. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low read...
This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film. However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse as well as the possibilities of «posthumous»...
Point of View in Fiction and Film (American University Studies, #133)
by Charles Garard
The Art of Dying (American University Studies Series 24: American Literature, #56)
by Deborah S. Gentry
Understanding the Reading Needs of English Language Learners (ESOL for Different Professions)
by Jeff Popko
English Language Leaners in the United States are expected to read "at grade level" in all their courses after just a single year of ESL classes, despite the fact that many enter the U.S. school system without adequate preparation. Because these students must read well in all subject areas, all teachers - not only ESL teachers - are, in many ways, English Teachers. In this book Popko explains in a practical, easy-to-understand terms the challenges that English Learners face when it comes to rea...
New Ways in Teaching Adults (New Ways in TESOL)
This revised volume brings together the best of the past with suggestions for the future and proves that teachers' imaginations continue to produce an interesting and varied range of ways to learn English within the broad guidelines of communicative language learning. New Ways in Teaching Adults, Revised provides classroom teachers with a range of activities for all stages of the learning process. The many activities included encourage discovery learning, provide practice, and extend students' l...
Animals ABC Book For Toddlers (Animals ABC Book for Toddlers, #5)
by Sophia Sally
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature, #112)
by Richard H Osberg
U.S. Citizenship Test Questions (Multilingual Edition) in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog and Vietnamese
Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey (American University Studies, #40)
by Eda Dedebas Dundar
Adapting Shahrazad's Odyssey: The Female Wanderer and Storyteller in Victorian and Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature focuses on a comparative study of the figure of the female traveler and storyteller in nineteenth-century Victorian literature and contemporary Anglophone Middle Eastern writing. Eda Dedebas Dundar's cutting-edge study is the first to discover a strong link between traveling texts and the traveling women in fiction, analyzing the ways in which she is molded by her previous ex...
White Amnesia - Black Memory? (Bremer Beitrage zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte, v. 25)
by Sabine Brock
Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from The Making of Americans to Civil Wars this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the literary legacies of white amnesia about the Middle Pass...
The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value (Dis/Continuities, #2)
by Miroslawa Buchholtz
The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats’s, T.S. Eliot’s, Czesław Miłosz’s and William Golding’s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularit...