Forgetting English
Title | Forgetting English PDF eBook |
Author | Midge Raymond |
Publisher | Ashland Creek Press |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2017-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1618220535 |
Winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction In this new, expanded edition of her prize-winning collection, which includes a reading group guide, Midge Raymond stretches the boundaries of place as she explores the indelible imprint of home upon the self and the ways in which new frontiers both defy and confirm who we are. The characters who inhabit these stories travel for business or for pleasure, sometimes out of duty and sometimes in search of freedom, and each encounters the unexpected. From a biologist navigating the stark, icy moonscape of Antarctica to a businesswoman seeking refuge in the lonely islands of the South Pacific, the characters in these stories abandon their native landscapes—only to find that, once separated from the ordinary, they must confront new interpretations of whom they really are, and who they’re meant to be.
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Title | Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ivic |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2004-07-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134388330 |
Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.
First Language Attrition
Title | First Language Attrition PDF eBook |
Author | Monika S. Schmid |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2013-05-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902727195X |
This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two most prominent issues in current L1 attrition research: Can attrition effects impact on features of core syntax, or are they limited to interface phenomena?, and; What is the role of age at onset (pre-/post-puberty) in this regard? By investigating attrition in a variety of settings, from a case study of a Spanish-speaking adoptee in the US to an empirical investigation of more than 50 long-term attriters of Turkish in the Netherlands, the investigations presented take a new perspective on these issues. Originally published in Language, Interaction and Acquisition - Langage, Interaction et Acquisition 2:2 (2011).
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Title | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting PDF eBook |
Author | Milan Kundera |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2023-03-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063290693 |
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Lethe
Title | Lethe PDF eBook |
Author | Harald Weinrich |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801441936 |
Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.
The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History
Title | The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Engel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 042962820X |
This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England’s first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art.
Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama
Title | Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Garrett A. Sullivan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2005-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139446347 |
Engaging debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter providing a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.