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Letter from J. W. Story to T. B. Larimore
No full textLetter from J. W. Story to T. B. Larimore. The one-page typewritten letter is dated 11 November 1912. There is a handwritten note at the end of the page and a transcript of this portion is included in the item PDF
Six Rusalki [short story]
No full textThis short story is a feminist reimagining of a range of mermaid/rusalki tales, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Part of a series of contemporary fairy tale revitalisations by the author
The Story of "Me" Contemporary American Autofiction
No full textCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness -- 2. Rage against the Dying of the Author -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as the Story of Me vs. the Story of "Me" -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Making famine history (Inside Story)
No full textFor many people around the world, especially in developing countries, famine is not an abstract notion. Wars, crop failures, callous urban elites and ruthless dictatorships are the classic causes, but countervailing factors are increasingly at work. Could it be that a true famine is now close to impossible, with globalised communications and relief systems? Is democracy a sure protection from mass starvation? Does the global financial crisis increase the likelihood of famine? Peter Clarke spoke to Cormac O'Grady, a professor of economic history at University College Dublin and author of Famine: A Short History. This podcast is part of the "Inside Story" series
Ethical Responsibilities of the Non-Heritage Learner of Lingít
No full textCreating fluent second language speakers is a fundamental component of a successful language revitalization movement. While the methods for second language acquisition require critical discourse, equally important to consider are the attitudes and responsibilities of individual learners. In their article “Technical, emotional, and ideological issues in reversing language shift: examples from Southeast Alaska,” the Dauenhauers do the difficult introspective work of recognizing existing language ideologies for Lingít, an indigenous and endangered language of Southeast Alaska. They write “we have contributed to the failures as well as the successes in the general language-restoration effort of the last quarter century” (1998). This kind of honest reflection is necessary in the work to create more Lingít speakers especially as language learning pathways continue to be sculpted. This paper comes from the perspective of two second language learners of Lingít who began studying Lingít at the university level. As one author is from Mohawk descent and the other identifying as non-native, we will discuss how responsibilities materialize from learning Lingít with these identities. As universities increase access to endangered indigenous language courses, populations of non-heritage speakers grow. Previous work done by language researchers such as Weinberg argue that analyzing the involvement of these learners may reveal motivations for continued language learning (2016). This is an attempt to consider the ethical dimensions of learning an indigenous language as an adult non-heritage learner as well as the role of the universities that study and teach these languages. Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, and Richard Dauenhauer. "Technical, Emotional, and Ideological Issues in Reversing Language Shift: Examples from Southeast Alaska." Endangered Languages Language Loss and Community Response (1998): 57-98. Web. Weinberg, Miranda. "Putting The Fourth Crow In The Sky: Using Narrative To Understand The Experiences Of One Non-Heritage Learner Of An Endangered Language." Linguistics And Education 30.(2015): 125-136. ScienceDirect. Web. 1 Sept, 2016
The cave: A search for the mother’s story in narrative literature
No full textThe mother’s voice is underrepresented in literature. The mother has been a silent figure, always present, often near, featuring in the story of another, but rarely the focus of the story. She has been spoken for, about and around, but rarely empowered to speak for herself.
In this thesis I argue that the mother’s story, in narrative fiction and memoir, should be available, and culturally valued. Since the diversity of women’s experiences of mothering cannot be explained by any single theory or ideology, narrative may articulate the complexities and ambiguities experienced in motherhood in ways that scholarly discourses do not always allow.
This thesis includes a creative component—a collection of related fictional stories narrated by one mother, and entitled “The Cave”. Adopting the concept of the cave, as a metaphor for the transformative potential of mothering, the fiction draws on the mundane, everyday experiences of a life that is centred on caring for children. The exegesis that follows is based on three approaches to mothering narratives: their research, reading and writing. It explores the emergence of the mother’s story within theoretical discourses around motherhood, and its more recent appearances in fiction and non-fiction narratives. It suggests reasons for the absence of the mother’s subjective voice, argues that women have been disadvantaged by this silence, and seeks new possibilities for representing the complexity of mothering experiences
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Storytelling, women's authority and the 'Old-Wife's Tale': 'The Story of the Bottle of Medicine'
No full textThe focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman’s telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The ‘story of the bottle of medicine’ is more than a skilful telling of a local tale; it is a memory practice that provides a path to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of a culture. Applying perspectives from anthropology, oral history and narrative analysis, three sets of questions are addressed: the issue of authenticity; the significance of the narrative structure and storytelling strategies employed; and the nature of the female performance. Ultimately the article asks what this story can tell us about women’s interpretation of their own history
There and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s childhood story about t
No full textThere and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s childhood story about the day his thoughts of doctors changed. While at the store, a young McDonald overhears the story of the murder at the old Tingley House - allegedly committed by Dr. Chase, a local physician
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook
No full textThe British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War.THE BRITISH AND IRISH: SHORT STORY HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: A Brief History of the British and Irish Short Story -- Part 2: Issues in Short Story Criticism -- Definitions -- Genre? -- Collections -- Marginality -- Canonicity -- Institutions -- Part 3: Genres -- The Ghost Short Story, the Supernatural Short Story, and the Gothic Short Story -- The Science Fiction Short Story and the Fantasy Short Story -- The Fable -- The Short Story of Exotic Adventure -- The Detective and Crime Short Story -- The Historical Short Story -- The Realist Social-Psychological Short Story -- The Metafictional/Experimental Short Story -- Part 4: Key Authors -- Richard Aldington (1892-1962) -- J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) -- Frances Bellerby (1899-1975) -- John Berger (born 1926) -- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) -- A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) -- Graham Greene (1904-1991) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- James Kelman (born 1946) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) -- James Lasdun (born 1958) -- Mary Lavin (1912-1996) -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Doris Lessing (born 1919) -- George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) -- Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942) -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) -- E. A. Markham (1939-2008) -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) -- Ian McEwan (born 1948) -- John McGahern (1934-2006) -- Michael Moorcock (born 1939) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916) -- Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) -- Seán O'Faoláin (1900-1991) -- Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) -- T. F. Powys (1875-1953)V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) -- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) -- William Trevor (born 1928) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- Part 5: Key Works -- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" (1885) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance" (1887) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant" (1888) -- Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Modern Melodrama" (1895) -- Henry James, "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) -- Joseph Conrad, "Amy Foster" (1901) -- George Moore, "Home Sickness" (1903) -- H. G. Wells, "The Valley of Spiders" (1903) -- M. R. James, "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" (1904) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki"), "Sredni Vashtar" (1911) -- James Joyce, "An Encounter" (1914) -- D. H. Lawrence, "Tickets, Please" (1919) -- Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens" (1919) -- Katherine Mansfield, "The Stranger" (1921) -- A. E. Coppard, "The Higgler" (1925) -- Rudyard Kipling, "The Gardener" (1926) -- Jean Rhys, "Mannequin" (1927) -- W. Somerset Maugham, "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927) -- T. F. Powys, "John Pardy and the Waves" (1929) -- Seán O'Faoláin, "Midsummer Night Madness" (1932) -- V. S. Pritchett, "Handsome Is As Handsome Does" (1938) -- Mollie Panter-Downes, "Goodbye, My Love" (1941) -- Alun Lewis, "The Last Inspection" (1942) -- Mary Lavin, "At Sallygap" (1943) -- Elizabeth Bowen, "Mysterious Koˆ r" (1944) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross, "The Tape" (1944) -- Denton Welch, "Narcissus Bay" (1948) -- Frank O'Connor, "Eternal Triangle" (1954) -- J. G. Ballard, "The Terminal Beach" (1964) -- Samuel Beckett, "Lessness" (1970) -- Gabriel Josipovici, "Mobius the Stripper: A Topological Exercise" (1974)Michael Moorcock, "Waiting for the End of Time. . ." (1976) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, "The King of Orkney's Leonardo" (1976) -- William Trevor, "Another Christmas" (1978) -- Angela Carter, "The Erl-King" (1979) -- Clive Sinclair, "The Evolution of the Jews" (1979) -- John McGahern, "The Conversion of William Kirkwood" (1985) -- James Kelman, "Forgetting to Mention Allende" (1987) -- Mary Dorcey, "A Noise from the Woodshed" (1989) -- James Lasdun, "Ate/Menos or The Miracle" (1992) -- Bernard MacLaverty, "A Silent Retreat" (1994) -- Hanif Kureishi, "We're Not Jews" (1995) -- Patricia Duncker, "Stalker" (2003) -- China Miéville, "Foundation" (2003) -- Key Collections -- References and Further Reading -- IndexThe British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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