Speaking The Other Self

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Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume represents the fruits of the dramatic and celebrated growth of the study of American women writers today. From established figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Katherine Ann Porter to emerging voices including early American novelist Tabitha Tenney; the first African American novelist, Harriet E. Wilson; modern dramatist Sophie Treadwell; and contemporaries such as Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, and June Jordan, the essays present fresh approaches and furnish a wealth of illustrations for the multiple selves created and addressed in women's writing. These selves intersect and connect to embody a multiethnic rhetoric of the “self” that is uniquely feminine and uniquely American. Calling attention to their “American feminist rhetoric,” Jeanne Campbell Reesman identifies many connections among different feminist, poststructuralist, narratological, and comparativist strategies. The voices of Speaking the Other Self well represent the inner and outer, speaking and hearing, center and frame in women's writing in America, their intersections constructing an ongoing conversation, a borderland of new possibilities—a borderland with no borders, no barriers to thought and response and change, no end of possible voices and selves.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release : 2011-04-01
File : 350 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780820337982


What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

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Learn how to reverse the effects of negative self-talk and embrace a more positive, optimistic outlook on life

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Genre : Self-Help
Author : Shad Helmstetter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release : 2017-06-20
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781501171994


Sartre S French Contemporaries And Enduring Influences

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Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences This final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of both their own philosophical insights and their relationship to Sartre's thought. The articles also offer some suggestive connections between Sartre's thought and subsequent developments in European philosophy, notably structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. The comparatively recent nature of much of this scholarship is solid testimony to the enduring influence of Sartrean existentialism.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-09-13
File : 389 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135632106


Discourse Consciousness And Time

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Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on analyses of conversational speech, written fiction and nonfiction, the North American Indian language Seneca, and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many topics of linguistic importance, such as anaphora, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages such as the historical present and free indirect style. This book offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness for linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Wallace Chafe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release : 1994-10-15
File : 341 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780226100548


Kierkegaard

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First published in 1999. This book, in compliance with the aims of the series, attempts to provide a comprehensive and critical account of Kierkegaard's thought. In the case of a writer so complex, prolix, and so little concerned with the logical presentation of his own thought, it is perhaps inevitable that the exegetical side of this task should overshadow the critical.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Alastair Hannay
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-06-19
File : 405 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136292828


Conceptual Metaphor In Social Psychology

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We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for poets. But we now know that it is also a key strategy people use to make sense of the world, from basic concepts like time and causation to the major social issues facing society. In this book, Mark Landau clarifies with wide-ranging evidence the many ways conceptual metaphor guides our thoughts and actions, shining a light on the cognitive underpinnings of social life. Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology synthesizes over twenty-five years of in-depth research. Drawing from innovative experiments conducted around the globe, Landau shows conclusively that individuals and groups use metaphor—often unconsciously—to grasp abstractions, make judgments and decisions, communicate, and organize their behavior. Each chapter explores metaphor’s importance for understanding a major topic in social psychology: social cognition, motivation, culture, the self, interpersonal relationships, intergroup dynamics, politics, and health. What emerges is a powerful explanation of how social behavior is shaped by and reflected in our bodily functioning, cultural context, and language use. Integrating insights from cognitive linguistics, anthropology, and personality, this book makes a compelling case that conceptual metaphor has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Researchers in social psychology will discover new ways to think about and investigate these related topics, while students of psychology will learn about an exciting development in understanding enduring questions about who we are and how we got that way.

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Mark J. Landau
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release : 2016-12-01
File : 439 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781315311999


Expressions Of Ethnography

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A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Robin Patric Clair
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release : 2003-08-28
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0791458237


Teaching English As An International Language

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Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complexity and sophistication of the negotiations that EIL (English as an international language) teachers have to make when their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : Le Ha Phan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Release : 2008
File : 217 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781847690487


Mirror Talk

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A study of directions in autobiography. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in crisis but develops a resolution, whereas contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crisis. The author examines works by a range of writers, including Primo Levi, Ernest Hemingway and Mary Meigs.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Susanna Egan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release : 1999
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0807847828


Chievous

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"Misssssyyyyyyy!" Every adult I know seems to call my name that way because of something they say I've done. I can't seem to catch a break! But that's better than the nickname I was given, "T for Trouble," which is what I always get myself into. Hi! My name's Missy Chievous, and I know what you're thinking--yes, it does sound like the word mischievous. I have my parents to thank for that. I have a loving mother, a father who left this earth way too soon, and a dog, Cody, that I swear has been here before. I have no friends, and everyone thinks I'm a pain in the you-know-what. They say I have a habit of getting into trouble every chance I get because I make the wrong choices. I say life's too short not to do or say whatever you want. Yep, I'm that kid who likes to act first and think about the consequences later. Until I meet someone who would completely change how I see things. Going into his world means that I get to see how others really think about me, and you know what? They think I'm pretty amazing.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : A.A.Sanchez
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Release : 2023-01-31
File : 155 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781662481253