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Language and Gender
by Language and Gender is a 2003 introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers broad and deep coverage of the interaction between language and social life, ranging from nuances of pronunciation to conversational dynamics to the deployment of metaphor. The discussion is organized around the contributions language makes to situated social practice rather than around linguistic structures or gender analyses. At the same time, it introduces linguistic concepts in a way that is suitable for non-linguists. It is set to become the standard textbook for courses on language and gender.Call Number: P120.S48 E34Publication Date: 2003-01-09
Bringing Narnia Home by
The wisdom of C. S. Lewis comes in a form that is deeply moving as well as great fun and high adventure. Noted Lewis scholar and popular speaker Devin Brown reveals the lessons woven throughout this endearing text. Bringing Narnia Home presents Lewis's timeless message for the Narnian in each of us. Imagine opening a book and finding chapters like these: Of Mice and Minotaurs: Actions We See as Small and Insignificant Can Be More Important than We Realize Despite What White Witches, Tisrocs, and Other Tyrants Think Narnia Would Not Be Narnia if It Was All Badgers: It Takes a Village (One with Giants, Dwarfs, and Everyone in Between) to Make a Community Adventures Can Begin in the Most Unlikely Places (Something to Keep in Mind the Next Time You Find Yourself in an Unlikely Place) A wise, winsome, and whimsical look at the important values and lessons the Narnia series teaches that actually provide the groundwork for a profound and meaningful life.
Call Number: https://webopac.oru.edu/record=b1481667~S13Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Sample Reference Titles
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature
by Providing a wealth of information, this A-to-Z encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference to the literary works, writers, and concepts of the Renaissance. Spanning the years from approximately 1500 to 1660 CE, this guide examines the history and development of literature as it flourished around the world during this period. Coverage includes not only European literature but also the people and works of China, India, Japan, the Islamic world, and the Jewish diaspora, as well as written and oral literature of the New World, Africa, and Oceania. Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature, Second Edition is ideal for anyone interested in the literature of the Renaissance. Literary and historical terms are also included. This new updated edition contains a revised and expanded biography of Shakespeare, as well as new entries entitled Theaters in Shakespeare's Day, Shakespeare's Audience, and England: Literary Culture in the Renaissance. Coverage includes: English: drama and the theater in Elizabethan times; John Milton; the first great translations of the Bible; and an expanded biography of William Shakespeare French: Montaigne and Rene Descartes; German: Jakob Bohme and Martin Luther; Italian: Boccaccio and Machiavelli; Spanish: Miguel de Cervantes and Garcilaso de la Vega; The Netherlands: Erasmus and moral and devotional works; Chinese: The Dream of the Red Chamber and Chinese women writers; Indian: mystical verse and Indian drama; Conquest and New World literature: The Royal Commentaries of the Incas; Islamic: Ibn Rushd and martyrologies and more.Publication Date: 2014-05-01
Ebook Central database
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 150,000 academic ebooks from scholarly and professional publishers, along with hundreds of encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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The Dark Sides of Empathy
by Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of over-identification and a desire to increase empathy. Even well-meaning compassion can have many unintended consequences, such as intensifying conflicts or exploiting others. Empathy plays a central part in a variety of highly problematic behaviors. From mere callousness to terrorism, exploitation to sadism, and emotional vampirism to stalking, empathy all too often motivates and promotes malicious acts. After tracing the development of empathy as an idea in German philosophy, Breithaupt looks at a wide-ranging series of case studies--from Stockholm syndrome to Angela Merkel's refugee policy and from novels of the romantic era to helicopter parents and murderous cheerleader moms--to uncover how narcissism, sadism, and dangerous celebrity obsessions alike find their roots in the quality that, arguably, most makes us human.Publication Date: 2019-06-15
Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning
by This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginets publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutionsconstrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class, race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality.Publication Date: 2011-02-15
The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature
by Now available in paperback Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through a variety of critical perspectives, she uncovers the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishes between how these are employed in children's fiction and in general fiction. Yet another masterful work by a leading figure in contemporary criticism.ISBN: 9780810848863Publication Date: 2002-01-01
eBook Collection (EBSCO database)
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Full-text ebooks in all disciplines. Free downloads. Restricts full text viewing to 1-5 simultaneous readers.
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Google Books
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