Search Results - "Myth"

Oral and written narratives and cultural identity interdisciplinary approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Jean Langdon -- Autobiographical writing and voice : five echoes / Carl Leggo -- The self as hybrid contestation : three autobiographical stories from Singapore and Malaysia / Kwok-Kan Tam -- Zone of negotiation : storytelling, intersubjectivity and transcultural metamorphosis' reading the ethnic texts The woman warrior and The bonesetter's daughter / Weimin Tang -- Subversive storytelling : popular historiography, alternative cultural memory and modern Greek humorist Nikos Tsiforos / Sylvia Mittler -- Landscaping and narrating white Australian-ness in Murray Bail's Eucalyptus / Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira -- Subjective identity and objective reality in the Portuguese novels of Antonio Tabucchi / Corrado Federici -- Narrative, metaphor, and myth in C.S. Lewis' testimonial novel Till we have faces / Alison Searle -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall : the many faces of Snow White / Sandra Beckett -- Peace stories and peacebuilding : bringing narrative thinking to school improvement for peace in northern Ireland / Ron Smith and June Neill.…”
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Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Space / Fantasy -- The home as palimpsest: Nubosidad variable, Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa / Jeanette Pucheu -- Gender and space in Carmen Martín Gaite's: Nubosidad variable and La reina de las nieves / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes -- Back to the local: the representation of Galicia in Carmen Martín Gaite's Retahílas / Pilar Martínez Quiroga -- The gothic in Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás: destabilizing the Sección Feminina's myth of la mujer muy mujer / Kathleen Doyle -- La reina de las nieves: retelling Andersen as a parable of the Spanish Republic and desmemoria / Marian Womack -- pt. 3. …”
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Language and its contexts transposition and transformation of meaning? = Le langage et ses contexts : transposition et transformation du sens? /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the myth of Babel / Helen Tattam and Pierre-Alexis Mével -- Poetry and music. …”
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Governing immigration through crime a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Stumpf -- The security myth : punishing immigrants in the name of national security / Jennifer M. …”
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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…IDEAS -- Chinese "Unity of Man and Nature" : Reality or Myth? / Heiner Roetz -- Ideas in Daoism Relative to Ecology and the Environment / Paul Jackson -- Environmental Concern : Can Humans Avoid Being Partial? …”
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The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane authorship, place, time, and culture / by Miller, John E., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…-- A perspective from 1932, the year Wilder published her first Little house book -- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the enduring myth of the frontier -- Rose Wilder Lane and Thomas Hart Benton: a turn toward history during the 1930s -- Culture: how should people live, and how should society function? …”
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Modeling bilingualism from structure to chaos in honor of Kees de Bot /

Table of Contents: “…Schrauf and Julia Sanchez -- Bilingualism, code-switching and aging: a myth of attrition and a tale of collaboration / Michael Clyne -- Language reversion versus general cognitive decline: towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly bilingual immigrants / Merel Keijzer -- A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition / Paul van Geert, Henderien Steenbeek and Marijn van Dijk -- The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited / Wander Lowie and Marjolijn Verspoor -- Epilogue: twenty years of modeling bilingualism, from chaos to structure and back again / Bert Weltens.…”
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After secular law

Table of Contents: “…Moses' veil : secularization as Christian myth / Robert A. Yelle -- Secular law and the realm of false religion / Jakob De Roover -- Assenting to the law : sacrifice and punishment at the dawn of secularism / Jonathan Sheehan -- National security and secularization in the English Revolution of 1688 / Rachel Weil -- "Intolerant of intolerance" in the Unitarian controversy : the theology of Baker v. …”
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Chinese perspectives on globalization and autonomy

Table of Contents: “…Marx's "view on world history" and theoretical thinking about globalization / Zhou Minkai -- Have a concrete and historic understanding of globalization and what China has done / Hu Daping -- A preliminary exploration of global co-governance theory / Yu Zhengliang and Chen Yugang -- Global governance : a Chinese perspective and practice / Cai Tuo -- Globalisation and the common interest of mankind / Wang Xinyan -- Globalization and state sovereignty / Yu Keping -- Challenges of globalization and responses of state power / He Zengke -- Rethinking state interests / Wang Yizhou -- The new role of the state in the process of globalization / Yu Jianxing and Xu Yueqian -- State autonomy and China's developing path / Yang Xuedong -- The cultural implications of globalization on national interests : cultural modernization and China's national interests / Guo Shuyong -- Neo-internationalism and China's diplomacy / Qin Yaqing and Zhu Liqun -- Seeking China's new identity : the myth of Chinese nationalism / Wang Yiwei -- The internal conflicts and clashes of world politics in the trend of globalisation / Shi Yinhong -- Globalisation and international regimes : theoretical implications / Men Honghua -- Globalization of the market economy and world transformation / Wang Zaibang -- An analysis of anti-globalization movements from the perspective of "democratic deficit" / Ruan Zongze -- Anti-globalization movement and its restrictions on globalization / Liu Jinyuan -- Analytical remarks of anti-economic globalism / Han Deqiang.…”
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Oral and written narratives and cultural identity interdisciplinary approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Jean Langdon -- Autobiographical writing and voice : five echoes / Carl Leggo -- The self as hybrid contestation : three autobiographical stories from Singapore and Malaysia / Kwok-Kan Tam -- Zone of negotiation : storytelling, intersubjectivity and transcultural metamorphosis' reading the ethnic texts The woman warrior and The bonesetter's daughter / Weimin Tang -- Subversive storytelling : popular historiography, alternative cultural memory and modern Greek humorist Nikos Tsiforos / Sylvia Mittler -- Landscaping and narrating white Australian-ness in Murray Bail's Eucalyptus / Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira -- Subjective identity and objective reality in the Portuguese novels of Antonio Tabucchi / Corrado Federici -- Narrative, metaphor, and myth in C.S. Lewis' testimonial novel Till we have faces / Alison Searle -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall : the many faces of Snow White / Sandra Beckett -- Peace stories and peacebuilding : bringing narrative thinking to school improvement for peace in northern Ireland / Ron Smith and June Neill.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Space / Fantasy -- The home as palimpsest: Nubosidad variable, Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa / Jeanette Pucheu -- Gender and space in Carmen Martín Gaite's: Nubosidad variable and La reina de las nieves / Alison Ribeiro de Menezes -- Back to the local: the representation of Galicia in Carmen Martín Gaite's Retahílas / Pilar Martínez Quiroga -- The gothic in Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás: destabilizing the Sección Feminina's myth of la mujer muy mujer / Kathleen Doyle -- La reina de las nieves: retelling Andersen as a parable of the Spanish Republic and desmemoria / Marian Womack -- pt. 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Language and its contexts transposition and transformation of meaning? = Le langage et ses contexts : transposition et transformation du sens? /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the myth of Babel / Helen Tattam and Pierre-Alexis Mével -- Poetry and music. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Governing immigration through crime a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Stumpf -- The security myth : punishing immigrants in the name of national security / Jennifer M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…IDEAS -- Chinese "Unity of Man and Nature" : Reality or Myth? / Heiner Roetz -- Ideas in Daoism Relative to Ecology and the Environment / Paul Jackson -- Environmental Concern : Can Humans Avoid Being Partial? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

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Venice Variations : Tracing the Architectural Imagination by Psarra, Sophia

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Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? …”
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Sisters at Sinai new tales of biblical women / by Hammer, Jill

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Venice Variations : Tracing the Architectural Imagination by Psarra, Sophia

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