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Thinking Literature across Continents / by Ghosh, Ranjan, Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…Hillis Miller -- The story of a poem / Ranjan Ghosh -- Western theories of poetry : reading Wallace Stevens's "The motive for metaphor" -- / J. Hillis Miller -- More than global / Ranjan Ghosh -- Globalization and world literature / J. …”
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Novice language teachers insights and perspectives for the first year /

Table of Contents: “…Farrell -- Teachers'use of metaphor in making sense of the first year of teaching / Steve Mann -- Trained for teaching high school, poached for teacher training : a case study of a Cambodian English teacher's first year of teaching in Cambodia / Stephen Moore -- Learning to teach in the first year : a Singapore case study / Thomas S.C. …”
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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

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Novice language teachers insights and perspectives for the first year /

Table of Contents: “…Farrell -- Teachers'use of metaphor in making sense of the first year of teaching / Steve Mann -- Trained for teaching high school, poached for teacher training : a case study of a Cambodian English teacher's first year of teaching in Cambodia / Stephen Moore -- Learning to teach in the first year : a Singapore case study / Thomas S.C. …”
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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

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A people's dream Aboriginal self-government in Canada / by Russell, Dan, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: l -- Preface / viii -- Acknowledgments / x -- Introduction / xi -- 1 The Self-Government Ideal: A Recent Concept / 3 -- 2 The American Tribal Government Experience: Lessons for Canada /14 -- 3 Entrenching Self-Government: The Treaty Option / 40 -- 4 Entrenching Self-Government: The "Principled Approach" / 58 -- 5 Historical Aboriginal Collective Rights / 88 -- 6 Aboriginal Values versus Charter Rights / 103 -- 7 A Metaphorical Charter: An Aboriginal Response /131 -- 8 The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and Self-Government: -- Just Another Lump of Coal / 146 -- 9 The Future of Self-Government: Building Trust and Confidence /196 -- Notes / 217 -- Selected Bibliography / 238 -- Index /240.…”
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American memories : atrocities and the law / by Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-, King, Ryan D.

Table of Contents: “…-- What the literature tells us, and unchartered terrain -- Constructing and remembering the My Lai massacre (with Rajiv Evan Rjan and Lacy Mitchell) -- From Vietnam to Iraq : bridging metaphors, mnemonic struggles, and haunting (with Jeremy Minyard) -- Slobodan Milosevic through lenses of law, diplomacy, and media reporting (with Courtney Faue and Yu-Ju Chien) -- The shape of American memories and a German comparison -- From collective memory to law : theoretical interlude -- How Aamerican memory shapes hate crime law and a German comparison -- Commemorating injustice and implementing hate crime law across jurisdictions in the United States -- Conclusions : atrocities, law and collective memory in America and beyond.…”
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American memories : atrocities and the law / by Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-, King, Ryan D.

Table of Contents: “…-- What the literature tells us, and unchartered terrain -- Constructing and remembering the My Lai massacre (with Rajiv Evan Rjan and Lacy Mitchell) -- From Vietnam to Iraq : bridging metaphors, mnemonic struggles, and haunting (with Jeremy Minyard) -- Slobodan Milosevic through lenses of law, diplomacy, and media reporting (with Courtney Faue and Yu-Ju Chien) -- The shape of American memories and a German comparison -- From collective memory to law : theoretical interlude -- How Aamerican memory shapes hate crime law and a German comparison -- Commemorating injustice and implementing hate crime law across jurisdictions in the United States -- Conclusions : atrocities, law and collective memory in America and beyond.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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A people's dream Aboriginal self-government in Canada / by Russell, Dan, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: l -- Preface / viii -- Acknowledgments / x -- Introduction / xi -- 1 The Self-Government Ideal: A Recent Concept / 3 -- 2 The American Tribal Government Experience: Lessons for Canada /14 -- 3 Entrenching Self-Government: The Treaty Option / 40 -- 4 Entrenching Self-Government: The "Principled Approach" / 58 -- 5 Historical Aboriginal Collective Rights / 88 -- 6 Aboriginal Values versus Charter Rights / 103 -- 7 A Metaphorical Charter: An Aboriginal Response /131 -- 8 The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and Self-Government: -- Just Another Lump of Coal / 146 -- 9 The Future of Self-Government: Building Trust and Confidence /196 -- Notes / 217 -- Selected Bibliography / 238 -- Index /240.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Synesthetic design : handbook for a multisensory approach / by Haverkamp, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of perception and design : Connection of modalities within the perceptual system : Overview ; Rules of connection ; Elementary connections -- Finding similarities: cross-modal analogies : Analogy relationships ; Temporal analogy ; Intersensory attributes ; Analogy of motion and kinetic design ; Spatial analogies and soundscapes ; Functional analogy ; Tactile design -- Recognizing familiar features: iconic connection : Associative connections ; Onomatopoeia ; Pictogram and auditory icon ; Associations to smell and taste ; The context -- Understanding the meaning: symbols and metaphors : Symbolic connections ; Color symbolism ; Synesthetic metaphors ; Symbolism in brand design ; Musical symbolism -- Exploring individual perception: genuine synesthesia : Hearing colors, seeing acoustic tones ; Smell, taste, and everything else ; Subjective color-form relations ; Movement of synesthetic images ; Visualization of meaning ; Why synesthesia?…”
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Synesthetic design : handbook for a multisensory approach / by Haverkamp, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of perception and design : Connection of modalities within the perceptual system : Overview ; Rules of connection ; Elementary connections -- Finding similarities: cross-modal analogies : Analogy relationships ; Temporal analogy ; Intersensory attributes ; Analogy of motion and kinetic design ; Spatial analogies and soundscapes ; Functional analogy ; Tactile design -- Recognizing familiar features: iconic connection : Associative connections ; Onomatopoeia ; Pictogram and auditory icon ; Associations to smell and taste ; The context -- Understanding the meaning: symbols and metaphors : Symbolic connections ; Color symbolism ; Synesthetic metaphors ; Symbolism in brand design ; Musical symbolism -- Exploring individual perception: genuine synesthesia : Hearing colors, seeing acoustic tones ; Smell, taste, and everything else ; Subjective color-form relations ; Movement of synesthetic images ; Visualization of meaning ; Why synesthesia?…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.…”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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Twins in African and diaspora cultures double trouble, twice blessed /

Table of Contents: “…Van Beek -- Snake, bush, and metaphor : twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Fiction and forbidden sexual fantasy in the culture of Temne twins / Frederick John Lamp -- Embodied dilemma : Tabwa twinship in thought and performance / Allen F. …”
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Rape in art cinema

Table of Contents: “…Higgins ; The fault lines of vision : Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema ; Buñuel : storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell -- Materiality and metaphor : rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald ; Sins of permission : the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise Von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson ; Rough awakenings : unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa -- English-language independent cinemas: Jane Campion's women's films : art cinema and the postfeminist rape narrative / Shelley Cobb ; Boys don't get raped / Ann J. …”
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Language and memory : aspects of knowledge representation /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Co-occurrence and constructions / Paul Deane -- On the reduction of complexity : some thoughts on the interaction between conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory / Rainer Schulze -- Making ends meet / Uwe Multhaup -- Evaluation and cognition : inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion / Monika A. …”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.…”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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