Search Results - Narration (Rhetoric)*

Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / by Norris, Margot

Table of Contents: “…Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. …”
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The global remapping of American literature by Giles, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Mythos and Ethos -- Kinship, place, and story types -- Matrimonial alliance in Biblical narrative -- Withdrawn-woman narratives -- Central marriage narratives -- Redemption narratives -- Mythos of patriarchal succession -- Threats to lineage continuity -- Violations of patriarchal authority -- Validations of the lineage -- Justice in the resolution of conflict V. …”
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Prophesying daughters Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / by Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background -- The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history -- Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust -- Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives -- Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation -- Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism--the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet -- Can I get a witness? …”
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Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America / by Stewart, David M. (David Malcolm), 1953-

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Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / by Byford, Jovan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism -- Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice -- "Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism -- "Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric -- Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism -- National self-glorification in a historical context -- Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism" -- "We are not antisemites, but-- " : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers -- "He was merely quoting the Bible!" …”
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Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film / by Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : perspectives on science and culture -- pt. 1. Narrative and rhetorical perspectives -- ch. 1. Experiencing nature through cable television -- ch. 2. …”
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Rabbinic perspectives rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and...

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- Seclusion and exclusion: the rhetoric of separation in Qumran and Tannaitic literature / Adiel Schremer -- The history of the creation of measurements: between Qumran and the Mishnah / Aharon Shemesh -- Oral Torah vs. written Torah(s): competing claims to authority / Cana Werman.…”
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The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England / by Gilbert, Pamela K.

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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality /

Table of Contents: “…DeTora -- The Human Papillomavirus vaccination : gendering the rhetorics of immunization in public health discourses / Jennifer A. …”
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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel a new literary canon / by Vakunta, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.…”
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Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas

Table of Contents: “…/ Robbins Burling -- Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh / Alexander Aisher -- Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh : Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet / Toni Huber -- Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins / Stuart Blackburn -- Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local identities : The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri / Kerstin Grothmann -- The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers : What is Knowable, and What is not (yet) / Mark W. …”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history authority, diaspora, tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Chajes -- Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar -- The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan -- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. …”
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Critical issues in early Israelite history

Table of Contents: “…The rhetorical structuring of the Joshua conquest narratives / K. …”
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Academic writing at the interface of corpus and discourse /

Table of Contents: “…Forest -- Persuading sponsors and securing funding : rhetorical patterns in grant proposals / Dimitra Koutsantoni -- Verbal and mental processes in academic disciplines / Jasper Holmes and Hilary Nesi -- In the wake of the terror : phraseological tools of time setting in the narrative of history / Marina Bondi -- Formulaic language in biology : a topic-specific investigation / Diane Pecorari -- Corpus informed discourse analysis : the case of academic engagement / Ken Hyland -- E-conferencing : corpus and discourse insights / Ann Hewings, Caroline Coffin and Sarah North -- Stance, interaction and the rhetorical patterns of restrictive adverbs : discourse roles of only, just, simply and merely / Maggie Charles -- A dialogic account of authority in academic writing / Ramona Tang -- Lexical verbs in academic discourse : a corpus-driven study of learner use / Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot -- Linking adverbials in student and professional writing in literary studies : what makes writing mature / Philip Shaw -- Variation in the writing of economics students in Britain and Pakistan : the case of conjunctive ties / S. …”
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Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions cultural perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations /

Table of Contents: “…Herndl and Adela C. Licona -- Rhetoric of empowerment: genre, activity, and the distribution of capital / David Clark -- Power as interactional accomplishment: an ethnomethodological perspective on the regulation of communicative practice in organizations / Barbara Schneider -- Discourse and regulation: critical text analysis in workplace studies / Brenton Faber -- The antenarrative turn in narrative studies / David M. …”
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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

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Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

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