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As digital reading has become more productive and active, the lines between reading and writing become more blurred. This book offers both an exploration of collaborative reading and pedagogical strategies for teaching reading and writing that reflect the realities of digital literacies. This edited scholarly collection offers strategies for teaching reading and writing that highlight the possibilities, opportunities, and complexities of digital literacies. Part 1 explores reading and writing that happen digitally and offers frameworks for thinking about this process. Part 2 focuses on strategies for the classroom by applying reading theories, design principles, and rhetorical concepts to in...
Series one. Fantasio / Alfred de Musset -- Danton's death / Georg Buchner -- La Parislenne / Henry Becque -- Round dance / Arthur Schnitzler -- The snob / Carl Sternheim -- Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Ellot -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht -- The love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the garden / Federico Garcia Lorca -- The infernal machine / Jean Cocteau -- A full moon in March / William Butler Yeats -- Series two. Jest, satire, irony / Christian Grabbe -- Easy money / Alexander Ostrovsky -- The epidemic / Octave Mirabeau -- The Marquis of Keith / Frank Wedekind -- Him / e.e. cummings -- Venus and Adonis / André Obey -- Electra / Jean Giraudoux -- The king and the duke / Francis Fergusson -- The dark tower / Louis MacNeice -- Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- Series three. Leonce and Lena / Georg Büchner -- A door should be either open or shut / Alfred de Musset -- Thérèse Raquin / Emile Zola -- The magistrate / Arthur W. Pinero -- Anatol / Arthur Schnitzler -- Dr. Knock / Jules Romain -- Saint Joan of the stockyards / Bertolt Brecht -- Intimate relations / jean Cocteau -- Cecile, or the school for fathers / Jean Anouilh -- The Cretan woman / Robinson Jeffers.
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told through the voices of those involved. Interviewees include the people who organized the first youth poetry slam festivals, the founders of central youth spoken word organizations, and a selection of young people who have participated in their local programs and in regional and national events over the last two decades. Narratives about individual and communal efforts and experiences are supported by analyses of full-text poems by youth poets and by reference to contemporary scholarship in performance studies, critical youth studies, and new literacy studies. Blending history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events, the book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators, and K–12 teachers.
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization, and the development of multimedia and digital technologies influenced the patterns of consolidation and diversification established earlier. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of bookselling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as...