Author: Karen E. Smythe
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: grief, figuring
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1992-11-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0773509399
ISBN-13: 9780773509399

The title, Figuring Grief, refers to the narrative process whereby mourning is depicted. In her textual analysis, Smythe explores various connections between representation and consolation. Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. She then uses these paradigms as suggestive "reading models" for the interpretation of works by Gallant, Munro, and other contemporary fiction-elegists. Figuring Grief offers new readings of speci

Author: Gina Willner-Pardo
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: frances, figuring
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-09-20
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0395915104
ISBN-13: 9780395915103

With a light touch, this insightful novel charts a fourth grader’s course through the complexities of family and friendship. Abby is trying hard to understand the things that puzzle her. One is her friendship with Travis Mooney, who seems to be turning into just another obnoxious boy. Another is a mystery: Why does Grandma, who has Alzheimer’s disease, sometimes call her Frances? Who is, or was, Frances? Abby is convinced that if she can figure out Frances, she will know something new and important about herself. Along with the surprising and satisfying solution to this mystery com

Author: Paul Hammond
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rochester, shakespeare, men, sex, figuring
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0198186932
ISBN-13: 9780198186939

Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the seventeenth century. He includes detailed readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and shows how his plays added homosexual elements to his source stories. He also analyses the satirical representation of homosexual kings such as James I and William III, and the homoerotic poetry of Marvell and Rochester.

Author: Craig Storti
Publisher: Intercultural Pre
Keywords: guide, practical, foreigners, figuring
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1877864706
ISBN-13: 9781877864704

A self-instructional training manual, this book is designed for anyone who wants help "figuring out" the behaviour of someone from another culture. The author takes readers step by step through the concepts that govern the process of intercultural communication and cross-cultural interaction and then offers creative activities that challenge readers to apply what they are learning.

Authors:Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron,
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: french, figuring, contraire
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-07-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1931930929
ISBN-13: 9781931930925

Written for anyone interested in or interacting with the French, the second edition of Au Contraire!: Figuring Out the French unearths the often-invisible cultural forces that govern behavior. Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron draw upon their own experiences as consultants and trainers, as well as that of expatriate students and professionals, to offer the best and most useful analysis and advice on French-American intercultural relations. Going beyond the obvious, this bilingual and bicultural author team explores what lies behind what we see: the assumptions, attitudes, patterns of thought and

Author: Marcos Salazar
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Keywords: amp, going, college, figuring, guide, twenties, survival, turbulent
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2006-05-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1572244216
ISBN-13: 9781572244214

You’ve graduated from college. Now what? It’s a question that everyone in your position has to answer. But as soon as you ask it, that one question can lead to countless others: Who am I? Where am I going? What are my passions in life? Am I making the right decisions? Why is it so difficult to meet people? Will I ever find a job that I love? Will I ever truly be happy? And once you think you’ve found the answers, you still have to do—something. Your academic education has prepared you for practical tasks like finding a job or a place to live, but many of the challenges you’ll

Author: Karmen MacKendrick
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: surface, flesh, language, figuring, made, skin, word
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0823224074
ISBN-13: 9780823224074

Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch?In a trio of paired chapters, each juxtaposing an illustrative story or case study to a theoretical exploration, MacKendrick examines three somatic figures of speech: the touch, the fold, and the cut. In the first pairing, resurrection stories in the Gospel of John are set against a chapter on touch, which draws o