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Jane Austen A Style in History

Jane Austen A Style in History

From 1809 until just before her death Jane Austen lived in a small all-female household at Chawton where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her most important contribution to the technique of fiction free indirect discourse. The book draws extensively on historical sources especially the work of writers like Johnson Hugh Blair and Thomas Sheridan and analyses how Austen negotiated her path between the fundamentally masculine concerns of eighteenth-century prescriptivists and her own situation of a female writer reading her work aloud to a female audience. | Jane Austen A Style in History

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Jane Austen and Critical Theory

Jane Austen and Critical Theory

Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of critical theory in Austen studies—an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and challenging questions about the efficacy of Austen’s work. This volume confronts mythical understandings of Austen as Dear Aunt Jane the early twentieth-century legacy of Austen as a cultural salve and the persistent habit of reading her works for advice or instruction. The authors pursue a diversity of methods encourage us to build new kinds of relationships to Austen and her writings and demonstrate how these relationships might generate new ideas and possibilities—ideas and possibilities that promise to expand the ways in which we deploy Austen. The book specifically reminds us of the vital importance of Austen and her fiction for central concerns of the humanities including the place of the individual within civil society the potential for new identities and communities the urgency to address racial and sexual oppression and the need to imagine more just futures. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

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The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

This edited collection brings together a team of top industry experts to provide a comprehensive look at the entire media workflow from start to finish. The Media Workflow Puzzle gives readers an in-depth overview of the workflow process from production to distribution to archiving. Pulling from the expertise of twenty contributing authors and editors the book covers topics including content production postproduction systems media asset management content distribution and archiving and preservation offering the reader an understanding of all the various elements and processes that go into the media workflow ecosystem. It concludes with an exploration of the possibilities for the future of media workflows and the new opportunities it may bring. Professionals and students alike looking to understand how to manage media content for its entire lifecycle will find this an invaluable resource. | The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

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Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Exploring the literary microcosm inspired by Brontë's debut novel Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms that were incorporated into the heroic female bildungsroman tradition. Jane Eyre Abigail Heiniger argues is a heroic changeling indebted to the regional pre-Victorian fairy lore Charlotte Brontë heard and read in Haworth an influence that Brontë repudiates in her last novel Villette. While this heroic figure inspired a range of female writers on both sides of the Atlantic Heiniger suggests that the regional aspects of the changeling were especially attractive to North American writers such as Susan Warner and L. M. Montgomery who responded to Jane Eyre as part of the Cinderella tradition. Heiniger contrasts the reactions of these white women writers with that of Hannah Crafts whose Jane Eyre-influenced The Bondwoman's Narrative rejects the Cinderella model. Instead Heiniger shows Crafts creates a heroic female bildungsroman that critiques fairytale narratives from the viewpoint of the obscure oppressed workers who remain forever outside the tales of wonder produced for middle-class consumption. Heiniger concludes by demonstrating how Brontë's middle-class American readers projected the self-rise ethic onto Jane Eyre miring the novel in nineteenth-century narratives of American identity formation. | Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

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Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture physical facility changes and – most importantly – the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated this second edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the media broadcast industry including the new standards and specifications for live IP production the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It provides users with the necessary information for planning organizing producing and distributing media for the modern broadcast facility. Key features of this text include: Strategies to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and distribution system. A cohesive big-picture viewpoint that helps you identify how to overcome the challenges of upgrading your plant. The impact live production is having on the evolution to IP. Case studies serve as recommendations and examples of use. New considerations in engineering and maintenance of IP and file-based systems. Those in the fields of TV cable IT engineering and broadcast engineering will find this book an invaluable resource as will students learning how to set up modern broadcast facilities and the workflows of contemporary broadcasting. | Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

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An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967) this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel like every other literary form is a product of history the book opens with a discussion of how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century as well as the function and background of prose fiction. The third part of the book examines six great novels from Jane Austen to George Eliot. ‘A serious and rewarding study. ’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘His examination of some eighteenth century writers and analysis of six famous novels- from Emma to Middlemarch- have wit authority and a sensitivity that compel the reader’s attention. ’ Dublin Magazine | An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney Charlotte Brontë Mary Delany Catherine Winkworth Jane Austen and George Eliot situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women’s Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands tracing the means by which women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century. | Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

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Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles sexuality​ and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands tactility and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret ​what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by ​Jane Austen the Brontës George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings musical compositions and nonfictional texts​ such as etiquette books and scientific treatises​ to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact ​as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian ​and neo-Victorian literature. | Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

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Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes the anima and animus the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature. Jung’s emphasis on creativity was central to his own work and here Rowland illustrates how his concepts can be applied to novels poetry myth and epic allowing a reader to see their personal psychological and historical contribution. This multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach challenges the notion that Jungian ideas cannot be applied to literary studies exploring Jungian themes in canonical texts by authors including Shakespeare Jane Austen and W. B. Yeats as well as works by twenty-first century writers such as in digital literary art. Rowland argues that Jung’s works encapsulate realities beyond narrow definitions of what a single academic discipline ought to do and through using case studies alongside Jung’s work she demonstrates how both disciplines find a home in one another. Interweaving Jungian analysis with literature Jungian Literary Criticism explores concepts from the shadow to contemporary issues of ecocriticism and climate change in relation to literary works and emphasises the importance of a reciprocal relationship. Each chapter concludes with key definitions themes and further reading and the book encourages the reader to examine how worldviews change when disciplines combine. The accessible approach of Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide will appeal to academics and students of literary studies Jungian and post-Jungian studies literary theory environmental humanities and ecocentrism. It will also be of interest to Jungian analysts and therapists in training and in practice. | Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

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God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres written by authors such as Aldous Huxley Jane Austin Sinclair Lewis and Steven King who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy. | God Behind the Screen Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion

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A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

When novels plays and poems refer to food they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books diaries and guides to good health in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period including Chaucer Shakespeare Austen and Dickens this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature. | A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

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Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

The Middle East is at an unprecedented crossroads between the established Euro-centric system and the emerging Asian powerhouses like India and China. Their economies policies and social structures are a half-way-house between these two dominant groups and are an important case study to examine in order to highlight future prospects and problems of the global system. The Middle East is an important missing piece in a huge global puzzle. This book makes a significant step towards understanding that puzzle and offers solutions for how to fully integrate this missing jigsaw piece into the global economic system. Analytical Peace Economics: The Illusion of War for Peace focuses on three critical issues in the Middle East that dominate discussions about their place in the global political economy: conflict oil and (regional) development. Examining economic and social development in juxtaposition with conflict and peace this book adapts develops and applies historical geographical economic and psychological methods creating a nuanced approach to the collective understanding of the economic and social dynamics in the region. By developing theoretical models and analysing empirical research this book offers an economic analysis of the attempt to find peace through war and seeks to find alternative solutions. This book will be of interest to researchers policy makers and doctoral students of economics finance and social sciences as well as advanced undergraduate students of peace economics and development studies. | Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

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Psychoanalysis and

Psychoanalysis and

Originally published in 1990 Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the sound of O in Othello; Jane Gallop asks Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan examines Lacan’s seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating collection of work should still be required reading especially for students of literature. But Psychoanalysis and… demonstrates that psychoanalysis – and theoretical criticism and feminism and Lacanian theory and semiotics and Marxism and deconstruction and literary criticism – was at the time a rich and expanding terrain.

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The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles logical baseball puzzles. To jump in all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts. The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). Unlike legal arguments however a solution must reach an unassailable conclusion. There are many puzzle books. But there’s nothing remotely like this book. The puzzles here while rigorously deductive are firmly attached to actual events to struggles that are reported in the papers every day. The puzzles offer a unique and scintillating connection between abstract logic and gritty reality. Actually this book offers the reader an unlimited number of puzzles. Once you’ve solved a few of the challenges here every boxscore you see in the papers or online is a new puzzle! It can be anywhere from simple to complex to impossible. For anyone who enjoys logical puzzles. For anyone interested in legal reasoning. For anyone who loves the game of baseball. Jerry Butters has a BA in mathematics from Oberlin College and an MS in mathematics and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He taught mathematics for two years at Mindanao State University in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer. He taught economics for five years at Princeton University. For most of his career he worked on consumer protection cases and policy issues at the Federal Trade Commission. In his retirement he has become a piano teacher and performer. He enjoys hobbies ranging from reading Chinese to practicing Taiji. This book is an outgrowth of another of his hobbies—his love of designing and solving puzzles of all sorts. Jim Henle has a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a PhD from M. I. T. He taught for two years at U. P. Baguio in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer two years at a middle school as alternative service and 42 years at Smith College. His research is primarily in logic and set theory with additional papers in geometry graph theory number theory games economics and music. He edited columns for The Mathematical Intelligencer. He authored or co-authored five books. His most recent book The Proof and the Pudding compares mathematics and gastronomy. He has collaborated with Jerry on puzzle papers and chamber music concerts. | The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

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Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class slavery natural knowledge democracy and religion. In addition the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres including for example the essay the guidebook the travel narrative the periodical the novel and the poem can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions transformations and border crossings. The volume is underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange as opposed to transfer and continuance in its analysis of authors texts and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of people texts and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets and politics taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and popular writers of the period including Austen Poe Crèvecoeur Brockden Brown Sedgwick Hemans Bulwer-Lytton Dickens and Melville. In different ways the essays gathered together here are concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the transitive circulatory and contingent experiences of transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest in the long nineteenth century. | Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

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Romantic Wars Studies in Culture and Conflict 1793 1822

Romantic Wars Studies in Culture and Conflict 1793 1822

Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry fiction painting and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism comparatively little has been written about the effects of war. This book takes as its central thesis the idea that Romanticism is facilitated and conditioned by a culture of hostility. Whether this is manifested in Blakean visions of 'mental warfare' or in socio-historical reflections on the links between conflict and nationhood the essays in this volume seek to correct a prevailing assumption that the culture of this period is unaffected by discourses of violence. Through a combination of individual case studies - detailed readings of warfare in Coleridge Byron Charlotte Smith and Austen - and wider-ranging survey discussions including essays on the representation of the British sailor and war poetry by women the book provides a timely reflection on the texts and contexts of the first 'Great War'. The book is aimed at literary specialists and historians working in the areas of Romanticism and European history. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in early nineteenth-century writing and British culture. | Romantic Wars Studies in Culture and Conflict 1793�1822

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The CRAFT Treatment Manual for Substance Use Problems Working with Family Members

The CRAFT Treatment Manual for Substance Use Problems Working with Family Members

Packed with practical tools this authoritative manual offers a complete guide to implementing the evidence-based Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) program. Jane Ellen Smith and Robert J. Meyers have spent decades developing and refining their approach for helping concerned significant others (CSOs) of treatment-refusing individuals with substance use problems. Structured yet flexible CRAFT teaches loved ones to change their behavior with the identified patient to encourage treatment entry and enhance their own well-being. The volume features step-by-step implementation guidelines case examples sample dialogues troubleshooting tips and 28 reproducible forms and handouts that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. | The CRAFT Treatment Manual for Substance Use Problems Working with Family Members

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The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the Lower Niger Bronzes which we know number in the thousands are of subjects not found elsewhere such as leopard skull replicas grotesque bell heads ritual objects and humanoid figures. Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history African studies African history and anthropology. | The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

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Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in the field. It aims to raise awareness on the positionality of historical narratives about this field of inquiry and offers a re-think of its histories. Since comparative education has always been embedded within a global field of power what would the changing world order’s implications be for the institutional and intellectual histories of the field? This book offers diverse perspectives for re-theorising the histories of comparative education. It suggests casting a far-sighted and panoramic look at the field’s origins. The volume concludes with a puzzle for future work on a global history of comparative education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. | Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

From David Hume’s famous puzzle about the missing shade of blue to current research into the science of colour the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate cutting across philosophy of mind epistemology metaphysics and aesthetics as well as psychology. Debates about the nature of our experience of colour and the nature of colour itself are central to contemporary discussion and argument in philosophy of mind and psychology and philosophy of perception. This outstanding Handbook contains 29 specially commissioned contributions by leading philosophers and examines the most important aspects of philosophy of colour. It is organized into six parts:The Importance of Colour to PhilosophyThe Science and Spaces of ColourColour PhenomenaColour OntologyColour Experience and EpistemologyLanguage Categories and Thought. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology epistemology metaphysics and aesthetics as well as for those interested in conceptual issues in the psychology of colour.

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Entering Architectural Practice

Entering Architectural Practice

Featuring exclusive interviews with the internationally renowned architects: Kengo Kuma; Alberto Campo Baeza; Špela Videcnik (OFIS); Fernanda Canales; Jonathan Sergison (Sergison Bates); and Jane Hall (Assemble) Entering Architectural Practice is a practical and honest guide for architecture students entering the world of architectural practice. There is often a disconnection between what you are taught in architecture school and the actual practice of architecture in the workplace. As both a practising architect and architecture school tutor the author has first-hand experience of this disconnection and so helps students bridge this divide between academia and practice. Focused on providing industry insight dispelling myths and above all providing a combination of reality and hope to students of architecture entering the workplace the book is beautifully and richly illustrated providing a compelling visual story alongside the invaluable information it imparts. Serious but enjoyable thoroughly researched but highly approachable this book is simply essential reading for every individual about to embark on a career in practice.

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Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films television animation and video games the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions the volume surveys the art of screen narrative and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting film theory philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling modern blockbusters puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons Gravity Falls) David Greenberg (Stomping Ground Used to Love Her) Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft. | Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

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Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

Drawing on a dynamic set of graphic texts of girlhood Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations cultural practices and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence are under erasure within mainstream images and scripts about the schoolgirl? In what ways has the schoolgirl been pictured in graphic narratives to communicate feminist knowledge represent trauma and/or testify about social violence? Graphic Girlhoods focuses on these questions to make visible and ultimately question how sexism racism and other forms of structural violence inform education and girlhood. From picture books about mean girls like The Recess Queen or graphic novels like Jane The Fox and Me to Ronald Searle’s ghastly pupils in the St. Trinian’s cartoons to graphic memoirs about schooling by adult women such as Ruby Bridges’s Through My Eyes and Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons texts for and about the schoolgirl stake a claim in ongoing debates about gender and education. | Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

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Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

Drawing upon extensive archival research interview material and musical analysis Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919–1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities achievements and reception of women composers conductors and performers against a contemporary socio-political climate that was largely hostile to female professionalism. The musical styles and techniques of Marguerite Canal Jeanne Leleu Germaine Tailleferre Yvonne Desportes Elsa Barraine and Claude Arrieu are discussed with reference to significant works dating from the interwar period. Hamer highlights the activities of Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris as well as the reception of the Orchestra of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique a contemporary pro-suffrage organisation that was dedicated to defending the collective interests of musiciennes and campaigning for their employment rights. Beyond women composers and conductors Hamer also sheds light on female performers and their contribution to the interwar early music revival. | Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

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