"Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness" presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Paul Allen Miller draws a distinction between the work of the Greek lyricists and the more condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the theoretical issues and presents a sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its origins in archaic Greece to the more individualist style of Augustan Rome.
You know their works, but do you really know the real story? Is it possible that the most adored authors and books have an all-to-bizarre back-story? From Albert Camus being assassinated by the KGB to Hogwarts being all made up in Harry Potter's head, the ten literary controversies in this book will have you thinking twice about your favorite books and authors.
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and relates these to Anglo-American, French, and German theories of text. By relating theory to practice, this comparative study reveals the links between literary and textual criticism.
Dirk Van Hulle is Assistant Professor of English and German Literature, University of Antwerp.
"I learned more starting a business than I did doing anything else." This extremely vulnerable first person account which details beginnings of a startup demonstrates the emotional challenges and struggles of one aspiring entrepreneur. This book set out to answer the question: How do people learn while starting a business? Startup Style Learning explores the ways entrepreneurs learn as a unique and powerful process with the potential to change the education system and business landscape. The research is the result of a year of participant observation, interviews, detailed ethnographic coding, and application of theory to actual early stage entrepreneurs. Read this text and change the way you approach learning any new skill. Research was conducted while Eric Robertson started his first business from 2004-2006.
Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context, including theoretical pragmatics, neurolinguistics, clinical pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms, unarticulated constituents, argument linking, and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks, the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood, modeled, and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and experimental pragmatics.
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