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Natural Trouble, Scott Hightower

Poetry

Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower’s investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist. Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.

All The Elephants Faced The Door: Fiction And Poetry, Stephanie B. Thome

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

All the Elephants Faced the Door is a collection of fiction and poetry. The first section, “The World is Nice to Butterflies,” is a collection of six short stories. The collection focuses on the Solis family. The family consists of six sisters and the stories follow their journey of falling in love, forming romantic relationships and the eventuality of marriage. The second half of my manuscript is composed of poems and is divided in three sections. The first, “The Stuff of the World is Love-Stuff,” is a sequence of love poems. The second section entitled, “Domestic Anxiety,” is a series …

Is Learned Helplessness Helpless? Political Language Of The Bush Administration, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques the notion that the Bush administration has effectively pursued its policy prescriptions through public language that induces learned helplessness among United States citizens.

Espace Francophone Et Politiques Linguistiques : Glottophagie Ou Diversité Culturelle?, Zacharie Petnkeu Nzepa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper is illustrative of the conflict of languages in a sociolinguistic landscape. It asserts that in French-speaking world, notably Black Africa and the West Indies, politics in collusion with French language policies work for the imperceptible, but gradual disappearance of vernaculars on behalf of the prestige of French language. The International Organization of "Francophonie" is depicted as being instrumental in the ongoing strategy. The article ends up suggesting criteria for a harmonious cohabitation of languages in the above-mentioned ommunities.

Restaging Hysteria: Mary Wigman As Writer And Dancer , Laura A. Mclary

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Mary Wigman was not only a leading proponent of the early twentieth-century Expressionist dance movement, but also a writer of poetry and short poetic prose. Despite her assertion that dance was beyond language, she wrote often about dance in an attempt to articulate the kinesthetic experience of dance through languages. This interdisciplinary study explores the intersection of dance and writing for Wigman, focusing on gender coding in writing and dance within the context of early twentieth-century dialogues. Despite the pervasive equation of (feminine) hysteria with dance and (masculine) subjectivity with authorship, Wigman engaged in both activities. I argue that Wigman …

The Hollow Spot: A Collection Of Fiction, Jose Rene Martinez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This is a creative thesis, specifically a collection of fourteen short stories and a critical introduction. Most of these stories showcase characters caught in times of change and turmoil. The critical introduction explores the influence that three contemporary writers, J. D. Salinger, Raymond Carver, and Michael Chabon, have had on my work. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an outlet for my creative energy.

The Red-Light District Of The Heart, Octavio Quintanilla Jr.

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This is a creative thesis, a collection of fifty-seven poems. The poems are divided thematically into four sections. Family, identity, and human relationships are some of the themes I write about. The critical introduction outlines the history of Chicano poetry and shows how my work fits within this context.

Le Parole Italiane: Introduction, Silvia Bertoni, Susanna Nocchi

Books/Book Chapters

Le parole italiane

presenta una vasta gamma di esercizi e giochi per l’apprendimento, la memorizzazione e l’ampliamento del lessico italiano.Una prima sezione si occupa di studiare le parole dal punto di vista delle aree lessicali, concentrandosi anche su espressioni idiomatiche, modi di dire e cambiamento di significato dei vocaboli nei diversi contesti.Una seconda sezione è dedicata alla “grammatica del lessico”. Attraverso schede chiare ed essenziali e ad esercizi originali e stimolanti, viene affrontato lo studio di argomenti di solito poco trattati nei manuali di lingua, come ad esempio la formazione delle parole, la collocazione, la derivazione, l’alterazione, i nomi irregolari, …

When You Speak Of God, Do You Think Of God As A Man Or A Woman?: Inclusive Language And God's Concept, David Lawrence Fisher

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial era. In some respects Japan asserted its superiority to those neighbours, in other respects saw them as nations with a standing equal to that of Japan. The working out of these two views reflected Japanese strategic interests.

The Mockingbird, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird

Karen Chappel [Ovid Directions]; Diane Cleghorn [Grace Land Tour]; Victoria M. Cunningham [Self Portrait-Kitchen]; Heather Faust [Untitled]; John Freese [Negative Space]; Heather Gilreath [Brief Candle]; Mickey Glover [Beyond the Light ]; Melissa Greenwood [No Intent]; Chris Haga [Book Fish]; Kari Hancock [King of the Wild Frontier]; Erik Hansen [Shelled Out]; Karen Heaten [Bad Blood and Make Up]; Melinda Henderson [Cuore Spezzato]; Robert Helmadollar [Portrait of my Father from a Blurred Photograph]; Kimberly Million Hodge [Longing]; Jeremiah Jenkins [Look Atcha All Up There]; Mark Johnson [Tea Can]; Kevin Kaiser [Color of a Green Orange]; Megan Jewell Kerns [Insomnia Rides a Dark …

Sabbatical In Mexico, Robert Frost

Sabbaticals

No abstract provided.

Language Diversity In Europe: Can The Eu Prevent The Genocide Of The French Linguistic Minorities?, Henri A. Jeanjean

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Introduction:

All references about France, be they about French language, French culture, French arrogance or French cuisine seem to indicate that this country is homogeneous, mono-lingua and mono-cultural. If we consider some of its regions we can note a huge linguistic and cultural diversity: Corsica is Italo-Roman, Brittany is Celtic, Flemish is spoken in the North of France, Alsace is Germanic, the language in the Basque region is pre Indo-European while Catalan and Occitan both form part of the "occitano-roman group, half way between Gallo-Roman and Ibero-Roman." According to the new Atlas of Endangered World Naguages published by UNESCO, all …

A Study Of Subject Omission In The Spoken Language Of Indonesian Primary School Children Aged 6 To 12 In Jakarta, Endang Sutartinah Soemartono

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study investigates the occurrence of subject omission in spoken Indonesian spoken as a first language by primary school children in grades one to six and aged between six and twelve years in Jakarta. It also investigates the developmental stages of subject omission, and the effects of age, gender and degree of formality on the occurrence of empty or null subjects. Since the acquisition of language is ongoing during the students' primary schooling, this study also considers how null subjects in Indonesian may have an impact on learning and teaching at school. The omission of subjects occurs independent or matrix …

Reticent Romans: Silence And Writing In La Vie De Saint Alexis, Le Conte Du Graal, And Le Roman De Silence, Evan J. Bibbee

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Apart from discourse and yet somehow part of it, silence is a powerfully ambiguous linguistic phenomenon that blurs the lines between presence and absence. Eluding the material aspects of oral and written language, it is only perceptible as the gaps or spaces between words. Nonetheless, it plays a role in all linguistic productions: although silence itself cannot be directly communicated, it can influence communication. In a literary text, silence may takes on many different guises, including rhythmic hesitations, rhetorical omissions, and poetic oppositions that mimic the audible gaps of spoken language. The visual, aural, and fictional interaction of all these …

Poetry, Music, And The Sustainability Of Language, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.