Author: Philip Lieberman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393040890
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Today, scientists cite language as the distinctively human feature. But what is language--a sign, a grunt? A sound with collective symbolic meaning? This remarkable book seeks to set the record straight with a critical refinement of the language theory, providing readers for the first time with a scientific explanation of how Eve came to speak at all. Illustrations.
Eve Spoke
Author: Philip Lieberman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393040890
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Today, scientists cite language as the distinctively human feature. But what is language--a sign, a grunt? A sound with collective symbolic meaning? This remarkable book seeks to set the record straight with a critical refinement of the language theory, providing readers for the first time with a scientific explanation of how Eve came to speak at all. Illustrations.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393040890
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Today, scientists cite language as the distinctively human feature. But what is language--a sign, a grunt? A sound with collective symbolic meaning? This remarkable book seeks to set the record straight with a critical refinement of the language theory, providing readers for the first time with a scientific explanation of how Eve came to speak at all. Illustrations.
Eve's Ransom
Author: George Gissing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Tempter's Voice
Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought—including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall's meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter's voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.The Tempter's Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought—including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall's meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter's voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.The Tempter's Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion.
Seven Signs
Author: Cate Beresford
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504318250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Eve Featherstone has been bullied all her life by a brother she despises. Then as an adult, discovers they also exist in her working life. It isn’t until she is forced to make some life changing decisions that she discovers who she is. Life then takes a few twists and turns as she travels, eventually finding peace.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504318250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Eve Featherstone has been bullied all her life by a brother she despises. Then as an adult, discovers they also exist in her working life. It isn’t until she is forced to make some life changing decisions that she discovers who she is. Life then takes a few twists and turns as she travels, eventually finding peace.
Sorority Ties
Author: Tamika Newhouse
Publisher: Delphine Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Sorority Ties was supposed to bind Delilah to a sisterhood that would last a lifetime. But instead, all she found was a betrayal at the hands of Stephanie that left a bitter taste in her mouth. Fortunately for her Karma is a bitch. And when her sudden good fortune becomes too good to be true Delilah proves she will stop at nothing in order to seek her long-awaited payback. One story, six authors, equals drama and more.
Publisher: Delphine Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Sorority Ties was supposed to bind Delilah to a sisterhood that would last a lifetime. But instead, all she found was a betrayal at the hands of Stephanie that left a bitter taste in her mouth. Fortunately for her Karma is a bitch. And when her sudden good fortune becomes too good to be true Delilah proves she will stop at nothing in order to seek her long-awaited payback. One story, six authors, equals drama and more.
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0369704576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
“Full of surprises and captivating plot twists all the way until the very last page.” —Examiner An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. Twenty years after pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she knows what happened to her missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies.
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0369704576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
“Full of surprises and captivating plot twists all the way until the very last page.” —Examiner An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. Twenty years after pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she knows what happened to her missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies.
Bound and Determined
Author: Christopher Castiglia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226096520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Christopher Castiglia gives shape to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical role attributes of helplessness, dependency, sexual vulnerability, and xenophobia. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny and instead finds in them imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they emerge with the power to be critical of both cultures. These compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural differences, have significant implications for current investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226096520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Christopher Castiglia gives shape to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical role attributes of helplessness, dependency, sexual vulnerability, and xenophobia. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny and instead finds in them imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they emerge with the power to be critical of both cultures. These compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural differences, have significant implications for current investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation.
Cross River
Author: William Lutz II
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557085225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The unthinkable has happened. A nuclear attack has taken out the United States of America. This is the story set more than a decade after the attacks of a small Ohio community which is struggling just to survive in this brave new world. What will they do as an army advances on their community? Will they be able to band together and make the choices that are needed to insure their survival? A tale of hope for all who have choosen a wrong path in their lifetime.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557085225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The unthinkable has happened. A nuclear attack has taken out the United States of America. This is the story set more than a decade after the attacks of a small Ohio community which is struggling just to survive in this brave new world. What will they do as an army advances on their community? Will they be able to band together and make the choices that are needed to insure their survival? A tale of hope for all who have choosen a wrong path in their lifetime.
Ava's Heart
Author: Crystal Y Nichelson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646108027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Ava's Heart Book Two: Skeletons By: Crystal Y Nichelson After experiencing years of abuse, sexual, mental, and physical, Ava thought the past was behind her. But the life-long effects are more serious than anyone could have imagined. After discovering and dealing with several alter egos, Ava must conquer her fears and take back control of her life. After deciding to face the abuse from her father and the neglect of her mother, Ava takes back control of her life.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646108027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Ava's Heart Book Two: Skeletons By: Crystal Y Nichelson After experiencing years of abuse, sexual, mental, and physical, Ava thought the past was behind her. But the life-long effects are more serious than anyone could have imagined. After discovering and dealing with several alter egos, Ava must conquer her fears and take back control of her life. After deciding to face the abuse from her father and the neglect of her mother, Ava takes back control of her life.
Everybody's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description