Michael McIntyre
ISBN13: 9781604976120
Date: 28-Aug-09
This work enumerates the rationales for maintaining heritage languages and examines one particular exemplary campaign to reverse the slide to language death. This is an important book for all scholars and other individuals who are interested in the Gaelic and other Celtic languages; endangered-language maintenance, survival, and revival; and issues surrounding indigenous and language-minority populations.
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Cracking Metaphors in Ideological and Poetic Discourse in the Third Space
Mika Yoshimoto
ISBN13: 9781604975895
Date: 18-Dec-09
This beautifully written work will be an important book for all involved in second language learning, including curriculum theorists as well as researchers concerned with connections between language and identity, poetic inquiry and discourse, narrative theory, and autoethnography.
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Subjectivity and Desire in the Works of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson
Gemma López
ISBN13: 9781934043851
Date: 28-Nov-07
This book is highly unique as general studies on issues of desire, narrative, and subjectivity tend to focus on the literature produced over the nineteenth century, but not on contemporary literature.
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Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield
Jessica Hope Jordan
ISBN13: 9781604976632
Date: 18-Dec-09
The sex goddess is often thought by feminist film theorists to be little more than a projection of the male imaginary. However, this book makes a necessary correction to this trend by demonstrating how the actresses performing the role of sex goddess in fact use the feminine imaginary to create their own agency. This is an important book for all those in film, film history, film theory, gender and sexuality studies, women’s studies, and American studies collections.
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