Tag: Genres

Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution


Free Download Adrian J. Wallbank, "Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138661864, 1848932790 | EPUB | pages: 298 | 0.4 mb
Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period.

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Refugee Genres Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge


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English | ISBN: 3031092562 | 2023 | 265 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume brings together research on the forms, genres, media and histories of refugee migration. Chapters come from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches, including literature, film studies, performance studies and postcolonial studies. The goal is to bring together chapters that use the perspectives of the arts and humanities to study representations of refugee migration. The chapters of the anthology are organized around specific forms and genres: life-writing and memoir, the graphic novel, theater and music, film and documentary, coming-of-age stories, street literature, and the literary novel.

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The New Harbrace Guide Genres for Composing (w MLA9E Updates) Ed 4


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English | ISBN: 0357509072 | 2021 | 576 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Discover the rhetorically based writing guide designed for you, the digital native, with THE NEW HARBRACE GUIDE: GENRES FOR COMPOSING, 4E. This reader-friendly presentation, written by award-winning author Cheryl Glenn, is known for its trademark emphasis on writing in multiple media. This edition combines coverage of genres and persuasion with a thematic reader, research manual, and a new, rhetorically-oriented handbook section that offers step-by-step guidance in editing. Thirty-six new readings jumpstart your writing with interesting topics ranging from veganism and apolitical food to how young people are changing today’s climate conversation. Updated content guides you in analyzing rhetorical choices, creating effective thesis statements, and applying the latest MLA or APA styles. With this edition and MindTap online tools, you can sharpen your digital, print, and multimodal composing skills as well as strengthen critical thinking that is invaluable in future courses and your career.

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Genres on the Web Computational Models and Empirical Studies (2024)


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English | 2010 | pages: 364 | ISBN: 9048191777, 9400733720 | PDF | 5,6 mb
The volume "Genres on the Web" has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice. It is a required book for scholars, researchers and students who want to become acquainted with the latest theoretical, empirical and computational advances in the expanding field of web genre research. The study of web genre is an overarching and interdisciplinary novel area of research that spans from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, and text-technology, to web mining, webometrics, social network analysis and information studies. This book gives readers a thorough grounding in the latest research on web genres and emerging document types.

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Cold War Film Genres


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English | ISBN: 1474412947 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the ‘rogue cop’ film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined the ‘new woman’,

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