Tag: Narrative

Free Download Jonathan Elmore, "Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss "
English | ISBN: 1793619190 | 2020 | 178 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction’s engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction (‘cli-fi’) with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.

Free Download Mick Hurbis-Cherrier, "Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Filmmaking"
English | 2011 | pages: 590 | ISBN: 0240811585 | PDF | 29,5 mb
Voice & Vision is a comprehensive manual for the independent filmmakers and film students who want a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film in order to achieve their artistic vision. This book includes essential and detailed information on relevant film and digital video tools, a thorough overview of the filmmaking stages, and the aesthetic considerations for telling a visual story.

Free Download Raj Balkaran, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas "
English | ISBN: 1760465895 | 2023 | 484 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the integrity and dignity they deserve. The last time this was attempted, on a much smaller scale, was a generation ago, with Purāṇa Perennis (1993). The pre-eminent contributors to this landmark collection use novel methods and theory to meaningfully engage Sanskrit narrative texts, showcasing the state of contemporary scholarship on the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas.

Free Download Olga Michael, "Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative: Reading and Witnessing Violations of the ‘Other’ in Anglophone Works "
English | ISBN: 1350329754 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 79 MB
Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become ‘othered’ within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice. With thought given to how the graphic form can offer a powerful counterpoint to the legal, humanitarian and media discourses that dehumanise the most violated and dispossessed, but also how these works may unconsciously reproduce Western neo-colonial presentations of the ‘other,’ Olga Michael focuses on gender, death, space, and border violence within graphic life narratives depicting suffering across different geo- and biopolitical locations. Combining the familiar with the lesser-known, this book covers works by artists such as Joe Sacco, Thi Bui, Mia Kirshner, Phoebe Gloeckner, Kamel Khélif

Free Download Desert Weeds: Personal Narrative on Botanical First Responders by Garry Rogers
English | EPUB | 2020 | 354 Pages | ISBN : 3030458539 | 128 MB
In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Weeds are the first responders when disasters occur in nature.

Free Download Angela M. Locks, "Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education: Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific "
English | ISBN: 1032358157 | 2023 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines pressing structural issues currently impacting African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students accessing college and succeeding in U.S. postsecondary environments. Drawing from asset-based work of critical race education scholars such as Yosso, Ladson-Billings, and contributing author Solórzano, the authors interrogate how systems and structures shape definitions of academic merit and grit, how these systems constrain opportunities to attain access and equitable educational outcomes, and challenge widely held beliefs that Students of Color need grit to succeed in college. Dominant narratives of educational success and failure tend to focus mostly on individual student effort. Contributing authors explore the myriad ways that institutional structures can support Students of Color utilizing their strengths through critical perspectives, asset-based, anti-deficit perspectives to access postsecondary environments and experience success. Scholars, scholar-practitioners, students affairs professionals, and educational leaders will benefit from this timely edited book as they work to transform postsecondary institutions into entities that meet the needs of Students and Communities of Color.

Free Download James Hegarty, "Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia"
English | 2015 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1138948195, 0415558638 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia.

Free Download Jack R. Gannon, "Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America"
English | 2012 | pages: 520 | ISBN: 1563685140 | EPUB | 114,1 mb
Now, Jack R. Gannon’s original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to document the multifaceted history of this unique minority with its distinctive visual culture, he painstakingly gathered as much material as he could on Deaf American life. The result is a 17-chapter montage of artifacts and information that forms an utterly fascinating record from the early nineteenth century to the time of its original publication in 1981.

Free Download Susanna Lee, "A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism"
English | 2005 | pages: 197 | ISBN: 1611482267, 0838756093 | PDF | 1,1 mb
This is a literary and philosophical study that links the idea of secularism to the form of the novel. It offers a groundbreaking critical foundation both for understanding the move toward a secular culture and for examining the role of the individual in modern ethical, political, and spiritual contexts.

Free Download On Brand: Shape Your Narrative. Share Your Vision. Shift Their Perception. by Aliza Licht
English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1454949066 | 285 pages | PDF | 7.84 Mb
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