The Week makes sense of the week's news by curating the best of the U.S. and international media into a succinct, lively digest. Created for busy people like you, The Week is packed with provocative, often surprising perspectives, providing you complete understanding and insight into the week's most vital stories.
The Week makes sense of the week's news by curating the best of the U.S. and international media into a succinct, lively digest. Created for busy people like you, The Week is packed with provocative, often surprising perspectives, providing you complete understanding and insight into the week's most vital stories.
The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Other | 9 September 2015
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Researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, which requires them to bring their academic writing into line with the norms enforced at the centre of the system. This book explores some of the issues affecting authors from countries on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses.
Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies.
The Week makes sense of the week's news by curating the best of the U.S. and international media into a succinct, lively digest. Created for busy people like you, The Week is packed with provocative, often surprising perspectives, providing you complete understanding and insight into the week's most vital stories.
