My First English Adventure makes learning English a memorable, magical experience. By using familiar Disney characters that children know and love, My First English Adventure re-creates a fantastic world of discovery and adventure in the classroom that truly motivates and encourages pupils to learn. Use of Disney stories and characters capture the pupils' interest and attention motivating them to learn English A variety of different activities incorporated to suit all learning styles Well structured, cyclical syllabus ensures content is continually revised, reinforcing what is being taught.
My First English Adventure makes learning English a memorable, magical experience. By using familiar Disney characters that children know and love, My First English Adventure re-creates a fantastic world of discovery and adventure in the classroom that truly motivates and encourages pupils to learn. Use of Disney stories and characters capture the pupils' interest and attention motivating them to learn English A variety of different activities incorporated to suit all learning styles Well structured, cyclical syllabus ensures content is continually revised, reinforcing what is being taught.
Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day An original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.
Waiting for Kate BushThis unusual hybrid of satirical comic novel and music biography has two heroes: an American fan and the object of his fixation, the wildly eccentric singer Kate Bush..A fictional account of one strange man's obsessive preoccupation with England's even stranger 'Pre-Raphaelite nymph with the Minnie Mouse soprano', this is a hugely entertaining satirical pop story.Full of bizarre characters and plot twists it also sheds unexpected light on what Kate Bush has been up to in the long wilderness years since the release of her last album. Hardback edition.
Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
The author examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life.
