Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe.
This book contains 101 MCAT verbal passages in the form of 11 full length verbal exams formatted exactly like the New 2003 MCAT. Questions have complete explanations for correct and incorrect answer choices. There are 12 tear-out answer grids in MCAT form in the back of the book. Language, diction, passage length, question length, question difficulty, and even font have been carefully crafted to resemble an actual MCAT. You won’t find a more MCAT accurate set of verbal exams.
"Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia: Volume 1 & 2" More than 150 traditional festivals from around the world are described
at length by historian Roy. The festivals include the major feasts of
all world religions and religious groups: Christianity, Judaism,
Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Voodoo, Bahaism, Islam, ancient Greek and
Roman, Native American, and several African tribes. Roy goes beyond the
basic facts and descriptions to "provide insight into the festival
patterns." As a result, the articles are detailed, and many are several
pages in length. The coverage for India and Africa includes only the
best-known and -documented festivals because of their sheer number.
Articles cover specific festivals (Divali, Sabbath, Saturnalia) and are arranged alphabetically, with see also
references as well as references listing books and a few audiovisual
and digital sources. Festival names within the text appear in bold type
whether they are entry headings or not, which is contrary to the usual
practice of using bold type to point to other articles and may be
confusing. Black-and-white illustrations are strewn throughout both
volumes. Appendixes chart the main Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish festivals
and holidays; the movable feasts of the Western Church; Gregorian dates
of Orthodox Easter; and Chinese Lunar New Year's dates. In addition,
there are a comparative table of all festivals arranged by season and a
full list of festivals within each cultural area.
Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of
language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a
synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic
unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor’s preface. The book’s first
chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the
art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important
linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics
and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a
comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language
and word length studies.
The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume
will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general
linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding
language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should
be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
