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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460032103321

Titolo

The famished road : Ben Okri's imaginary homelands / / edited by Vanessa Guignery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6773-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

823.92

Soggetti

Homeland in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO ; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR ; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre...



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150650803321

Autore

Pimsleur

Titolo

Pimsleur English for Spanish Speakers Level 3 Lessons 21-25 MP3 : Learn to Speak and Understand English as a Second Language with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

: Pimsleur (Simon & Schuster)

ISBN

1-4423-2931-9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Can learning another language be as easy as speaking your own? Yes - with Pimsleur its that easy. Learn on your own time, at your own pace, and wherever you choose.English for Spanish Speakers Phase 3, Units 21-25 build on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning tospeakEnglish.