1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005824090403321

Autore

Eliot, T. S. <Thomas Stearns ; <1888-1965

Titolo

The varieties of metaphysical poetry : The clark lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926 and the turnbull lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933 / by T. S. Eliot ; edited and introduced by Ronald Schuchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Faber and faber, 1993

ISBN

0-571-14230-3

Descrizione fisica

XI, 343 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

821.912

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

821.912 ELIOT 3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459987803321

Autore

Macalister John <1956->

Titolo

Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-283-10583-7

9786613105837

1-136-94420-6

0-203-84785-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Altri autori (Persone)

NationI.S.P

Disciplina

428.2/4071

428.24071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language --Study and teaching --Foreign speakers

English teachers - Training of

English teachers --Training of

English language - Foreign speakers - Study and teaching

English

Languages & Literatures

English Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 A Survival Language Learning Syllabus for Foreign Travel; 3 Design Meeting Context: A General English Course for Burmese Adults; 4 Designing English Language Courses for Omani Students; 5 My Ideal Vocabulary Teaching Course; 6 Opening The Door to International Communication: Peruvian Officials and Apec; 7 Helping Skilled Migrants into Employment: The Workplace Communication Program

8 The Blended Language Learning Course in Taiwan: Issues and



Challenges of Instructional Design9 Designing the Assessment of a University Esol Course; 10 Refreshing a Writing Course: The Role of Evaluation; 11 Localizing Spanish in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership: Developing and Using a "Teachable" Curriculum; 12 Learning to Teach Spanish: Identifying, Inducting, and Supporting Apprentice Teachers in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership; 13 Negotiated Syllabuses: Do You Want to?; 14 Enhancing Consumerist Literacy Practices in an Urbanizing Community

15 The Teacher as Intermediary between National Curriculum and Classroom16 Developing a Blogwriting Program at a Japanese University; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister's Language Curriculum Design (www.routledge.com/9780415806060), giving the book a high degree of coherence. A short commentary by the editors after each case highlights features of note and/or issues arising fr



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910684570903321

Autore

Carroll Rachel

Titolo

Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / / Rachel Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2012]

©2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Disciplina

813.609

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Heterosexuality in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (pages [149]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. Homes's The End of Alice. Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between



heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning.