03492oam 22006494a 450 991079815150332120230621005104.00-8263-5671-0(CKB)3710000000631023(EBL)4461668(SSID)ssj0001638564(PQKBManifestationID)16398268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001638564(PQKBWorkID)14443820(PQKB)10650059(MiAaPQ)EBC4461668(OCoLC)945771889(MdBmJHUP)muse51990(PPN)257062866(EXLCZ)99371000000063102320150819d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Bloody and Barbarous God[electronic resource] The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy /Petra MundikAlbuquerque, [New Mexico] :University of New Mexico Press,2016.©20161 online resource (434 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5670-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. " A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road.A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.Spirituality in literatureMysticism in literaturePhilosophy in literatureGnosticism in literatureApocalypse in literatureGood and evil in literatureMetaphysics in literatureSpirituality in literature.Mysticism in literature.Philosophy in literature.Gnosticism in literature.Apocalypse in literature.Good and evil in literature.Metaphysics in literature.813/.54Mundik Petra1487555MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910798151503321A Bloody and Barbarous God3707475UNINA03866nam 2200649 a 450 991080891650332120240418001518.01-281-73025-497866117302530-300-12944-010.12987/9780300129441(CKB)1000000000471935(StDuBDS)AH23049588(SSID)ssj0000105900(PQKBManifestationID)11133378(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105900(PQKBWorkID)10106523(PQKB)10533599(MiAaPQ)EBC3420199(DE-B1597)485146(OCoLC)952620033(DE-B1597)9780300129441(Au-PeEL)EBL3420199(CaPaEBR)ebr10170890(CaONFJC)MIL173025(OCoLC)923590653(EXLCZ)99100000000047193520010314d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe art of nonconversation a reexamination of the validity of the oral proficiency interview /Marysia Johnson1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20011 online resource (256 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-09002-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Chapter 1. Overview of the Book --Chapter 2. The Genesis and Evolution of the OPI System --Chapter 3. A Critical Appraisal of the OPI --Chapter 4. Theoretical Bases for Investigating the OPI Speech Event --Chapter 5. A Discourse Analysis Study of the OPI --Chapter 6. Native Speakers' Perceptions of the OPI Speech Event --Chapter 7. A Prototypical Model of the OPI Communicative Speech Event --Chapter 8. Communicative Competence versus Interactional Competence --Chapter 9. The Practical Oral Language Ability: The Application of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory to Language Testing --Appendixes --Bibliography --IndexThe Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a widely accepted instrument for assessing second and foreign language ability. It is used by the Foreign Language Institute, the Defense Language Institute, Educational Testing Service, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and at many universities in the United States. The Art of Non-Conversation examines the components of speaking ability and asks whether the OPI is a valid instrument for assessing them. Marysia Johnson applies the latest insights from discourse and conversational analysis to determine the nature of the OPI's communicative speech event and investigate its construct validity within Messick's definition of validity. She discusses models of speaking ability-several communicative competence models, an interactional competence model, and a model of spoken interaction based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of learning. Finally she proposes a new model to test language proficiency drawn from sociocultural theory, one that considers language ability to be reflective of the sociocultural and institutional contexts in which the language has been acquired.Language and languagesAbility testingOral communicationAbility testingCommunicative competenceTestingLanguage and languagesAbility testing.Oral communicationAbility testing.Communicative competenceTesting.418/.0076Johnson Marysia1958-1610847MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808916503321The art of nonconversation3938772UNINA