Metawritings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metawritings write by Jill Talbot. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Metawritings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Metawriting—the writing about writing or writing that calls attention to itself as writing—has been around since Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, but Jill Talbot makes that case that now more than ever the act of metawriting is performed on a daily basis by anyone with a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, or a webpage. Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction is the first collection to combine metawriting in both fiction and nonfiction. In this daring volume, metawriting refers to writing about writing, veracity in writing, the I of writing and, ultimately, the construction of writing. With a prologue by Pam Houston, the anthology of personal essays, short stories, and one film script excerpt also includes illuminating and engaging interviews with each contributor. Showcasing how writers perform a meta-awareness of self via the art of the story, the craft of the essay, the writings and interviews in this collection serve to create an engaging, provocative discussion of the fiction-versus-nonfiction debate, truth in writing, and how metawriting works (and when it doesn’t). Metawritings provides a context for the presence of metawriting in contemporary literature within the framework of the digital age’s obsessively self-conscious modes of communication: status updates, Tweets, YouTube clips, and blogs (whose anonymity creates opportunities for outright deception) capture our meta-lives in 140 characters and video uploads, while we watch self-referential, self-conscious television (The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Office). Speaking to the moment and to the writing that is capturing it, Talbot addresses a significant and current conversation in contemporary writing and literature, the teaching of writing, and the craft of writing. It is a sharp, entertaining collection of two genres, enhanced by a conversation about how we write and how we live in and through our writing. Contributors Sarah Blackman Bernard Cooper Cathy Day Lena Dunham Robin Hemley Pam Houston Kristen Iversen David Lazar E. J. Levy Brenda Miller Ander Monson Brian Oliu Jill Talbot Ryan Van Meter
Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English
Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English write by Ulrich Busse. This book was released on 2012. Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication.
Meta Morphing
Meta Morphing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meta Morphing write by Vivian Carol Sobchack. This book was released on 2000. Meta Morphing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two thousand years ago, Ovid asked his readers to imagine metamorphoses in which men and women became flowers and beasts. Today, before our cinema-savvy eyes, people melt and re-form as altogether new creatures: they "morph." This volume explores what digital morphing means -- both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformation. Meta-Morphing ranges over topics that include turn-of-the-century "quick-change" artists, Mesoamerican shamanic transformation, and cosmetic surgery; recent works such as Terminator 2, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Heavenly Creatures, and Forrest Gump; and the transformations imagined by Kafka, Proust, and Burroughs. The contributors look not only at the technical wizardry behind digital morphing, but also at the history and cultural concerns it expresses.
Meta in Film and Television Series
Meta in Film and Television Series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meta in Film and Television Series write by David Roche. This book was released on 2022-10-31. Meta in Film and Television Series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.
Polysemy
Polysemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polysemy write by Brigitte Nerlich. This book was released on 2011-05-12. Polysemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory.
