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English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’

Teaching literature and the future of global English

By: Myles Chilton

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English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’

Teaching literature and the future of global English

By: Myles Chilton

This book addresses the shape of English studies beyond the ‘center’ by analyzing how the discipline has developed, and by considering how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a whole. The book aims to open a cross-disciplinary conversation about the nature of the English major in both non-Anglophone and Anglophone countries by addressing the tensions between language and literature pedagogy, the relevance of a focus on hyper-canonical Anglophone literature in a world of global Englishes, world literature, and multilingual students, and by reflecting on the necessary contingency and cross-purposes of blended literature and language classrooms. Many of the book’s points of discussion arise from the author’s experience as an English professor in Japan, where the particularities of English language and literature pedagogy raise significant challenges to Anglo-centric critical and pedagogical assumptions. English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’: Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English therefore argues that English literature must make a case for itself by understanding its place in a newly configured discipline. Issues discussed in the book include: English language and literature pedagogy in Japan The modes through which EFL and English literary studies converge and diverge Globalized English beyond the Anglo-American perspective English classroom practices, particularly in Japan

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1317574974

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The Abercrombie Age

Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture

By: Myles Ethan Lascity

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The Abercrombie Age

Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture

By: Myles Ethan Lascity

Be popular and good-looking—it's the key to a happy life. Luckily, with a bit of know-how and money, you, too, can have it all. At least, that's what teen pop culture was selling in surround sound at the turn of the millennium. From movies like Clueless to TV's Dawson's Creek to the music videos on MTV's Total Request Live and the catalogs of Abercrombie & Fitch, a consumer-minded ethos drove pop culture storytelling as millennials came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the long shadow of the Great Recession, the upwardly mobile aspirations fostered by the era's popular culture and media seem to have been thwarted. Many millennials today lack the wealth their parents had at the same age, and the gaps between rich and poor rival those of the Gilded Age. The Abercrombie Age reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it told young people that life not only could but surely would get better. Far from frivolous or forgettable, the era's superficial, materialistic culture sold millennials unrealistic expectations of what life could offer, setting up a stark juxtaposition with the realities of today.

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UNC Press Books

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1469680939

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9781469680934

[With Bonus Episode !]RAFFAELE: TAMING HIS TEMPESTUOUS VIRGIN

Harlequin Comics

By: Sandra Myles,Tsukiko Kurebayashi

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[With Bonus Episode !]RAFFAELE: TAMING HIS TEMPESTUOUS VIRGIN

Harlequin Comics

By: Sandra Myles,Tsukiko Kurebayashi

[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Rafe, a businessman based in New York, had received a request from his Italian father. Go to Sicily, meet someone against whom his father had committed a sin and marry that man’s daughter. Surprisingly his usually arrogant father wasn’t ordering him, but asking him! Feeling bound to help, Rafe headed to Sicily but was attacked by a suspicious couple on his way there. When he turned the tables and subdued them, he discovered that they were an old man and a woman so beautiful she made him gasp! Swayed by her beauty, Rafe ended up kissing her before he knew what he was doing!

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136

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596784930

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9784596784933

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3

By: Myles Burnyeat

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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3

By: Myles Burnyeat

Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting essays dating from before the move to Oxford. Two new posthumously published volumes bring together essays from his years at All Souls and his retirement. The main body of Volume 3 presents studies written for a wide readership, first on Plato's Republic and then on the reading and interpretation of Plato in subsequent periods, particularly in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume also includes hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', on the ancient origins of some key modern philosophical and psychological concepts.

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459

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Cambridge University Press

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1009058355

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9781009058353

Spectrum of Belief

Joseph Von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics

By: Myles W. Jackson

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Spectrum of Belief

Joseph Von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics

By: Myles W. Jackson

In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this important transition. Fraunhofer came from a long line of glassmakers. Orphaned at age eleven, the young apprentice moved in with his master, the court decorative glass cutter. At age nineteen, bored with his work and angered by his master's refusal to allow him to study optical theory, Fraunhofer took a position at the Optical Institute assisting in the manufacture of achromatic lenses. Within ten years he was producing the world's finest achromatic lenses and prisms. Housed in an old Benedictine monastery, Fraunhofer's laboratory mirrored the labor of the monks. Because of his secrecy (after his death, even those who had worked most closely with him could not achieve his success), British experimental natural philosophers were unable to reproduce his work. This secrecy, while guaranteeing his institute's monopoly, thwarted Fraunhofer's attempts to gain credibility within the scientific community, which looked down on artisanal work and its clandestine practices as an affront. The response to the ensuing rise of German optical technology sheds light on crucial social, economic, and political issues of the period, such as mechanization, patent law reform, the role of skills in both physics and society, the rise of Mechanics' Institutes, and scientific patronage. After his death, Fraunhofer's example was used in the newly united Germany to argue for the merging of scientific research and technological innovation with industrial and state support.

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MIT Press

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0262100843

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9780262100847

English Studies Beyond the 'center'

Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English

By: Myles K. Chilton

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Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English

By: Myles K. Chilton

Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English addresses the shape of English studies beyond the 'center' by analyzing how the discipline has developed and considers how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a whole. The book aims to open a cross-disciplinary conversation that will help literature faculty recalibrate, and provoke Anglosphere universities into rethinking the meaning of the English major. It also reasserts the case for literary studies, not by resurrecting humanistic rhetoric of universalized moral education, but by arguing for ways in which literary pedagogy can see itself as part of a newly configured discipline.

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[With Bonus Episode !]RAFFAELE: TAMING HIS TEMPESTUOUS VIRGIN

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