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Product Description Offering a wealth of maps and geographic routes for 28 books, this guide illustrates how to teach with literary maps, taking students on a journey through real and imaginary terrains. Entries span a range of genres and literary formats (including novels, dramas, and diaries); each follows a book's protagonist through space and time, covering places visited as well as historical figures, customs, cultures, and events. Geographic summaries, itemized itineraries, and detailed maps help students trace each character's journey and comprehend the geographic scale of action. As a prelude to reading, the maps can help disadvantaged readers better understand the stories and settings of a book, which will significantly enhance any student's reading experience. Instruction on marking maps with notes and arrows will help students prepare for college-level classes as they organize their work, simplify confusing elements, outline chronology, and incorporate additional reading and research.
It’s fun as well! An ideal tool for students, teachers, executives –
indeed, anyone eager to improve the speed, comprehension and quality of
their reading.
Speed Reading makes it easy to:
* Think faster and more creatively
* Make better notes
* Pass exams with relative ease
* Study more successfully
* Save days, weeks even months of your time
Kids' Crazy Art Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Art & Craft Fun
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids | 11 June 2008
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Provides instructions for making a variety of artistic concoctions
involving water color cakes, soap paint, crazy dough, pastes, papers,
and earthworks.
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Product Description
This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.
It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks in order to provide a framework for examining her response to the literary past. It presents chronological studies of eight novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.
Key Features
* The first book-length study of intertextuality in Virginia Woolf's novels
* Offers a challenging and provocative new perspective on Woolf's art as a novelist
* Develops detailed close readings offering fresh insights into individual works
* Presents complex ideas in a lucid and accessible fashion.
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