Raising an active reader : the case for reading aloud to engage elementary school youngsters

Case for reading aloud to engage elementary school youngsters

Keep reading with me -- I can read on my own! -- Books, books, books: Building a library for a growing reader -- Ask questions -- Build vocabulary -- Make connections to the child's world: Fiction -- Making connections to nonfiction text -- Active reading with chapter books and novels -- Active reading and the struggling reader -- Raising an active reader.

The collapsing frontier : plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history, plus In Mugwump Four and much more

Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history

In Mugwump Four

PM Press outspoken authors series ;

David Bowman and the furry-girl school of American fiction -- Snowden in the labyrinth -- The collapsing frontier -- "Rooms full of old books are immortal enough for me" / Johnathan Lethem interviewed by Terry Bisson -- My year of reading lemmishly -- Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history -- In mugwump four.

The guy-friendly YA library : serving male teens

Libraries Unlimited professional guides for young adult librarians,

Libraries Unlimited professional guides for young adult librarians.

The Library Staff vs. Guys: Can't We Just Get Along? Understanding Teen Males Males as Readers: Their Reading Habits Reading and Boys: Topics of Interest Books for Boys-Genres, Titles, and Topics Engaging Teen Males in Library Programming and Teen Advisory Boards School Visits and Booktalks Actively and Passively Creating Library Services for Teen Males Essential Fiction Titles or Series for Teen Males

Coordinates : placing science fiction and fantasy

Alternatives

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Alternatives.

The criticism of science fiction / The descent of fantasy / How new is new? / Jules Verne: journey to the center of science fiction / Manifest destiny: science fiction and classical form / "All you have to do is know what you want": individual expectations in Triton / Autoplastic and alloplastic adaptations in science fiction: "Waldo" and "Desertion" / Science fiction for the age of inflation: reading Atlas shrugged in the 1980s / Fahrenheit 451 and the "cubby-hole editors" of Ballantine Books / America as science fiction: 1939 / Rider Haggard's heart of darkness / She in Herland: feminism as fantasy / Death and the mirror: existential fantasy

The lesbian menace : ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life

Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920s -- "Malevolent, neurotic, and tainted": The Lesbian Menace in Popular Women's College Fiction -- "They're here, they're flouncy, don't worry about them": Depicting Lesbians in Popular Women's Magazines, 1965-1995 -- Is Nancy Drew Queer?: Popular Reading Strategies for the Lesbian Reader -- "Candy-coated cyanide": Children's Books and Lesbian Images -- Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location -- To Pass or Not to Pass: Thoughts on Passing and Lesbian Identities -- GI Joes in Barbie Land: Recontextualizing the Meaning of Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture

Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel

Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now -- The Rise of Female Authority in the Novel -- The Logic of the Social Contract -- The Logic of the Sexual Contract -- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Paradigm -- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Process -- The Rise of the Domestic Woman -- The Book of Class Sexuality -- A Country House That is Not a Country House -- Labor That is Not Labor -- Economy That is Not Money -- The Power of Feminization -- The Rise of the Novel -- The Battle of the Books -- Strategies of Self-Production: Pamela -- The Self Contained: Emma -- History in the House of Culture -- The Rhetoric of Violence: 1819 -- The Rhetoric of Disorder: 1832 -- The Politics of Domestic Fiction: 1848 -- Figures of Desire: The Brontes -- Seduction and the Scene of Reading -- The Woman's Museum: Jane Eyre -- Modern Men: Shirley and the Fuegians -- Modern Women: Dora and Mrs. Brown.

Embracing, evaluating, and examining African American children's and young adult literature

A comparative analysis of The Brownies' book and contemporary African American children's literature written by Patricia C. McKissack / "The random brushing of birds" : representations of African American women in biographies / Following tradition : young adult literature as neo-slave narrative / Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the roots of African American children's literature / A triumphant mulatto : racial construction in Mildred Taylor's The land / Historical fiction and cultural evocations in a community-based literary club / My boys and my books : engaging African American young men in emancipatory reading / Reader responses to African American children's literature : a sociolinguistic perspective / Reading our richly diverse world : conceptualizing a response development zone / African American children's literature in rural schools / Where life and children's literature meet : African American males in the elementary grades / Fences, physical and proverbial : pre-service teachers' engagement with The other side by Jacqueline Woodson

Readers and writers in the ancient novel

Ancient narrative. Supplementum,

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ;

The active reader and the ancient novel / Dialogues between readers and writers in Lucian's Verae Histioriae / Divide and rule : segmenting Callirhoe and related works / The curious incident-- : polypragmosyne and the ancient novel / Reading inscription in the ancient novel / Cite and sound : the prosaics of quotation in the ancient novel / Eumolpus the poet / Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon / The uses of bookishness / Readers writing readers, and writers reading writers : reflections of Antonius Diogenes / The author of the Alexander Romance / Reading Diktys : the discreet charm of Bogosity / Apuleius and Homer : some traces of the Iliad in the Metamorphoses / No success like failure : the task of the translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Roman fiction and its audience : seriocomic assertions of authority / 'Food for thought' for readers of Apuleius' The Golden Ass / To reason and to marvel : images of the reader in the Life of Apollonius / Hating Homer, fighting Virgil : books in Augustine's Confessions

Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present

Studies in book and print culture

Studies in book and print culture.

women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Bronte's fiction and nineteenth-century painting / 'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Reading mind, reading body : Augusta Jane Evan's Beulah and the physiology of reading / 'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's May flowers / thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / 'Luxuriat(ing) in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / 'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's book club / women readers revisited

Distant readings : topologies of German culture in the long nineteenth century

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.

"Distant Reading" and the historiography of Nineteenth-Century German literature / Burrow's Delta and its use in German literary history / The location of literary history : topic modeling, network analysis, and the German novel, 1731-1864 / How to read 22,198 journal articles : studying the history of German Studies with topic models / Serial individuality : Eighteenth-Century case study collections and Nineteenth-Century archival fiction / The case for close reading after the descriptive turn / The Werther effect I : Goethe, objecthood, and the handling of knowledge / Rethinking non-fiction : distant reading the Nineteenth-Century science-literature divide / Distant reception : bringing German books to America / The one and the many : The Old Mam'selle's Secret and the American traffic in German fiction (1868-1917) / The vocations of the novel : distant-reading occupational change in Nineteenth-Century German literature / Big data, pattern recognition, and literary studies: N-Gramming the railway in Nineteenth-Century German fiction / "Detoured Reading" : understanding literature through the eyes of its contemporaries (a case study on anti-Semitism in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben) / Can computers read?

Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013

Works. Selections

Philip Roth, why write?

Collected nonfiction, 1960-2013

The Library of America ;

Library of America ;

From Reading myself and others. "I always wanted you to admire my fasting, " or, Looking at Kafka ; Writing American fiction ; New Jewish stereotypes ; Writing about Jews ; On Portnoy's complaint ; In response to those who have asked me : How did you come to write that book, anyway? ; Imagining Jews ; Writing and the powers that be ; After eight books ; Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur ; Interview with the London Sunday Times ; Interview with the Paris Review ; Interview on Zuckerman -- Shop talk : a writer and his colleagues and their work. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi ; Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld ; Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma ; Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz ; Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera ; Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien ; An exchange with Mary McCarthy ; Pictures of Malamud ; Pictures by Guston ; Rereading Saul Bellow -- Explanations. Juice or gravy? ; Patrimony ; Yiddish/English ; "I have fallen in love with American names" ; My Uchronia ; Eric Duncan ; Errata ; "Tyranny is better organized than freedom" ; A Czech education ; The primacy of Ludus ; Interview on The ghost writer ; Interview with Svenska Dagbladet ; Forty-five years on ; The ruthless intimacy of fiction --

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