Composing Place

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646423569
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Composing Place by : Jacob Greene

Download or read book Composing Place written by Jacob Greene and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composing Place takes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies. Mobile, wearable, and spatial computing technologies are more than the latest marketing gimmick from a perpetually proximate future; they are rather an emerging composing platform through which digital writers will increasingly create and distribute place-based multimodal texts. Jacob Greene utilizes and develops a rhetorical framework through which writers can leverage the affordances of these technologies by drawing on theoretical approaches within rhetorical studies, multimodal composition, and spatial theory, as well as emerging “maker” practices within digital humanities and critical media studies, to show how emerging mobile technologies are poised to transform theories, practices, and pedagogies of digital writing. Greene identifies three emerging “modalities” through which mobile technologies are being used by digital writers. First, to counter dominant discourses in contested spaces; second, to historicize entrenched narratives in iconic spaces; and third, to amplify marginalized voices in mundane spaces. Through these modalities, Greene employs Indigenous philosophies and theories that upend the ways that the discipline has centered placed-based rhetorics, offering digital writers better strategies for using mobile media as a platform for civic deliberation, social advocacy, and political action. Composing Place offers close analyses of mobile media experiences created by various artists and digital media practitioners, as well as detailed overviews of Greene’s own projects (also accessible through the companion website: www.composingplace.com). These projects include a digital “countertour” of SeaWorld that demonstrates the ways in which the attraction is driven by capitalism; an augmented reality tour of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue; and a mobile advocacy project in Jacksonville, Florida, that demonstrates the inequitable effects of car-centric public infrastructure. Ultimately, by engaging with these theoretical frameworks, rhetorical design principles, and pedagogical practices of mobile writing, readers can utilize the unique affordances of mobile media in various teaching and research contexts.

This Is the Place

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1580057586
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is the Place by : Margot Kahn

Download or read book This Is the Place written by Margot Kahn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about home What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, geography, and more. Contributors -- including Amanda Petrusich, Naomi Jackson, Jane Wong, and Jennifer Finney Boylan -- lend a diverse range of voices to this subject that remains at the core of our national conversations. Engaging, insightful, and full of hope, This is the Place will make you laugh, cry, and think hard about home, wherever you may find it. "This collection, encompassing a spectrum of races, ethnicities, religions, sexualities, political beliefs and classes, could not be timelier . . . open this book, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals, bound to each other by our humanity." -- The New York Times Book Review " . . . an honest portrait of the U.S., pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this." -- BUST

Inventing Place

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336502
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Inventing Place by : Casey Boyle

Download or read book Inventing Place written by Casey Boyle and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a sustained but varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Essays blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as a creation formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.

The Soul of Place

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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1609521048
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Soul of Place by : Linda Lappin

Download or read book The Soul of Place written by Linda Lappin and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres—literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction—discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love. Lappin departs from the classical concept of the Genius Loci, the indwelling spirit residing in every landscape, house, city, or forest—to argue that by entering into contact with the unique energy and identity of a place, writers can access an inexhaustible source of creative power. The Soul of Place provides instruction on how to evoke that power. The writing exercises are drawn from many fields—architecture, painting, cuisine, literature and literary criticism, geography and deep maps, Jungian psychology, fairy tales, mythology, theater and performance art, metaphysics—all of which offer surprising perspectives on our writing and may help us uncover raw materials for fiction, essays, and poetry hidden in our environment. An essential resource book for the writer’s library, this book is ideal for creative writing courses, with stimulating exercises adaptable to all genres. For writers or travelers about to set out on a trip abroad, The Soul of Place is the perfect road trip companion, attuning our senses to a deeper awareness of place.

Writing Out of Place

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252027673
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Out of Place by : Judith Fetterley

Download or read book Writing Out of Place written by Judith Fetterley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--Jacket.

Maxwell Street

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022660425X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Maxwell Street by : Tim Cresswell

Download or read book Maxwell Street written by Tim Cresswell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different. In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.

Writing Belonging at the Millennium

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Publisher : Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments
ISBN 13 : 9781841505138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Belonging at the Millennium by : Emily Potter

Download or read book Writing Belonging at the Millennium written by Emily Potter and published by Cultural Studies of Natures, Landscapes and Environments. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies. It focuses on Australia at the millennium, when the legacies of colonization intersected with intensifying environmental challenges in a climate of anxiety surrounding settler-colonial belonging. The question of what "belonging" means is central to the discussion of the unfolding politics of place in Australia and beyond. In this book, Emily Potter negotiates the meaning of belonging in a settler-colonial field and considers the role of literary texts in feeding and contesting these legacies and anxieties. Its intention is to interrogate the assumption that non-indigenous Australians' increasingly unsustainable environmental practices represent a failure on their part to adequately belong in the country. Writing Belonging at the Millennium explores the idea of unsettled non-indigenous belonging as context for the emergence of potentially decolonized relations with place in a time of heightened global environmental concern.

A Place for Wonder

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003842453
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis A Place for Wonder by : Georgia Heard

Download or read book A Place for Wonder written by Georgia Heard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develop intelligent, inquiring, life-long learners. The authors’ research shows that many primary grade state standards encourage teaching for understanding, critical thinking, creativity, and question asking, and promote the development of children who have the attributes of inventiveness, curiosity, engagement, imagination, and creativity. With these goals in mind, Georgia and Jennifer provide teachers with numerous, practical ways—setting up wonder centers, gathering data though senses, teaching nonfiction craft—they can create a classroom environment where student’s questions and observations are part of daily work. They also present a step-by-step guide to planning a nonfiction reading and writing unit of study—creating a nonfiction book, which includes creating a table of contents, writing focused chapters, using wow words, and developing point of view. A Place for Wonder will help teachers reclaim their classrooms as a place where true learning is the norm.

Place-Based Writing in Action

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100384765X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Place-Based Writing in Action by : Rob Montgomery

Download or read book Place-Based Writing in Action written by Rob Montgomery and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a variety of ways for students to meet traditional instructional goals in writing while also learning how writing can help them become stewards of the natural world and advocates for their own communities. Built on a foundation of emerging research and theory and grounded in the lived reality of teachers, this book explores the material and virtual worlds as places that can be equally productive as sources for authentic writing. Readers will find place-based writing activities, lesson ideas, and samples of student work in every chapter. With practical and classroom-tested ideas, Place-Based Writing in Action is a useful text for preservice and in-service English teachers, as well as any educator who wants to move the act of writing beyond the four walls of the classroom.

Julia Alvarez

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826336514
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Julia Alvarez by : Kelli Lyon Johnson

Download or read book Julia Alvarez written by Kelli Lyon Johnson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first book-length examination of the writings of Julia Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and nearly a dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction and one of today's most widely read Latina writers. Kelli Lyon Johnson perceptively illuminates the themes, ideals, and passions that unite these diverse and rich works, all of which explore issues of understanding and representing identity within a global society. Forced by political oppression to leave the Dominican Republic when still young, Alvarez has lived most of her adult life in the United States. Johnson argues that through her narratives, poetry, and essays, Alvarez has sought to create "a cartography of identity in exile." Alvarez inscribes a geography of identity in her work that joins theory and narrative across multiple genres to create a new map of identity and culture. By asserting that she is "mapping a country that's not on the map," Alvarez places creativity and multiplicity at the center of this emerging cartography of identity. Rather than elaborating a "hybrid" identity that surreptitiously erases distinctions and difference, Alvarez embraces the mestizaje or mixture and accumulation of identities, experience, and diversity. To Alvarez, linguistic and cultural multiplicity represents the reality of what it means to be American, and she offers a compelling vision of both self and community in which the homeland Alvarez seeks is the narrative space of her own writings. As Johnson shows, Alvarez will continue to shape American literature by stretching the literary cartography of identity and of the Americas.

Reading and Writing Place

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793638365
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading and Writing Place by : Erika L. Bass

Download or read book Reading and Writing Place written by Erika L. Bass and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities Erika L. Bass and Amy Price Azano suggest there is a need to add nuance to the ways we consider and engage with place in the classroom. Using a narrative writing project completed with two rural schools in two states, the authors provide an explanation of critical placed education and how students' explorations of place through writing led the authors to develop a concept of place (Big "P" and small "p" place). Students' explorations of place highlighted the how internalizations and externalizations of place impact identity formation and sense of belonging.

Composing Place

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646423550
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Composing Place by : Jacob Greene

Download or read book Composing Place written by Jacob Greene and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composing Place proposes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies. Jacob Greene utilizes a rhetorical framework through which writers can leverage the affordances of new technologies and develops this framework by drawing on theoretical approaches within rhetorical studies, multimodal composition, and spatial theory" --

Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000646009
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807 by : Elizabeth R. Napier

Download or read book Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807 written by Elizabeth R. Napier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from the repercussions of self-expression. Working under cover of convention in this manner and because for many of these poets place is tied in significant ways to personal history, poets of place may launch unexpected explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness. This book thus supplements past, largely political, readings of landscape poetry, turning to questions of self-articulation and self-expression in order to argue that the autobiographical impulse is a distinctive and innovative feature of much great eighteenth-century poetry of place. Among the poets under examination are Pope, Thomson, Duck, Gray, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Smith, and Wordsworth.

Writing Place

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351047663
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Place by : Rebecca Hutcheon

Download or read book Writing Place written by Rebecca Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring a hitherto neglected field, Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing is the first monograph to consider the works of George Gissing (1857-1903) in light of the ‘spatial turn’. By exploring how objectivity and subjectivity interact in his work, the book asks: what are the risks of looking for the ‘real’ in Gissing’s places? How does the inherent heterogeneity of Gissing’s observation influence the textual recapitulation of place? In addition to examining canonical texts such as The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1901), the book analyses the lesser-known novels, short stories, journalism and personal writings of Gissing, in the context of modern spatial studies. The book challenges previously biographical and London-centric accounts of Gissing’s representation of space and place by re-examining seemingly innate contemporaneous geographical demarcations such as the north and the south, the city, suburb, and country, Europe and the world, and re-reading Gissing’s places in the contexts of industrialism, ruralism, the city in literature, and travel writing. Through sustained attention to the ambiguities and contradictions rooted in the form and content of his writing, the book concludes that, ultimately, Gissing’s novels undermine spatial dichotomies by emphasising and celebrating the incongruity of seeming certainties

Writing West Virginia

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Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621901846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing West Virginia by : Boyd C. Creasman

Download or read book Writing West Virginia written by Boyd C. Creasman and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their stirring depictions of a proud people striving for fulfillment in a land of natural beauty and economic hardship, West Virginia authors have produced a body of work that is worthy of study and of celebration. In Writing West Virginia, Boyd Creasman examines the fiction and poetry of eight accomplished writers--Davis Grubb, Mary Lee Settle, Breece D'J Pancake, Denise Giardina, Irene McKinney, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Pinckney Benedict--who exemplify the rich but often overlooked literary heritage of the Mountain State. Creasman identifies the varied ways in which these writers have grappled with the dynamics of place, socioeconomic class, and gender. For Settle, this expression has taken the form of historical novels chronicling the development of the state from its British settlement to the rise of the coal industry and the creation of a wealthy, industrial class. For other authors, the struggle against poverty and lack of opportunity has been a central concern. From the male protagonists of Grubb and Breece Pancake, searching for ways to assert their masculinity when they cannot find gainful employment, to the strong, independent women of McKinney, Giardina, and Ann Pancake, the characters in West Virginia literature have fought to transcend the challenges and limitations of living in the most Appalachian of states. In the recent fiction of Phillips and Benedict, elements of magical realism and fantasy are employed to create the possibility of transcendence for their characters, shifting the focus from landscape to dreamscape and thereby suggesting exciting new directions for Appalachian literature. Despite the remarkable talent of these writers, only a handful of book-length critical studies have focused on them, and none have considered them as a group. Writing West Virginia helps fill this gap in literary scholarship while opening up new paths for further exploration.

Writing In Place

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ISBN 13 : 9781947543034
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing In Place by : Kizzie Elizabeth Jones

Download or read book Writing In Place written by Kizzie Elizabeth Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology compilation of prose in essays, vignettes, memoir excerpts, short stories, newspaper columns, peppered throughout with poetry and prose poems from the Edmonds Writing Sisters, critique writing group.

Words in Place

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Publisher : Steiner/ Waldorf Learning Reso
ISBN 13 : 9781903458693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis Words in Place by : Paul Matthews

Download or read book Words in Place written by Paul Matthews and published by Steiner/ Waldorf Learning Reso. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative writing sourcebook that invites us to experience nature afresh as a way of re-connecting with language.