Your Voice Speaks Volumes

Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Author: Jane Setter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198813848

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in an accessible and engaging account that will appeal to anyone interested in how we use our voices in daily life.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Patricia Howell Michaelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804740753

An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Speaking Volumes focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading. It studies the period's discourses on 'woman's language' and contrasts them with the linguistic practices of individual women. The book also argues that the oral performance of literature was important in fostering domesticity and serving as a means for women to practise authoritative speech. Utilizing a range of evidence gleaned from language texts, schoolbooks, diaries, letters, conduct books, and works of literature (notably the novels of Jane Austen), the author shows how eighteenth-century English women strategically used the stereotype of 'woman's language' while insisting implicitly that gender was not always the most salient feature of their identities.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Bradford Morrow
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453292802

From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia. Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their forms, Speaking Volumes collects poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction on historic, forbidden, repurposed, mistranslated, imaginary, lost, and life-changing books—books of every ilk.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Ramona Koval
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2010-08-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1921753323

Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and often funny. In this new collection, Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand-new ones with some of the most important writers of our times. Through Koval, we are privy to the extraordinary minds of Joseph Heller, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, David Malouf, P. D. James, John Mortimer, Ian McEwan, Amos Oz, Gore Vidal, Harold Pinter, John le Carré, Barry Lopez, Malcolm Bradbury, William Gass, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, André Brink, John Banville, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Enright, among others.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Students Mid-Cheshire College
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2007-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1430325593

An eclectic mix of short stories and poetry from a range of genres. This anthology is a collaborative work by writers who share a passion for what they are doing, rise to new challenges with a smile and who want to raise money for charities.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Gordon Griffin
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 152898921X

How did a fishmonger’s son from Tyneside, growing up in the 1950s with a Geordie accent, become the person who recorded over 900 audiobooks and received an MBE from the Queen in the Birthday Honours of 2017? This ‘charming’, ‘entertaining’ and ‘heart-warming’ memoir answers that question. Reviews: AudioFile magazine “...not simply a reader but an artist of the spoken word...” “...Gordon Griffin, an entire acting company in one person...” “Witty and moving memoir of how a working-class boy becomes THE voice of the spoken word. Honest and vivid account plus excellent advice for those of us who work with words.” Miriam Margolyes

The Beatryce Prophecy

The Beatryce Prophecy
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536213616

When a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health. When he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.

Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes
Author: Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001-09-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue - in the protected space of the whispering bookcase - as loaded with allusion and intertextuality. This collection of essays by the classicist Alessandro Barchiesi examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of illusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition. The book provides perspectives on the literary self-consciousness of the Latin poets, the allusive density of their texts, and the conflict between poetry and power in the Augustan age. The conflict between classicists and the texts they comment on, argue over and theorise about is also examined. Among the recurring topics in this book are the impact of intertextuality on the form of epic and epistle, the strategic significance of allusive poetics in a political context, and the importance of reading and interpretation as poetic themes.

Ubik

Ubik
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781596061699

The screenplay version of the seminal sf novel, out of print for more than two decades.