Suspended in Language

Suspended in Language
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: G.T. Labs
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0966010655

Tells the story of the life and work of the Danish physicist in comic book format.

Ethan, Suspended

Ethan, Suspended
Author: Pamela Ehrenberg
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 080285317X

After a school suspension and his parents' separation, Ethan is sent to live with his grandparents in Washington, D.C., which is worlds apart from his home in a Philadelphia suburb.

Still Life

Still Life
Author: Elisha Cohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190250046

Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the self, which privileged reflective self-awareness. In dialogue with the field of literature and science studies and affect studies, this book shows how Victorian writers used narrative form to respond to the analytical practices and knowledge production of those other disciplines. Drawing upon canonical texts--by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy--Still Life contends that depictions of non-purposive perceptual experience suspend the processes of self-cultivation (Bildung) central to Victorian aesthetics, science, psychology, and political theory, as well as most critical accounts of the novel form. Departing from the values of individual cultivation and moral revelation associated with the genre, these writers offer an affective framework for understanding the subtly non-instrumental powers of narrative. Victorian novels ostensibly working within the parameters of the Bildungsroman are suspended by moments of "still life": a decentered lyricism associated with states of diminished consciousness. They use this style to narrate what should be unnarratable: experiences not dependent on reflective consciousness, which express a distinctive ambivalence toward dominant developmental frameworks of individual self-culture.

Sold on Language

Sold on Language
Author: Julie Sedivy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1119996082

As citizens of capitalist, free-market societies, we tend to celebrate choice and competition. However, in the 21st century, as we have gained more and more choices, we have also become greater targets for persuasive messages from advertisers who want to make those choices for us. In Sold on Language, noted language scientists Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson examine how rampant competition shapes the ways in which commercial and political advertisers speak to us. In an environment saturated with information, advertising messages attempt to compress as much persuasive power into as small a linguistic space as possible. These messages, the authors reveal, might take the form of a brand name whose sound evokes a certain impression, a turn of phrase that gently applies peer pressure, or a subtle accent that zeroes in on a target audience. As more and more techniques of persuasion are aimed squarely at the corner of our mind which automatically takes in information without conscious thought or deliberation, does 'endless choice' actually mean the end of true choice? Sold on Language offers thought-provoking insights into the choices we make as consumers and citizens – and the choices that are increasingly being made for us. Click here for more discussion and debate on the authors’ blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sold-language [Wiley disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of any third-party websites that can be linked to from this website. Users assume sole responsibility for accessing third-party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites. Any views expressed in such websites are the views of the authors of the content appearing on those websites and not the views of Wiley or its affiliates, nor do they in any way represent an endorsement by Wiley or its affiliates.]

Suspended Sentences

Suspended Sentences
Author: Patrick Modiano
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0300213379

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti’s superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano’s distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose. Although originally published separately, Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers—each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists. Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano’s fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person’s confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano’s trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316219304

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

How to Get Suspended and Influence People

How to Get Suspended and Influence People
Author: Adam Selzer
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0440421608

Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.

Fallout

Fallout
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: G.T. Labs
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780966010633

Written by Jim Ottaviani, with art by various artists.

Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation
Author: Nathalie Op de Beeck
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780816665747

An innovative analysis of children's picture books from the interwar period in America.

Sons of Liberty

Sons of Liberty
Author: Marshall Poe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2008-06-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1416950672

A new graphic, historical fiction series brings pivotal turning points in history to life for middle-grade readers. In "Sons of Liberty," young Nathaniel Smithfield must decide where his own beliefs lie, and how far he will go to fight for them, no matter the consequences.Aladdin Graphics