![]() ![]() Chính cái được gọi là văn phong đó đã tạo nên sự đa sắc, dị biệt trong các tác phẩm của nhà văn Đoàn Thạch Biền, qua sự vận dụng của ngôn ngữ, nguyên tắc, quy luật lựa chọn và hiệu quả lựa chọn, cũng như việc sử dụng toàn bộ các phương tiện ngôn ngữ như các biện pháp, phương tiện tu từ ngữ nghĩa, cú pháp, ngữ âm nhằm biểu hiện một nội dung tư tưởng, tình cảm nhất định của ông. Để đưa những ngôn ngữ đó vào tác phẩm một cách thành công và lưu lại những cảm xúc không thể phai nhạt trong lòng đọc giả thì phải thông qua văn phong phù hợp. ![]() Một thực tế tồn tại trong văn chương là mỗi một tác giả, sẽ tái hiện trong độc giả một bức tranh sinh động về các tác phẩm của mình với những ngôn ngôn riêng. ![]() Văn chương dùng ngôn từ làm chất liệu để xây dựng hình tượng, phản ánh và biểu hiện đời sống. ![]()
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![]() Hoeye spent his youth in California and Texas, moving to Oregon in 1970 as a homesteader. SIDELIGHTS: Michael Hoeye is the author of a popular series of children's books featuring Hermux Tantamoq, a lively mouse who works as a watchmaker. Once upon a Borrowed Time, Putnam's (New York, NY), 2003. ![]() The Sands of Time, Putnam's ( New York, NY), 2002. Time Stops for No Mouse, Terfle Books (Portland, OR), 2000. Previously worked as a textile designer, set designer, agent, fashion photographer, and copy writer. Maryl-hurst University, Portland, OR, teacher of management of creativity in M.B.A. Agent-c/o Penguin Books Publicity, 345 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.ĬAREER: Author, book designer, and teacher. Offıce-Terfle Books, 1825 South East Seventh Ave., Portland, OR 97214. ![]() Education: Graduate work in religion and psychiatry at Union Theological Seminary.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Oak Grove, OR. 1947, in Los Angeles, CA married Martha Banyas (a jeweler and enamellist). ![]() ![]() ![]() It will take all of Vera's cunning and quickness to come out alive.Įntertaining and perceptive, Shady Hollow is fast-paced and witty, with characters that jump off the page and a hugely satisfying mystery to solve. As she stirs up the still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and the folks in Shady Hollow learn that some of their neighbours are lying, while others are downright dangerous. She has a nose for news and catches the scent of a story, one that leads her to dark places. ![]() It's something this village haven't seen before: a murder. until the town's querulous toad shows up dead. ![]() Shady Hollow has a coffee shop and a bookshop, a haberdasher and a bank. Moose and mice, owls and bears live side by side in civilized harmony. In the woodland community of Shady Hollow, you'll discover a secret. A REPORTER ON THE CASE.ĬAN YOU SPOT THE SECRETS IN SHADY HOLLOW? a perfect long weekend binge-read ' Culture FlyĪ MURDER TO SOLVE. ![]() Sometimes you just need an entertaining, escapist read to while away the hours, and Juneau Black (the pen name of authors Jocelyn Cole and Sharon Nagel) certainly delivers all the small-town cosy crime vibes, with the animal quirkiness of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox. 'Billed as Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surrealist art also has a defamiliarsing effect. A Surrealist work isn’t supposed to confuse it is meant to reveal. A Surrealist work aims to get the viewer in touch with their subconscious and uncover deeper truths. In art, Surrealism has a specific meaning. (Van Allsburg also started out as a sculptor.) Check out the paintings of Vladimir Kush below, who also places unexpected things togethe, creating a new world: Vladimir Kush is a Russian born Hawaiian based Surrealist painter and sculptor. ![]() Freud’s personal favourite Surrealist painter was Spanish painter Salvador Dalí.Ĭontemporary artists continue to work in Surrealist style. The Surrealist art movement began around 1920, inspired by Sigmund Freud’s theories of dreams and the unconscious. Artists have been juxtaposing unfamiliar objects for many years. Cognitive dissonance: the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change.Īnother descriptor for the Jumanji variety of art is Surrealism. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best he can do is to make sure she’s safe from whoever could hurt her. ![]() He knows he's too damaged to ever really be with a woman. It seems like she'd rather destroy herself than anything else.Įven worse, he didn't expect he'd care about her. ![]() But Griffin didn't expect a cocaine-fueled party girl who barely seems to care about her own safety. The man begged him to keep his daughter safe. The only silver lining here is that Griffin’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and Leigh wants him bad. When Griffin Fawkes arrives with the news that her father’s dead, she isn’t sure if she cares. She’d rather do shots of marshmallow-flavored vodka until she can’t remember. She’d rather snort lines than think about that. Leigh Thorn is hiding out in a backwoods college because her father put her in danger, and if the wrong people find her, she’s dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This Amazon release is as rooted in ’90s geopolitical values (and movie tropes) as when Harrison Ford starred opposite Dafoe’s Clark in Clear and Present Danger (1994). Updated for the 21st century with Syria replacing a literary origin story rooted in Vietnam, and Clark’s complexion being tweaked for a more inclusive era of action heroes (previous actors who played Clark include Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber), Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse presents itself as a modern thriller. That changes in Without Remorse, the long-gestating adaptation of Clancy’s 1993 novel which sees Michael B. Yet, strangely, Clark never got to star in his own movie. If the author ever wanted to indulge in action thrills, there was always John Clark, Clancy’s other recurring protagonist. ![]() And at heart, Clancy’s popular Jack Ryan character really works best as a technocrat. Beginning with John McTiernan’s crackling (if even then historically dated) The Hunt for Red October (1990), the decade was a boom era for technocratic spy thrillers. That’s probably true, but movies based on his work are firmly planted in the ‘90s. ![]() People like to say Tom Clancy’s politics never left the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon release, Unpolished Gem received mostly - but not universally - positive reviews. At the end of the day, Unpolished Gem is a movie about a journey - the journey of immigrants to a brand new country, the journey to self-discovery, the journey to assimilating and adjusting to a new culture, and the journey to repair a family who had just escaped a horrible, violent situation in Cambodia. The novel examines how different Pung's life was in Australia and how difficult is was for her to integrate into Australian culture. It tells the story of Pung and her family as they fled from Cambodia (which was enveloped in Civil War and genocide) and went to Australia. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪlice Pung's memoir Unpolished Gem(originally published in 2006) is certainly an interesting book. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() "She speaks her mind and has the kind of courage I wish I had," Bauer says. Gladstone serves as a beacon of morality in a sea of unethical chaos. With a conniving son trying to make a quick buck and a corporate machine that is ready to make a profit at any cost, Mrs. This time around, we find her struggling with the takeover of the company she and her late husband built. Gladstone, the feisty matriarch of the Gladstone dynasty. It was like running into a couple of old friends that you haven’t seen in a long time." "When I finished Rules of the Road, I didn’t think I had another book in me," Bauer tells BookPage from her home in Brooklyn, "but it was so interesting to revisit the characters and realize there was so much growth. In Best Foot Forward, Jenna is starting her junior year in high school and the family-run Gladstone Shoes is in the midst of a corporate takeover. Struggling with a difficult situation at home, Jenna shines in her after-school job at a shoe store. In Bauer’s latest novel, readers meet up once again with Jenna Boller, the beloved character introduced in Rules of the Road (1998). What do you do when you already have seven best-selling books for teens under your belt, numerous awards on your mantel and an uncanny talent for relating life’s toughest challenges with humor and hope? According to author Joan Bauer, you simply have to put your Best Foot Forward. ![]() ![]() This discussion guide and book club questions for The Vanishing Half will help you reflect on the powerful issues of race, class, and gender throughout the novel. ![]() No matter our age or stage, readers identify with the central question of the novel: what will we do when the world wants to define us in a way we refuse to be defined? The Vanishing Half is all at once a complex novel and a simple story rooted in familiar themes that appeal to readers of diverse backgrounds. They inhabit a world that defines their worth by the color of their skin, who they love, and the mistakes they’ve made. Although the intertwined lives of the characters span time and generations, all of the characters grapple with the powerful pull of the places they come from and the families who made them who they are. ![]() ![]() Identity–whether we are born into it, or whether we choose it for ourselves–is at the heart of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half. ![]() ![]() Constitution - their office is overrun by soldiers. As they are discussing the new laws - and the abolished U.S. When women's credit cards are cancelled (and their property legally transferred to their husbands or nearest male relatives), Lydia is informed of the change by her colleagues Katie and Anita. She volunteered at a rape crisis center, but quit because she lacked the time and because it "wore her down."īy the time of the rise of the Gilead regime, Lydia is a middle-aged woman and working as a well-respected judge. She was a school teacher for two terms, but soon returned to family law. She had a few male lovers throughout her life, but no long-term relationships. ![]() She later graduates and begins to work as a family court judge.Īunt Lydia had an abortion when she was young, and a brief marriage that was a mistake. Lydia is the first in her family to attend college, and has to work "crappy" jobs throughout higher education. Personality Story In the Past Before Gilead ![]() She considers herself to once have been handsome, but by her seventies, laments the effects that age have had on her. ![]() She has the "tremulous smile of a beggar", her long and yellowish front teeth sticking out a little. |