This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire. The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe: * language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire * language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire * attitudes and...
This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, ...
The first poem of Petroglyphs appeared unbidden in a dream. Like Odin's raven, the poem and its images heralded the coming of a simpler style that dredges up primordial images and myths to create a sacred space where change occurs, language renews itself, and the dead live again.
The first poem of Petroglyphs appeared unbidden in a dream. Like Odin's raven, the poem and its images heralded the coming of a simpler style that dre...
The first poem of Petroglyphs appeared unbidden in a dream. Like Odin's raven, the poem and its images heralded the coming of a simpler style that dredges up primordial images and myths to create a sacred space where change occurs, language renews itself, and the dead live again.
The first poem of Petroglyphs appeared unbidden in a dream. Like Odin's raven, the poem and its images heralded the coming of a simpler style that dre...
It's a particularly bad day in November of 1992 when seventy-one-year-old Manfred Vogel's prized white Charolais bull is discovered slain on his property in Arp, Texas. On that same day, his grandsons make another gruesome discovery. They dig up two decomposed bodies with gunshot wounds in the back of their heads. On this same day in Berlin, Heinrich "Dutch" Vogel, Manfred's oldest son and an American expatriate, dodges questions about the strange disappearance of a member of the United States Department of State. In this second novel featuring the Vogel family, Dutch, a freelance...
It's a particularly bad day in November of 1992 when seventy-one-year-old Manfred Vogel's prized white Charolais bull is discovered slain on his prope...
It's a particularly bad day in November of 1992 when seventy-one-year-old Manfred Vogel's prized white Charolais bull is discovered slain on his property in Arp, Texas. On that same day, his grandsons make another gruesome discovery. They dig up two decomposed bodies with gunshot wounds in the back of their heads. On this same day in Berlin, Heinrich "Dutch" Vogel, Manfred's oldest son and an American expatriate, dodges questions about the strange disappearance of a member of the United States Department of State. In this second novel featuring the Vogel family, Dutch, a freelance...
It's a particularly bad day in November of 1992 when seventy-one-year-old Manfred Vogel's prized white Charolais bull is discovered slain on his prope...
This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire. The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe: * language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire * language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire * attitudes and...
This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, ...
