We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of much research but it is usually highly visible and valued texts that are studied -- the work of novelists, poets and scholars.
The studies included in this book examine every day acts of writing and their significance. Ordinary quotidian writing may be viewed as mundane and routine, but it is central to how societies operate and the ways individuals relate to each other and to institutions.
Examples discussed in the book including...
We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of...
Bringing Jane Home is an action-adventure novel of a father who goes through hell to be reunited with his estranged daughter and his efforts to bring her home from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. Josh Freeman, ex-Navy Swift Boat machine-gunner and Montauk, NY, charter boat captain loses his wife, Mary, during a storm on a fishing trip with his daughter Jane aboard. Jane blames her father and leaves home while Josh falls off the wagon. His neighbor, Willie Miles, is worried that his daughter Sara, Jane's best friend, is hanging out with the wrong crowd. Sara and Jane are keeping...
Bringing Jane Home is an action-adventure novel of a father who goes through hell to be reunited with his estranged daughter and his efforts to bring ...
