John Hughes

John Hughes explores Hardy's claim that his art sought to intensify the expression of things through three main sections on music, the body, and voice. These offer intersecting and mutually informing discussions of the central drama of inexpression and expressivity in Hardys work, as it affects the various personae of the text, including the reader. Throughout, the book draws on themes in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to reveal how Hardys fiction and poetry express and represent the affective and physical conditions of mind, and their conflicts with social fictions of identity. The first main section on music incorporates three chapters that examine how Hardys writing stages musical experience as an expression of human desire and individuality at odds with the constraints of rationality, Victorian fiction form, and social convention. Intricate and extensive readings are linked also to larger contextual and theoretical issues in order to show how music as a theme and motif highlights the kinds of creativity and ethical cruxes that characterise Hardys work throughout his career. The second section on embodiment and sensation shows how close attention to Hardys writing on the topics of facial and bodily expression (and affectivity) reveal much about the sources of his inspiration, and its philosophical conditions and implications. The third section on voice offers three chapters, each of which centrally employs a close metrical reading of an important Hardy poem within its larger biographical and inter-textual contexts. These readings demonstrate how fundamental were Hardys innovations in meter to the power and originality of his work, and to its expressive treatment of his abiding preoccupations with love, grief, childhood, and the loss of faith.

Reproduction of the original: Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone by John Hughes

Reproduction of the original: Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone by John Hughes

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This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love. Throughout his work Hardy associates music with moments of individual expression and relatedness. For him, music provokes a response to life that is inseparable from what gives life value, as well as being incompatible with his increasingly conscious vision of personal and social limitation. The first two chapters trace how this ironic disjunction is evident in the novels and the tales, while exploring in detail how they represent and evoke the spiritual and emotional transports of musical experience. In a corresponding way, the third and fourth chapters concentrate on how, within the poetry, music works as a vehicle of inspiration and memory, recurrently surprising the conscious self with intimations of other potentials of expression. In the fifth chapter, the focus falls on Hardy's own philosophical reading, and thus on his notebooks and letters, so as to revisit in an altered context many of the issues that have been opened up by the book's emphasis on his literary representations of musical experience-issues of individuality, of unconscious and bodily experience, of literary language. Finally, although the book does incorporate some biographical detail about Thomas Hardy's lifelong passion for playing and collecting music, it predominantly works through close reading, while also drawing at points on literary theoretical texts, where these offer ways of articulating the broad questions of literary convention and representation that arise.

Audio and video scripts in ELT materials are often criticised for their lack of authenticity, overload of target language, dull characters and non-existent plot lines. The writer needs to address these criticisms at the same time as working within the bounds of what learners can realistically handle. In this ebook John Hughes takes a look at the theoretical and practical issues involved in writing audio and video scripts for ELT materials; provides helpful suggestions for writing them, applying techniques used by writers for theatre and film, and encourages the writer to think critically about their script writing. Punctuated with examples from published materials, tasks and accompanying commentaries, John shares his experience and tips for best practice for creating scripts your learners will want to listen to. This ebook forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The training ebooks are designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

With World English, learners experience the world through content and ideas from National Geographic and TED, providing the motivation to talk about what’s most important to them.

With World English, learners experience the world through content and ideas from National Geographic and TED, providing the motivation to talk about what’s most important to them.

Cambridge Business qualifications are internationally recognised business qualifications which demonstrate an ability to use English in professional contexts. As a Cambridge English examination, it is used as a suitable entry requirement by academic institutions and for recruitment by international companies. Cambridge English Qualifications are designed so that each exam builds on the skills developed at the previous level. Now in a new edition, Success with Business (formerly Success with BEC) provides a complete preparation for the Cambridge Business exams. It is also an ideal focus for in-company training courses and for business people and students wishing to improve their English and job prospects. The course covers the three levels of the exam: Preliminary B1, Vantage B2 and Higher C1.

Cambridge Business qualifications are internationally recognised business qualifications which demonstrate an ability to use English in professional contexts. As a Cambridge English examination, it is used as a suitable entry requirement by academic institutions and for recruitment by international companies. Cambridge English Qualifications are designed so that each exam builds on the skills developed at the previous level. Now in a new edition, Success with Business (formerly Success with BEC) provides a complete preparation for the Cambridge Business exams. It is also an ideal focus for in-company training courses and for business people and students wishing to improve their English and job prospects. The course covers the three levels of the exam: Preliminary B1, Vantage B2 and Higher C1.

Cambridge Business qualifications are internationally recognised business qualifications which demonstrate an ability to use English in professional contexts. As a Cambridge English examination, it is used as a suitable entry requirement by academic institutions and for recruitment by international companies. Cambridge English Qualifications are designed so that each exam builds on the skills developed at the previous level. Now in a new edition, Success with Business (formerly Success with BEC) provides a complete preparation for the Cambridge Business exams. It is also an ideal focus for in-company training courses and for business people and students wishing to improve their English and job prospects. The course covers the three levels of the exam: Preliminary B1, Vantage B2 and Higher C1.