Richard Gray

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Written by experienced teachers and authors, with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at A Level and AS this Student Book is endorsed by WJEC, offering high quality support you can trust.

Written by an experienced teacher and author, with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at A Level and AS this Student Book is endorsed by WJEC, offering high quality support you can trust.

Written by an experienced teacher and author, with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at A Level and AS this Student Book is endorsed by WJEC/Eduqas, offering high quality support you can trust.

Turkey is one of the largest and most important shipping and logistics centres in the world. This edited collection brings together industrialists actively involved in the shipping trade with an interdisciplinary team of academics from the region to provide a unique, broad perspective on the industry as a whole. Using Turkey as an in-depth case study, the volume examines issues such as port economics and policy, training and education, ship finance, containerisation and maritime policy in general. This is a useful reference for professionals and academics in both shipping and logistics.

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetrySituates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contextsExplores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United StatesProvides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetrySituates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contextsExplores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United StatesProvides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

About Addictions provides a perspective for clear thinking about what to do, rather than how to feel about addictions and addiction spectrum disorders. About Addictions provides the reader with data from Psychology, Neuroscience and Neuro-Linguistic Programming that will allow clear thought about the nature of these problems and what can be done. This is a book to think with. It is short on doctrine and long on practical information about the nature of addiction spectrum disorders and the structure of motivations for change. Here you will find information about diagnosis, studies that say something very important about 'addictive substances' and research in neuroscience, motivation, and preference hierarchies. Techniques and perspectives from Neuro-Linguistic Programming provide some novel approaches to treating these problems.

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fictionExplores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writersConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty yearsSituates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and societyOffers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers

After the Fall A common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – reveals the widespread belief among novelists, dramatists, and poets – as well as the American public at large – that in the post-9/11 world they are all somehow living “after the fall.” He carefully considers how many writers, faced with what they see as the end of their world, have retreated into the seductive pieties of home, hearth, and family; and how their works are informed by the equally seductive myth of American exceptionalism. As a counterbalance, Gray also discusses in depth the many writings that “get it right” – transnational and genuinely crossbred works that resist the oppositional and simplistic “us and them” / “Christian and Muslim” language that has dominated mainstream commentary. These imaginative works, Gray believes, choose instead to respond to the heterogeneous character of the United States, as well as its necessary positioning in a transnational context. After the Fall offers illuminating insights into the relationships of such issues as nationalism, trauma, culture, and literature during a time of profound crisis.

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fictionConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty yearsOffers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fictionConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty yearsOffers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself, Gray helps us to understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts—a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. To read a southern story, poem, or play, Gray says, is to access a multitude of texts: surrounding, indwelling, echoing voices that exist within, and because of, a confluence of other voices. Gray first brings this idea alive by mapping the rhetoric of defeat across southern texts, with particular focus on those about the war in Vietnam. He then turns to another persistent topic in the great dialogue of southern literature: agrarianism and its viability as an alternative to globalism. Finally, Gray charts three different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South. One involves a transatlantic dialogue between the fiction of Eudora Welty and European folktale; one a conversation between the indisputably southern William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, whose regional ties are more fluid and equivocal; and one the transnational dialogue on immigration and the changing ethnic makeup of the South. By talking, and listening, to many other writers, inside and outside the region, southern writers turn the intertextual space of their literature into a border territory. Their texts come to exist in an endless dialogue in which meaning is constantly being repositioned and redefined.

As the centers of world Christianity shift toward Africa and Latin America, the impact of these areas on the development of Christianity becomes increasingly important. In this book one of the world’s leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa investigates how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans in the past three hundred years. According to Richard Gray, Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices but have appropriated the Christian faith for specific needs and added to tits insights of their own. The first section of the book, based largely on recent research in the Vatican archives, examines African cosmologies and the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century. It includes a reassessment of Kongo Christianity and a reconstruction of a remarkable Afro-Brazilian initiative that led the Papacy to condemn the abuses of the Atlantic slave trade. In the second part of the book, Gray reflects on the modern period. One chapter considers the dramatic emergence of the modern missionary movement and its varied relationship with colonial rule. Another argues that Christianity in Africa is distinguished by a temperate, prolonged dialogue in which the understanding of orthodoxy is modified, developed, and enriched. The final chapter illustrates the principal theme of the book: the interaction of missionary teaching with African concerns, interests, and fears. It examines wither Christian symbols, faith, and rituals are enabling Africans to produce an effective synthesis of two rather different concepts of evil, one stemming from deeply entrenched African cosmologies, the other focused on racial discrimination and political oppression.

Turkey is one of the largest and most important shipping and logistics centres in the world. This edited collection brings together industrialists actively involved in the shipping trade with an interdisciplinary team of academics from the region to provide a unique, broad perspective on the industry as a whole. Using Turkey as an in-depth case study, the volume examines issues such as port economics and policy, training and education, ship finance, containerisation and maritime policy in general. This is a useful reference for professionals and academics in both shipping and logistics.

In this major reassessment of the American South and its literature, Richard Gray explores the idea of regionalism by focusing on those writers whose relationship with the South has been particularly problematical. Asking just what it means to belong to a place, a region, and, more specifically, what it implies for certain Americans to call themselves Southerners, he analyses confilicting notions of the South that have evolved over the past two centuries. In the process, Gray, one of the leading scholars in the field of Southern studies, offers a provocative new reading of many Southern writers and of the whole notion of a Southern tradition.