Bøger af David Rose

David Rose, author of Vault, is best known as a short story writer. In this long-awaited collection, written over the past twenty-five years, Rose explores an extraordinary range of lives: from a road crew installing speed humps, to the son of a famous artist, the dedicatee of a violin concerto, and an honorary member of the Beatles.

A man has had his life story turned into a novel, without his knowledge or approval. As he now reads, comments on and corrects the novel, he begins to struggle to distance himself from the false heroics, and above all, to reclaim his own death.

Suitable for practitioners, researchers and students, building up pedagogic, linguistic and social theory in steps, contextualized within teaching practice, this title presents the research of the 'Sydney School' in language and literacy pedagogy. It offers researchers tools for investigating and redesigning educational practice.

An introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics.