Bøger af Elizabeth Black

Elizabeth Black offers her fascinating second novel 'Love is a Thief' as a sequel to 'Herstory'. Barbara, an historian, waits for love to be bestowed on her via emails, as her long term partner Toby is away looking for treasure on an island. She has been left alone, unexpectedly and this makes her confront not only her independence but also the meaning of love within her life. She feels the poignancy of Toby's departure as an echo of his lack of displays of affection when they lived together- Barbara remembers her past as she types her e-mails, relfecting on the meaning of history within her own life. She contemplates what will happen when Toby returns. Each day brings with it new wisdoms, as she develops and grows as a woman. However, Barbara increasingly feels confused about the signals that her partner is sending out to her, especially in view of his apparent reluctance to communicate. Although Toby replied to her many e-mails finally in the previous book 'Herstory', yet again now he has disappeared silently, with no trace of any e-mails. This is a man who has perfected the art of creating a mysterious aura around him, and Barbara starts to realise that he is not all that he seemed when they were living together. Barbara reflects on her life, as she embraces change in a way that she never could have predicted. Her life has been lived through others, as her work as an historian has created a focus outside herself. She feels the empowerment of change but finds it hard to react to the moment, as she is so used to living within the grasp of history. Now she begins to open up, and unleashes change that she struggles to deal with...

Elizabeth Black 's 'Herstory' is a novel with many references to history, which is feminist in tone, questioning the self- sacrifice of women who wish to be loved more than anything in the world. Protagonist Barbara feels that her own personal history has come to a position of hiatus. She knows that she has been too gullible- her partner has abandoned her to fulfil his fantasy mission of finding gold on a desert island, and she longs for his return. She has been left in London to fend for herself. Her days are lived with a sense of foreboding. Her lonely, agonising wait feels terrifying initially, as she tries to grapple with major life changes while adapting to being alone. Barbara is an historian, yet she gradually gains an awareness that she has lived in the past for too long. Through writing e-mails to her partner Toby, she begins to become more aware of herself as a woman, looking into her needs rather than his, yet she feels pain and sorrow at the changes she has had to embrace. She begins to fall in love with Napoleon's letters to Josephine as she starts on her journey to find the true meaning of love. His words resonate in her heart, bringing hope to her that love can be part of her life once more, if only she can teach Toby how to love her. The linguistics of love are explored as Barbara writes her e-mails. Barbara feels emotionally crippled, yet she begins to find inner peace as she cathartically releases her feelings through her e-mails. She tries to find a way out of her solitude by attempting to lure Toby back. However, he has many flaws, which seem to surface in her mind the more she writes. He always admired her writing ability, so she writes e-mails to him which she feels will appeal to his ego. Honesty and a sense of frustration grip her, as she begins to realise that she has been made to feel like a fool. Her e-mails echo her changing moods, as he learns more about herself. As her independence grows, she exposes Toby's false sense of love. Barbara dresses in historical costumes to make time pass more quickly, as she reflects on their past together.

This is in a deep sense the story of a poem. After I lost faith in marriage, I met a couple whose way of being together restored my sense of what is possible, and it is their marriage that is mythologized in the poem, "Of Time and Bread and Coral," presented here. The poem became the basis of a friendship with an astonishing young woman and gave her hope as well. Later, I met a man who also doubted love; when he read the poem, he too came to believe that it might be possible for him, who loved men, to love and be loved. My interactions and relationships with these people, with my family and in particular my father, are the basis of three prose sections in this volume. These prose pieces are related through the act of communication across profound fear and the resulting-and causative-barriers.

In this beautiful thirteen page booklet, you will learn what the Sacred Scriptures and Church Fathers said about wearing a veil, as well as the rich theological and symbolic meanings behind the tradition.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation, TAFA 2013, held in Beijing, China, in August 2013. The Workshop was co-located with IJCAI 2013. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as abstract argumentation frameworks, social abstract argumentation with votes on attacks, a normal form of argumentation frameworks, assumption-based argumentation, argument schemes for normative practical reasoning.

This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and character focalisation. The book includes a description of Grice's Co-operative Principle and its contribution to the interpretation of literary texts, and considers Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory, with particular stress on the valuable insights into irony and varieties of indirect discourse it offers. Bakhtin's theories are introduced, and related to the more explicitly linguistic Relevance Theory. Metaphor, irony and parody are examined primarily as pragmatic phenomena, and there is a strand of sociolinguistic interest particularly in relation to the theories of Labov and Bakhtin.