scholarly journals Boys Don’t Cry

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Alexandra Barron
Keyword(s):  
True Story ◽  
Composition Classes

In literature and in composition classes, this film, based on the true story of the murder of transgender young man, initiates important discussions of the construction of gender.

Another true story (Bertrand Bland)

BDJ ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 147 (12) ◽  
pp. 341-341
Author(s):  
B Bland
Keyword(s):  
True Story

Ben Jonson's Reception of Lucian

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-179
Author(s):  
Robert S. Miola
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Ben Jonson ◽  
Thomas Dekker ◽  
The Moon ◽  
True Story ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Dead

Throughout his career Ben Jonson drew variously upon Lucian, whom he encountered in the mythographies as well as in several Greek and Latin editions he owned. Jonson's receptions take the form of glancing reminiscence in the masques, as Lucian supplies mythological decoration and literary conceit. They appear as transformative allusion in Cynthia's Revels, which draws upon several satirical Dialogues of the Gods, and in The Staple of News, which re-appropriates a favorite satirical dialogue, Timon, the Misanthrope, to satirize the greed of the news industry. Jonson practices an extended and creative imitatio of Lucian's fantastic moon voyages (A True Story and Icaromenippus) in his much neglected News from the New World Discovered in the Moon. And, likewise, Jonson reworks Lucian extensively for the action of Poetaster: The Carousal supplies the lascivious banquet of 4.5, and Lexiphanes, the humiliating purge of Crispinus. Jonson's rich engagement with Lucian comes to a climax in Volpone, which borrows directly from The Dream, and several Dialogues of the Dead. Here whimsical ancient satire enables stern moral allegory. Responding to Poetaster in Satiro-mastix, Thomas Dekker has Captain Tucca rebuke Horace (i.e. Ben Jonson) by sarcastically calling him “Lucian.” Jonson, no doubt, took the proffered insult as the highest compliment.

Based on a True Story

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-389
Author(s):  
Stephen Andrews
Keyword(s):  
True Story

Investigating the clause complex

2005 ◽  
Vol 149-150 ◽  
pp. 47-76
Author(s):  
Alvin Leong Ping ◽  
Geok Wee Bee
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Composition Classes ◽  
Clause Complex

The situation in many composition classes in Singapore is characterized by scaffolding (Vygot-sky, 1962; Bruner, 1985), where students are given explicit guidance, particularly concerning the organizational structure of the essay. With scaffolding, there is a concern that the students will produce similarly-structured essays. How then does one differentiate a good essay from a less well-written one? Using Halliday's clause-complex framework (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004), our analysis shows that while the better writers display a greater mastery of clause-complex structures, the weaker writers rely heavily on simplex constructions. In addition to scaffolding, we argue that the appropriate use of clause-complex structures should be incorporated as part of the writing lesson.

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