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A compelling and accessible textbook, by one of the world's pre-eminent literary critics

Fun, engaging, and action-packed! Students learn better and are more motivated when they can put English into action! The second edition of English in Action provides learners with competency-based support for building language, life, and work skills in real world settings. Learners are engaged as workers, family members, and citizens through a communicative, practical, and active approach. Fun English in Action is filled with fun and exciting content and activities which motivate students to master the skills presented. Engaging English in Action empowers students and promotes learner persistence through dynamic, communicative activities, helping to build confidence in and out of the classroom. Action-packed English in Action encourages learners to communicate and participate in a lively learning process that offers interactive technology options, providing various avenues to learning.

This 4-volume, competency-based series integrates real-life skills with essential language, vocabulary, and cultural information. Individual, small group, and whole class exercises emphasize natural language and ample oral/aural practice.

In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics.Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of writers to the organized left. Her grasp of the left's positions on the "Negro question" and the "woman question" enables a nuanced analysis of the relation of class to race and gender in the proletarian novel. Moreover, examining the articulation of political doctrine in different novelistic modes, Foley develops a model for discussing the interplay between politics and literary conventions and genres.Radical Representations recovers a literature of theoretical and artistic value meriting renewed attention form those interested in American literature, American studies, the U. S. left, and cultural studies generally.

This 4-volume, competency-based series integrates real-life skills with essential language, vocabulary, and cultural information. Individual, small group, and whole class exercises emphasize natural language and ample oral/aural practice.