William F Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3763531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William F Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | William F |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH W F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Justice for Genocide in Cambodia - The Case for the Prosecution
In the Presence of the Sun
the Presence of the presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shi…
The White Man's Road
Haboo
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound were an important part of the oral tradition by which beliefs, values, and customs were handed from one generation to another. Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian, grew up at a time when many of the old social patterns survived and when everyone still spoke the ancestral language. As an adult, when she realized that native language and culture were being forgotten, she began to wor…
Student‐Perceived Communication Needs
Curricula which reflect a more pragmatic approach to language learning require a variation in traditonal syllabus design. This paper identifies a to compose a syllabus, based upon concrete data, is patterned after the functional/notional con. Results of a survey of communication needs among students enrolled in beginning French indicate siderable concordance of opinion with regard to which functions and notions of language hold the most probable …
An evaluation and placement technique
American Indian Autobiographies
Although anthropologists and folklorists have long shown a professional interest in American Indian literature, literary scholars have seldom explored the possibilities of this rich field. Perhaps the scientific approach of the anthropologists and the idea that folklore and literature are mutually exclusive have blinded us to the recognition of literary creativity in American Indian peoples. Whatever the reasons, our cultural myopia has unnecessa…
Speaking for Ourselves
Shem Ham & Japheth
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
Vives and Montaigne as Educators
ADMIRERS of Montaigne, in an excess of zeal for his reputation as educational reformer, have claimed for him honor of being the first thinker to develop truths of ages into a connected, though not formal system of education.' In refutation of such a claim one has but to present Juan Luis Vives, Spaniard and scholar, whose De Tradendis Disciplinis, published in 1531, two years before birth of Montaigne, with his De Institutione Feminae Christianae…
Contributions of Rodriguez Rubi to the Development of the alta comedia
Student‐Perceived Communication Needs
Curricula which reflect a more pragmatic approach to language learning require a variation in traditonal syllabus design. This paper identifies a to compose a syllabus, based upon concrete data, is patterned after the functional/notional con. Results of a survey of communication needs among students enrolled in beginning French indicate siderable concordance of opinion with regard to which functions and notions of language hold the most probable …
Haboo
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound were an important part of the oral tradition by which beliefs, values, and customs were handed from one generation to another. Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian, grew up at a time when many of the old social patterns survived and when everyone still spoke the ancestral language. As an adult, when she realized that native language and culture were being forgotten, she began to wor…
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
The White Man's Road
An evaluation and placement technique
Shem Ham & Japheth
Contributions of Rodriguez Rubi to the Development of the alta comedia
Vives and Montaigne as Educators
ADMIRERS of Montaigne, in an excess of zeal for his reputation as educational reformer, have claimed for him honor of being the first thinker to develop truths of ages into a connected, though not formal system of education.' In refutation of such a claim one has but to present Juan Luis Vives, Spaniard and scholar, whose De Tradendis Disciplinis, published in 1531, two years before birth of Montaigne, with his De Institutione Feminae Christianae…
Shem Ham & Japheth
Held Captive by Indians
Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating …
American Indian Autobiographies
Although anthropologists and folklorists have long shown a professional interest in American Indian literature, literary scholars have seldom explored the possibilities of this rich field. Perhaps the scientific approach of the anthropologists and the idea that folklore and literature are mutually exclusive have blinded us to the recognition of literary creativity in American Indian peoples. Whatever the reasons, our cultural myopia has unnecessa…
Speaking for Ourselves
An evaluation and placement technique
Student‐Perceived Communication Needs
Curricula which reflect a more pragmatic approach to language learning require a variation in traditonal syllabus design. This paper identifies a to compose a syllabus, based upon concrete data, is patterned after the functional/notional con. Results of a survey of communication needs among students enrolled in beginning French indicate siderable concordance of opinion with regard to which functions and notions of language hold the most probable …
Haboo
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound were an important part of the oral tradition by which beliefs, values, and customs were handed from one generation to another. Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian, grew up at a time when many of the old social patterns survived and when everyone still spoke the ancestral language. As an adult, when she realized that native language and culture were being forgotten, she began to wor…
The White Man's Road
In the Presence of the Sun
the Presence of the presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shi…
Justice for Genocide in Cambodia - The Case for the Prosecution
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