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Palgrave MacMillan Us Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
Book SynopsisFrom novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns.Trade Review“Evil Children is an encyclopedic survey of the supernatural and ‘supernormal’ young that haunt our popular culture. … her book is a terrific resource for childhood scholars who may want to research and teach representations of the bad and the ugly alongside the good.” (Adam Golub, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 11 (2), 2018)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Monstrous Births2. Gifted Children3. Child Ghosts4. Possessed Children5. Ferals6. ChangelingsPrimary SourcesWorks CitedIndex
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Taylor & Francis John Webster
Book SynopsisThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 Comments; Chapter 1 Webster on ‘The White Devil’ 1612; Chapter 2 Webster’s View of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 3 The Dedication of ‘The Devil’S Law Case’; Chapter 4 Three Poems for ‘The Duchess’; Chapter 5 Fitzjeffrey’s Portrait of Websters; Chapter 6 An Italian Envoy Comments on ‘The Duchess‘; Chapter 7 Abraham Wright’s Commonplace Book; Chapter 8 Singular Praise from Samuel Sheppard; Chapter 9 Samuel Pepys on Webster; Chapter 10 Langbaine’s Webster; Chapter 11 On the Failure of Birth Control in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and ‘Henry VIII’; Chapter 12 Nahum Tate Rewrites ‘The White Devil’; Chapter 13 Lewis Theobald Rewrites ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 14 Charles Lamb: Webster Reclaimed; Chapter 15 Reactions to Lamb; Chapter 16 Nathan Drake Ranks the Elizabethans; Chapter 17 ‘Blackwood’s Reviews Webster; Chapter 18 Campbell Refutes Lamb; Chapter 19 Hazlitt on Webster 1819,; Chapter 20 Lord Byron Resists But Reads; Chapter 21 Shelley’s Tastes; Chapter 22 ‘Barry Cornwall’ on Webster; Chapter 23 Dyce’s Introduction to Webster; Chapter 24 George Darley Writes of Webster; Chapter 25 The ‘Gentleman‘s Magazine’ Considers Webster; Chapter 26 A Historian’s Webster; Chapter 27 The Students’ Webster; Chapter 28 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ on Stage; Chapter 29 Isabella Glyn Tours as the Duchess; Chapter 30 ‘The Duchess’ in the USA; Chapter 31 The Canon Fires; Chapter 32 Webster on the American Lecture Circuit; Chapter 33 J.A. Symonds in the ‘Cornhill Magazine’; Chapter 34 William Minto on Webster as Dramatist; Chapter 35 Ward’s ‘History’; Chapter 36 Swinburne on Webster; Chapter 37 James Russell Lowell Lectures; Chapter 38 Saintsbury’s Survey; Chapter 39 J.A. Symonds on Webster; Chapter 40 The Typical Webster; Chapter 41 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ in London; Chapter 42 Archer Attacks; Chapter 43 William Poel Defends Webster; Chapter 44 A Traditionalist Protests; Chapter 45 Gosse on Webster’s ‘Tragic Poem’; Chapter 46 Webster in the ‘DNB’;
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to Pope Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Robinson Crusoe Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis New Woman Fiction 18811899 Part II vol 6
Book SynopsisCovers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.Table of ContentsI: Nobody’s Fault; 1: Chapter I; 2: Chapter II; 3: Chapter III; 4: Chapter IV; 5: Chapter V; 6: Chapter VI; 7: Chapter VII; II: Part II; 8: Chapter VIII; 9: Chapter IX; 10: Chapter X; 11: Chapter XI; 12: Chapter XII; 13: Chapter XIII; 14: Chapter XIV; 15: Chapter XV; 16: Chapter XVI; III: Netta Syrett; 17: School; 18: The C.T.C.; 19: A Visit; 20: The Swansea High School; 21: London; 22: Friends – and Marriages; 23: Friends – and Parties; 24: An Unorthodox School; 25: The ‘Playgoers’ Play’; 26: Still Theatrical; 27: Italy And The Riviera; 28: Enter ‘Peter’ By Way of The Dream Garden; 29: Paris; 30: The Thorps and ‘The Decoy’; 31: Jack; 32: Chapter XVI Thomas Hardy – The Pen CluB; 33: The Pre-War Russian Ballet: Plays and Pageants; 34: Soho Square; 35: Chapter XIX The Children’s Theatre; 36: The Outbreak of War; 37: Hamilton Terrace; 38: Italy Again; 39: Ebury Street; 40: ‘Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude of ways we communicate: through images, sound and music to gestures, body posture and the use of space. The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis, Second Edition provides a comprehensive research tool kit' for multimodal analysis, with thirty-four chapters written by leading figures in the field on a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues. This new edition includes twelve new chapters on theoretical and mathodological developments, and multimodal research on digitally mediated texts and interaction. The Handbook includes chapters on key themes within multimodality such as technology, culture, notions of identity, social justice and power, and macro issues such as literacy policy. Taking a broad look at multimodality, the contributors engage with how a variety
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Latins Greeks and Muslims Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean 10th15th Centuries
Book SynopsisTrade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and ''national'' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these encounters varied widely, depending on whether they were the result of cooperation, rivalry or clashes between states, the outcome of Latin conquest, which altered the social and legal status of indigenous subjects, or the result of economic activity. They had wide-ranging social and economic repercussions, and shaped both individual and collective perceptions and attitudes. These often differed, depending upon ''nationality'', standing within the dominant or subject social strata, or purely economic considerations. In any event, at the individual level common economic interests transcended collective ''national'' and cultural boundaries, except in times of crisis. The studies in this latest cTrade Review'The scholarship is outstanding, and whilst the specific nature of the collection will not be of interest to all, the work provides a valuable survey of trade and cultural encounters in the Mediterranean during this period.' Islam and Christian-Muslim RelationsTable of ContentsContents: Preface; The Byzantine outsider in trade (c.900-c.1350); Diplomacy, trade, shipping and espionage between Byzantium and Egypt in the 12th century; Migrations familiales et stratégies commerciales vénitiennes aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles; La colonisation militaire vénitiennne de la Crète au XIIIe siècle: une nouvelle approche; Mercanti genovesi e veneziani e le loro merci nel Levante crociato; The fonde of Crusader Acre and its tariff: some new considerations; Foreigners and the urban economy in Thessalonike, c.1150-c.1450; Thessalonique de la domination de Byzance à celle de Venise. Continuité, adaptation ou rupture?; La consolidation de la domination de Venise dans la ville de Négrepont (1205-1390): un aspect de sa politique coloniale; New evidence on the Greek peasantry in Latin Romania; Byzantine traders in Mamluk Egypt; Greeks in the maritime trade of Cyprus around the mid-14th century; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Biography
Book SynopsisBiography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth.This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.Trade Review"A hugely enjoyable read, deeply researched and knowledgeable, with an effective mix of structure, theory, and personality, as befits its subject. Very wide-ranging, it’s peppered with names and connections. In squaring a number of circles, Biography: a Historiography is a single-handed refutation of any misgivings historians may have as to the biographer and their craft." Dr Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK"[I]t’s a big, authoritative work with a dazzling range of research and reference, and passionate engagement with ideas and issues. A book to think with!" Professor Richard Holmes, FRSL, FBA, OBE, Hon. Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge"This is a most welcome addition to the literature on biography which will be attractive to readers in several different disciplines. Historians will like its very firm grounding in the development of historical writing since the nineteenth century; students of literature will learn much from its studies of the Bloomsbury biographers and life writing today; while social scientists will find much to explore and applaud in its confident discussion of concepts and methodology. The discussion of biography is integrated with the discussion of general historiography. Our pre-existing historiographical familiarity helps us to appreciate the novelty of the author’s biographical arguments all the more."Professor Lawrence Goldman, Oxford University, UK"There are numerous monographs on biography as a genre but no single text dealing with historians and biography, and yet historians are a major producer of biographies. Melanie Nolan’s Biography: A Historiography provides the first systematic and focussed consideration of historians’ biographical approaches and practices. It is a far ranging and much needed work, competently executed and underpinned by an impressive array of research." Professor Douglas Munro, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Introduction: "It’s Just a Biography": historicising historians’ biographical debates 2. Victorians’ debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians’ ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage and Its Dissolution in Early Modern England Volume 3
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage and Its Dissolution in Early Modern England Volume 2
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chaucer The Basics
Book SynopsisChaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also providing some necessary background to key medieval ideas and the historical period in which he lived. Jacqueline Tasioulas gives a brief account of Chaucer's life in its historical and cultural context and also introduces the reader to some of the key religious and philosophical ideas of the period. The essentials of the language and pronunciation are introduced through close reading in a section dedicated to demystifying this often alien-seeming aspect of studying Chaucer. Including a whole chapter devoted to poetry the book also discusses key works, such as: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowls Troilus and Criseyde The Legend of Good Women The Canterbury Tales <Table of Contents1. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Life in Time 2. Chaucer’s Language of Poetry 3. The Canterbury Tales 4. Troilus and Criseyde 5. The Book of the Duchess 6. The House of Fame 7. The Parliament of Fowls 8. The Legend of Good Women
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisChildren's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated.Positioned within the wider field of adult literary, film, and television culture, this book also covers: Ideological and political movements Children's literature in the age of globalization Postcolonial literature, ecocriticism, and animal studies Each chapter includes a case study featuring well-known authors and titles, including Charlotte's Web, Edward Lear, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. With a comprehensive glossary and further reading, this book is invaluable reading for anyone studying Children's Literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Definitions 2. Children's literature: early and global histories 3. Children's literature and the political 4. Theories and methodologies 5. Children's literature and the global and natural worldConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Imagination
Book SynopsisHistorical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian.We use imagination to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind''s eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered too much. Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and cTrade Review"An excellent and lucid introduction to one of the key issues in historical practice, examined through engaging examples. It will be read with profit by students of history [and philosophy at all levels."David Kauffman, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Imagination in History 1. Imagination in the Archives 2. Insertions 3. The modal mood in historical writing 4. The historian’s fancy 5. What if? Conclusion Glossary Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis British ItNarratives 1750â1830 Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd British Socialist Fiction 18841914 Volume 2
Book SynopsisSocialism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain was a highly literate movement. Every socialist group produced some form of written text through which their particular brand of politics could be promoted. This edition collects serialized fiction and short stories that have not been published since their original appearance.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives of Shakespearian Actors Part IV Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part V Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1
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Taylor & Francis Introducing English for Academic Purposes
Book SynopsisIntroducing English for Academic Purposes is an accessible and engaging textbook which presents a wide-ranging introduction to the field, covering the global and institutional position of EAP as well as its manifestations in classrooms and research contexts around the world. Each chapter provides: a critical overview introducing readers to theory- and research-informed perspectives; profiles of practice to guide readers in putting theory to use in real world contexts; tasks, reflection exercises and a glossary to help readers consolidate their understanding; an annotated further reading section with links to online resources to enable readers to extend their knowledge. Covering both theoretical and practical issues, Introducing English for Academic Purposes is essential reading for studentsof applied linguistics, and pre-service and in-service teachers of EAP.Trade Review"This book offers an excellent introduction to the field of EAP. I thoroughly recommend this volume to all students, pre-service and in-service teachers of EAP."John Flowerdew, City University of Hong Kong"A highly accessible introduction to EAP. Charles and Pecorari don’t just connect the dots between theory and practice; they provide the scaffolding needed for readers to make the connections themselves as they contemplate how to embark on or continue their own journeys of research-informed reflective EAP practice."Diane D. Belcher, Georgia State University, USA"Combining an excellent synthesis of research findings and a detailed coverage of current approaches and perspectives, this should be regarded as essential reading for teacher education in EAP." Helen Basturkmen, University of Auckland, New Zealand"A truly excellent introduction to the field. For [EAP teachers], the movement from theory to practical application and implication will be very welcome and the level is perfectly pitched with regards to assumed and new knowledge. The economy and beguiling simplicity with which the knotty and multi-layered fabric of frameworks, perspectives and approaches are staked out so very clearly is evidence of two forensic minds completely on top of their game."Peter Saunders, University of Oxford, UK in 'System'"This…book…overviews the whole field, providing cohesion between its different parts…For this reason, as well as for the clear and interesting presentation, it is likely to be in wide demand for teacher education programmes as well as for course planners and teachers…In summary this book is readable, current and very applied."Marilyn Lewis, University of Auckland, New Zealand in 'TESOLANZ News'"Introducing English for Academic Purposes is an essential reading resource for students of applied linguistics, and novice as well as experienced teachers of EAP…. This means that there is no doubt that anybody involved in EAP will warmly welcome this book."Violeta Jurkovič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 'ESP Today'"This book offers an excellent introduction to the field of EAP. I thoroughly recommend this volume to all students, pre-service and in-service teachers of EAP."John Flowerdew, City University of Hong Kong"A highly accessible introduction to EAP. Charles and Pecorari don’t just connect the dots between theory and practice; they provide the scaffolding needed for readers to make the connections themselves as they contemplate how to embark on or continue their own journeys of research-informed reflective EAP practice."Diane D. Belcher, Georgia State University, USA"Combining an excellent synthesis of research findings and a detailed coverage of current approaches and perspectives, this should be regarded as essential reading for teacher education in EAP." Helen Basturkmen, University of Auckland, New Zealand"A truly excellent introduction to the field. For [EAP teachers], the movement from theory to practical application and implication will be very welcome and the level is perfectly pitched with regards to assumed and new knowledge. The economy and beguiling simplicity with which the knotty and multi-layered fabric of frameworks, perspectives and approaches are staked out so very clearly is evidence of two forensic minds completely on top of their game."Peter Saunders, University of Oxford, UK in 'System'"This…book…overviews the whole field, providing cohesion between its different parts…For this reason, as well as for the clear and interesting presentation, it is likely to be in wide demand for teacher education programmes as well as for course planners and teachers…In summary this book is readable, current and very applied."Marilyn Lewis, University of Auckland, New Zealand in 'TESOLANZ News'"We recommend this book to teachers and researchers with interests in EAP and ESP in particular, but not exclusively. Those outside the field and in contexts that are less explicitly covered by this book, such as secondary school, will also find it informative and practical."Averil Coxhead, Rebecca Belworthy, Michael Gask, Qiwei He, Lesley Hurst, Lisa Lorenzen, Sarah Patterson, Rosalind Shiraishi, Frank Rogers & Andri Suherman, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 'The TESOLANZ Journal'Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection I The Field of EAPChapter 1 The Scope of English for Academic PurposesChapter 2 The Global Context of EAPChapter 3 The Institutional Contexts of EAPSection II Planning for EAPChapter 4 EAP Approaches and MethodsChapter 5 Planning EAP ProvisionChapter 6 EAP MaterialsSection III Teaching and Assessing EAPChapter 7 Academic DiscourseChapter 8 Academic VocabularyChapter 9 Written Expert GenresChapter 10 Written Learner GenresChapter 11 Spoken GenresChapter 12 Assessment and Feedback in EAPIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Restoration and EighteenthCentury Poetry 16601780 Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern Welsh A Comprehensive Grammar
Book SynopsisModern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the ideal reference source for all speakers and learners of Welsh. Focusing on contemporary spoken Welsh, it presents the complexities of the language in a concise and readable form. Common grammatical patterns and parts of speech are discussed in detail and without jargon and extensive cross references make the book comprehensive and easy to use.Now in its third edition, the Grammar has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. Changes include an increased number of illustrative examples, additional appendices for easy reference, inclusion of IPA phonetic symbols, and expanded sections on further reading.Features include: Full use of authentic examples Particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty Extensive index and cross referencing Initial consonant mutations marked throughout SeTable of ContentsPreface 1. Sounds and spelling 2. Mutations in Welsh 3. Word order and sentence structure 4. Articles 5. Nouns 6. Adjectives 7. Pronouns 8. Numerals and quantifiers 9. Verbs 10. Adverbs and adverbials 11. Prepositions 12. Complex sentences 13. Conjunctions 14. Functions and situations Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Reading Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other
Book SynopsisThis practical and research-based introduction to current and effective English grammar instruction gives pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher educators a strong foundation for teaching second language grammar and helps them develop their professional knowledge and skills. Written in a highly readable style for an international audience, it provides a thorough and rounded overview of the principles, strategies, techniques, and applications currently dominant in teaching L2 grammar in a range of instructional settings around the world. Chapter authors are world-class authorities in grammar and grammar teaching and learning. All chapters are based on theoretical frameworks and/or research foundations with a strong emphasis on practical applications and implications for classroom teaching, and highlight teaching methods, key concepts, and terminology associated with grammar instruction. Illuminating the options and choices in grammar teaching from a contemporarTable of ContentsPreface PART IPrinciples and Foundations of Grammar Teaching 1 The Importance of the Discourse Level in Understanding and Teaching English GrammarMarianne Celce-Murcia 2 Teaching Grammar: English as an International Language Sandra Lee McKay 3 Using Corpus Linguistics to Improve the Teaching of Grammar Susan Conrad 4 Grammar in Student Books vs. Grammar That Students Need: Which Grammar to Include, Which Grammar to Omit Keith S. Folse 5 Functional Approaches to Teaching Grammar in the Second Language Classroom Anne BurnsPART IIStrategies and Techniques 6 Grammar Practice Penny Ur 7 Grammar Teaching as Consciousness Raising Rod Ellis 8 12 Principles of Grammar Instruction Jack C. Richards and Randi Reppen 9 Practical Grammar Teaching: Grammar Constructions and Their Relatives Eli HinkelPART IIIGrammar for Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing10 Teaching Grammar at the Advanced Level Michael J. McCarthy11 Promoting Grammar and Language Development in the Writing Class: Why, What, How, and When Dana R. Ferris12 Writing with Attitude: Conveying a Stance in Academic Texts Ken HylandList of Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Men and Language
Book SynopsisWomen, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field.Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book introduces the idea of gender as a social construct, and covers key topics such as conversational practice, same sex talk, conversational dominance, and children's acquisition of gender-differentiated language, discussing the social and linguistic consequences of these patterns of talk.Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, this book contains a brand new preface which situates this text in the modern day study of language and gender, covering the postmodern shift in the understanding of gender and language, and assessing the book's impTrade ReviewPraise for Jennifer Coates and Women, Men and Language:"This new reissue is a significant contribution to the study of gender, offering comprehensive coverage on the complexity of the links between language and gender, and the continuing link between gender and inequality".Isabelle Lemée, Lakehead University, Canada"Those who, like me, have used this book in their language and gender courses, will warmly welcome this third edition, which brings both the material surveyed and the perspectives covered into the 21st century. Jennifer Coates' lucid and engaging style continues to make this a very attractive text."Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand"Women, Men and Language has served readers since its first publication as an accessible and balanced guide to the literature on gender differences in language. This revised third edition extends the book's scope to reflect recent developments in theory and research, while retaining the clarity of earlier versions. Informative, wide-ranging and always readable, the updated text provides 21st century students and their teachers with an invaluable overview of an increasingly complex field."Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford, UK "Coates' work has had a major influence on the study of language and gender, and one could easily argue that her book,Women, Men and Language, basically created the field."Scott F. Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsPrefacePART ONE: INTRODUCTORY1 Language and gender2 The historical background (I) – Folklinguistics and the early grammarians3 The historical background (II) – Anthropologists and dialectologistsPART TWO: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE4 Quantitative studies5 Social networks6 Gender differences in conversational practice7 Conversational dominance in mixed talk8 Same-sex talkPART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES9 Children and gender-differentiated language10 The role of gender differences in linguistic change11 The social consequences of gender differences in languagePART FOUR: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE12 New developments in language and gender researchBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Colloquial Icelandic
Book SynopsisColloquial Icelandic provides a step-by-step course in Icelandic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Icelandic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues This second edition has been extensively updated and revised throughout, Trade Review"Ideal for beginners and brushers-up alike, this enlarged and updated edition is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the essentials of Modern Icelandic, combining the teaching of the language at every stage with useful tips on day-to-day living in Iceland: food and drink, where to stay, how to get about, and how to ask intelligent questions about Icelandic history, culture, and geography. An undoubted ‘must’ for travellers to Iceland, whether as first-time or returning visitors!" Rory McTurk, University of Leeds, UK"Neijmann's Colloquial Icelandic will both navigate you towards advanced communication skills and familiarize you with many specific Icelandic language concepts. It is comprehensive and extremely user-friendly at the same time—a must for a language as complex as Icelandic. For a self-study kit, it is as close as you can get to having your own private teacher and native guide to the local culture." Silvie Cinkova, Charles University in Prague, The Czech RepublicTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. The sounds and letters of Icelandic. 1 Velkomin til Íslands!Welcome to Iceland! 2. Hvaðan ert þú?Where are you from? 3. Hvert förum við? Where are we going? 4 Ég ætla að fá . . . Hvað verður þetta mikið? I would like to get . . . How much will that be? 5. Föt Clothing 6. Á ferð og flugi On the move 7. Daglegt líf Daily life 8. Verði þér að góðu! Enjoy your meal! 9. Fjölskyldur Families 10. Stefnumót Appointments 11. Gisting Accommodation 12. Tómstundir Spare time 13. Ísland Iceland 14. Saga og þjóð Story, history and people 15. Höfuð, herðar, hné og tær Head and shoulders, knees and toes 16. Gangi þér vel! Good luck!Grammar Summary. Glossary of grammatical terms. Key to exercises. Glosses of reading passages. Icelandic-English glossary. English-Icelandic glossary. Index
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Taylor & Francis Land
Book SynopsisAcclaimed as an important piece of modern Korean writing, this book is set against the background of the struggle between conservative and modernizing forces at the turn of the century. It follows the fortunes of several generations of Korean villagers during a time of turbulence and change.Table of ContentsChapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26 -Six; Chapter 27 -Seven; Chapter 28; Chapter 29 -Nine; Chapter 30 Thirty; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Chapter 38; Chapter 39 Nine; Chapter 40; Chapter 41; Chapter 42; Chapter 43; Chapter 44; Chapter 45; Chapter 46; Chapter 47; Chapter 48; Chapter 49 Nine; Chapter 50 Fifty; Chapter 51; Chapter 52; Chapter 53;
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Cambridge University Press Hope A Literary History
Book SynopsisHope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do arguments against hope today remain useful? If hope sounds to us like a good thing, that reaction stems from a progressive political tradition grounded in the French Revolution, aspects of Romantic literature and the influence of the Abrahamic faiths. Ranging both wide and deep, Adam Potkay examines the cases for and against hope found in literature from antiquity to the present. Drawing imaginatively on several fields and creatively juxtaposing poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology and political theory, the author brings continually fresh insights to a subject of perennial interest. This is a bold and illuminating new treatment of a long-running literary debate as complex as it is compelling.Trade Review'Adam Potkay traces the fascinating, tangled history of hope through the centuries, from classical antiquity to the present day, moving with apparently effortless intellectual grace between literature, philosophy, political thought, and theology. It is a work of great humanity as well as immense but lightly worn erudition, a truly memorable account of this most ambiguous of all the virtues.' Seamus Perry, University of Oxford'How hopeless is it to be hopeful? In this magnificent book, Adam Potkay takes us on a literary tour to discover how some have thought hope to be an illusion best avoided, whilst others have believed it to be a virtue that saves souls or effects political change. At a time when hope is spoken of as a positive emotion, but somewhat lacking in substance, this is an important contribution to help clarify whether reality is ultimately trustworthy enough to revitalise the concept for a new generation.' Mark Oakley, Dean of St John's College, Cambridge'Hope: A Literary History is an impressive accomplishment, unusual in its breadth, deeply learned, and engagingly humane in sensibility. Hope is a virtue in common parlance, the optimistic face we turn against a bleak fate. But Potkay traces the origins of this virtue to an equally deeply rooted sense of hope as an irrational flight from reality. These contesting and opposed ideas of hope make for dramatic movements in intellectual history, from the classical and pre-Christian eras through the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the successive modernisms and post-modernisms of the twentieth century. Potkay's unique gifts as a historian and reader make him an ideal and genial guide through vast and fascinating cultural territory.' Nancy Yousef, Rutgers University'Hope has a history. Potkay traces this history through central literary texts from Greek antiquity to Camus and Beckett, appropriately supported by philosophical, theological and political reflections on hope. Presenting the shifting cases for and against hope with clarity and engagement, he invites his readers to face the challenge of hoping in a world of diverse desires. A great book!' Werner G. Jeanrond, University of Oslo'… a model of literary history.' Micah Mattix, The Spectator'Hope is seen as 'an unqualified good' today, Adam Potkay writes in his excellent history of the idea, … Potkay is a careful reader who makes fine, never forcing texts to say what they don't, and provides sufficient detail without muddying key distinctions. He shows that as long as there are humans, there will be hope, and that this is both a gift and a curse.' Micah Mattix, The Spectator'A startling achievement.' Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement'… a startling achievement.'Table of ContentsIntroduction: For and against hope; 1. The limits of hope in the ancient world; 2. Eternal hope: The Christian vision; 3. The three hopes of humanism: Sacred, profane, and political; 4. Something evermore about to be: Hope in the Romantic era; 5. Later nineteenth-century responses to Romantic hope; 6. Modernism: Repetition, epiphany, waiting.
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WW Norton & Co The Stone Girl
Book SynopsisThe Stone Girl is a riveting tale of deception, vengeance and power set against the haunting beauty of the Adirondack wilderness.
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WW Norton & Co The Wintering Place
Book SynopsisDeserting to escape the horrors of the Indian wars two soldiers, Irish brothers, seek peace with the woman they love.Trade Review"[D]arkly suspenseful." -- Alida Becker - New York Times Book Review"[A]s bloody and visceral as a Sam Peckinpah film....[A] solid revisionist western." -- Publishers Weekly"A powerful account of survival at all costs in a world where might is right." -- Declan Burke - Irish Times
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WW Norton & Co Dinosaurs
Book SynopsisOne of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 An Oprah Daily Favourite Book of 2022 A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's BibleTrade Review"Minimalist, well-crafted…Millet is exceptionally skilled at what she does." -- Sandra Newman - The Guardian"This gentle, redemptive novel follows a damaged, trusting man as he heals through human connection and requited love…it leaves a warm afterglow and an optimism that lingers." -- Sally Morris - The Daily Mail"Deceptively simple and quietly lovely." -- Adrienne Westenfeld - Esquire"[S]harp and implacably funny…The novel is both aubade and vesper. It implies that some people can’t escape the prisons of who they are…. Millet’s novels draw solace from the idea that we are infinitely bigger than ourselves." -- Katy Waldman - The New Yorker"Dinosaurs solidifies a new phase of Millet’s career.…The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed—what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another—at once simpler and more profound…. Millet’s g" -- Christine Smallwood - The New York Times"Dinosaurs solidifies a new phase of Millet’s career.…The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed—what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another—at once simpler and more profound…. Millet’s g" -- Christine Smallwood - The New York Times
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WW Norton & Co Cicada Summer
Book SynopsisA woman, her grandfather and her lover quarantine in the remote lakeside wildernesswhere their world splits apart at the seams
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WW Norton & Co Quincas Borba
Book SynopsisA vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled
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WW Norton & Co Aristophanes Four Plays
Book SynopsisA “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
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Palgrave Macmillan Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisInnovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.Trade Review"The essays work together to highlight both the continuities between the sorts of epistemological questions being raised in different parts of the Atlantic world and the varied approaches taken to answering and exploring them. Bowers and Chico are opening up some large and complicated scholarly questions through the ways in which they frame this volume." - Critique de Livres "Bowers (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Chico (Univ. of Maryland) assemble and introduce a thought-provoking collection of scholarship on the long 18th century. The essays are wide-ranging, and the titular umbrella that covers them is correspondingly large, but this breadth is a strength rather than a weakness. The scholarship is uniformly good, and an eclectic group of essays on a broad topic is preferable to an uneven-because-overspecialized collection. Notable in the collection: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis on Henry Fielding and the changed perception of witchcraft - scary in the 16th and 17th centuries and idle superstition in the early 18th, witchcraft was made sad and even sentimental by sensibility; Gideon Mailer and Karen Collis, who argue for Susanna Rowson's authorial claim on the literary conventions of evangelical narrative, as against aesthetic appeals; Melissa Sanchez showing how Andrew Marvell highlights lesbian and other queer sexualities to demonstrate the loss of liberty inherent in the ideal of domestic masculinity. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice "This volume shows us the Atlantic World as a place where narratives of seduction and sentiment are not antagonistic, but on the contrary deeply intertwined. The eclectic nature of the narratives shows a variety of themes within the Atlantic World which apprehend the latter as a place where representations of sentiment and seduction of different nations and worlds constantly merged." - Sehepunkte 'In this invaluable collection, each essay demonstrates how rich yet diverse was the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth-century circum-Atlantic world. Together these essays bring to light the twin issues of seduction and sentiment as the obsessive concern of novels, travel accounts, historical narratives, gossip, history, newspaper reports, and theatrical productions, to name only a few of the many genres discussed. Challenging the old Atlantic narratives, this collection for the first time opens the question as to why the Atlantic world should have been the unique site where seduction and sentiment came together both in shaping the New World and in remapping the social geography of the Old.' - Len Tennenhouse, Duke University 'This collection of essays is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic Studies, confirming imaginative literature's central role in the ongoing project of rethinking nation-based cultural history. Collectively, these essays challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries defined by the nation-state, moving beyond rubrics such as 'early American literature,' to explore the ways in which these narratives of sentiment, seduction, and adultery were appropriated as they traversed geographical regions, were repackaged in various genres, and adapted to and repurposed within local contexts of the north Atlantic world.' - Beth Tobin, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsSeduction and Sentiment: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Bowers & T.Chico PART I: SCANDAL AND THE FATE OF DREAMS Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805; E.T.Bannet Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants; J.Shields "Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction; B.Waterman Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions; M.Zuckerman PART II: ACTS OF BELONGING AND RENUNCIATION "She Straightness on the Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"; M.E.Sanchez "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"; L.M.Stevens "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theatre; H.S.Nathans Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional' Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues; C.Eastman PART III: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND DOUBT Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment; J.E.Lewis The Boudoir in Philosophy or, Knowing Bodies in French Fiction; T.DiPiero Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheatley's Child Elegies; J.Thorn Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism; G.A.Mailer & K.J.Collis The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Brown's Wieland; G.E.Haggerty
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Palgrave Macmillan Narrating the Past
Book SynopsisIn recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative.Trade Review'Alan Robinson's monograph, Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between theories of history and contemporary narrative fiction...In summary, Robinson's book is a theoretically sophisticated engagement with and intervention in the debates of the past forty years or so regarding the relationship between history and fiction. This is framed against innovative and thorough analyses of a selection of representative novels.' - Year's Work in English Studies 'Historical fiction evokes into virtual existence a former possible world, retrieving the past into the present. In explaining how it does this, Robinson argues for a renewed interest and appreciation of the imaginary presence of the past in history and memory and for greater understanding between historians and literary critics. A complex and ambitious scholarly project, Narrating the Past is important reading for cultural historians, historiographers and literary specialists.' - Jane Mattison, English StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND FICTION The Narrative Turn in History The Historical Turn in Fiction PART II: ISSUES IN PRACTICE History, Life-Writing and Epistemology National Stories Present Pasts in Neo-Victorian Fiction Gothic Afterlives After the Event Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Music of Verse
Book SynopsisThrough its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century''s major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the ''music'' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note on Terminology and Metrical Marks Music and Metre 'Empty Times' and 'Double Accents': The English Hexameter in Theory and Practice Native Traditions: Anglo-Saxon and Alliterative Verse 'The Accent of Feeling': Towards Free Verse Notes Bibliography Index
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