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Taylor & Francis Korean Business Communication
Book SynopsisKorean Business Communication demonstrates the heuristic value of the research on Korean business communication. It is composed of two parts: theory and practice. First, alongside the review of the major research trend of Asian business communication, it explores the contemporary teaching trend of business communication in Korean higher education to define business communication from the local perspective. It also shows how Korean business professionals manage facework within the communication rules or cultural values. Second, Korean business communication data are analyzed with the main sources of three competences, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence. Emphasis is on stakeholder communication genres, Korean service encounters, Korean business apology, and Korean CEOâs online greetings. By examining how business communication and Korean communication are projected to Korean business, Korean Business Communication pro
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WW Norton & Co Uncle Toms Cabin
Book SynopsisOne of the most important activist texts in American literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.
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WW Norton & Co As I Lay Dying
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WW Norton & Co The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book Synopsis“This edition is of the utmost importance to those interested in Wilde and literary modernism. It seems certain to become the standard edition of Dorian Gray.” —Ned Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Before Writing Rethinking the Paths to Literacy
Book SynopsisGunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing.This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.Trade Review'A call for a fundamental change in education. Provocatively, he defines school as a place where teachers insist the world can only be known through the abstractions of written language. His book shows the fascinating ways in which children express and exchange meaning on their progress to literacy.' - New Scientist'Before Writing has radical implications both for linguistic theory and for educational practice. It calls into question the accepted focus on written language as a privileged system of representation.' - Journal of SociolinguisticsTable of ContentsList of colour plates, List of figures, Preface, 1 Literacy, identity and futures, 2 ‘My Gawd, I made it like Australia’:making meaning in many media, 3 Making sense of the world:‘The seagulls are reading the newspaper’, 4 Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs:children’s early engagement with print, 5 ‘You made it like a crocodile’:a theory of children’s meaning-making, 7 Teaching literacy, learning literacy, 8 Futures, Sources and contexts, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transforming Texts
Book SynopsisTransforming Texts: considers why language changes, and how we transform it covers the key factors we need to take into account when transforming texts, including audience, register, mode, historical period, source and genre explores a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Macbeth and Sense and Sensibility to Fever Pitch and The Bill offers a step-by-step guide to re-writing text; can be used as both a course text and a revision tool. Written by an experienced teacher, author and AS and A2 examiner, Transforming Texts is an essential resource for all students of AS and A2 level English Language and English Language and Literature.Trade Review'Shaun O'Toole's text is a gift ... this should be a comfort to teachers everywhere.' - EnglishDramaMediaTable of ContentsPreface 1. Language the Social Chameleon 2. Transforming Texts for Different Audiences and Purposes 3. Changing Modes: Transforming Speech and Writing 4. Transforming texts from Different Times 5. Transforming Literary Genre 6. Using Sources and Combining Texts Suggested Answers to Exercises. Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Richard Wrights Native Son
Book SynopsisRichard Wrightâs Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Son a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of reprinted critical essays on Native Son, by James Baldwin, Hazel Rowley, Antony Dawahare, Claire Eby and James Smethurst, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section a chronology to help place the novel in its historical context suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge GuidTrade Review'What emerges clearly... is the extent to which the Routledge guides demonstrate the value of historicised readings, without burdening the first-time reader with too great an emphasis on the material reality with which the featured authors engage.'- Rod Mengham, The Times Higher Educational Supplement Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Texts and Contexts Richard Wright: A Brief Biography. The Voices of Native Son. The Dostoevskian Voice. The Transplantation of the Blues. Bigger’s Vernacular Voice. Social Determinism: An Anti-American Accent? Bigger: Silenced by Whiteness? Chronology Part 2: Critical History First Responses: James Baldwin. First Responses: Ralph Ellison and Irving Howe. Feminist Readings. The Black Atlantic and Beyond Part 3: Critical Readings Many Thousands Gone James Baldwin (1951) The Shadow of the White Woman: Richard Wright and the Book-of-the-Month Club Hazel Rowley(1999) From No Man's Land to Mother-Land: Emasculation and Nationalism in Richard Wright's Depression Era Urban Novels Anthony Dawahare (1999) Slouching toward Beastliness: Richard Wright's Anatomy of Thomas Dixon Clare Eby (2001) Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son James Smethurst (2001) Part 4: Web Resources and Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis On Translation
Book SynopsisPaul Ricoeur turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important? Drawing on interesting examples he reflects not only on the challenges of translating one language into another but how one community speaks to another.Trade Review'One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation' - The Daily Telegraph'Accessible and peppered with beautiful phrases, Ricoeur's is the kind of philosophical writing that provides an encounter with a feeling of transcendence and the sublime sometimes at odds with the philosophy it advocates' - M/C Reviews'As should be evident from the foregoing, this slim volume packs an enormous quantity of important reflection on the process of translation and its two fundamnetal approaches: the translation of words and phrases or the interpretation of meaningful wholes' - Corrado Federici, Figures of Translation'One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation.' - The Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ricoeur’s philosophy of translation, 1. Translation as challenge and source of happiness, 2. The paradigm of translation, 3. A ‘passage’: translating the untranslatable, Notes, Index
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Taylor & Francis Basic Chinese
Book SynopsisVery well structured and clearly explained' Dr Kan Qian, The Open University, UKBasic Chinese introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include: a clear, accessible format many useful language examples jargon-free explanations of grammar ample drills and exercises a full key to exercises. All Chinese entries are presented in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese.Basic Chinese is designed for students new to the language. Together with its sister volume, Intermediate Chinese, it forms a compendium of the essentials of Chinese syntax.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:‘Very well structured and clearly explained’ Dr Qian Kan, Open University
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Taylor & Francis Basic Portuguese
Book SynopsisBasic Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.Twenty units cover the core material which students can expect to encounter in their first year of learning Portuguese. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.Clearly presented and user-friendly, Basic Portuguese provides readers with a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of Portuguese grammar.Table of Contents1. Nouns 2.Articles 3. Numbers, times and dates 4. Subject pronouns and regular verbs 5. Present tense: irregular verbs 6. Interrogatives 7. Negatives 8. Ser and Estar 9. Demonstratives 10. Adjectives and adverbs 11. Comparatives and superlatives 12. Direct object pronouns 13. Indirect object pronouns 14. Reflexive pronouns and verbs 15. Possessive pronouns and adjectives 16. Present perfect tense 17. The preterite tense 18. The imperfect tense 19. The preterite tense vs the imperfect tense 20. The past perfect and the pluperfect tense Key to exercises Bibliography Glossary of grammatical terms Index
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Samuel French Ltd One Man Two Guvnors
Book SynopsisRichard Bean''s English version of The Servant of Two Masters is set in Brighton in the 1960s. Centred on the bumbling Francis Henshall, a minder to both Roscoe Crabbe - a local gangster - and Stanley Stubbers - an upper-class criminal. But Roscoe is dead, killed by Stanley Stubbers and being impersonated by his sister Rachel, who is also Stanley''s girlfriend, and in Brighton to collect 6,000 from Roscoe''s fiancée''s dad.Chaos unfolds as Francis tries to stop the two ''guvnors'' from meeting and everyone else tries to hide their real identities. Richard Bean''s award-winning play is a glorious celebrationof British comedy: laugh-out-loud satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre in May 2011, before transferring to the West End and embarking on a successful UK tour. It won Best Play in the Evening StandardTheatre Awards 2011.
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Pearson Education The Odyssey York Notes Advanced everything you
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
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Pearson Education Limited The Diary of Anne Frank York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisKey features of this text: How to study the text Author and historical background General and detailed summaries Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style Glossaries Test questions and issues to consider Essay writing advice Cultural connections Literary terms Illustrations Colour design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Max Weber International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis volume contains key writings, mainly recent, that define the current debate concerning our understanding of the nature of Max Weber''s social and political thought. Topics covered include the interpretation of his central concepts; problems of method; meaning and value; liberalism, nationalism and democracy; and the fate of politics in a disenchanted world. Supplemented by a detailed and thoughtful introduction, this collection will be essential for libraries in social sciences and all scholars and students of Weber.Trade Review'...provides a useful handbook of some scholarly issues of contention in the interpretation of his [Weber's} work....As a supplement to reading Weber himself this volume will be an important resource...a fine volume.' Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Max Weber: Central Themes: The problem of thematic unity in the work of Max Weber, Friedrich Tenbruck; Max Weber's 'central question', Wilhelm Hennis; Leo Strauss's confrontation with Max Weber: a search for genuine social science, Nasser Behnegar; Industrialization and capitalism, Herbert Marcuse; Max Weber: legitimation, method, and the politics of theory, Sheldon S. Wolin. Problems of Method: The problem of reference in Max Weber's theory of causal explanation, Gerhard Wagner and Heinz Zipprian; Weber on action, Stephen P. Turner Max Weber's idea of 'Puritanism': a case study in the empirical construction of the Protestant work ethic, P. Ghosh; Weber's The Protestant Ethic as hypothetical narrative of original accumulation, Peter Breiner; The meaning of 'wertfreiheit': on the background and motives of Max Weber's 'Postulate', Wilhelm Hennis. Meaning and Value: Methodological ambivalence: the case of Max Weber, Guy Oakes; Bad conscience for a Nietzschean age: Weber's calling for science, Robert Eden; What have we to do with morals? Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethics, Tracy B. Strong; Max Weber's reconceptualization of freedom, Kari Palonen; Max Weber on value rationality and value spheres, Guy Oakes); The incongruity between destiny and merit: Max Weber on meaningful existence and modernity, Gershon Shafir. Liberalism, Nationalism and Democracy: Max Weber's politics and political education, Lawrence A. Scaff; Doing without liberalism: Weber's regime politics, Robert Eden; The antinomian structure of Max Weber's political thought, Wolfgang J. Mommsen; Max Weber's liberalism for a Nietzschean world, Mark Warren; Max Weber and the liberal political tradition, David Beethem; Was Max Weber a 'nationalist'? a study in the rhetoric of conceptual change, Kari Palonen; Max Weber's liberal nationalism, Sung Ho Kim. Politics in a Disenchanted World: Max Weber: integrity, disenchantment, and the illusion of politics, Dana R. Villa; The political logic of economics and the economic logic of modernity in Max Weber, Peter Breiner; Max Weber and the rights of citizens, Duncan Kelly; Max Weber's missing definition of 'political action' and his 'basic sociological concepts': simultaneously a commentary on some aspects of Kari Palonen's writings on Max Weber, Michael Th. Greven; Index.
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Wesleyan University Press Letters from Amherst
Book SynopsisAlong with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia.
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Oneworld Publications Eve Bites Back
Book SynopsisAnna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literatureMargery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.’ A.L. Kennedy Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics. Delving into the lives and work of eight pioneers - Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, ApTrade Review‘A smart, funny and highly readable journey through the lives of women writers and the challenges they and their works face. It’s an informative, enthusiastic and rightly enraging tour de force.’ —A.L. Kennedy'Essential reading.' —Claire Tomalin'In this splendid alternative history of English literature, Anna Beer shows that "simply by putting words together on the page" women authors have for centuries fought back… [an] excellent study: "let’s scavenge and rebuild in the face of the destruction of women’s work…Let’s find the precious gems amidst the rubble."' —Guardian'Eve Bites Back isn’t pleading for justice for female writers, it’s indicting a system that has long ignored them and, to some extent, still does… Part polemic, part revisionist criticism, Eve Bites Back, as its title suggests, is sharp and aggressive, a book that will irritate, enlighten, persuade and provoke argument. It’s a work of correction, in every sense of the word.’ —Washington Post'A totally absorbing and enlightening tour through the work of eight significant women authors – with one of the funniest introductory chapters ever.' —Sarah Bakewell'Writing with energy, wit and at times barely suppressed fury, Anna Beer brings to life the struggle to be heard of eight women writers over 500 years. Her subtle literary excavations are both informative and a gripping read.' —David Goodhart, founder editor of Prospect'Startling stories and facts on every page. Written with a clear and authoritative voice, this is both a very entertaining and very important book about the many obstacles that women have overcome to be writers, and the long struggles even the most gifted and well-connected women authors have encountered in order to be taken seriously.' —Yasmin Khan, associate professor of history, University of Oxford'Anna Beer is one of those very rare writers who are able to combine rigorous research with a gripping and thoroughly accessible style. This is an ambitious, authoritative, feisty book and a worthy successor to her inspirational Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music.' —Kate Kennedy, author of Dweller in Shadows'Eve Bites Back … is shaped by the same principles [as Beer’s earlier work] – feminist indignation, certainly, but also a drive to share ideas and observations about a diverse body of achievement, emerging from historical periods radically different from our own … invigorating.' —Dinah Birch, TLS'A delightful, and challenging read.' —New York Journal of Books'A thorough, wide-reaching overview of women’s literary accomplishments viewed through a fresh, modern lens … Eve Bites Back is an exemplary work of literary criticism.' —Foreword Reviews'In her alternative history of English literature, Eve Bites Back, cultural historian and biographer Anna Beer takes up arms against the patriarchy… extensive and meticulous.' —Washington Independent Review of Books
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Cambridge University Press Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
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Cambridge University Press Female Anger in Crime Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
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Cambridge University Press The Reverberator
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LEGARE STREET PR Poems
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Taylor & Francis Translation and Pragmatics
Book SynopsisTranslation and Pragmatics aims to provide a fundamental grounding of key phenomena, theories, and concepts in the field of pragmatics and of some of their manifestations both within and across languages and cultures. The originality of this textbook largely resides in its pedagogical approach which involves familiarising students with the pragmatic phenomena of deixis, speech acts, implicature, and (im)politeness first and foremost through a systematic exposure to concrete, authentic data from a broad spectrum of texts and media (e.g., ads, memes, films, videogames) while showcasing how these phenomena are relayed in different types of translation. With warm-up exercises, illustrative case studies, mini-research activities as well as further reading, this is an essential textbook for translation and intercultural communication students but can also be a useful resource for anyone interested in the interface between pragmatics, translation and/or intercultural communication,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity's relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the blue' reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water.In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers how we conceptualise watery spaces and shades of blue in a country where water is often marked by its absence, its ephemerality, its politicisation, and its dangers. Contributors from environmental history, environmental social science, political science, literary studies, creative arts, Indigenous Knowledge, education, and anthropology tackle various entanglements between the human, the more-than-human, and watery Australian spaces in modern culture. It is the first volume to offer a specific,
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Routledge Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond peopleâs immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead considering how trauma is sustained in the aftermaths, continuing to impact livelihoods, and familial, social, and gender relationships. Drawing on different circumstances and experiences across and between the eastern African region, the book explores how emerging cultural practices involve varying modes of narrating, representing, and thematising insidious trauma. In doing so, the book considers different forms and practices of cultural production, including fashion, social media, film, and literature, in order to uncover how human subjects and cultural artefacts circulate through modalities of social, cultural and political ecologies.Transdisciplinary in scope and showcasing the work of experts from across the region, this book will be an important guide for researchers across literature, media studies, sociology, and trauma studies.
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Taylor & Francis Protest Music in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press Wild Abandon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slovene
Book SynopsisSlovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most complete reference guide to the contemporary language. Key features of this new edition include: updated examples reflecting current usage, expanded discussions of particular areas of difficulty, a brief history of the language, dialects and register, clear distinction between written and spoken usage, new tables and charts for quick reference.The Grammar provides a jargon-free and systematic description of all parts of speech promoting an in-depth understanding of the Slovene language. Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is a key resource for linguists and students of Slovene at intermediate and advanced levels.Table of Contents1 Phonology 2 Nouns 3 Adjectives 4 Pronouns 5 Numerals 6 Verbs 7 Adverbs 8 Prepositions 9 Conjunctions 10 Particles 11 Interjections 12 Word order 13 Word formation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Systemic Functional Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and used for purposes of reference. The reading section maps out and mediates the key SFL literature. The application guides show how SFL has been and can be applied to various domains, from translation to healthcare communication. The term guides demystify the core terminology and the vocabulary guides aid readers in dealing with the most commonly used terms in text analysis.Systemic Functional Linguistics is an invaluable guidebook for all those studying functional grammar and SFL within linguistics, applied linguistics and related courses.
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Pearson Education How English Works A Linguistic Introduction
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBrief Contents Glossary Inside Front Cover Dialect Map of American English, Consonant Phonemes of American English, Vowel Phonemes of American English Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language Detailed Contents List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations What’s New to This Edition Preface to Instructors Letter to Students Chapter 1 A Language like English Chapter 2 Language and Authority Chapter 3 English Phonology Chapter 4 English Morphology Chapter 5 English Syntax: The Grammar of Words Chapter 6 English Syntax: Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences Chapter 7 Semantics Chapter 8 Spoken Discourse Chapter 9 Stylistics Chapter 10 Language Acquisition Chapter 11 Language Variation Chapter 12 American Dialects Chapter 13 History of English: Old to Early Modern English Chapter 14 History of English: Modern and Future English Bibliography Credits Index Detailed Table of Contents Glossary Inside Front Cover Consonant Phonemes of English, Vowel Phonemes of English, Phonetic Alphabet for American English Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations xviii What’s New to This Edition Preface to Instructors Letter to Students Chapter 1 A Language Like English The Story of Aks Language, Language Everywhere The Power of Language Name Calling Judging by Ear A Question to Discuss: What Makes Us Hear an Accent? The System of Language Arbitrariness and Systematicity A Scholar to Know: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) Creativity Grammar Linguistics Human Language versus Animal Communication Birds and Bees Chimps and Bonobos Distinctive Characteristics of Human Language The Process of Language Change Language Genealogies A Question to Discuss: Can Your Language Peeves Be Rethought? Mechanics of Language Change Progress or Decay? Special Focus: Attitudes about Language Change Summary Suggested Reading Exercises Chapter 2 Language and Authority Who Is in Control? Language Academies Language Mavens A Question to Discuss: Does the SAT Know Good Grammar from Bad? Defining Standard English Descriptive versus Prescriptive Grammar Rules Case Study One: Multiple Negatives Case Study Two: Ain’t Case Study Three: Who and Whom<
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Cambridge University Press The Beats
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WW Norton & Co The Flowers of Evil
Book SynopsisOn the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Economy of Religion in American Literature
Book SynopsisExamining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, the author shows how the development of capitalism reshaped American Protestantism and addresses the necessary role of literature in that process. Arguing that the spirit of capitalism was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious flourishing was essential to the production of American culture. Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings, revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and CoTable of ContentsIntroduction: A New Theory of the Sacred Chapter 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution Chapter 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Chapter 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells Chapter 4 Mistaking “Shadows for Gods”: Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era Chapter 5 “Christianity Incorporated”: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism Chapter 6 Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Chapter 7 “The blackness of God”: Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance List of Figures Acknowledgements
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Critical Memory Studies
Book SynopsisBringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Eliot Now
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisThe Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today.Trade Review?This is a good guide to Greek tragedy. It makes agreeable reading during which one can learn a lot from the various aspects of this genre.? (SHT Reviews, October 2009) "This book is an impressive achievement, and will be of permanent value to everyone interested in Greek drama. The editor has done an excellent job in finding exactly the right scholar for each topic, including many leading experts from all over the world. Every chapter is lucid and informative, and each has a valuable guide to further reading." Michael Lloyd, University College Dublin ?This book should earn itself a place as a principal reference tool for a wide range of courses in Greek tragedy; it offers a solid synthesis for specialist and nonspecialist alike of the many and vexed issues the subject presents.? Choice "This new volume, like others in the excellent Blackwell's 'Companion' series, stands apart from the crowd. It is not just a boring re-hash of well-known material but a superb, lively, genuinely stimulating collection of essays which make the plays come alive. Reading this book is rather like listening to a series of cracking lectures by some of the best scholars in the business ... This Companion will surely become required reading for university students who want an accessible but learned introduction to the texts. The essays are (without exception) so well written and entertaining that they can also be recommended to actors, producers, audience members, and general readers. It is well edited and attractively produced." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "There is no lack of good reference works on Greek tragedy. None the less, Gregory?s Blackwell companion is a very welcome addition ? There can be no doubt that the volume will establish itself as extremely useful for many students of Greek Tragedy. Most school and university libraries will want a copy." Journal of Classics Teaching "This is a substancial and well-planned collection ... most chapters are heavily referenced, and so provide a good point of entry to the scholarly literature." Greece and Rome "The Companion is obviously intended as a reference work and will be a very valuable addition to library shelves of universities with students of Classical Civilisation. In fact, several contributions are truly excellent and will undoubtedly serve as introductory reference points for a long time" Scholia ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations x Note on Contributors xi Preface and Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations and Editions xvii Part I Contexts 1 1 Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3Paula Debnar 2 Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23Scott Scullion 3 Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38Bernd Seidensticker 4 Tragedy’s Teaching 55Neil Croally 5 Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71William Allan 6 Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83Christopher Pelling 7 Pictures of Tragedy? 103Jocelyn Penny Small Part II Elements 119 8 Myth 121Michael J. Anderson 9 Beginnings and Endings 136Deborah H. Roberts 10 Lyric 149Luigi Battezzato 11 Episodes 167Michael R. Halleran 12 Music 183Peter Wilson 13 Theatrical Production 194John Davidson Part III Approaches 213 14 Aeschylean Tragedy 215Suzanne Saïd 15 Sophoclean Tragedy 233Ruth Scodel 16 Euripidean Tragedy 251Justina Gregory 17 Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271Martin Cropp 18 Tragedy and Anthropology 293Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 19 Values 305Douglas Cairns 20 The Gods 321Donald Mastronarde 21 Authority Figures 333Mark Griffith 22 Women’s Voices 352Judith Mossman 23 Marginal Figures 366Mary Ebbott Part IV Reception 377 24 Text and Transmission 379David Kovacs 25 Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394Stephen Halliwell 26 Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413Vassiliki Panoussi 27 Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428Salvatore Di Maria 28 Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444Albert Henrichs 29 Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459Ismene Lada-Richards 30 The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472Herman Altena 31 Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490Paul Woodruff Bibliography 505 Index 541 Contents ix
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Pearson Education The Bloody Chamber York Notes Advanced
Book SynopsisFull of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you’re studying, whether it’s poetry, a play or a novel.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poets Wives
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet''An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts'' Irish Times''The Poets' Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical'' Sunday Times__________________Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband's death as she seeTrade ReviewHe writes prose of gravity and grace ... Line for line, it is hard to think of a more skilful contemporary Irish novelist. He shares with John McGahern a refusal of cheap flamboyance, with Dermot Bolger a sense of suppressed fury … There is a Coetzeean accuracy to the writing * Joseph O’Connor, Guardian *Recent years have seen an explosion of books about wives of famous men ... The Poets’ Wives ... Is a fine contribution to this genre ... The Poets’ Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical * David Grylls, Sunday Times *Sparse, lyrical and yet clear-headed prose leaves no room for false notes, nostalgia or self-serving mythologies. One of the quiet men of Irish writing, he also possesses one of its truest voices and has built up a deeply impressive oeuvre without fuss or pyrotechnics ... infused with the depth of character and emotion that are hallmarks of his work as a novelist of enormous sensitivity -- Dermot Bolger * Irish Mail on Sunday *Marvellous * Sunday Times Must Reads *Intriguing and impressive ... With its stylistic felicity ... its concern with integrity and with upholders of humane, and humanistic values, The Poets' Wives displays without ostentation its author's resourcefulness and versatility * Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement *An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts * Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Irish Times *Beautifully wrought -- Holly Williams * Independent on Sunday *Intensely evocative, thought-provoking -- Anita Sethi * Observer *
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State University of New York Press The Redskins
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Little, Brown Book Group Guarded by Dragons
Book SynopsisThe Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - ''a super yarn''''Rick Gekoski''s encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them'' Ian RankinRick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old.In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers into this enchanted world as he reflects on the gems he has unearthed throughout his career. He takes us back to where his love of collecting began - perusing D.H. Lawrence first editions in a slightly suspect Birmingham carpark. What follows are dizzying encounters with literary giants as Gekoski publishes William Golding, plays ping-pong with Salman Rushdie and lunches with Graham Greene. A brilliant stroke of luck sees STrade ReviewRick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them * Ian Rankin *Feisty, astutely dry, intellectually adroit - an intensely pleasurable and rewarding read * William Boyd *Shrewd and gossipy memoir * Observer *The great, renowned rare-book dealer Rick Gekoski is . . . like something out of a Raymond Chandler . . . an absorbing read . . . such fun * Spectator *Gekoski, a fine raconteur, does for bibliomania what James Herriot did for vets. As his previous books, such as Tolkien's Gown, remind us, he has a wealth of quirky stories, and you feel he could keep entertaining his readers for ever * The Times *Entertaining, beautifully written and deeply personal * The Critic *Combines a relish for commerce with tremendous joie de vivre. He loves literature . . . Guarded by Dragons is fresh and fun and bursting with good stories -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Many entertaining anecdotes . . . Gekoski - a larger-than-life character both on and off the page - writes with style,verve and just the right amount of self-deprecation . . . Gekoski proves a genial companion in the thrill of the chase * Financial Times *Gekoski is wonderful company on the page, with a fine flair for storytelling and an eye for fascinating eccentricities among his colleagues and customers . . . Gekoski lets us in on the intricacies of the trade with candour and insouciance -- John Banville * Irish Times *A cache of engaging tales . . . He is an incredibly gifted storyteller who spins yarns with broad literary appeal . . . Gekoski never fails to amuse and to amaze. Guarded by Dragons is a bibliophilic treasure * Fine Books & Collections magazine *Highly entertaining and frequently very funny * Jewish Chronicle *Wonderfully gossipy, sharply written memoir . . . Gekoski's swashbuckling stories reveal a trade that is certainly not for cissies. That's precisely what makes this book as engrossing as it is entertaining -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *Entertaining and revelatory * The Chap *Gekoski, possibly the most important book dealer of the last 50 years, fills page after page with witty anecdotes on dealing with the rarest books in the world, the people who wrote them, and the people that collect them. Beyond great stories well told, it's an education on the book trade itself. An absolute must-read for book lovers. -- Mark Galeotti * War on the Rocks *
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Edinburgh University Press The Libyan Novel
Book SynopsisAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era, focusing on encounters between humans, animals and the land.
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Edinburgh University Press The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.
£81.00
Stanford University Press Adrift on the Earth
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd We the Decolonized
Book SynopsisWe, the Decolonizedis a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly colonized countries, the reality of independence took the form of elusive freedom, widespread disillusionment and the insidious survival of forms of domination bequeathed by former colonial powers. Béji delivers an trenchant critique of decolonization: the saddest of all liberties, because it has not kept its promises. Those who had vanquished colonialism, vindicated civilization and struggled free from the yoke of illegitimate government found themselves ensnared in a new trap, having achieved emancipation without liberation. They remained entangled in a compulsive recycling of colonial impulses. To re-embark on the route to a truly free society, intellectuals and political figures must lead by example in acknowledging the reality of the past, adopting tolerant attitudes towards religions and embracing a new and secular democratic mentality.Béji's important contribution to the decolonial canon will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the politics of decolonization in Africa and the Maghreb and in the Global South more broadly.
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Alfred A. Knopf Machete
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Manchester University Press Ecogothic
Book SynopsisThis book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.Trade Review‘As a platform for the development of a distinct ecoGothic theoretical framework, this volume certainly provides some tantalizing ideas, but equally, it invites further academic study surrounding ‘dark ecology’ as a convention to explore contemporary socio-political anxieties.’Teresa Fitzpatrick, The Dark Arts Journal Volume 3.1 April 2017 -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction: defining the ecoGothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes 2. Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel - Lisa Kröger 3. Monsters on the Ice and global warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons - Catherine Lanone 4. Algernon Blackwood: nature and spirit - David Punter 5. 'A strange kind of evil': superficial paganism and false ecology in The Wicker Man - William Hughes 6. Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian ecoGothic - Alanna F. Bondar 7. Margaret Atwood's monsters in the Canadian ecoGothic - Shoshannah Ganz 8. From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: the Puritan Influence on American Gothic nature -Tom J. Hillard 9. 'The Blank Darkness Outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier - Kevin Corstorphine 10. Locating subjectivity in the post-apocalypse: the American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace - Andrew Smith 11. A Gothic apocalypse: encountering the monstrous in American cinema - Susan J. Tyburski 12. The riddle was the angel in the house: towards an American ecofeminist Gothic - Emily Carr 13. 'Uncanny States': global ecoGothic and the world-ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled - Sharae Deckard Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966–2006
Book SynopsisA definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said's books, including his groundbreaking Orientalism; his memoir, Out of Place; and his last book, On Late Style. Whether writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, or of music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Selected Works is a joy for the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars in the many fields that his work has influenced and transformed.Trade ReviewA writer who helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we are to aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power -- Noam ChomskyWhat Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives -- Hanif KureishiI was dependent on his voice ... A necessary voice as well as an eloquent and powerful one. Particularly now, it seems critical that he’d weigh in on things, critique things. He’s sui generis -- Toni MorrisonEdward Said was an intellectual with a passion for justice, and he allowed nothing to deter him in its pursuit -- Archbishop Desmond TutuThe great public intellectual in late twentieth century United States of America -- Cornel WestSaid challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area * Washington Post *Beautifully patterned and passionately argued * New Statesman *Edward Said belongs to that small band of American intellectuals who talk sense (and write beautifully) about the outside world * Guardian *Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious * Observer *No-one studying the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work * New York Times Book Review *Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist, an inspiring role model for a younger generation seeking their cultural identity -- Camille PagliaMagnificently eloquent, lucid, judicious * Guardian *Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we are to aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power -- Noam ChomskyMagisterial -- Terry EagletonOne of the leading thinkers of the age * New York Observer *Probably the best-known intellectual in the world -- Tony Judt * The Nation *
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New World Library Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of
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Shambhala Publications Inc Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih
Book SynopsisThe incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T?ang era (618?907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and the walls of the monasteries they visited. Their poetry expressed in the simplest verse but in a completely new tone, the voice of ordinary people. Here premier translator J. P. Seaton takes a fresh look at these captivating poets, along with Wang Fan-chih, another ?outsider? poet who lived a couple centuries later and who captured the poverty and gritty day-to-day reality of the common people of his time. Seaton?s comprehensive introduction and notes throughout give a fascinating context to this vibrant collection.
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