Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by

Book
The Cambridge dictionary of English grammar
Author:
ISBN: 1316027473 1316027538 1139050621 0521863198 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise, practical definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms. Each term includes examples and cross references to related concepts. All the currently accepted terms of grammar are included, as well as older, traditional names, controversial new coinages, and items from the study of other languages. The dictionary pinpoints differences in the use of the same terminology, such as 'adjunct', 'complement', 'verb phrase', as well as alternative terms used for much the same concept, such as 'noun phrase', 'nominal group'; 'agentless passive', 'short passive'. It provides a wealth of examples, as well as notes on the relative frequencies of grammatical alternatives, such as 'will' and 'shall'. It also draws attention to some of the differences between spoken and written English grammar.


Book
Involuntary associations : postcolonial studies and world Englishes
Author:
ISBN: 178138598X 1781381542 1781380252 9781781381540 9781781385982 9781781380253 Year: 2014 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The consequences of English's spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. The idea of World Englishes encourages us to re-imagine our understanding of the language. The difference between error and innovation can no longer be decided through assumptions about the language 'ownership'. In fact, the language is beginning to be a medium of the expression of identity for more and more people in very different contexts. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, in the belief that while postcolonial studies has obviously had much to say about English, it has either directly concerned or been influenced by English literary studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.


Book
Stylish academic writing
Author:
ISBN: 9780674064485 0674064488 0674065093 0674069137 9780674065093 9780674069138 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read-and to write.Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce.Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.


Periodical
Studies in English literature, 1500-1900.
Author:
ISSN: 00393657 15229270 Year: 1961 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

" ... focuses on four fields of British literature which rotate quarterly as follows: winter--English Renaissance; spring--Tudor and Stuart drama; summer--Restoration and Eighteenth century; and autumn--Nineteenth century"--Journal introductory page, viewed Mar. 8, 1999.


Book
Bombay modern
Author:
ISBN: 0810132753 0810132745 0810132737 9780810132757 9780810132733 Year: 2016 Publisher: Evanston, Illinois

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. It uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to postcolonial studies, and through bilingual scholarship across English and Marathi texts, a methodology that is currently peripheral at best. Eschewing any attempt to define an overarching or universal modernism, Nerlekar Focuses on "Bombay" and to the "post-1960" (sathottari) period to examine the specific way in which this poetry redeployed the regional, the national, and the international to create a very tangible yet transient local.


Book
Cultivating peace
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1684480515 9781684480517 1684480493 1684480477 1684480485 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil's Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil's agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer's scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Keywords

English poetry --- Peace in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- Virgil --- Vergilius Maro, P. --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- Vergilius --- Vergil --- Virgile --- Virgilio Máron, Publio --- Virgilius Maro, Publius --- Vergili Maronis, Publius --- Virgilio Marone, P. --- Vergilīĭ --- Vergílio --- Wergiliusz --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P. --- Virgilio --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P. --- Virgil Maro, P. --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil --- Pseudo Virgilio --- Virgilio Marón, Publio --- Bhārjila --- Influence. --- Versdichtung --- Rezeption --- Friede --- Englisch --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- English poetry. --- English literature --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Early modern. --- Georgica (Virgil) --- Georgics (Virgil) --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Frieden --- Motiv --- Fortwirken --- Nachwirkung --- Nachleben --- Wirkungsgeschichte --- Aneignung --- Auswirkung --- Fortleben --- Versliteratur --- Dichtung --- Gedicht --- Poesie --- Literatur --- Bhārjila, --- Pseudo-Virgil, --- Pseudo Virgilio, --- Vergil, --- Vergilīĭ, --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ, --- Vergílio, --- Vergilius, Publius, --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P., --- Virgil Maro, P., --- Virgile, --- Virgilio, --- Virgilio Marón, Publio, --- Virgilio Marone, P., --- Virgilius Maro, P., --- Virgilius Maro, Publius, --- Wergiliusz, --- v00 --- -Influence.


Book
Burial plots in British detective fiction
Author:
ISBN: 3030657604 3030657590 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronovitch, Lisa Hopkins argues that both the literal and literary disinterment of the past use elements of the national past to interrogate the present. As such, in the texts discussed, uncovering the truth about an individual crime is also typically an uncovering of a more general connection between the present and the past. Whether detective novels explore murders on archaeological digs, hauntings, cold crimes or killings at Christmas, Hopkins explores the underlying message that you cannot understand the present unless you understand the past.

Keywords

Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Fiction. --- British literature. --- Literature, Modern. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Mass media and crime. --- Contemporary Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- British Culture. --- Crime and the Media. --- Crime and mass media --- Crime --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Englisch --- Kriminalroman --- Grab --- Geschichte 1920-2020 --- Großbritannien --- Motiv --- Detektivroman --- Kriminalromane --- Roman --- Kriminalliteratur --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Great Britain --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- Royaume-Uni --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Englisch --- -Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- European literature. --- European literature --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Fiction Literature. --- European Literature. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- Great Britain. --- Social aspects --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English fiction --- History in literature. --- Murder in literature. --- History and criticism.


Book
Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire
Author:
ISBN: 0472904221 047203488X Year: 2011 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Englisch --- Geschlecht --- Indienbild --- Geschlechterrolle --- Kolonialliteratur --- Politics and government --- English literature. --- Litterature anglaise --- English literature --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Grossbritannien --- Indien --- India. --- Inde --- India --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- History --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Kolonie --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Gender --- Geschlechtsrolle --- Soziales Geschlecht --- Soziale Rolle --- Geschlechtsunterschied --- Bild --- Motiv --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Indi --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Indische Union --- Altindien --- Hindustan --- Hindostan --- Indie --- Indian Union --- Bhārata Gaṇarājya --- Bhārata --- Republik Indien --- Dominion of India --- Indië --- Bharata --- Indiia --- Hindiston Respublikasi --- Satharanarat 'India --- Inder --- Britisch-Indien --- Südasien --- 15.08.1947 --- -Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Great Britain --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- Royaume-Uni --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- Grande-Bretagne --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Politique et gouvernement

Sexualities in Victorian Britain
Authors: ---
ISBN: 025306905X 0253330661 Year: 1996 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays emphasize the remarkable variety of Victorian sexuality and the intricate particularity of sexual identities that shaped the way the Victorians thought about themselves. This absorbing collection will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated.

Keywords

Victoriaanse tijd. --- Seksualiteit. --- Aufsatzsammlung --- Sexualität --- Literatur --- Englisch --- Sexual ethics. --- Sex customs. --- Morale sexuelle --- Vie sexuelle --- Sexual Behavior --- Sexual ethics --- Sex customs --- Histoire --- history --- History --- Englisch. --- Grossbritannien --- Great Britain. --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Sex ethics --- Sexual behavior, Ethics of --- Ethics --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Geschlechtlichkeit --- Geschlechtsleben --- Sexualwissenschaft --- Sexualverhalten --- Beiträge --- Einzelbeiträge --- Sammelwerk --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Great Britain --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Victoriaanse tijd. --- -Morale sexuelle

Listing 1 - 10 of 11 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by