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Questions of Englishby Robin Peel; Annette Patterson; Jeanne Gerlach
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 52.95Offers a lively and accessible guide through past and present debates about the English curriculum which will appeal to students and practising teachers. more...
Medieval Rhetoricby Scott D. Troyan
Routledge 2004; US$ 121.00This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. more...
Alliteration and Sound Change in Early Englishby Donka Minkova; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. J. Ewen; R. Huddleston
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 66.00This study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters sheds new light on the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction. more...
Verbs of Motion in Medieval Englishby Michiko Ogura
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 80.00Few studies have been made on Old English verbs of motion after Weman (1933). Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. This piece of work presents various aspects of the verbs which, basically denoting coming and going, have shown diachronic changes morphologically, semantically and syntactically. more...
A History of the English Languageby Richard M. Hogg; David Denison
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 45.00The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this authoritative volume, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the language over fifteen centuries. more...
Masculinities in Text and Teachingby B. Knights
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00In a climate of anxiety about boys and reading, this book addresses the gendering of English Studies, drawing on recent research on masculinity. In drawing together the study of text and narrative with insight into the experience of the classroom, this book will be of value to both teachers and students of English Studies. more...
In Defense of Readingby Daniel R. Schwarz
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 99.95Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading." Provides valuable insights into why and how we read Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience Following his long term... more...
Handbook of Instructional Practices for Literacy Teacher-educatorsby Joyce E. Many
Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 94.95Offers a unique glimpse into the teaching approaches & thinking of a wide range of well-known literacy researchers, & the lessons learned from their teaching lives. Each chapter includes a syllabus for a course the author has taught & personal reflection more...
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucerby Mary Catherine Davidson
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 80.00In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer. more...
The Forgotten Founding Fatherby Joshua Kendall
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 12.99American's own The Professor and the Madman : a story of Noah Webster, author of American English. Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started America's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post . His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary... more...