Academic : Languages and Linguistics : English : Middle English

The 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...

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Written 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 commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context.; Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus. more...

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This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices. more...

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I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. more...

Price: $16.00