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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Anglistica
Author: Anglistica e--
Author: Associazione italiana di anglistica. CongressoPublisher:
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Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
AION Anglistica
Author: Bibliographia lingvistica & anglistica
Author: Hideo YamaguchiPublisher:
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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia
Author: Variation Across Speech and Writing
Author: Douglas BiberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521425568
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unified linguistic analysis of the whole range of spoken and written registers in English. In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyse the linguistic characteristics of twenty three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English. In Variation Across Speech and Writing, six dimensions of variation are identified through a factor analysis, on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns. The resulting model of variation provides for the description of the distinctive linguistic characteristics of any spoken or written text andd emonstrates the ways in which the polarization of speech and writing has been misleading, and thus enables reconciliation of the contradictory conclusions reached in previous research.
Rites of Passage: Rational/Irrational Natural/Supernatural Local/Global
Author: Associazione italiana di anglistica. CongressoPublisher: Rubbettino Editore
ISBN: 9788849806571
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A History of Poetics
Author: Sandra RichterPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110222442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a first history of poetics as well as with bibliographies of the subject. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetics and poetics of popular philosophy, of the Hegel-school, empirical and psychological tendencies in the field since the 1860s, the first steps towards a plurality of methods (1890-1930), theoretical confrontations during the Nazi-period as well as the rise of formalist and anthropological approaches from the 1930s onwards. All approaches are evaluated regarding their relevance for academia as well as for the general history of education. If possible, international references and contexts of the relevant theories are taken into account. In sum, the analysis not only shows how differentiated historical accounts in the field were but also reflects how current literary theory could move forward through the rediscovery of sunken ideas.
Anglistica
Author: Margaret Enid BridgesPublisher:
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Category : Christian hagiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture
Author: Andrew KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317084780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida’s literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent vision. This collection offers a radically new view of Ouida, helping us thereby to rethink our perceptions of popular women writers in general, theatrical adaptation of their fiction, and their engagements with imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The volume's usefulness to scholars is enhanced by new bibliographies of Ouida's fiction and journalism as well as of British stage adaptations of her work.