Author: American Philological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Author: American Philological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Author: American Philological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The English Dialect Dictionary
Author: Joseph WrightDialects in the South-West of England
Author: Andreas FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Orlam
Author: PJ HarveyPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529063132
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira’s sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb’s eyeball who is Ira-Abel’s guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children’s songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. Orlam follows Ira and the inhabitants of Underwhelem month by month through the last year of her childhood innocence. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow – suffused with hints of violence, sexual confusion and perversion, the oppression of family, but also ecstatic moments in sunlit clearings, song and bawdy humour. The broad theme is ultimately one of love – carried by Ira’s personal Christ, the constantly bleeding soldier-ghost Wyman-Elvis, who bears ‘The Word’: Love Me Tender. Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Orlam also reveals P J Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet – whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other.
Cooper Monographs on English and American Language and Literature
Author: A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect and of Provincialisms Used in the Island
Author: William Henry LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Study on the Use of Dialect in Thomas Hardy's Novels and Short Stories with Special Reference to Phonology and Vocabulary
Author: Ulla BaugnerThe Linguistic Atlas of England
Author: Harold OrtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136188592
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas provides a unique survey of the linguistic geography of England. This volume was inspired by the English Dialect Survey which set out to elicit information about the current dialectical usages of the older members of the farming communities throughout rural England. The Survey secondly mapped this information to illustrate the regional distributions of those features of their speech which persisted from ancient times. Published after Orton's death, the publication of this volume testified to the sustained interest in the lingusitic geography of England.
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