A dissertation on the languages, literature, and manners of eastern nations PDF Download

Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674510289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.

Author: Roger Fowler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134864248
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of language in literature with language outside literature, on its cultural appropriateness and adjustment, and on its power to create aesthetic patterns and to organise concepts, to make fictions. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.

Author: Achim Hermann Hölter
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110574333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This five-volume work presents the collected papers of the twenty-first congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), which took place at the University of Vienna (Austria) from July 21st to July 27th 2016 and was dedicated to the general topic "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature". The contributions gathered in these volumes explore many of the countless ways in which language shapes not only ?national? literatures and ?world literature?, but also the discipline of comparative literature itself. As a whole, these proceedings highlight the opportunities and the challenges associated with the multilingualism of both the discipline and the objects of its study. Yet they also go beyond reflections on the scholarly language of comparative literature in order to investigate how language functions within diverse literary texts and their contexts. Contributors to this compilation are concerned, amongst other aspects, with the way the language used by different social and ethnic groups feeds into literary texts; with the vocabulary of theoretical and cultural discourses such as gender studies and ecocriticism; and with language in a metaphorical sense, as referring to certain codes, forms, or styles. Moving between the discussion of literature itself and the observation of how literature is being discussed, this collection testifies to the polyglot, diverse, and ever-evolving state of the discipline.

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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Norman Blake
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 9780333454114
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This book presents an introduction to stylistics for students of literature. It does not presuppose linguistic knowledge, but it approaches literature in a linguistic way. In the first half it looks at the make-up of a sentence in English and how sentence elements are exploited by literary authors. In the second half it looks at the way in which a text is unified by elements beyond the sentence. The conclusion exemplifies the theory explained in the previous chapters.

Author: John Richardson
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Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: B. Hodgson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368800442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: Brian Houghton Hodgson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108056083
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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First published in 1874, this collection of essays explores writing, Buddhist practices and culture in nineteenth-century Nepal and Tibet.

Author: Kenneth Harrow
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443814679
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context from various perspectives. These range from large-scale surveys to specific analyses on aspects of language, literature and education. Contributions are very original and based on a common denominator: Multiculturalism. Despite the numerical dominance of contributions from Cameroon (one of the most multilingual countries in the world), this book brings together views from specialists in the different domains from several parts of the world (Africa, Europe and the United States of America). These contributions exhibit not theoretical issues that underpin current academic debates in linguistic and literary research, but also empirical and interesting data that can further be exploited to other ends. Critical views on literature and postcolonialism, the fears of language death with the advent of globalisation and the spread of English language, the educational significance or influence of the internet, the wealth of Cameroon/African literature and the education of the Cameroonian/African child, and theoretical issues in language and literary education are themes handled here in an accessible manner to readers without previous knowledge of language science, literature and education.

Author: Olanike Ola Orie
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152754401X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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The text celebrates the academic achievements of Professor Olasope Oyelaran. It brings together over 20 papers by an international group of scholars on African diaspora languages, literatures and culture, representing four generations, all of whom have been influenced by Oyelaran’s work in one way or another. Edited by three African scholars in the USA, UK, and Nigeria, the volume presents current research on topics in applied- and socio-linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, oral and written literature, and Yoruba language and culture in African diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad. The constellation of topics presented here will enlarge the reader’s understanding of a number of issues in the field of African and African diaspora languages, literatures, and cultures today. As such, the book makes an important contribution to the expanding work on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its Brazilian, Cuban, and Trinidadian diasporas.