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The History of Early English

Author : Keith Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317636066
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The History of Early English written by Keith Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings until the end of the Early Modern English period. Taking an activity-based approach, this text ensures that students learn by engaging with the fascinating evolution of this language rather than simply reading about it. The History of Early English: Provides a comprehensive introduction to early, middle and early modern English; Introduces each language period with a text from writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare, accompanied by a series of guiding questions and commentaries that will engage readers and give them a flavour of the language of the time; Features a range of activities that include discussion points, questions, online tasks and preparatory activities that seamlessly take the reader from one chapter to the next; Is supported by a companion website featuring audio files, further activities and links to online material. Written by an experienced teacher and author, this book is the essential course textbook for any module on the history of English.

Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel

Author : Jason H. Pearl
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936241
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel written by Jason H. Pearl and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography. Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and it is now common to imagine them in the future, rather than on some undiscovered island or continent. At precisely the time when novels began turning from the fabulous settings of romance to the actual locations described in contemporaneous travel accounts, a number of writers nevertheless tried to preserve and reconfigure utopia by giving it new coordinates and parameters. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and others told of adventurous voyages and extraordinary worlds. They engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia. If these writers ultimately concede that utopian geographies were nowhere to be found, they also reimagine the essential ideals as new forms of interiority and sociability that could be brought back to England. Questions about geography and utopia drove many of the formal innovations of the early novel. As this book shows, what resulted were new ways of representing both world geography and utopian possibility.

Dictionary of Early English

Author : Joseph T. Shipley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233990
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Early English written by Joseph T. Shipley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1955-01-15 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical discussion of words from early English authors, including the most interesting, informative—and revivable—English words that have lapsed from general use. Includes: 1) Words likely to be met in literary reading. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, the Tudor pamphlets and translations, are richly represented in words and illustrative quotations. The late 18th and early 19th century revival has been culled: Chatterton, Ossian; Percy’s Reliques and Child’s Ballads; Scott, in his effort to bring picturesque words back into use. In addition, anthologies, for the general reader or the student, have been examined, and works they include combed for forgotten words. 2) Words that belong to the history of early England, describing or illuminating social conditions, political (e.g. feudal) divisions or distinctions, and all the ways of living, of thinking and feeling, in earlier times. Anxiety, for example, is indicated, not in the 99 phobias listed in a psychiatric glossary of the 1950s but in the 120 methods (see areomancy) of determining the future. 3) Words that in various ways have special interest, as in meaning, background, or associated folklore. Included in this group are various imaginary beings, and a number of magic or medicinal plants. 4) Words that are not in the general vocabulary today, but might be usefully and pleasantly revived.

Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean

Author : Jenny Shaw
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346349
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean written by Jenny Shaw and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies.

Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts

Author : Matti Peikola
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503574646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts written by Matti Peikola and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume investigate how visual and material features of early English books, documents, and other artefacts support - or potentially contradict - the linguistic features in communicating the message. In addition to investigating how such communication varies between different media and genres, our contributors propose novel methods for analysing these features, including new digital applications. They map the use of visual and material features - such as layout design or choice of script/typeface - against linguistic features - such as code-switching, lexical variation, or textual labels - to consider how these choices reflect the communicative purposes of the text, for example guiding readers to navigate the text in a certain way.

Essentials of Early English

Author : Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134292430
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Early English written by Jeremy J. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely revised and updated edition of a highly successful textbook. It provides a practical and highly accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English. Designed specifically as a handbook for students beginning the study of early English language, whether for linguistic or literary purposes, it presumes little or no prior knowledge of the history of English. Features of this second edition include: newly added Middle English and Early Modern English sample texts and accompanying notes a new section on historical methods web links and an updated annotated bibliography.

Designing English

Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Bodleian Library
ISBN 13 : 9781851244751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Designing English written by Daniel Wakelin and published by Bodleian Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript? How did they preserve, clarify and illustrate writing in English? What visual guides were given to early readers of English in how to understand or use their books?'Designing English' is an overview of eight centuries of graphic design in manuscripts and inscriptions from the Anglo-Saxon to the early Tudor periods. Working beyond the traditions established for Latin, scribes of English needed to be more inventive, so that each book was an opportunity for redesigning. 'Designing English' focuses on the craft, agency and intentions of scribes, painters and engravers in the practical processes of making pages and artefacts. It weighs up the balance of ingenuity and copying, practicality and imagination in their work. It surveys bilingual books, format, ordinatio, decoration and reading aloud, as well as inscriptions on objects, monuments and buildings.With over ninety illustrations, drawn especially from the holdings of the Bodleian Library in Old English and Middle English, 'Designing English' gives a comprehensive overview of English books and other material texts across the Middle Ages.

The Brand of Print

Author : Andie Silva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Brand of Print written by Andie Silva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brand of Print uses contemporary marketing theory to analyze prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts authored by early English printers, publishers, and booksellers as a unique genre, showcasing how these "print agents" developed niche markets by building relationships with readers.

The syntax of early English

Author : Olga Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556262
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The syntax of early English written by Olga Fischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the significant grammatical changes that occurred during this period. Four leading experts demonstrate how these changes can be explained in terms of grammatical theory and the theory of language acquisition. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, the book covers a wide range of topics including changes in word order, infinitival constructions and grammaticalization processes.

Early Modern English Marginalia

Author : Katherine Acheson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351857258
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern English Marginalia written by Katherine Acheson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier scholarship that established marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as records of reading motivated by cultural, social, theological, and personal inclinations (Brayman [Hackel] and Orgel), and as practices inspired by material affordances particular to the book and the pen (Fleming and Sherman). They further the study of the practices of marginalia as a mode – a set of ways in which material opportunities and practices overlap with intellectual, social, and personal motivations to make meaning in the world. They introduce us to a set of idiosyncratic examples such as the trace marks of objects left in books, deliberately or by accident; cut-and-pasted additions to printed volumes; a marriage depicted through shared book ownership. They reveal to us in case studies the unique value of mar- ginalia as evidence of phenomena as important and diverse as religious change, authorial self-invention, and the history of the literary canon. The chapters of this book go beyond the case study, however, and raise broad historical, cultural, and theoretical questions about the strange, marvelous, metamorphic thing we call the book, and the equally mul- tiplicitous, eccentric, and inscrutable beings who accompany them through history: readers and writers.

A New History of Early English Drama

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102438
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Early English Drama written by John D. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317147154
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music written by Michael Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.

Folk-taxonomies in Early English

Author : Earl R. Anderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639160
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Folk-taxonomies in Early English written by Earl R. Anderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folk-taxonomy is a semantic field that represents the particular way in which a language imposes structure and order upon the myriad impressions of human experience and perception. Thus, for example, the experience of color in modem English is structured around an inventory of twelve "basic" color terms; but languages vary in the number of basic color terms used, from thirteen or fourteen terms to as few as two or three. Anthropological linguists have been interested in the comparative study of folk-taxonomies across contemporary languages, and in their studies they have sometimes proposed evolutionary models for the development and elaboration of these taxonomies. The evolutionary models have implications for historical linguistics, but there have been very few studies of the historical development of a folk-taxonomy within a language or within a language family. Folk-Taxonomies in Early English undertakes this task for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo-European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. Anderson's emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.

The Early English Impersonal Construction

Author : Ruth Möhlig-Falke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199777799
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Early English Impersonal Construction written by Ruth Möhlig-Falke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today.

Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries

Author : Johan Kerling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401770247
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries written by Johan Kerling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Early English Pronunciation

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Early English Pronunciation written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early English Meals and Manners

Author : Frederick James Furnivall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Early English Meals and Manners written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: