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Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature by : Marion Wynne-Davies
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature written by Marion Wynne-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition covers English literature, from Chaucerian poetry to the novels of Martin Amis, and contains entries for works, authors, journals and literary movements.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury English Dictionary by : BFGhy Rooney
Download or read book Bloomsbury English Dictionary written by BFGhy Rooney and published by A & C Black. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury English Dictionary is a comprehensive companion to the readers of English language. It includes over 12,000 new entries, over 4,00,000 words, phrases, meanings, and provides extensive help to solve spelling and language problems. This volum
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Dictionary of Difficult Words by : Laurence Urdang
Download or read book Bloomsbury Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Laurence Urdang and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of 14,000 difficult words and short phrases which appear in popular newspapers and magazines.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins by : John Ayto
Download or read book Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins written by John Ayto and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average English speaker knows 50,000 words in contemporary use - 25 more words than there are stars in the night sky visible to the naked eye. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality a much smaller number of words from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms - 'yuppie', blended words - 'motel', and those taken from foreign languages - 'savoir-faire'. The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins provides a concise history of over 8,000 of the most commonly used words. The range of information spans from derivations as simple as 'a' and 'one' from 'an', to historical relations between words which would be obscure to all but the most lexically-minded. For instance 'vice' with its several uses in English - a wickedness, a holding tool - is derived via Old French from two separate Latin words: 'vitium' (defect, offence), and 'vitis' (vine) which gave 'viticulture'. The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins demonstrates how the diverse influences on English have given rise to some unlikely but fascinating lexical relations. 'Bishop' had no ecclesiastical
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature by : Marion Wynne-Davies
Download or read book Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature written by Marion Wynne-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new authority on English literature.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary by : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Download or read book Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary written by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionaryis designed to meet the everyday requirements of all global English users. The English language continues to grow, accelerated by the Internet, e-commerce and global business. It is used by one in five of the world's population, is being learnt by 1 billion people and is the language of 85% of Internet sites. Every day throughout the world, businesspeople, tourists, students, teachers and computer users are confronted with new words and terms. The need for an easy-to-use concise dictionary of this dynamic language has never been greater. In the Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary, which is compiled from the same database as the Bloomsbury English Dictionary, readers will find international coverage of global English, enhanced with innovative features: Quick Definitions: a unique system, with brief definitions in bold, to enable readers to pick out the appropriate sense quickly and easily Quick Facts: short digests of key concepts in the arts and science Literary Links: notes on major works of literature Internet Guide to navigating and researching on the Internet Spellchecks: warnings about spelling errors ignored by spellcheckers Usage Notes: answers to common spelling and grammar queries Comprehensive coverage of high-technology, scientific and business terms. In addition to this, the Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionaryhas an easy-to-use layout, 30 tables of key facts and dates and over 700 illustrations, maps and photos.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature by : Marion Wynne-Davies
Download or read book Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature written by Marion Wynne-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black British Literature by : Mark Stein
Download or read book Black British Literature written by Mark Stein and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Mark Stein examines black British literature, centering on a body of work created by British-based writers with African, South Asian, or Caribbean cultural backgrounds. Linking black British literature to the bildungsroman genre, this study examines the transformative potential inscribed in and induced by a heterogeneous body of texts. Capitalizing on their plural cultural attachments, these texts portray and purvey the transformation of post-imperial Britain. Stein locates his wide-ranging analysis in both a historical and a literary context. He argues that a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach is essential to understanding post-colonial culture and society. The book relates black British literature to ongoing debates about cultural diversity, and thereby offers a way of reading a highly popular but as yet relatively uncharted field of cultural production. With the collapse of its empire, with large-scale immigration from former colonies, and with ever-increasing cultural diversity, Britain underwent a fundamental makeover in the second half of the twentieth century. This volume cogently argues that black British literature is not only a commentator on and a reflector of this makeover, but that it is simultaneously an agent that is integral to the processes of cultural and social change. Conceptualizing the novel of transformation, this comprehensive study of British black literature provides a compelling analytic framework for charting these processes.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms by : Gordon Jarvie
Download or read book Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms written by Gordon Jarvie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From credit crunch to golden parachute, barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these and 3,000 other common English idioms. Packed with nuggets of fascinating information, the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms traces the origins of these phrases, explains meanings and gives examples of up-to-date usage. Ideal for word buffs and English students alike, this book will help all users of English to mind their (linguistic) ps and qs.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Books by : Stuart Gillespie
Download or read book Shakespeare's Books written by Stuart Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources include surveys of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed discussion of their relation to his work, and full bibliography. These are enhanced by sample passages from early modern England writers, together with reproductions of pages from the original texts. Now available in paperback with a new preface bringing the book up to date, this is an invaluable reference tool.
Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers by : Heiner F. Klemme
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers written by Heiner F. Klemme and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investigation, it features more than 650 entries on the eighteenth-century philosophers, theologians, jurists, physicians, scholars, writers, literary critics and historians whose work has had lasting philosophical significance. Alongside well-known German philosophers of that era-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel-the Dictionary provides rare insights into the lives and minds of lesser-known individuals who influenced the shape of philosophy. Each entry discusses a particular philosopher's life, contributions to the world of thought, and later influences, focusing not only on their most important published writings, but on relevant minor works as well. Bibliographical references to primary and secondary source material are included at the end of entries to encourage further reading, while extensive cross-referencing allows comparisons to be easily made between different thinkers' ideas and practices. For anyone looking to understand more about the century when enlightenment thinking arrived in Germany and established conceits were challenged, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a valuable, unparalleled resource.
Book Synopsis Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion by : Nigel Rees
Download or read book Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion written by Nigel Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 5000 entries, from Abandon hope all ye who enter here to Led Zeppelin, this book explores the origins and meanings of allusions, words, names and phrases from the worlds of literature, politics and popular culture. The entries include contemporary references as well as information on classical mythology, saints' names, acronyms, collective nouns and pseudonyms.
Book Synopsis A Handbook to Literary Research by : Simon Eliot
Download or read book A Handbook to Literary Research written by Simon Eliot and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique student resource is specifically designed for those beginning an MA in Literature, providing an introduction to research techniques, methodologies and information sources relevant to the study of literature at postgraduate level.
Book Synopsis A Handbook to Literary Research by : Delia da Sousa Correa
Download or read book A Handbook to Literary Research written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to Literary Research is a vital, one of a kind student resource, which has been written specifically for those embarking on a Masters degree in Literature. It provides an introduction to research techniques, methodologies and information sources relevant to the study of literature at postgraduate level. The unique and invaluable guide is divided into four sections: * a practical guide to the uses of research libraries, research sources and computers, including the Internet * an introduction to the work of textual scholars and bibliographers, focusing particularly on the practical and theoretical issues faced by textual editors * an overview of literary research and literary theory, including outlines of feminist theory, deconstruction, reader-response and reception theory, new historicism, and post-colonial theory * a detailed guide on how to write and present a Masters, including a glossary and checklist for finding guides, reference books and other study sources.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Translocations by : Marga Munkelt
Download or read book Postcolonial Translocations written by Marga Munkelt and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary approaches. It starts from the premise that after the ‘spatial turn’ human action and cultural representations can no longer be grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultural processes. It explores the ways in which critical spatial thinking can be made Productive: Testing the uses and limitations of ‘translocation’ as an open exploratory model for a critically spatialized postcolonial studies, it covers a wide range of cultural expressions from the anglophone world and beyond – literature, film, TV, photography and other forms of visual art, philosophy, historical memory, and tourism. The extensive introductory chapter charts various facets of spatial thinking from a variety of disciplines, and critically discusses their implications for postcolonial studies. The Contributors’ essays range from theoretical interventions into the critical routines of postcolonial criticism to case studies of specific cultural texts, objects, and events reflecting temporal and spatial, material and intellectual, physical and spiritual mobility. What emerges is a fascinating survey of the multiple directions postcolonial translocations can take in the future. This book is aimed at students and scholars of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, transnational studies, globalisation studies, critical space studies, urban studies, film studies, media studies, art history, philosophy, history, and anthropology. Contributors: Diana Brydon, Lars Eckstein, Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Lucia Krämer, Gesa Mackenthun, Thomas Martinek, Sandra Meyer, Therese-M. Meyer, Marga Munkelt, Lynda Ng, Claudia Perner, Katharina Rennhak, Gundo Rial y Costas, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Kathy-Ann Tan, Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Jessica Voges, Roland Walter, Dirk Wiemann.
Book Synopsis War Representation in British Cinema and Television by : Kevin M. Flanagan
Download or read book War Representation in British Cinema and Television written by Kevin M. Flanagan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores alternatives to realist, triumphalist, and heroic representations of war in British film and television. Focusing on the period between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Falkland War but offering connections to the moment of Brexit, it argues that the “lost continent” of existential, satirical, simulated, and abstractly traumatic war stories is as central to understanding Britain’s martial history as the mainstream inheritance. The book features case studies that stress the contribution of exiled or expatriate directors and outsider sensibilities, with particular emphasis on Peter Watkins, Joseph Losey, and Richard Lester. At the same time, it demonstrates concerns and stylistic emphases that continue to the present in television series and films by directors such as Lone Scherfig and Christopher Nolan. Encompassing everything from features to government information films, the book explores related trends in the British film industry, popular culture, and film criticism, while offering a sense of how these contexts contribute to historical memory.
Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature by : Marion Wynne-Davies
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature written by Marion Wynne-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to English literature in which thousands of detailed A-Z entries are combined with a series of essays. The book creates a research network, allowing the user to follow lines of interest, investigate topics, and place them within historical and social contexts.
