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Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sam Slick Anthology written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849523731
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Sam Slick written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Davies
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442658088
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Inventing Sam Slick written by Richard A. Davies and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.
Author : David Stouck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803291881
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Major Canadian Authors written by David Stouck and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian literature in English presents a wealth of imaginative experience that belies the colonial status sometimes accorded the world?s second-largest country. This revised and expanded edition of Major Canadian Authors provides an entrance into that realm. Stouck?s carefully integrated essays introduce the life and writings of eighteen foremost Canadian authors, including Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Alice Munro. The second edition adds a new chapter on Margaret Atwood, updates the text, and expands the reference guide to include more than sixty Canadian authors.
Author : Henry B. Wonham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360192
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale written by Henry B. Wonham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games--the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of tall tale in American oral and written traditions. Wonham goes on to show how Twain's appropriation of the genre developed through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. This eminently readable study will interest Twain enthusiasts and students of nineteenth-century American literature, as well as anyone interested in American humor and oral narrative traditions.
Author : Samuel Slick (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Chandler Haliburton.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sam Slick in Texas; Or, The Piney Woods written by Samuel Slick (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Chandler Haliburton.]) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268177
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Made-in-Canada Humour written by Beverly J. Rasporich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.
Author : Antoinette Renouf
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120179X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics written by Antoinette Renouf and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- The corpus-user's chorus: (Based on The Major General's Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance) /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- Introduction: The changing face of corpus linguistics /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English /Stefan Dollinger -- Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach /Clemens Fritz -- Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English /Ian Lancashire -- EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness /Manfred Markus -- The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer /Antonio Miranda García , Javier Calle Martín , David Moreno Olalla and Gustavo Muñoz González -- Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective /Maurizio Gotti -- Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective /Anneli Meurman-Solin and Päivi Pahta -- Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus /Caren auf dem Keller -- “Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for USD 1.50” - The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language /Marianne Hundt -- Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English /Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith -- Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus /Mats Deutschmann -- How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficulties /Göran Kjellmer -- Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English /Ute Römer -- Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP /Gabriel Ozón -- The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents /Anna-Brita Stenström -- WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysis /Barry Morley -- Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp /Andrew Kehoe -- New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount /Josef Schmied -- I'm like, “Hey, it works!”: Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers /Cédrick Fairon and John V. Singler -- Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars /Joybrato Mukherjee -- Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora /Christian Mair -- but it will take time...points of view on a lexical grammar of English /Michaela Mahlberg -- Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference /Jan Aarts.
Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110251604
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523043
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Varieties of English written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English including American English, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, and English in Canada, Africa, India, Wales, among many others.
Author : Thomas C. Haliburton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Sam Slick written by Thomas C. Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Tierney
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776617303
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium written by Frank Tierney and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms.
Author : W.H. New
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571361
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A History of Canadian Literature written by W.H. New and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts. Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how - from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the early twenty-first century - writer, reader, literature, and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the "real," whether in documentary, fantasy, or satire; historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later twentieth century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity, and literary technique itself. In this second edition, he adds a lengthy chapter that considers how writers at the turn of the twenty-first century have reimagined their society and their roles within it, and an expanded chronology and bibliography. Some of these writers have spoken from and about various social margins (dealing with issues of race, status, ethnicity, and sexuality), some have sought emotional understanding through strategies of history and memory, some have addressed environmental concerns, and some have reconstructed the world by writing across genres and across different media. All genres are represented, with examples chosen primarily, but not exclusively, from anglophone and francophone texts. A chronology, plates, and a series of tables supplement the commentary.
Author : Stefan Dollinger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285233
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book New-Dialect Formation in Canada written by Stefan Dollinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian innovations. The findings are based on the Corpus of Early Ontario English, pre-Confederation Section, the first electronic corpus of early Canadian English. The data, which are drawn from newspapers, diaries and letters, include original transcriptions from manuscript sources and texts from semi-literate writers. While the overall results are generally coherent with new-dialect formation theory, the Ontarian context suggests a number of adaptations to the current model. In addition to its general Late Modern English focus, New-Dialect Formation in Canada traces changes in epistemic modal functions up to the present day, offering answers to the loss of root uses in the central modals. By comparing Canadian with British and American data, important theoretical insights on the origins of the variety are gained. The study offers a sociohistorical perspective on a still understudied variety of North American English by combining language-internal features with settlement history in this first monograph-length, diachronic treatment of Canadian English in real time.
Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Literature written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816611688
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Mirth of a Nation written by Walter Blair and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027249016
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Varieties of English in Writing written by Raymond Hickey and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents. The vernacular styles found in written documents and the use of these as a window on earlier spoken modes of different varieties represent a focal concern of the book. Studies of language in literature, which were offered in the past, have been revisited and their findings reassessed in the light of recent advances in variationist linguistics.
