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Languages at War
Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict

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The Medieval Python
The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

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No one working today in Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Terry Jones' thought-provoking views....
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Middleton and Rowley: The Changeling

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This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of...
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Multimodal Texts from Around the World
Cultural and Linguistic Insights

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A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies, this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from...
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The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635

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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the...
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Spivak and Postcolonialism
Exploring Allegations of Textuality

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This book explores several fundamental issues in postcolonial studies through the work of one of its most authoritative, if contentious, figures: Gayatri...
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Webster: The White Devil

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This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene commentary of the play in performance, a brief history of the...
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Indography
Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England

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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains...
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Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902-1939

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This book sheds new light on 'civil antisemitism' in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric shaped by...
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Baader-Meinhof and the Novel
Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010

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The Red Army Faction or Baader-Meinhof Group (1970-98) has been the subject of a very large number of German novels, from serious literary fiction to...

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Next Word, Better Word
The Craft of Writing Poetry

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This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns author of the...
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Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction

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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin...
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Linguistic Fieldwork
A Practical Guide

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Doing field research isn't like working in the lab with chemicals: both the field worker and their consultants are real people who interact in complex ways....
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Best Words, Best Order, 2nd Edition
Essays on Poetry

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In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing,...
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Masters of Mystery
The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

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Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan...
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Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction

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This book illuminates how technique serves 'story logic,' the particular way fiction makes meaning. Writers raid the cupboard of theory looking for what works,...
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems

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Thomas Hardy's first love was poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was 58, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final years of...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Medieval Studies and New Media

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Medieval Studies and New Media presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," newly revised...
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Shakespeare and the Truth of Love
The Mystery of 'The Phoenix and Turtle'

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In 1601, at the height of his career, Shakespeare wrote a 67-line untitled elegy—now frequently known as "The Phoenix and Turtle"—for inclusion, along with...
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The Afterlife of Ophelia

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Although she appears in only a handful of scenes in Hamlet, Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and unforgettable characters. This collection of new...
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Applied Conversation Analysis
Intervention and Change in Institutional Talk

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Each of us is highly skilled at designing our turns at talk, and meshing them with those of the people around us. Conversation Analysis (CA) is the study of...
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How to Write Better Essays

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This book takes the reader carefully through each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to the research, planning, writing, and revision....
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Enlightening the World
Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History

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In 1777 several of the world's greatest men gathered together to create a book that would champion rationalism, free thinking, and secularism--the...
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Alice Munro's Narrative Art

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Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary...