Foreign Language Books

Provides information on Carian, one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. This book covers the major topics of research on Carian: the direct and indirect sources of Carian inscriptions, the history of the decipherment, the Carian alphabet, and the phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic features of the language. more...

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Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Victorians of all denominations (and none) through which a range of cultural contradictions and conflicts could be explored and alternative identities proposed. Previous studies of Catholicism in the period have focused on notions of the exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implacable anti-English enemy. However, extreme representations of Catholic counterculture also fulfil a more subversive function, mirroring and deconstructing domestic norms and revealing ambivalence about cherished ideals of public and private life. Considering the work of authors including Charles Kingsley, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, George Eliot, Grace Aguilar, Mary Ward, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Francis Thompson, this lively account shows the centrality of the sensational modelling of Catholicism to secular debates about imperialism, gender and sexuality, the role of the law and the body, the power of the emotions and the pleasures of aesthetic sensuality. more...

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A collection of the most interesting and important articles on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings demonstrate a number of approaches and challenges readers to look at Catullus in different ways. An introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser traces recent themes in Catullan criticism. - ;Oxford Readings in Catullus is a collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings, selected for their intrinsic interest and importance, are intended to be thought-provoking (and in some cases provocative) and to challenge readers to look at Catullus in different ways. They demonstrate a number of approaches - stylistic,. historical, literary-historical, New Critical, and theoretical (of several flavours). Such hermeneutic diversity is particularly appropriate in the case of Catullus, whose oeuvre is famously - some might say notoriously - varied in length, genre, tone, and subject matter. The collection as a whole. demonstrates what has interested Catullus' readers in the last half century and suggests some of the ways in which they might approach his poetry in the future. It is accompanied by an introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser on themes in Catullan criticism from 1950 to 2000. - more...

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English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods of the language and for regional and social varieties. The strength of current English linguistics therefore is its orientation to solid descriptive empirical research. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics TOPICS IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS lies not in ever more detailed studies on ever more phenomena, but in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. Relevant studies may, for example, make English the test case of major claims and hypotheses in these branches of linguistics or raise questions of more general concern to be tested in cross-linguistic work. There is also a need for survey studies bringing together our knowledge of synchronic, especially regional and social, and historical variation within the English language and putting their results in perspective against claims and findings in theoretical and cross-linguistic research. The editors welcome any high-quality manuscript in which the English language takes center stage, regardless of the topic area, the theoretical background and the methodological approach chosen. The prime condition all submitted manuscripts should meet is that they offer interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the TiEL series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. more...

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Freed FARC hostage, kidnapped Clara Rojas, tells the story of her six years of captivity, the birth and survival of her son in the  jungle more...

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