Modern Language Association of America - Böcker

Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by th...

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An Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stres...

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This handbook was written specifically for beginning students. It presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus. Among ...

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Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between Europea...

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This handy volume provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in installments in newspapers and magazines. The bulk of the volume contains charts for 192 novels. Each chart lists...

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Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts range from P...

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Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts range from P...

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This annotated bibliography on the relations of literature and science is offered as a resource tool for literary scholars, historians of science, and historians of ideas who are working in this field, which has had a distinct identity in literary...

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A companion volume to Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, this book provides the first comprehensive union list of all known British serials of the period. Each serial is listed alphabetically by first title. The first entry for a particular periodical ...

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This book explores biased usage in depth-its origins, its effect, the related controversies-and provides sensible and sensitive guidelines for nondiscriminatory speech and writing.

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Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the...

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Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the...

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Redefining American Literary History presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by "a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of pre...

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This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in the field.

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One of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) published more than 1,000 books and articles in a number of languages, including Basque, Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Provençal, Romani...

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"Literacy is a right and not a privilege: a right that has been denied to an extraordinary number of citizens." Guided by this belief, the authors of the twenty-nine essays in The Right to Literacy discuss what literacy is, what keeps people from ...

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A manual for college instructors seeking to integrate writing into their courses more effectively, this book suggests techniques for responding to student work, guiding student peer groups, and dealing with specific writing problems.

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This volume explores disciplines that have evolved in the years since the publication of volume 1. It discusses fields ranging from art history to feminist studies to religion through the study of the radical press, publisher's archives, periodica...

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