English Literature

From the Back CoverPresents a new way to categorize Englishes around the globe This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. It examines these var...

From the Back CoverSeries Editor: Kevin Curran Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare's art. Maintaining a broad view of 'philosophy' that accommodates fo...

From the Back Cover'"What is Judgment?", Kevin Curran asks in this volume's lucid introduction. The answers proffered here demonstrate the category's centrality to religion, law, rhetoric, ethics and philosophy, as well as to the practice of theat...

From the Back Cover*APPROVED* Illuminates our understanding of the soul as a historically and philosophically vital concept through Shakespearean drama Second Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, t...

From the Back Cover'The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturin...

From the Back CoverExplores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative process This book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major a...

From the Back CoverA new theory of the structure of phonological representations for segments and syllables Based on 30 years of research, this book presents a theory about the 'speech sounds' that occur in human spoken and signed languages. Ident...

From the Back CoverMigrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World By James W. Underhill and Mariarosaria Gianninoto Headline Exploring the roots of four keywords for our times: Europe, the citizen, the individual, and the people Blurb With...

From the Back Cover'Though writing a century apart and enjoining readers to think in such different ways about human experience, Austen and Woolf are like no other novelists so much as they are like each other. Or so Morris shows. Her concept of "...

From the Back CoverCarry out basic stylistic analyses of different text types using a range of stylistic frameworks If you are an English language learner meeting stylistics for the first time, this textbook will familiarize you with the basic ter...

From the Back CoverAssembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheid Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes s...

From the Back CoverContact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English By Robert McColl Millar While much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, the ques...

From the Back Cover*APPROVED* *APPROVED* Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with language Joseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English, and was also familiar with German, Russian, Dutch and Mal...

From the Back CoverArabic Corpus Linguistics Edited by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie and Nagwa Ibrahim Abdel-Fattah Younis Headline: An overview of current research on the Arabic language in corpus linguistics. This book demonstrates the advantage o...

From the Back CoverMohamed A. H. Ahmed explores the phenomenon of writing literature in the non-mother tongue In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for Israel. Finding it impossible to continue writing in Arabic i...

From the Inside FlapA Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation: Micro-variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic By Ahmad Alqassas This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standa...

From the Back Cover'This provocative collection sees "culture" not just as the sum of its arts, but in its more primal sense of something that grows, matures, morphs, and rots. Placing contemporary American Culture in the petri dish of history, th...

About the Book Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeare's plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than ...

About the Book Introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking Following a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of 'theory' today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking...

About the Book British India and Victorian Literary Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India. The book traces the development of British Indian liter...

About the Book Delivering facts and findings from a variety of multilingual settings, this textbook systematically covers the diverse dimensions of multilingualism. As well as explaining key concepts, it examines the foremost issues of individual ...

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.