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Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articl…
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- 9789004299009
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- 328 halaman
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- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 58
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- 800 CON
Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal
“Personally,” Stephen Leacock declared in his preface toSunshine Sketches of a Little Town(1912), “I would sooner have writtenAlice in Wonderlandthan the wholeEncyclopedia Britannica.” Yet the worlds represented byAliceand theEncyclopedia, seemingly light years apart, are central to an understanding, appreciation, and assessment of the many worlds that commanded the attention of Stephen…
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- 9780776601809
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- 184 halaman
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- Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
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- 800 STA s
Psychology
Psychology is designed to meet the scope and sequence for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. For many students, this may be their only college-level psychology course. As such, this textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of psychology and understand how those concepts apply to their lives. The authors strive to make psychology, as …
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- 9781938168352
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- 150 SPI p
Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization : An Introduction
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct languages. The book presents a comprehensive overview of language endangerment and revitalization. Among the examined aspects are: degrees of endangerment, definitions of…
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- 9783110896589
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Language, Thought, and Reality (1956 edition)
Overview: A unique perspective on the confluence of the three basic conceptual frameworks in human experience. Contains several studies, with data, of remarkable world views of disparate cultures based on their specific cultures language. The premise is that how people experience the world, then think about it, then create a language around it, alters their perception of the world in very funda…
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- 278 Pages
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A Grand Army of Black Men Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Unio…
The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and the war's outcome. Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War. Although most were illiterate ex-slaves, several thousand were well-educated, …
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- 9780511663574
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- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (63)
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A Grammar of the Sungskrit Language To Which Are Added Examples for the Exer…
The Indo-Aryan language of Sanskrit is the primary language of Hinduism and also a scholarly language of Buddhism. Dating back to the second millennium BCE, it is considered to be the parent of most modern languages of India, and remains central to work in Indo-European studies, philology and linguistics today. First published in 1806, this is a comprehensive grammar of Sanskrit, compiled by th…
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- 9781139507264
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences II : Between Syntax and Morphology
This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the i…
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- 9783961102884
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- Open Generative Syntax 10
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- 415 SYN
Utterance Structure in Initial L2 Acquisition
This work is devoted to morphosyntactic processing in the earliest stages of L2 Polish. The target structure taken into consideration is the morphosyntactic opposition between the nominative and accusative case, respectively corresponding to the subject and object function. This is the first book-length work devoted to the VILLA project, a large multi-national initiative within which 90 adult l…
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- 9783961102617
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- Eurosla Studies 2
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- 401.93 SAT u
The Verb in Nyakyusa : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a …
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- 9783961102945
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- Contemporary African Linguistics 2
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- 467.8 PER v
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