"Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they hav…
"These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane…
"These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women’s experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane…
Not a tome, not an encyclopedia, the Oxford American Dictionary is an ingeniously crafted tool for all who use American English. The goal has been to simplify: no obscure pronunciation symbols, no unneeded variant spellings or pronunciation, no filled material. This dictionary i…
Not a tome, not an encyclopedia, the Oxford American Dictionary is an ingeniously crafted tool for all who use American English. The goal has been to simplify: no obscure pronunciation symbols, no unneeded variant spellings or pronunciation, no filled material. This dictionary i…
"In his essay on "Old Age," Emerson wrote that "there is a proportion between the designs of a man and the length of his life: there is a calendar of his years, so of his performance." In advancing this optimistic theory, Emerson suggests that there is a deep and fundamental rel…
In linguistics, where definitions at best are often imprecise, those of slang terms are notoriously hard to establish. Recorded slang emerged from the special languages of sub-cultures and never stops evolving. Since the publication of the classic Dictionary of American Slang, o…
This book offers an analysis of the relationship between post-war women's fiction and temporality. By bringing the concepts of parody and nostalgia to bear on a variety of novels by women published from the 1960s to the present, Ridout illuminates the complex means by which text…
