Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many …
In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music - heard, imagined, or remembered - to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's …
Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many …
Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the idea of language infiltrated by music and reproducing not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects on minds and memories. She reveals that many …
Medical writing in early modern English
by Taavitsainen, Irma, Pahta, Päivi
fromStudies in English language
An introduction to the various aspects of the language of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Provides an accessible guide to the linguistic environment of Shakespeare, his use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction.
Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past.' - Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter…
