'Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage' is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-16th century to the early 17th centuries.
Provides the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler) and bikini from the atoll. There are hundreds more -- discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot and a…
A new dictionary of eponyms
by Freeman, Morton S., Oxford University Press
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Searchable database of A new dictionary of eponyms by Morton S. Freeman contains the histories behind hundreds of eponyms.
Searchable database of A new dictionary of eponyms by Morton S. Freeman contains the histories behind hundreds of eponyms.
Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pess…
The Presence of Pessoa is the first study of Pessoa's influence on twentieth-century poets, who have responded to him in surprising and sometimes comic ways. Monteiro traces the Pessoan threads in the work of such contemporaries as Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, John Wain, a…
"This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts rangi…
"This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts rangi…
"The studies in this collection represent the critical convergence of different traditions of reading and analyzing discourse. They expose key questions about the methods and the outcomes of historical pragmatic approaches to the study of the history of the English language. The…
This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be neatly subdivided into four distinct construction types which differ in the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction. The four sem…
