wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Imagining Medieval English
ISBN: 9781107058590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging study of medieval English from 500 to 1500, exploring forms and ideas about language in a literary and cultural context.
A wide-ranging study of medieval English from 500 to 1500, exploring forms and ideas about language in a literary and cultural context.
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396,69 zł |
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Imagining Medieval English
ISBN: 9781107645745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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205,66 zł |
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What Is English?: And Why Should We Care?
ISBN: 9780199601257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for definitions of English have influenced education and law in many countries and helped shape the identities of those who live in them.
Finding an account that fits the constantly changing varieties of English is, Tim Machan finds, anything but simple. But he rises to the challenge, grappling with... What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's ...
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165,81 zł |
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What Is English?: And Why Should We Care?
ISBN: 9780198736677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for definitions of English have influenced education and law in many countries and helped shape the identities of those who live in them.
Finding an account that fits the constantly changing varieties of English is, Tim Machan finds, anything but simple. But he rises to the challenge, grappling with... What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's ...
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120,56 zł |
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Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts
ISBN: 9780813915081 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Textual-Critical studies of medieval English literature have primarily focused on practical matters such as transcription, collation, recension, and the identification of scribal hands. But the theory of editing medieval English works remains largely unexplored. Tim William Machan addresses this void by setting out to articulate the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterize Middle English works as Middle English and to reveal the role these factors play in editing and interpretation of these works. In revealing how the creation of textual criticism affected the... Textual-Critical studies of medieval English literature have primarily focused on practical matters such as transcription, collation, recension, an... |
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352,04 zł |
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From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and historical imagination
ISBN: 9781526128751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .
This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from...
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449,82 zł |
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Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English
ISBN: 9780199232123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This engaging and wide-ranging history of language anxiety ranges from the Tower of Babel to the internet. It shows how worry about language results from and causes linguistic change, as well as fuelling perennial concerns about class, culture, identity, and social change.
This engaging and wide-ranging history of language anxiety ranges from the Tower of Babel to the internet. It shows how worry about language results f...
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344,46 zł |
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Sources of the Boece
ISBN: 9780820327600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Boethius s "De Consolatione Philosophiae" was among the most persistent and extensive influences on Chaucer s writing. Its ideas appear in various works, including the "Knight s Tale" and "Troilus and Criseyde," while the so-called Boethian balades offer poetic renditions of small sections of the Consolation. Around 1380 Chaucer translated the whole of the "Consolation" into English, drawing not only on the Latin Vulgate "Consolatio" but also on Jean de Meun s French translation ("Li Livres de confort de philosophie") and on Nicholas Trevet s Latin commentary on the... Boethius s "De Consolatione Philosophiae" was among the most persistent and extensive influences on Chaucer s writing. Its ideas appear in various ... |
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518,62 zł |