This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations --to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture -- are examined as needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. Andrew Lynch's exploration of the powerof name' as public reputation in the Mortechallenges the usual reading of Malory's adventures, and he goes on to survey...
This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the ...
The only book ever to draw the big findings of NLP into one easy-to-use model How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the perfect solution for being in the right frame of mind at the right moment for the right length of time to get the result you want. We often talk about 'being in the right frame of mind' to do something, and as soon as we think we're on the right path, suddenly find ourselves in exactly the wrong frame of mind to achieve our objective. How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the momentum and direction to remain focused and motivated right to the end. It runs on the best, most...
The only book ever to draw the big findings of NLP into one easy-to-use model How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the perfect solution for being in...
El espanol en contacto con otras lenguas is the first comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts--in Spain, the United States, and Latin America. In this significant contribution to the field of Hispanic linguistics, Carol A. Klee and Andrew Lynch explore the historical and social factors that have shaped contact varieties of the Spanish language, synthesizing the principle arguments and theories about language contact, and examining linguistic changes in Spanish phonology, morphology and syntax,...
El espanol en contacto con otras lenguas is the first comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with o...
This work focuses on the impact of the extraordinary counter-terrorism laws outside the immediacy of the counter-terrorism context. The book draws together practitioners and academics to consider the wider effects counter-terrorism law is having on public institutions within democracies.
This work focuses on the impact of the extraordinary counter-terrorism laws outside the immediacy of the counter-terrorism context. The book draws tog...
Today medievalism is increasingly intelligible as a cultural lingua franca, produced in trans- and international contexts with a view to reaching popular international audiences, some of mass scope. This book offers new perspectives on international relations and how global concerns are made available through contemporary medievalist texts. It questions how research in medievalism may help us rethink the terms of internationalism and globalism within popular cultures, ideologies, and political formations. It investigates how the diverse media of medievalism (print; film and television; arts...
Today medievalism is increasingly intelligible as a cultural lingua franca, produced in trans- and international contexts with a view to reaching popu...
Literature records, remembers, and recreates war and war's emotions in many forms: whether narrated by an eye-witness, an observer at distance, or one who contemplates conflict in the past, war is remembered through a wide range of literary texts, from narrative poems to personal letters and tomb inscriptions. The essays collected here explore the emotions of war in texts from the Middle Ages to the era of Romanticism, and in forms ranging from medieval chivalric biography to war correspondence in The Times. Brought together in this way, they show the impact of actual war experience on the...
Literature records, remembers, and recreates war and war's emotions in many forms: whether narrated by an eye-witness, an observer at distance, or one...
