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People passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence on…
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- 9781909254121
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 303.48241047
Why do we quote?: the culture and history of quotation
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing f…
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- 9781906924355 (pdf)
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages)
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- 808 FIN w
Poetics and politics
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within t…
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- 9783110536690
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- 280 p.; 22 cm.
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- 822 POE p
Perspectives on women’s higher education leadership from around the world
At this time in world history, numerous scholars have emphasized the importance of having greater diversity in leadership, and specifically having greater representation by women in leadership. In particular, providing women with greater access to higher education—and having role models for women in higher education leadership—has a beneficial ripple effect, given that postsecondary institu…
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- 9783038972648
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- 170 p.; 22 cm.
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- 301 PER p
People and place: The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and…
"This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut of…
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- 9781760463458
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- ix, 205p.: ill.
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- 993 RIC p
Theoretical comparative syntax : studies in macroparameters
Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between Eng/type language and Japanese/type languages, Fukui examines the abstract parameters that both link and divide them. Linguistic universals are consi…
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- 9780203479179
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- ix, 422p. : ill.
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- 415 FUK t
Loan phonology
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the di…
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- 9789027288967
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- vii, 273p. : ill.
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- 414 LOA l
Elements of structural syntax
This volume is now finally available in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern stu…
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- 9789027212122
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- lxxxii, 698p. : ill.
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- 415 TES e
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