Author: Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: O'Shaughnessy Publications
ISBN: 0615954693
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Poetic reflections on The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Climbing the Ladder on Trochaic Feet Steps 1&2
Author: Kenneth A O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: O'Shaughnessy Publications
ISBN: 0615954693
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Poetic reflections on The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Publisher: O'Shaughnessy Publications
ISBN: 0615954693
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Poetic reflections on The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Slave Songs of the United States
Author: William Francis Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Historical Phonology of English
Author: Donka Minkova
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748677550
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book covers the historical development of the English phonological system from its earliest reconstructed and recorded forms to its most recent variations.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748677550
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book covers the historical development of the English phonological system from its earliest reconstructed and recorded forms to its most recent variations.
The Superstitious Muse
Author: David M. Bethea
Publisher: Studies in Russian and Slavic
ISBN: 9781934843178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of erasure and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad). This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies.
Publisher: Studies in Russian and Slavic
ISBN: 9781934843178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the “mythopoetic thinking” that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of erasure and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad). This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies.
The Domain of Language
Author: Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772897066
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772897066
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.
Surprised by Joy
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062565443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
A repackaged edition of the revered author’s spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity. C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062565443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
A repackaged edition of the revered author’s spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity. C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
A Swinger of Birches
Author: Robert Frost
Publisher: NaturEncyclopedia
ISBN: 9780916144937
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A selection of thirty-eight poems celebrating the natural and spiritual worlds by the well-loved poet of rural New England.
Publisher: NaturEncyclopedia
ISBN: 9780916144937
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A selection of thirty-eight poems celebrating the natural and spiritual worlds by the well-loved poet of rural New England.
Burmese Days
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667640550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, originally published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the British empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the center of the novel is John Flory, trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel deals with indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where natives peoples were viewed as interesting, but ultimately inferior. Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667640550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, originally published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the British empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the center of the novel is John Flory, trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel deals with indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where natives peoples were viewed as interesting, but ultimately inferior. Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.
Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Optimality Theory
Author: Rene Kager
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589802
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589802
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.