Author: Frederick Metcalfe
Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521469708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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The English Language by Logan Pearsall Smith is a fascinating exploration of one of the world's most widely spoken languages. Smith dives deep into the English language's roots, its development, complexities, and the socio-cultural factors that have shaped it. This book is not just an insightful resource for linguistics enthusiasts but also a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in the evolution of communication and language.

Author: Erik Björkman
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Erik Björkman
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1566

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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Author: James Bonwick
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Michael Booth
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250061970
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the Year A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon). Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn’t easy being Scandinavian.

Author: Frank Edgar Farley
Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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