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This study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). Like many intellectuals who strongly perceived the necessity of reforms in the waning years of the Late Qing dynasty, i.e. after the Opium wars, Wang...

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in...

Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success. But what are the implications of this rewriting process? Such is the question addressed by this detailed study of several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris...

This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and...

This book explores the specific implications of epilepsy in each of the Fyodor Dostoevsky's major post-Siberian novels. It discusses Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony to demonstrate the ways in which different historical and literary references to...

This book seeks to recontextualize the quarrel, embedding it in the cultural politics of the 1770s, and thereby to offer a richer account of the disputes which would account for some of the wider issues at stake.About the AuthorMark DarlowBook...

This book explores how Theodore de Banville's remarkably coherent body of verse theory and practice, shaped debates about poetic value and how to identify it during a period of aesthetic uncertainty caused by diverse social, economic, political and...

This book discusses Fowler's thesis on the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the libertine and the prude in a number of key eighteenth-century texts. He stresses that prude and libertine need each other to define themselves, a symbiosis...

This book shows that the novel of German women's emancipation in the late nineteenth century has been marginalized precisely because of its engagement with politics and protest, and its communication to a wide public of challenging ideas for social...

This book establishes more complex genealogies and revised histories of African film through an extension of the historical, geographical, and critical frameworks that have been deployed to analyse cinematic production from across the continent.About the...

This book looks at Rome through its old bourgeoisie, whose relationship to the city in a very real sense embodies an important aspect of 'time-full' Rome, Rome as a local fatherland, the idealized image of Rome Eternal as a symbolic community tied to...

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. Unconvincing derivations have been suggested from Yiddish to Gaelic and Italian, and thus far consensus among...

Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I, specific examples from global linguistic corpora are used to discuss the issues involved in lexical...

This book examines self-consciousness and very-lateness, those two intimately related phenomena, tracing the theme in Goethe's last major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust...

As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic The New World lays claim to being the first poetic exploration...

This book presents the large-scale investigation of syntactic borrowing in contemporary French. The investigation centres on an aspect of syntactic borrowing that can be subject to the kind of rigorous analysis that is required of linguistic studies to...

Focusing on France, and bringing together historians of politics, literature, philosophy, art, and film, this volume sheds light on the imagination and experience of the political individual in the age of the masses between 1930 and 1950.About the...

The Syllables of Time: Proust and the History of ReadingAbout the AuthorTeresa WhitingtonBook InformationISBN 9780367604431Author Teresa WhitingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 240g

This book, drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, investigates the aesthetics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France: Robert Bresson,...

This book examines how the 'Manneken Pis' statue has come to symbolize the Brussels city and focuses on the multiplicity of interpretations to which the statue has been subjected. It explores that celebratory uses of the statue and ones which articulate...

This book presents a study of Theophile Gautier's art journalism written during the Second Republic and provides a reassessment of Gautier's importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture. It charts his response to the major art events and...

This book examines the plays of four women-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Noelle Renaude-writing in the latter years of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century.About the AuthorMary NoonanBook...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series offer comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further investigation. Each Language Workbook guides...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history* Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names* Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text`This rich repository of information...

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the current state of Spanish sibilants and their dialectal variations. Focusing on different processes undergone by...

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the...

Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook is specially prepared for elementary Thai language classes where the language is initially taught with the use of phonetic symbols. A step-by-step guide to writing Thai, it is based on a thorough linguistic analysis and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783896250186Author Anthony BulgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Assimil GmbHPublisher Assimil GmbHWeight(grams) 438g

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its...

In the Light of Contradiction: Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia LorcaAbout the AuthorRoberta Ann QuanceBook InformationISBN 9780367602604Author RobertaAnn QuanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

This book looks at New York City's recurrent role as a symbol of modernization in early twentieth-century Spanish narrative. It explores the connections between the contradictory reactions to modernization and the crisis of Spanish national identity...

Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the development of Spanish and its contact with other languages using a sociolinguistic framework from both synchronic and diachronic angles...

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so many of its words have undergone; words which, as current...

This book demonstrates how Ana Clavel continues the tradition of both her predecessors and contemporaries by focusing on questions of gender. It discusses the relationship between queerness, multimedia interventions, and literature in Clavel's works and...

This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by...

This third edition of Compendium of the World's Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been...

Students and Readers of French Literature, who require a more complete dictionary of Argot than the present volume, should consult these learned and excellent works.Book InformationISBN 9781138563001Author W. Knoblauch vonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear...