Bas Aarts “Syntactic Gradience: The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy”
Oxford University Press | 2007-08-02 | ISBN: 0199219265 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may […]

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In Godzilla’s Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | ISBN: 1403964610 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 1.58 MB
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Brian Swann, “Algonquian Spirit”
University of Nebraska Press | 2005-12-01 | ISBN: 0803243146 | 532 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB
When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities of the American West. The rich and […]

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Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts by Kevin F. McCarthy
RAND Corporation 2005 | 124 pages | ISBN: 0833036947; 9780833036940 | PDF | 1 MB
Faced with intense competition for audiences and financial support, as well as adverse political fallout from the “culture wars” of the early 1990s, arts advocates […]

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Peter Childs - ‘Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love’
Routledge | 2007 | ISBN: 0415345588 | Pages: 145 | PDF | 1.40 MB
Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the […]

Popularity: 13% [?]

Contemporary British Fiction
Edinburgh University Press | 2008-10-15 | ISBN: 0748624198 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 1.06 MB
Nick Bentley provides an introduction to the major novelists and the main themes in narrative fiction over the last 35 years. He offers a critical discussion of important debates in contemporary fiction engaging with concepts such as postmodernism; […]

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Language, Society and Power: An Introduction 2nd Edition
Routledge | 2003 | ISBN: 0415303931 | Pages: 272 | PDF | 1.33 MB
This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of Language, Society and Power. Lively and accessible, it looks at the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according […]

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Contemporary British Novelists
Routledge | 2004 | ISBN: 0415217091 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 1.12 MB
Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Martin Amis to Ian McEwan, Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information […]

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The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture 2nd Edition
Routledge | 2002 | ISBN: 0415257093 | Pages: 448 | PDF | 2.29 MB
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary […]

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English Fiction Since 1984: Narrating a Nation
Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | ISBN: 0230008550 | Pages: 248 | PDF | 1.71 MB
This book focuses on the work of a group of British novelists who have broken in different ways from the realist British novel of the post Second World War period without losing their broad appeal […]

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