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Studies in the History of the English Language V
This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical research can make to our knowledge of the development of English grammar, especially as realized in lexical development. In illustration of contemporary research trends, the articles in the collection make strong use of extralinguistic factors to discuss language change as well as argue for internal and structural development. The authors are drawn from nine different countries, and each article is follo...
The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur
Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the "grete bokes" of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550
Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.
E.L. Konigsburg
Into her late thirties and with children of her own, E.L. Konigsburg saw a need for books that included characters with which children could identify. She left her career in chemistry and began writing children's' books, winning the Newbery Medal and the Newbery Honor in 1968-the only children's writer to win both awards in the same year. This fascinating book relates how she came to create Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and other stories loved by her many fans.
American Novel Explication, 1991-1995
Covers criticism of American novels found in journals and books published between the years 1991 and 1995.
