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Author | : Suzanne Conklin Akbari |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442663405 |
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Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.
Author | : Amitav Ghosh |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429930810 |
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The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
Author | : Amy L. Paugh |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0857457616 |
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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.
Author | : Robert Forrest Burgess |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fred Woudhuizen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Asya Pereltsvaig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107002788 |
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Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Download A New and Complete Critical Dictionary of the English and German Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Felix Flügel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1222 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0060087765 |
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With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200 radio stations across the country. But Spanish north of the Rio Grande has not spread in its pure Iberian form. On the contrary, a signature of the brewing "Latin Fever" that has swept the United States since the mid-1980s is the astonishing creative linguistic amalgam of tongues used by people of Hispanic descent, not only in major cities but in rural areas as well -- neither Spanish nor English, but a hybrid, known only as Spanglish.