edinburgh university press aug 2008 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out the connections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse; in particular, a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the final chapter deals with tense, aspect and voice, topics which are central to the construction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning. They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key features:\*Coverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntax\*Explains basic concepts, supported by a glossary of technical terms\*Exercises and sources for further reading provided.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminismgender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broaderdebates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study ofcontemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and culturalevents. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes:Narrative Forms; Contemporary Ethnicities; Gender and Sexuality;History, Memory and Writing; and Narratives of Cultural Space.Key Featureso Introduces the major themes and trends in British fiction over the last 30 yearso Analyses a range of writers and texts including Brick Lane by Monica AliLondon Fields by Martin Amis, The Passion of New Eve by Angela CarterFever Pitch by Nick Hornby, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiAtonement by Ian McEwan, Shame by Salman Rushdie, Downriver by IainSinclair, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit byJeanette Wintersono Presents a variety of critical and cultural perspectives essential for studying contemporaryBritish fictiono Provides essential resources for further reading and researchNick Bentley is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Keele University. Heis the author of Radical Fictions: The British Novel in the 1950s (2007) and editorof British Fiction of the 1990s (2005).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book identifies two key themes: (i) that contemporary global politics has rendered many of the world's democracies susceptible to the rhetoric and policy of majoritarianism; and (ii) that majoritarianism plays on popular anxieties that invariably gravitate towards cultural identity.