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The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art
This book provides an in-depth account of the protests that shook France in 1968 and which served as a catalyst to a radical reconsideration of...
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Restrictiveness in Case Theory
Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and...
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Northern English
English as spoken in the North of England has a rich social and cultural history; however it has often been neglected by historical linguists, whose...
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André Salmon on French Modern Art
André Salmon was one of the premier art critics of his day and the author of two important eyewitness accounts of early twentieth century art in...
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Form and Meaning in Word Formation
This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding...
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The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known...
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The Romance of the New World
This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined...
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The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
In this cultural history of Americans’ engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of...
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Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in...
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Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the...
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Performance and Identity in the Classical World
Performance and Identity in the Classical World traces attitudes towards actors in Greek and Roman culture as a means of understanding ancient...
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Milton and the Drama of History
How did Milton’s understanding of history relate to his literary expression of it? This book explores the role of history in Milton’s literary...
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The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
In this cultural history of Americans’ engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive...
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The Raising of Predicates
One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role...
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From Augustus to Nero
This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem,...
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary...
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The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early...
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey...
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Morphological Productivity
Why are there more English words ending in -ness than ending in -ity? What is it about some endings that makes them more widely usable than others?...
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From Augustus to Nero
This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem,...
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Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four...
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