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- Writing Degree Zero (15)
- By Roland Barthes
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- English Grammar and Exercises (5)
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- By Leslie R.H. Chapman
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This four book course of graded grammar exercises aims to develop the pupils’ understanding of the English grammatical system at work. Book 1 is planned for pupils in their second year of learning English as a foreign language and the series takes them up to intermediate level. Grammatical termino ... (continue)
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- 中國史學史 (7)
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- Religions of Man (26)
- By Huston Smith
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"Brilliant…luminous...perhaps the first adequate textbook in world religion." – Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Harvard University
"An intelligent, clearly written study, which reveals the spirit of each faith." – N.K. Burger, The New York Times
"The most helpful book of its kind in the field of relig ... (continue)
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- The Bridges of Madison County (198)
- By Robert James Waller
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If you’ve ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world were so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they made it a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller….[This book] gives voice to the longi ... (continue)
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- Medieval Europe (1)
- A Short Sourcebook
- By C. Warren Hollister
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 7 (Vol 7)
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The aim of [these collections] of essays...is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors to [these] vol ... (continue)
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 1 (Vol 1)
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The aim of the present collection of essays, the first of a series, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The co ... (continue)
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 5
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The aim of [these collections] of essays...is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors to [these] vol ... (continue)
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 4
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The aim of [these collections] of essays...is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors to [these] vol ... (continue)
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 8: Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha
- By David Arnold
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The aim of [these collections] of essays...is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors to [these] vol ... (continue)
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- Subaltern Studies (1)
- Writings on South Asian History and Society Volume IX (Subaltern Studies)
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The aim of [these collections] of essays...is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributors to [these] vol ... (continue)
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- The Caucasian Chalk Circle (18)
- By Bertolt Brecht
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- Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature (6)
- By H. G. Widdowson
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Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature
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This new volume deals with the analysis and pedagogical treatment of literary texts. From a viewpoint of stylistics as the connecting middle ground between linguistics and literary studies, the book explores the nature of literature as a subject in the English curriculum. A close examination of th ... (continue)
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- Death of a Salesman (350)
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- By Arthur H. Miller
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[This play] was written in six weeks in the spring of 1948, but it had been brewing in [the author]'s mind for ten years. Its 742 performances put it among the fifty longest recorded Broadway runs...Miller himself defined his aim in the play as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not ha ... (continue)
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Writing Degree Zero
Introduction/critical comment(s):"In the years since his death, Roland Barthes has emerged more and more as the most characteristic French intellectual of his time, a man who set agendas of research and reflection that still preoccupy us...Barthes's attention was always resolutely fixed on language (that is, of language in action), ... (continue)
"In the years since his death, Roland Barthes has emerged more and more as the most characteristic French intellectual of his time, a man who set agendas of research and reflection that still preoccupy us...Barthes's attention was always resolutely fixed on language (that is, of language in action), on texts – on the most complex, elaborated, and unpredictable uses of language...He represented a world that produced the nouveau roman, structuralism, pop art, hyperrealism, the arts of ironic and elegant quotation that we call 'postmodernist'...In retrospect it is clear that Barthes's career was an exemplary search for understanding how man creates meaning, a lifelong exploration of man's definition as Homo significans, the maker of meaning in signs. In anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and the discourse upon literature, this has been a characteristic preoccupation of our age, and no one addressed himself to it so persistently, so multifariously, so ingeniously, as Barthes." – Peter Brooks, The New Republic
With preface by Susan Sontag.
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