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21. Pronominal Gender in English

    A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

    By Peter Siemund

    Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

    This book investigates the use of English third person pronouns (he, she, it) across different varieties of English, where we frequently find he and she used for inanimate objects (the tree – he, the house – he, the bucket – he, but the water – it). It is the first book-length study of this subject...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
22. Editing Emily Dickinson

    The Production of an Author

    By Lena Christensen

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
23. Negotiating the Modern

    Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

    By Amit Ray

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
24. Parsing the City

    Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language

    By Heather Easterling

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
25. Telicity and Durativity

    A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

    By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
26. Martin McDonagh

    A Casebook

    Edited by Richard Rankin Russell

    Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

    This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
27. Education for Fullness

    A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

    By H. B. Mukherjee

    Rabindranath Tagore is remembered today chiefly as a poet, and his fame as a poet has often eclipsed his great contributions to other fields of literature and life — especially education. Tagore pondered deeply on the fundamental problems of education — aims, curriculum, method, discipline, values...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
28. All's Well, That Ends Well

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Gary Waller

    Series: Shakespeare Criticism

    Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
29. Language and History

    Integrationist Perspectives

    Edited by Nigel Love

    Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

    When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be treated as historical objects, evolving through gradual but constant processes of change over long periods of time. In recent years,...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
30. Pointing

    Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

    Edited by Sotaro Kita

    Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press