E-books: Language & Literature

Edited by Peter A. Tasch

This compilation of Isaac Bickerstaff's plays was originally compiled and published in 1981, and the plays written in the 1760s-70s. Edited and with an introduction by Peter A. Tasch, the volume contains seven plays: The Captive; He Wou'd if He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool worse than Any; The Recruiting…

eBook – 2019-10-22
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Erwin Tschirner, Jupp Möhring

This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German contains the 5,000 most commonly used words of German today, occurring in a 20-million-word corpus (compared to a 4.2-million-word corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

By Margaret Henderson, Anthea Taylor

Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate postfeminism in a specific time and place. Margaret Henderson and Anthea Taylor argue that ‘postfeminism’, as a critical term, has been too often deployed in ways that…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Feminism and Female Sexuality

Edited by Peter Crosthwaite

Despite advancements in and availability of corpus software in language classrooms facilitating data-driven learning (DDL), the use of such methods with pre-tertiary learners remains rare. This book specifically explores the affordances of DDL for younger learners, testing its viability with…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge

By Darren Crovitz, Michelle D. Devereaux

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Complementing Crovitz and Devereaux’s successful Grammar to Get Things Done, this book demystifies grammar in context and offers day-by-day guides for teaching ten grammar concepts, giving teachers a model and vocabulary for…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge

By Stephen Ingle

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character, his…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics

Edited by Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Piotr Gąsiorowski

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech. // The book features concise contributions from both established and…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Linguistics

Edited by Irving Goh

This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Courtney Bailey Parker

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in…

eBook – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

By Carrie Hintz

Children’s Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children’s literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated. Positioned within the wider field of…

eBook – 2019-10-18
Routledge
The New Critical Idiom

Edited by Heidi Grönstrand, Markus Huss, Ralf Kauranen

This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which…

eBook – 2019-10-18
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

By Natalie Edwards

This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into…

eBook – 2019-10-17
Routledge
Routledge Auto/Biography Studies