Author : David Finkelstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134380062
This is a comprehensive introduction to books and print culture which examines the move from the spoken word to written texts, the book as commodity, the power and profile of readers, and the future of the book in an electronic age.
Author : Stephan Gramley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136592687
The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the development of the language from Old English through Middle English to Modern Global English, all illustrated with a rich and diverse selection of primary texts showing changes in language resulting from contact, conquest and domination, and the expansion of English around the world. The History of English goes beyond the usual focus on English in the UK and the USA to include the wider global course of the language during and following the Early Modern English period. This perspective therefore also includes a historical review of English in its pidgin and creole varieties and as a native and/or second language in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Designed to be user-friendly, The History of English contains: chapter introductions and conclusions to assist study over 80 textual examples demonstrating linguistic change, accompanied by translations and/or glosses where appropriate study questions on the social, cultural and linguistic background of the chapter topics further reading from key texts to extend or deepen the focus nearly 100 supporting figures, tables, and maps to illuminate the text 16-pages of colour plates depicting exemplary texts, relevant artefacts, and examples of language usage, including Germanic runes, the opening page of Beowulf, the New England Primer, and the Treaty of Waitangi. The companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/gramley supports the textbook and features: an extended view of major aspects of language development as well as synopses of material dealt with in a range of chapters in the book further sample texts, including examples from Chaucer, numerous Early Modern English texts from a wide variety of fields, and twenty-first-century novels additional exercises to help users expand their insights and apply background knowledge an interactive timeline of important historical events and developments with linked encyclopaedic entries audio clips providing examples of a wide range of accents The History of English is essential reading for any student of the English language.
Author : Michelle Levy
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1460406036
Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.
Author : James M. Banner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107021596
Considers what aspiring and mature historians need to know about the discipline of history in the United States today.
Author : Thomas Kohnen
Publisher : Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783631560044
This introduction to the history of English includes chapters on language change, the Indo-European background of English, and on Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English. It offers information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres.
Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 019285352X
Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
Author : Niklas Olsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857452967
Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of “grand theory,” Koselleck was an inspiration to many scholars and helped move the discipline into new directions (such as conceptual history, theories of historical times and memory) and across disciplinary and national boundaries. He thus achieved a degree of international fame that was unusual for a German historian after 1945. This book not only presents the life and work of a “great thinker” and European intellectual, it also contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences and to our knowledge of the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s to the present.
Author : Daniel Allington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470654937
Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing and publishing and discusses the formal elements of books and manuscripts, which are necessary to facilitate an understanding of that impact. This collaboratively authored narrative history combines the knowledge and expertise of five scholars who seek to answer questions such as: How does the material form of a text affect its meaning? How do books shape political and religious movements? How have the economics of the book trade and copyright shaped the literary canon? Who has been included in and excluded from the world of books, and why? The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction will appeal to all scholars, students, and historians interested in the written word and its continued production and presentation.
Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Surveying English urban life from the fifth to the early sixteenth centuries, this book traces the stages by which towns attained their varying measures of independence. The internal disputes they suffered and the degree to which they declined in the later Middle Ages are also studied.
Author : P G 1875-1954 Thomas
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781376719215
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