English at Amherst
Author : Theodore Baird
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN :
Author : Theodore Baird
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN :
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0060087765
With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200 radio stations across the country. But Spanish north of the Rio Grande has not spread in its pure Iberian form. On the contrary, a signature of the brewing "Latin Fever" that has swept the United States since the mid-1980s is the astonishing creative linguistic amalgam of tongues used by people of Hispanic descent, not only in major cities but in rural areas as well -- neither Spanish nor English, but a hybrid, known only as Spanglish.
Author : Megan Heffernan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812252802
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681378094
Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation. Ten-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer, Sandeep and his mother travel to Calcutta to spend time with his aunt, his self-absorbed and improvident uncle, and Abhi, his favorite cousin. His relatives’ house is shadowy and rambling; the vast city around it ramshackle and alluring. They fascinate curious, observant Sandeep. Days pass; the heat grows; the rains come; the visit ends. In the winter, Sandeep and his family return to Calcutta—and encounter an unexpected turn of events. But Sandeep has arrived at a new sense of things, an understanding of how the marvelous inheres in the mundane, that will be his, we feel, for good. At once delicate and incisive, A Strange and Sublime Address succeeds in both immersing us in a boy’s inner world and depicting that boy and his world from outside. It was Amit Chaudhuri’s first book, the work of a novelist whose striking originality of conception would subsequently become ever more clear. The three decades since the publication of A Strange and Sublime Address have only confirmed its appeal and poetry.
Author : Gauri Viswanathan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231539576
A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.
Author : John Carpenter Louis
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1971
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Wendy Ewald
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9780943184135
Author : Lyle Henry Wright
Publisher : San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1957
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Marla R. Miller
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616891121
The newest title in our Campus Guide series takes readers on an architectural tour of University of Massachusetts Amherst. As one of the nation's oldest public universities, and the largest in the Northeast, the University has a rich and storied history. Initially chartered as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the school has grown from fifty farmers to close to 24,000 students of diverse backgrounds and academic interests. The University's campus has also expectedly experienced parallel growth. From a few barns on the Berkshire foothills, the University now sits atop nearly 1,500 acres. Five carefully considered tours put the architectural history of the campus into context.
Author : Robert Frost
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1923
Category :
ISBN :
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