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  • Ellipsis in English Literature

    Signs of Omission

    by Anne Toner ...
    Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to get closer to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of thought, and the successive or fragmented ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Jane Austen's Style

    Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth

    by Anne Toner ...
    Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen's keen interest in narrative form. Anne Toner pinpoints techniques that are fundamental to the distinctiveness of Austen's fiction, many of which have been little explored to date. Toner ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The 25 Rules of Grammar

    The Essential Guide to Good English

    by Joseph Piercy ...
    Everything you need to know about the 25 essential rules of English grammar.English grammar is often said to be over-complicated and difficult to get to grips with but the truth is that, while there are certain rules that should be obeyed, the language evolves and develops over time – and quite rightly so.In this useful book, Joseph Piercy outlines the 25 rules that should be adhered to in written ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax

    by Susan Price ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

    by Norman Council ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Edited by Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Returning to John Donne

    by Achsah Guibbory ...
    Collected in this volume are Achsah Guibbory’s most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. The book includes an original, substantive introduction as well as new essays on the Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, the Songs and Sonnets, and the subject of Donne and toleration. Over the course of her career, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Verb Phrase Syntax: A Parametric Study of English and Spanish

    A Parametric Study of English and Spanish

    by Karen Zagona ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo. A primary focus of attention is auxiliary verbs. It is argued that the structure dominating these verbs is essentially the same in English and Spanish, as is the structure dominating auxiliaries and 'main' verbs in each language. It must be concluded that the ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

    by Otto Jespersen ...
    Series series Otto Jespersen
    This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality

    Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

    by Syrithe Pugh ...
    Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of these brilliant but neglected poets brings nuance to our understanding of literary royalism, and considers the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Writing Robert Greene

    Essays on England's First Notorious Professional Writer

    Edited by Kirk Melnikoff, Edward Gieskes ...
    Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period's most recognized-even notorious-literary figures, his place ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare And Comedy

    by Robert Maslen ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD