271 products in Language Arts & Disciplines

Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope

The playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. In

Thomas Love Peacock was a lifelong and assiduous letter writer at a time when the letter was often an art-form in itself. He had a wide circle of friends and correspondents which

Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume edition of Browning's great murder-story, "The Ring and the Book". Browning concludes his poem with the monologues of Pope Innocent XII

Where is 'Outwith' and who is Bruno? How is he connected? Soon he will meet the boy in striped pyjamas and befriend him. But why must the boy stay behind the wire?

This new edition of the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary offers essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It has been updated to

The Oxford English Dictionary has been hailed as "the greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken" by the New York Times. When the 20-volume second edition was published in 1989, Time magazine

The second in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, OED Additions Volume 2 contains, 3,000 new words and meanings presented in OED style, and

This is a brand-new edition of the Oxford Thesaurus of Current English offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of today's English. It provides thousands of alternative and opposite words, and gives

This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and

The second edition of the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus is the perfect language resource, combining a dictionary and thesaurus text. This means that you only have to reach for one book when

'Tristram is the Fashion', Sterne gleefully wrote of his masterpiece, 'Tristram Shandy', in 1760. This study reads Sterne's writing alongside other trends and texts of the time, showing how Sterne created and

Schooling Sex is the first full history of early modern libertine literature and its reception, from Aretino and Tullia d'Aragona in 16th-century Italy to Pepys, Rochester, and Behn in late 17th-century England.

Presents a study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its influence on British aesthetics.

A comprehensive study of Mallarme's 'poetry of circumstance', this book is a companion volume to the author's 'Unfolding Mallarme: The Development of a Poetic Art' (Clarendon Press, 1996). It provides a series

Presents pioneering accounts by leading scholars of twelve central aspects of the grammar of Chinese languages. This book deploys a combination of historical and typological approaches and shows the variety and diversity

The poets of the mid-nineteenth century lived in a time of "nation-building." The Realms of Verse brings that political and intellectual context to life. It shows that the Italian Risorgimento raised questions

Introduces generative grammar and asks what it tells us about the human mind. This work introduces Chomsky's program of a 'minimalist' syntax as an explanatory vision of the human mind. It argues

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary for Students is a brand-new title specifically designed to meet the needs of today's students. With over 144,000 words, phrases, and definitions, it offers comprehensive coverage of

This is a revised edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, which gives excellent coverage of essential vocabulary. This revised edition includes a wide selection of new words and