Academic Writing is designed for anybody who is studying (or planning to study) at English-medium colleges and universities and has to write essays and other assignments for exams or coursework. International students especially find the written demands of their courses extremely challenging. On top of the complexity of the vocabulary of academic English they have to learn a series of conventions in style, referencing and organisation.Academic Writing is a flexible course that allows students to work either with a teacher or by themselves, to practise those areas which are most important for their studies. Many students find that they have very limited time to prepare for their courses, and that writing is only one of several skills they need...

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This   is   an   accessible,   wide-ranging   and   informed   introduction   to Shakespeare’s comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in iso- lation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare’s practice and the creative use he made of the conven- tions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy and comic theory, the work of his Elizabethan pre- decessors, and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces a number of themes through Shakespeare’s early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, establishing the key features of his comedy as a whole and...

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Who is this book for? Oxford Practice Grammar is for students of English at a middle or 'intermediate' level. This means students who are no longer beginners but who are not yet expert in English. The book is suitable for those studying for the Cambridge First Certificate in English. It can be used by students attending classes or by someone working alone. What does the book consist of? The book consists of 153 units, each on a grammatical topic. The units cover the main areas of English grammar. Special attention is given to those points which are often a problem for learners: the meaning of the different verb forms, the use of the passive, conditionals, prepositions and so on. Many units contrast two or more different structures such as...

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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phonology of the variety of Norwegian spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of the most densely populated area of Norway, the south-eastern region surrounding its capital Oslo. Even if the book is written within the framework of Generative Phonology, the main purpose is not to defend a specific theoretical approach, but to present data and propose analyses of a specific phonological system in a (hopefully) clear, concise and coherent manner, so that the reader can judge the merits of and perhaps take issue with the solutions offered. I have therefore chosen to write the book within what I considered to be a fairly mainstream generative approach when I started working on...

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Contents List of contributors x Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 DAVID LOEWENSTEIN and JANEL MUELLER 1 MODES AND MEANS OF LITERARY PRODUCTION, CIRCULATION AND RECEPTION 1 • Literacy, society and education 15 KENNETH CHARLTON and MARGARET SPUFFORD 2 • Manuscript transmission and circulation 55 HAROLD LOVE and ARTHUR F. MAROTTI 3  • Print, literary culture and the book trade 81 DAVID SCOTT KASTAN 4 • Literary patronage 117 GRAHAM PARRY 5 • Languages of early modern literature in Britain 141 PAULA BLANK 6 • Habits of reading and early modern literary culture 170 STEVEN N. ZWICKER THE TUDOR ERA FROM THE REFORMATION TO ELIZABETH I 7 • Literature and national identity 201 DAVID LOADES 8 • Literature and the court 229 WILLIAM A. SESSIONS 9...

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The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically. Professor Sanders provides detailed analysis of the major writers and their works and examines the impact of British literature on contemporary political, social and intellectual developments. This third edition has been revised and updated for a 21st century reader, incorporating discussion of a greater number of female and contemporary authors. read the book here CONTENTS ANoteon the Text....................................................................

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This is an illustrated history of Britain from prehistoric times to the present day. The book analyzes the major political and military events in British history, and where appropriate, looks at these within a wider, international context. It also describes everyday life for men and women from different levels of society in different ages: the kind of work they did, family life, etc. Emphasis is also placed on cultural, intellectual, scientific and economic developments. Major developments within Scotland, Ireland and Wales and the relations between these countries and England are also discussed. ...

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There have been 66 monarchs in England and Britain spread over a period of 1500 years. ...

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Coroana se bucura, prin urmare, de posesiuni extraordinare, dar efemere. Nu era nimic implacabil nici în maniera în care se prăbuşise sistemul guvernării Tudor, provocând izbucnirea Războiului Civil şi a revoluţiei, nici în modul în care monarhia şi Biserica au interne etapa restaurării lor. Extrem de puţine persoane anticipau declanşarea Războiului Civil în perioada anilor 1620-1630, însă şi mai puţine credeau în eficienţa loviturii date, patruzeci de ani mai târziu, republicanismului şi fanatismului religios.Trei aspecte alarmante ale domniei lui Elizabeth I ameninţau cu declanşarea conflictului: caracterul nesigur al succesiunii; disputele ce se consumau între fracţiunile religioase rivale, precum şi interesul potenţial al puterilor continentale...

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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology,...

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Moartea în 1509 a lui Henry al VI-lea a fost sărbătorită cu surle şi trâmbiţe. Succesorul lui, Henry al VUI-lea a urcat la tron la doar 18 ani deoarece fratele său mai mare, Arthur, decedase în 1502. La presiunile exercitate asupra lui de către consilierii regali, în special executorii testamentari ai tatălui său, Henry şi-a început domnia "triumfătoare" căsătorindu-se cu văduva fratelui, Catherine de Aragon, uniune ce avea să se soldeze cu consecinţe însemnate. Tânărul rege a continuat în aceeaşi manieră imperturbabilă ordonând execuţia lui Empson şi a lui Dudly, care acum aveau de suferit de pe urma prudenţei financiare a fostului lor stăpân. Fără îndoială execuţiile constituiau doar o mişcare tactică menită a da posibilitatea noului regim...

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This is the arbeidsbok for  currently the most popular course for use  in evening classes and private tuition   (Ny i Norge-2003)    The full course is available HERE DOWNLOAD/REQUEST DOWNLOAD LINK ...

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ACCORDING to the Venerable Bede, our first reliable English historian, English literature had a miraculous origin in the late seventh century in a religious somniloquy by an illiterate cowherd named Cædmon. Writing at least a half century after the miracle, Bede represents Cædmon’s Old English “Hymn” in only a Latin paraphrase in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. Our earliest vernacular versions of the “Hymn” appear, not as part of Bede’s text, but rather as notes later appended by scribes to two eighth-century manuscripts of the Historia Ecclesiastica.1 From its humble start as a marginal, secondary text, the vernacular “Hymn” first worked its way into the central, primary text by means of a tenth-century Old English...

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Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in introductory Old English courses while also engaging with larger issues of Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and scholarship. Their approaches vary widely, encompassing disciplines from linguistics to psychoanalysis.In an appealing introduction to the book, R. M. Liuzza presents an overview of Old English studies, the history of the scholarship, and major critical themes in the field. For both newcomers and more advanced...

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Perioada secolelor al XlV-lea şi al XV-lea apare în istorie drept o perioadă decadentă şi turbulentă. Războaiele civile şi cele purtate dincolo de graniţe - în special cele din Scoţia, Franţa, Ţările de Jos - s-au prelungit şi au devenit din ce în ce mai costisitoare, implicând un număr tot mai mare de populaţie. Foametea, bolile şi, începând din 1348, ciuma au distrus aproape jumătate din populaţia Angliei. La sfârşitul secolului al XV-lea, oamenii de stat francezi surprindeau cu dezaprobare obiceiul englezilor de a-şi omorî regii sau copiii acestora (aşa cum s-a întâmplatîn anii 1327, 1399, 1461, 1471, 1483 Şi 14S5) cu o regularitate nemaiîntâlnită în toată Europa apuseană. Regele şi curtea sa, în special familia regală, erau centrul de atenţie...

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