Unfree Verse

Unfree Verse
Author: Hao Guang Tse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017
Genre: Singaporean poetry (English)
ISBN: 9789811157899

The Lost Novel

The Lost Novel
Author: James Shea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781934200780

Backyard mysticism with a dash of scalding absurdity, James Shea's second collection is by turns wry, wrenching, and utterly real.

Migration and Mutation

Migration and Mutation
Author: Carole Birkan-Berz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2023-02-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501380478

Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation. Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century. Migration and Mutation also pays attention to the political or subversive dimension of the sonnet, with essays on women, gay or postcolonial reclaimings of the sonnet and recent experiments such as post-Soviet Sonnets on shirts by Genrikh Sagpir. It takes the sonnet out of the confines of enclosed national traditions bringing it into renewed contact with mostly European, but also other, cultures.

The History of English

The History of English
Author: Ishtia Singh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134644566

The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day. The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context, an overview of the relevant major linguistic changes, and also focuses on an area of current research interest, either in sociolinguistics or in literary studies. Exercises and activities that allow the reader to get 'hands-on' with different stages of the language, as well as with the concepts of language change, are also included. By explaining language change with close reference to literary and other textual examples and emphasising the integral link between a language and its society, this text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics.

Pigeon English

Pigeon English
Author: Stephen Kelman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408815680

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

Bite Hard

Bite Hard
Author: Justin Chin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The first collection by award-winning poet Justin Chin. He explores his identity as Asian, gay, and a lover.

Virtual English as a Lingua Franca

Virtual English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Inmaculada Pineda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000882853

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today’s technology-informed globalized world. The volume places an emphasis on analyzing transmodal, trans-semiotic, and transcultural discourse practices in online spaces, providing a counterpoint to existing ELF research which has leaned towards unpacking formal features of ELF communication in face-to-face interactions. The chapters explore how these practices are characterized and then further sustained via non-verbal semiotic resources, drawing on data from a global range of empirical studies. The book prompts further reflection on readers’ own experiences in online settings and the challenges of VELF while also supplying educators in these contexts with the analytical resources to better bridge the gap between formal and informal learning. Highlighting the dynamic complexity of online intercultural communication in the twenty-first century, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, language education, digital communication, and intercultural communication.