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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

By: Philip Hobsbaum

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Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential guide through the terminology which will be invaluable reading for undergraduates new to the subject.

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Routledge

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1134881681

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9781134881680

Labor's Story in the United States

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

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Labor's Story in the United States

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America. Unlike recent books that have covered labor in the twentieth century,Labor's Story in the United Stateslooks at the broad landscape of labor since before the Revolution. In clear, unpretentious language, Philip Yale Nicholson considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, public and private responses to union organizing. Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today.Labor's Story in the United Stateswill become an indispensable source for scholars and students. Author note:Philip Yale Nicholsonis Professor of History at Nassau Community College and Adjunct Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Long Island Extension. He is the author ofWho Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World.

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Temple University Press

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1592132391

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9781592132393

A University Course in English Grammar

By: Angela Downing,Philip Locke

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A University Course in English Grammar

By: Angela Downing,Philip Locke

This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as background reading for course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources. Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge. Key features include: *chapters divided into modules of class-length material *literary and other authentic texts to illustrate points of grammar *clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient teacher preparation and student revision *tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter *answer key to tasks and comprehensive index.

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Psychology Press

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041528810X

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9780415288101

Who Do We Think We Are?

Race and Nation in the Modern World

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

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Who Do We Think We Are?

Race and Nation in the Modern World

By: Philip Yale Nicholson

This text offers a provocative explanation of the force and place of race in modern history, showing that race and nation have a linked history. The author seeks to show the close historical connection of race and nation as each interrelates with the other in shaping and carrying social and institutional practices over many centuries.

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Routledge

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1317452054

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The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster Vol 3

By: Philip Gardner

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The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster Vol 3

By: Philip Gardner

A writer of fiction, literary criticism, travel narratives and libretti, E M Forster is best known for his beautifully-structured novels which held a mirror up to the English class system. This fascinating collection of diaries, travel journals and itineraries brings together all unpublished material Forster wrote which can be classed as ‘memoir’.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244572

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9781040244579

Reading Enid Blyton

By: Philip Gillett

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Reading Enid Blyton

By: Philip Gillett

Enid Blyton has been disparaged by her critics since the 1950s and her stock is still low, though this has not deterred readers. New editions of her work have been published regularly since her death in 1968. Recently, there have also been stage and television adaptations of her Malory Towers books, while other authors have continued to write stories based on her characters. There are also Famous Five parodies, which rely on readers’ familiarity with the series. A continuing affection for her work is apparent, though it is not always clear whether this comes from parents or their children. Reading Enid Blyton places the author’s work in its cultural and historical context. The book examines a sample of her vast output, looking at five recurring themes: a sense of place, a sense of period, a sense of childhood, a sense of class and a sense of fantasy. A survey of changing attitudes towards Blyton reveals contrasting ways of looking at her work and raises the question whether she was as reactionary a writer as she appeared.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527561089

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9781527561083

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

By: Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

By: Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

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Faber & Faber

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0571264611

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9780571264612

Essential Psychology

A Concise Introduction

By: Philip Banyard,Mark N. O. Davies,Christine Norman,Belinda Winder

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Essential Psychology

A Concise Introduction

By: Philip Banyard,Mark N. O. Davies,Christine Norman,Belinda Winder

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here `The distinctive contribution of this text is to provide a far-reaching and up-to-date analysis of key issues in psychology in a highly accessible format. This reflects the authors' considerable skills as scholars who are highly attuned to the needs of both students and teachers. Their text succeeds admirably in bringing psychology to life and life to psychology' -S. Alexander Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Exeter For students studying psychology for the first time Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction represents a fresh alternative to the range of expensive, US-oriented titles on the market that are full of topics you need but also many you don't need on your course. This UK team-authored textbook is written by psychologists who specialize in each of the subject areas covered in their research and teaching. Spanning 18 chapters, but concentrating on the six fundamental topic areas taught at introductory level - Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and The Psychology of Individual Differences. This textbook has everything students need to know inside, is stylish and colourful, and has an abundance of learning features to make the start of the student journey an enjoyable and successful one too. A range of reflective devices encourage critical thinking about these topics to provide a handy companion as students progress. Visit the companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/banyard

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SAGE Publications

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1847875386

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9781847875389

The Sublime

By: Philip Shaw

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The Sublime

By: Philip Shaw

Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.

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Routledge

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1134493185

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9781134493180

Critical Mass

How One Thing Leads to Another

By: Philip Ball

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Critical Mass

How One Thing Leads to Another

By: Philip Ball

Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs. Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466806834

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9781466806832

Tests in Education

A Book of Critical Reviews

By: Philip Levy,Harvey Goldstein

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Tests in Education

A Book of Critical Reviews

By: Philip Levy,Harvey Goldstein

Tests in Education: A Book of Critical Reviews is a collection of reviews of tests used in education. Topics covered by the reviews include early development, language, mathematics, composite attainments, general abilities, and personality and counseling. In the introduction, the tests reviewed, their range, and their accessibility and availability are discussed, along with the issues taken into account by the reviewers in the preparation of their reviews. Some of the desiderata for published tests are considered and the principles and issues frequently referred to by the reviewers are highlighted. The next section is devoted to the test reviews, which cover early development, language, mathematics, composite attainments, general abilities, and personality and counseling. The final chapter focuses on a number of other reviews for tests such as the Comprehension Test for College of Education Students, Garnett College Test, Maitland Graves Design Judgement Test, The Meier Art Tests, Modern Language Aptitude Test, Seashore Measure of Musical Talents, and Wing Standardized Tests of Musical Intelligence. This monograph will be of value to a wide range of professionals, including teachers, higher administrative staff and educational advisers, educational psychologists, medical officers, speech therapists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, and social workers.

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Academic Press

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1483162109

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9781483162102

Unknowing

The Work of Modernist Fiction

By: Philip Weinstein

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Unknowing

The Work of Modernist Fiction

By: Philip Weinstein

Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to know are refused. When space turns uncanny rather than lawful, when time ceases to be linear and progressive, objects and others become unfamiliar. So does the subject seeking to know them. Weinstein argues that modernist texts work, by way of surprise and arrest, to subvert the familiarity and narrative progression intrinsic to realist fiction. Rather than staging the drama of coming to know, they stage the drama of coming to unknow. The signature move of modernism is shock, just as resolution is the trademark of realism.Kafka, Proust, and Faulkner wrought their most compelling experimental effects by undermining an earlier Enlightenment project of knowing. Weinstein draws on major Enlightenment thinkers to identify constituent components of the narrative of "coming to know"—the progressive narrative underwriting two centuries of Western realist fiction. The book proceeds by framing modernist unknowing between prior practices of realist knowing, on the one hand, and, on the other, certain later practices—postmodern and postcolonial—that move beyond knowing altogether. In so doing, Weinstein proposes a metahistory of the Western novel, from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison.

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Cornell University Press

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1501711741

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9781501711749

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Philip Sidney

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An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

By: Philip Sidney

An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. Its wit and inventiveness place it among the first great literary productions of the age of Shakespeare. Since 1965 Geoffrey Shepherd's edition of the Apology has been the standard, and this revision of Shepherd's edition, with a new introduction and extensive notes, is designed to introduce Sidney's best-known work to a new generation of readers at the beginning of thetwenty-first century.Unfamiliar words and phrases are glossed, classical and other references explained, and difficult passages analysed in detail. This greatly expanded edition will be of value to all those interested in the Renaissance, from students and teachers at school and university to the inquisitive general reader.

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Manchester University Press

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0719053765

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9780719053764

Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

By: Philip Hobsbaum

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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

By: Philip Hobsbaum

This is a comprehensive guide through the terminology of poetry criticism, aimed at students new to the subject.

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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

Labor's Story in the United States

Labor's Story in the United States

A University Course in English Grammar

A University Course in English Grammar

Who Do We Think We Are?

Who Do We Think We Are?

The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster Vol 3

The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster Vol 3

Reading Enid Blyton

Reading Enid Blyton

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Essential Psychology

Essential Psychology

The Sublime

The Sublime

Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Tests in Education

Tests in Education

Unknowing

Unknowing

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy)

Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

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