the oxford history of english sep 2006

... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre -history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of what is known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of a syllable consi...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:31

... exiting at the bottom of the frame. In the second shot, the capsule moves from the top of the frame to the bottom of the frame. In the third the capsule moves from the top of the frame to the water, ... film-maker would pan the camera to follow the characters or cut to the offscreen action, but the Lumières did neither, providing an emblematic ins...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... on the people (the new title of the monarch was not ‘king of France’, but ‘king of the French’). One of the deepest changes it wrought was the incorporation in the constitutional community of ... attending the first performance of The Ring of the Nibelung. But liberation from the patrons of the old regime could also mean enslavement to the new commercia...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:46

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 13:40

... But the literary history of the period suggests that irony and allegory are competitors rather than collaborators, in that the growing importance of the first coincides with the decline of the ... Line 4 repeats the constructional parallelism and the antithesis but adds another new element in the form of a chiasmus, in which the second half line inverts the orde...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 13:40

... points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. ... Think of the unshrinking gaze which Dante fixes upon the tortures of the souls in pain; of the wasted body of Christ upon the cross; of th...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... these eVorts in this way. Of course, the founders of the political science profession in the USA were themselves greatly aVected by the temper of their times (the emergence of middle-class Progressivism as ... of organizing principles. Nor are the perspectives always easy to distinguish. True believers in any one of the three can reduce each of the other two to t...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:44

... a meta-level discussion of the relationship between political theory and the discipline of history; a disciplinary history of the history of political thought; and essays on a number of historical traditions ... academic Marxism in the English- speaking world waned. The fortunes of Marxist theory were not helped by the demise of the Soviet bloc in 1989–91, an...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:44

... Study of Two Pears 264 The Man on the Dump 265 The Sense of the Sleight -of- hand Man 266 Of Modern Poetry 267 The Motive for Metaphor 267 The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm 268 The ... at the time. Eliot was understood to be the captain of the mainstream squad the standard-bearer of the traditional, the formally exacting, the intellectual (as...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:18