the short history of english literature
Tài liệu History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature pdf
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22/02/2014, 04:20
... the name of the first historian of England, certainly the credit of making, in his History of the Turks (1604), a step from the loose miscellany of the chronicle to the ordered structure of the ... called a man of the world But in the world of literature he is a very great man indeed Very few theological books have made themselves a place in the first rank of the literature of their country, ... many of them were contributors of commendatory verses to each other's work and of pieces of different descriptions to the poetical miscellanies of the time Of these miscellanies and of the chief...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE doc
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28/03/2014, 13:20
... of some thegn, first for himself and then for his land The jurisdictional rights of the king also passed to the lord, whether church or thegn; then came the danegeld, the tax for buying off the ... those of the bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock of the manor, saw to the manuring of the land, kept a tally of the day's work, had charge of the granary, and delivered therefrom ... the practice of the conquerors also they readily fell in with the system they found [1] These English, unlike their descendants of to day, were a race of countrymen and farmers and detested the...
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A History of English Literature doc
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31/03/2014, 21:20
... century of religious change belongs the greater part of the literary history of the English Bible and of the ritual books of the English Church Since the suppression of the Wiclifite movement the ... universal history from the beginning, on the basis of the Biblical narrative Most important of all for their promise of the future, there were the germs of the modern drama in the form of the Church ... making English poetry admittedly the greatest in the modern world THE ENGLISH DIALECTS The study of the literature of the period is further complicated by the division of English into dialects The...
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the oxford history of english sep 2006
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11/06/2014, 10:31
... (amongst others) emphasize the diversity of the speakers who make up the English language’ Rather than a seamless synecdoche of the history of English with the history of the standard variety, the ... 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 ... for the diversity of the history of English, enabling a variety of perspectives on the reconstruction of the past to be adopted and applied The examination of social networks and chains of linguistic...
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A History of English Literature - Robert Huntington Fletcher ppsx
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04/07/2014, 09:20
... making English poetry admittedly the greatest in the modern world THE ENGLISH DIALECTS The study of the literature of the period is further complicated by the division of English into dialects The ... universal history from the beginning, on the basis of the Biblical narrative Most important of all for their promise of the future, there were the germs of the modern drama in the form of the Church ... knowledge of the events of the period THE ROMANCES But the chief form of secular literature during the period, beginning in the middle of the twelfth century, was the romance, especially the metrical...
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History of english literature 2000
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12/05/2016, 17:22
... and the tales of the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Merchant, the Franklin, the Pardoner and the Nun’s Priest; less often, those of the Cook, the Reeve, the Man of Law, the Friar, the ... prophecy of the subjection of the Geats by the Franks or the Swedes The Geats build a funeral pyre for their leader Then the warriors rode around the barrow Twelve of them in all, athelings’ sons They ... heart when the leading-forth From the house of flesh befalls him at last This was the manner of the mourning of the men of the Geats, Sharers in the feast, at the fall of their lord: They said...
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A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. doc
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24/03/2014, 03:21
... POETRY THE NATIONAL EPIC THE EPIC OF ANTIQUITY ROMANCES OF LOVE AND COURTESY The literature of the Middle Ages is an expression of the spirit of feudalism and of the genius of the Church From the ... or legends of Judas, of Pilate, of the Cross, or, again, from the life of the Blessed Virgin The literary value of these is inferior to that of the versified Lives of the Saints About the tenth ... cycle of the king (Charlemagne), or that of William of Orange, or that of Doon of Mayence The second of these had, indeed, a genuine cyclic character: it told of the resistance of the south of France...
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The cambridge history of the english language volume 2 part 4
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19/08/2013, 13:40
... uniformity has, of course, had a more general and diffuse effect on the historical description of English, chiefly in the form of emphasising the history of standard English, at the expense of 'vernaculars' ... variation, the appropriate chapters of the following are recommended: Baugh & Cable (1978), A History of the English Language, 3rd edn; Bourcier (1981), An Introduction to the History of the English ... 4.1), the Middle English period is indeed one of change Much has been written about the causes of the rapid loss of inflections, which started in the Late Old English period in the northern part of...
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The cambridge history of the english language volume 3 part 10
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19/08/2013, 13:40
... the remedy applied was a conscious classicising of the inherited form In the case of the couplet, the reform began in the last two decades of the sixteenth century and the model chosen was the ... himself the great sublime he draws Pope 617 Sylvia Adamson The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of the words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase; the perfect ... 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...
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Tài liệu A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States docx
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16/02/2014, 11:20
... (FDIC) oversaw the takeover of the failed bank IndyMac, the largest failure of an insured bank in history The FDIC completed the sale of IndyMac in March of 2009 The FDIC also authorized the Temporary ... worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo of the time.21 Hands-Off ... the SEC regarding their assets and activities The system of voluntary regulation relied on the internal computer models of these firms, essentially outsourcing the job of monitoring risk to the...
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HOW THE EURO BECAME OUR MONEY - A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EURO BANKNOTES AND COINS doc
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09/03/2014, 00:20
... reflecting the cradle of European civilisation E is of course the first letter of the word Europe The two strong parallel horizontal lines are intended to symbolise the stability of the currency The official ... HOW THE EURO BECAME OUR MONEY A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EURO BANKNOTES AND COINS FOREWORD Naming the currency and creating the € symbol Fixing the denominations 12 Timing the introduction of the ... “founding fathers” of the European Union Cosmology In the end, the Advisory Group proposed the following three themes: • “Ages and styles of Europe”: one side of the banknote would show portraits of...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf
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17/03/2014, 23:20
... written a history of the "liberal movement in English literature" ; nor of the "renaissance of wonder"; nor of the "emancipation of the ego." Why not have called the book, then, "A History of the Mediaeval ... muster of the tenantry of the great northern Catholic houses of Percy and Neville; the high mass celebrated by the insurgents in Durham Cathedral; the march of the Nortons to Brancepeth; the eleven ... destroy them the other rows of elders and doctors of the Church, forming part of the array of heaven the uplifted hand of Christ denouncing the wicked at the day of judgment the daring satires...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 1 ppt
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... Hogg These earliest moments of Christianity amongst the Anglo-Saxons, therefore, were of the highest importance for the history of the language From the death of Bede in 735 to the reign of Alfred ... to tell of the fertility of this land and the cowardice of the Britons And then they immediately sent here a larger fleet with stronger warriors; and, when they were gathered together, they formed ... Whatever the merits of the concept of the Heptarchy, from the linguistic point of view the most important fact is that the political centres of power fluctuated considerably from the seventh to the...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 2 pdf
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... Standard English was not West Saxon at all - which is the antecedent of the dialects of the Thames Valley and the area to its southwest The antecedent of Standard English was, rather, a variety of the ... continuation of *bher-oi-(f) The optative expresses the wish of the speaker Whereas the subjunctive often expresses a probability, the optative renders the nuance of the possibility In the present ... speak 'thematic' in the subjunctive, whereas thematic stems added another thematic vowel, so that the thematic vowel became long The subjunctive allows the use of the primary and secondary set of...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 3 doc
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... the vocalic nouns At the time of the invasions Old English had four major types of vocalic nouns, inherited from Germanic These were the a-stems, the o-stems, the /'-stems and the ustems Of these, ... to ignore the infinitive the alternation would be the same as in drifan, despite the fact that the original post-vocalic consonant was in the case of the former *[b], in the case of the latter ... (and the associated assibilation) is one of the most important sound changes in Old English, not only for the period itself but also for the later history of the language In terms of Old English, ...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 4 ppsx
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... that it is part of the system of English, but also that **She has arrivedyesterday is not (** signals that the pattern is not part of the structure of the language, or at least of the variety in ... method of representing the different causations of syncope and apocope 3.4 Most introductions to Old English give a good overview of the principal features of Old English morphology, and of these ... whether this is a result of the Latin or of the OE; however, when the two are distinctly different, we may assume that we have fairly clear evidence of OE rather than of Latin structure Where the...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 5 docx
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... represents the exact words of the reported proposition, and when the subjects of the main clause and of the complement are the same It is only occasionally absent if the complement represents the words ... Furthermore, the object of a verb of the object control type must be human or at least animate, compare the oddity of I persuaded the kitchen to be clean (b) NP2 functions as the subject of the ... constituent of the higher clause, cf She expected Jim to paint the kitchen = 'She expected that Jim would paint the kitchen' If the subject of the lower verb is co-referential with the subject of the...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 6 ppsx
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05/08/2014, 13:21
... restructurings of the English language at the end of the O E and the beginning of the ME period There is no doubt that the Danelaw area, and notably Northumbria, see the glosses of the Lindisfame ... Only the meaning of a lexical item of the donor language is transferred to the receptor language, when either: (a) the meaning of some lexical item of the donor language influences the meaning of ... borrowed from the Scandinavians; on the other hand, there is the well-known popularity of the stone-cross in Ireland, and the influence of Celtic art on the stone crosses of England Moreover, there are...
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