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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2002

The Etruscan language

An Introduction

by Giuliano Bonfante, Larissa Bonfante

A revised, updated and expanded edition of the first concise introduction to the study of the Etruscan language in English. The standard historical reference and a popular textbook for students of languages, linguistics, ancient civilization and Etruscan studies. Provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical and cultural context. The overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary and chapters on mythological figures all incorporate the latest scholarship and innovative discoveries. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

The language of empire

Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918

by Robert Macdonald

The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.

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Literature & Literary Studies

January 2021

Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

by J. Anderson

This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

March 2005

Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

by J. J. Anderson

This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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The Arts

January 2019

Spanish cinema 1973–2010

Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory

by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian

This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

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2020

History of the German Language

A textbook for German studies; Part 1: Introduction, prehistory and history; Part 2: Old High German, Middle High German and Early New High German

by Wilhelm Schmidt, Edited by Dr. Elisabeth Berner and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Norbert Richard Wolf

The 12th revised and updated version of the History of the German language – long regarded as an indispensable standard work for German Studies, has just been published. From now on, this comprehensive textbook on the history of the language is divided into two volumes. In addition to introducing questions about historical linguistics, the first volume provides a detailed account of the prehistory and history of German right up to the present day. Based on extensive source analyses, the focus is on aspects of culture and social history; only the chapters on the Indo-Germanic and Germanic language include key information about structural history. The second part contains concise, but readily understandable accounts of Old, Middle and Early New High German in terms of phonology, graphemics, morphology and syntax. Not only are synchronous descriptions given of the particular language period, but also the development of German language construction at all structural levels is explained. The association of grammatical synchrony and structural diachrony is a particular characteristic of this second part of Schmidt’s work on the history of language.

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2023

German for Pharmaceutical Practice

Communicate, research, present

by Nadine Yvonne Sprecher, Annette Thomas, Annegret Lehmann and Anke Schichte. In collaboration with Christiane Schneider

In the pharmacy, the staff communicate with customers, colleagues, the medical profession, sales representatives and nursing home staff. Pharmacy employees produce written information based on well-chosen sources and represent the pharmacy to the outside world through presentations, on social media, or with the help of flyers, posters and other promotional materials. All this presupposes the confident use of language, and is best trained in advance. Part A of this work provides assistance for the most diverse communicative requirements in the pharmacy. A short theoretical explanation is always followed by several tasks so that you can immediately put what you have learned into practice and try it out. The „Brief overview of grammar and language knowledge“ boxes point out linguistic stumbling blocks. Those who are not yet sure of the technical terms can make themselves fit in Part B. Here one learns how to conduct a good counselling interview according to the BAC guideline. Extensive lists of technical terms and their explanations suitable for everyday use – all arranged according to organ systems – contain the most important vocabulary for everyday pharmacy work. A totally practical German lesson!

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2017

The West must wait

County Galway and the Irish Free State, 1922–32

by Una Newell

The West must wait presents a new perspective on the development of the Irish Free State. It extends the regional historical debate beyond the Irish revolution and raises a series of challenging questions about post-civil war society in Ireland. Through a detailed examination of key local themes - land, poverty, politics, emigration, the status of the Irish language, the influence of radical republicans and the authority of the Catholic Church - it offers a probing analysis of the socio-political realities of life in the new state. This book opens up a new dimension by providing a rural contrast to the Dublin-centred views of Irish politics. Significantly, it reveals the level of deprivation in local Free State society with which the government had to confront in the west. Rigorously researched, it explores the disconnect between the perceptions of what independence would deliver and what was achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal administration.

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June 2016

Forbidden Lyrics

Entscheidung der Herzen

by Mikula, Olivia

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September 1999

Explicit Lyrics

Songtexte und Gedichte. Songtexte ausgewählt von Cappucino, Cora E, Moses Pelham Schiffmeister und Smudo

by Herausgegeben von Schweikart, Ralf

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

July 2013

Acceptable words

by Jeffrey Wainwright

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July 1986

The Aramaic Language

Its Distribution and Subdivisions

by Beyer, Klaus

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The Arts

December 2007

Music, words and voice

by Martin Clayton, Alan Rutter

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The Arts

December 2007

Music, words and voice

by Martin Clayton

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January 2021

Between Your Words

by Emma Scott

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January 1992

Language Maintenance versus Assimilation

A Study of the Fate of Low German in Northeast Lower Saxony since World War II

by Erdmann, Ursula M.

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September 2005

Love Lyrics

Songtexte und Gedichte

by Herausgegeben von Schweikart, Ralf

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April 2022

More than Words

by Mia Sheridan

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June 2007

First Words – Memo Spiel

by Illustriert von Beurenmeister, Corina

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2021

A landscape of words

by Amy C. Mulligan, James Paz, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

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An Introduction

by Giuliano Bonfante, Larissa Bonfante

Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918

by Robert Macdonald

by J. Anderson

by J. J. Anderson

Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory

by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian

A textbook for German studies; Part 1: Introduction, prehistory and history; Part 2: Old High German, Middle High German and Early New High German

by Wilhelm Schmidt, Edited by Dr. Elisabeth Berner and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Norbert Richard Wolf

Communicate, research, present

by Nadine Yvonne Sprecher, Annette Thomas, Annegret Lehmann and Anke Schichte. In collaboration with Christiane Schneider

County Galway and the Irish Free State, 1922–32

by Una Newell

Entscheidung der Herzen

by Mikula, Olivia

Songtexte und Gedichte. Songtexte ausgewählt von Cappucino, Cora E, Moses Pelham Schiffmeister und Smudo

by Herausgegeben von Schweikart, Ralf

by Jeffrey Wainwright

Its Distribution and Subdivisions

by Beyer, Klaus

by Martin Clayton, Alan Rutter

by Martin Clayton

by Emma Scott

A Study of the Fate of Low German in Northeast Lower Saxony since World War II

by Erdmann, Ursula M.

Songtexte und Gedichte

by Herausgegeben von Schweikart, Ralf

by Mia Sheridan

by Illustriert von Beurenmeister, Corina

by Amy C. Mulligan, James Paz, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

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