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The syntax of class writing inequality in nineteenth-century America / by Lang, Amy Schrager

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Alliteration in the poetic edda by Shimomiya, Tadao, 1935-

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The verbal system in late enlightenment Hebrew by Kahn, Lily

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A more perfect Torah at the intersection of philology and hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple scroll / by Levinson, Bernard M. (Bernard Malcolm)

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Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England /

Subjects: “…English language Old English, ca. 450-1100 Syntax.…”
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Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse / by Bakker, Egbert J.

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Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse / by Bakker, Egbert J.

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George Eliot's grammar of being by Raines, Melissa Anne

Table of Contents: “…'The utmost intricacies of the soul's pathways'-syntax and individuality -- pt. 2. 'The mercy for those sorrows'-syntax and sympathy.…”
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The poetry handbook a guide to reading poetry for pleasure and practical criticism / by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…Metre -- Form -- Layout -- Punctuation -- Lineation -- Rhyme -- Diction -- Syntax -- History -- Biography -- Gender -- Exams and written work.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Talking shop the language of craft in an age of consumption / by Betjemann, Peter J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ghost writer: the canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft -- The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise -- In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type -- The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion.…”
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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / by Baron, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.…”
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Music and the language of love seventeenth-century French airs / by Gordon-Seifert, Catherine Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Music and texts: an overview of the sources: A general description of the air ; The publications ; The composers ; Publications by Lambert, Bacilly, La Barre, and Le Camus: a description ; The song texts ; Poetic structure ; Style or elocution: figurative language and poetic syntax ; Poetry and rhetoric -- Rhetoric and meaning in the seventeenth-century French air: Seventeenth-century French sources on rhetoric and music ; Persuading the passions -- Musical representations of the primary passions: The primary passions ; The agitated passions ; The modest passions ; The neutral passion: Le contentement ; Summary -- Setting the texts: Painful love ; Bittersweet love ; Enticing love ; Joyous love ; Summary -- Form and style: the organization and function of expressions, syntax, and rhetorical figures: Form (disposition) ; The organization of expressions in short airs ; The organization of expressions in long airs ; Form in single-strophe airs ; The rhetorical sections of a piece: their function and expression ; Style (elocution): poetic structure, punctuation, and rhetorical figures -- L'art du chant: performing French airs: À haute voix: the importance of orality ; The art of proper singing: tone and style ; Ornamentation ; The pronunciation of seventeenth-century French ; Syllabic quantity ; Tempo ; Le mouvement ; Repeats ; Basso continuo accompaniment -- Salon culture and the mid-seventeenth-century French air: The French air and conversation ; Musical seductions ; Galanterie and the air: undercurrents of eroticism and lessons of morality ; Women singing airs as men -- The late-seventeenth-century air and the rhetoric of distraction ; The air after 1670 ; Songs and the rhetoric of distraction ; Pleasure, airs, and the new rhetoric ; The legacy of Lambert, Bacilly, Le Camus, and La Barre.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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George Herbert's Lyrics / by Stein, Arnold (Arnold Sidney), 1915-2002

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Answerable Style The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Answerable Style : The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Answerable Style : The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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