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English Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
Now showing items 41-60 of 317
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The Pastoral Moment
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
"The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work
(Taylor and Francis, 1995) -
New Light on Jonson and Roman Comedy: Volpone and Eunuchus, Magnetic Lady and Truculentus
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients themselves had imitated. Roman followed Greek comedy as Virgil followed Homer. Terence readily countered the charge that he ... -
Robert Wild's The Benefice as "Country" Dramatic Satire
(Edinburgh University Press, 2012)One motive for writing a commentary on a play no one has read is to encourage reading it. Another may be to unearth its contemporary relevance, especially if it represents the viewpoint of a group of angry white males ... -
Apocalypse Then: TAMBURLAINE and the Pleasures of Religious Fear
(Baylor University Theatre, 2006)Well before the rise of the public playhouses religion provided an irresistible current of imaginative material for the ordinary person in sixteenth-century England. It is worthwhile to inquire into the ways in which this ... -
Annihilated Space: American Literature and American Society
(Main and Fulton, 2016)Annihilated Space uses American literature to understand our social history. Flexible and inclusive, it shows multiple ways in which national fiction, drama, journals and poetry reveal us. The study builds upon a lifetime ... -
Convention and Design in Drayton's Heroicall Epistles
(Modern Language Association, 1968) -
"Ritual" in Recent Criticism: The Elusive Sense of Community
(Modern Language Association, 1983-10) -
Review of Joe D. Schrag, The Kansas Relays
(Sport Literature Association, 2014-08-04) -
Review of Amy Lawrence, Invincible
(Sports Literature Association, 2016-03-04) -
Marlowe and the Fruits of Scholarism
(University of Iowa, 1984) -
Constructing the crisis: Audience perceptions of for-profit education and institutional integrity in the closure of Dana College
(University of South Australia / Springer Open, 2014)For-profit education is playing an increasingly important role in the educational landscape, with more and more students enrolling in these institutions. However, many within and outside higher education decry the ... -
The New Literacies Narrative
(University of California, Davis, 2015) -
Description, Evaluation and Stance: Exploring the Forms and Functions of Speech Descriptors in Early Modern English
(Nordic Association of English Studies, 2016)This article explores the form and function of “speech descriptors”. These features describe in some way what a speech event that is being represented was like, such as 'loudly' in "She said loudly that she was unhappy." ... -
“speaking base approbious words”: Speech Representation in Early Modern English Witness Depositions
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)This article explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations of ... -
The Composition of Poly-Olbion and The Muses Elizium
(De Gruyter, 1968) -
Playhouse Calls: Folk Play Doctors on the Elizabethan Stage
(McMaster University, 2002)The English mumming play (formerly "Saint George play"), though of uncertain age, has many analogues in European countries, some dating before 1500. The doctor with his cure recurs in these analogues and in some plays of ... -
Motives and Habits: Some Thoughts on What Linguists Can Gain from Rhetoric and Composition
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Genre performances: John Swales' Genre Analysis and rhetorical-linguistic genre studies
(Elsevier, 2015)Although scholars have studied some sources of variation within genres, the variation that is each individual performance of a genre requires further investigation. In Genre Analysis, John Swales combined rhetoric and ... -
Crossing the Boulevard: The Action of "Genre as Social Action."
(Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, 2015-02)