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This wide-ranging volume explores the tension between the dietary
practice of veganism and the manifestation, construction, and
representation of a vegan identity in today’s society. Emerging
in the early 21st century, vegan studies is distinct from more
familiar conceptions of "animal studies," an umbrella term for a
three-pronged field that gained prominence in the late 1990s and
early 2000s, consisting of critical animal studies, human animal
studies, and posthumanism. While veganism is a consideration of
these modes of inquiry, it is a decidedly different entity, an
ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated
boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. The
Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies is the must-have reference for
the important topics, problems, and key debates in the subject area
and is the first of its kind. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team
of international contributors, this handbook is divided into five
parts: History of vegan studies Vegan studies in the disciplines
Theoretical intersections Contemporary media entanglements Veganism
around the world These sections contextualize veganism beyond its
status as a dietary choice, situating veganism within broader
social, ethical, legal, theoretical, and artistic discourses. This
book will be essential reading for students and researchers of
vegan studies, animal studies, and environmental ethics.
This book traces the development of Standard English, revealing a complex and intriguing history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. Leading scholars offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detailed descriptions of the history of individual Standard English features. Ranging from Middle English to the Modern English period, the volume concludes that Standard English had no one single ancestor dialect, but is the cumulative result of generations of authoritative writing from many text types.
Writing "Out of all the Camps": J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of
Displacement is an interdisciplinary examination--combining
ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental
theory--of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize-winning South African
novelist J. M. Coetzee, primarily through his voicing of a female
subject position and his presentation of a voiceless subjectivity,
the animal, displaces both the narrative and authorial voice in his
works of fiction. Coetzee's work remains outside of conventional
notions of genre by virtue of the free indirect discourse that
characterizes many of his third-person narrated texts that feature
male protagonists (Life & Times of Michael K, The Master of
Petersburg, and Disgrace), various and differing first-person
narrative accounts of the same story (Dusklands, In the Heart of
the Country), the use of female narrators and female narrative
personas (Age of Iron, The Lives of Animals), and unlocatable,
ahistorical contexts (Waiting for the Barbarians). The work has
broad academic appeal in the established fields of not only
literary studies--postcolonial, contemporary, postmodern and
environmental--but also in the realm of performance and gender
studies. Because of its broad and interdisciplinary range, this
text bridges a conspicuous gap in studies on Coetzee.
Combining postcolonial, performance, gender-based and environmental
theory, this book examines the ways in which Nobel Prize winning
author J.M. Coetzee displaces both the narrative and authorial
voice in his works of fiction.
Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright
and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the
techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections;
the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and
vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of
descriptive grammar for beginning students. * Presumes no prior
linguistic knowledge * Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms *
Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts *
Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature
from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle A practical coursebook rather than
a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides
over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each
linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a
definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition
to a suggested solution. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is
genuinely `student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all
beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and
literature.
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was
supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted
in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts
fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type,
dating after 1435 and labelled 'Chancery Standard', provided the
mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from
London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a
multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval
Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English
ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts,
personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose,
multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes,
standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation
rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental
authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology,
vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions,
social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers,
text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the
multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting
socioeconomic trends.
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was
supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted
in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts
fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type,
dating after 1435 and labelled 'Chancery Standard', provided the
mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from
London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a
multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval
Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English
ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts,
personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose,
multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes,
standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation
rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental
authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology,
vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions,
social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers,
text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the
multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting
socioeconomic trends.
Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically
from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the
most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of
Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume
consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon,
Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by
and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the
communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing
and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and
earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected
volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including
code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual
approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected
genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and
analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review
terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of
the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin
interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship
between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the
contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the
same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the
other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the
next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the
relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language
history.
This wide-ranging volume explores the tension between the dietary
practice of veganism and the manifestation, construction, and
representation of a vegan identity in today's society. Emerging in
the early 21st century, vegan studies is distinct from more
familiar conceptions of "animal studies," an umbrella term for a
three-pronged field that gained prominence in the late 1990s and
early 2000s, consisting of critical animal studies, human animal
studies, and posthumanism. While veganism is a consideration of
these modes of inquiry, it is a decidedly different entity, an
ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated
boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. The
Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies is the must-have reference for
the important topics, problems, and key debates in the subject area
and is the first of its kind. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team
of international contributors, this handbook is divided into five
parts: History of vegan studies Vegan studies in the disciplines
Theoretical intersections Contemporary media entanglements Veganism
around the world These sections contextualize veganism beyond its
status as a dietary choice, situating veganism within broader
social, ethical, legal, theoretical, and artistic discourses. This
book will be essential reading for students and researchers of
vegan studies, animal studies, and environmental ethics.
The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain
has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of
English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in
a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect
of earlier linguistic contact. Such texts, which switch between
Latin, English and French, have increasingly been recognized as
instances of written code-switching and as highly relevant evidence
for the linguistic strategies which medieval and early modern
multilingual speakers used for different purposes. The
contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon of
mixed-language texts from the point of view of code-switching, an
important mechanism of linguistic change. Based on a variety of
text types and genres from the medieval and Early Modern English
periods, the individual papers present detailed linguistic analyses
of a large number of texts, addressing a variety of issues,
including methodological questions as well as functional,
pragmatic, syntactic and lexical aspects of language mixing. The
very specific nature of language mixing in some text types also
raises important theoretical questions such as the distinction
between borrowing and switching, the existence of discrete
linguistic codes in earlier multilingual Britain and, more
generally, the possible limits of the code-switching paradigm for
the analysis of these mixed texts from the early history of
English. Thus the volume is of particular interest not only for
historical linguists, medievalists and students of the history of
English, but also for sociolinguists, psycholinguists, language
theorists and typologists.
There are many questions yet to be answered about how Standard
English came into existence. The claim that it developed from a
Central Midlands dialect propagated by clerks in the Chancery, the
medieval writing office of the king, is one explanation that has
dominated textbooks to date. This book reopens the debate about the
origins of Standard English, challenging earlier accounts and
revealing a far more complex and intriguing history. An
international team of fourteen specialists offer a wide-ranging
analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects,
to detailed descriptions of the history of individual Standard
English features. The volume ranges from Middle English to the
present day, and looks at a variety of text types. It concludes
that Standard English had no one single ancestor dialect, but is
the cumulative result of generations of authoritative writing from
many text types.
"At Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing
exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat
Generation--an exchange fortunately that has been carefully
archived and preserved. This valuable anthology does not further
embalm the 'legend' of the Beats. Instead it allows its readers to
hear authentic voices --Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, John
Clellon Holmes, Diane di Prima, Philip Whalen, etc.--as well as
introducing the thoughtful and responsible work of leading Beat
scholars."--Joyce Johnson Amassed from the riches of the Naropa
University audio archives, this collection offers an exciting new
look at the Beats--whose influence lives on in the art and politics
of our time. In this often spontaneous, conversational book,
readers are introduced to the hard truths behind being a Beat
woman, the haunting accuracy of William Burroughs's world-view, the
passion and energy of Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, Jack
Kerouac's unexpected musicality, Diane DiPrima's foray into small
press publishing, Michael McClure's account of the famous first
reading of "Howl," and, most of all, the inspirations behind
America's most provocative and prescient thinkers.Contributors
include:
David Amram
Amiri Baraka
Ted Berrigan
Junior Burke
William S. Burroughs
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Ann Charters
Clark Coolidge
Gregory Corso
Diane di Prima
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rick Fields
Allen Ginsberg
David Henderson
Abbie Hoffman
John Clellon Holmes
Joyce Johnson
Hettie Jones
Edie Parker Kerouac
Joanne Kyger
Michael McClure
William S. Merwin
John Oughton
Marjorie Perloff
David Rome
Edward Sanders
Gary Snyder
Janine Pommy Vega
Steven Taylor
Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
Anne Waldman
Philip Whalen
Laura Wright
Joshua Zim
Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of descriptive grammar for beginning students. * Presumes no prior linguistic knowledge * Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms * Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts * Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle A practical coursebook rather than a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition to a suggested solution. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is genuinely `student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and literature. eBook available with sample pages: 020314757X
Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of
texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of
medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played
in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major
topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it
from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with
a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between
Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in
space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show
how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life
of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a
rich and highly valuable record of theFrench language in the middle
ages. Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William
Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne
Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul
Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.
Vegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few
years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and
transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history
and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach
literary analysis. Vegan studies has emerged alongside the 'animal
turn' in the humanities. However, while veganism is often
considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is
also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many
scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit
and lived experience. This collection of 25 essays maps and engages
with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary
theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across
a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It
provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and
veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the
philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the
graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an
extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within
the emergent field of vegan studies.
Edition and translation of a copy of a vastly significant document
for our understanding of fourteenth-century England, long believed
lost. In the summer of 1376 a spirit of reform was abroad in the
city of London. A number of measures were taken to make those who
were elected to govern the city more responsible to its citizens as
a whole. A committee was set up to examine the ordinances at the
Guildhall and present to the Commonalty those that were
"profitables" and those that were not. Two years later, the
committee produced a volume known officially as the Liber de
Ordinancionibus, but popularly as "The Jubilee book", because it
had been initiated in the jubilee year of Edward III's reign. But
the reforming measures introduced in the book caused so many
controversies and disputes that eventually, in a bid to restore
order in the city, in March 1387 the "Jubilee Book" was taken
outside the Guildhall and publicly burnt. Historians have long
debated the possible contents of this contentious but hugely
significant volume, widely believed to be lost. However, recently a
fifteenth-century copy of the "Jubilee Book", possibly of an
earlier draft put together in the course of the two years, but
superseded by the final version, was discovered in a manuscript
held at Trinity College Cambridge (Ms O.3.11).
Avid mushroom hunters and volunteers with the local Search and
Rescue Department, Laura and Julie, who are in their sixties,
remember that first encounter in the woods years ago. Four young
men, who are fun by nature, travel to the woods with high hopes of
a hunt they won't forget. A call to the Search and Rescue
Department will bring them shockingly together in the... Black
Woods. Parental Advisory - Explicit Language
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages
of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain
are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to
be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality
of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe
relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function
or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all
the articles collected here from leading international experts in
their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history,
sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and
texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in
fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records
from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work
done on the bridges of the river Thames. Contributors: PAUL BRAND,
BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA
JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER,
WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A.
TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT Professor D.A. TROTTER is
Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Studies of the very earliest form of language which can be called
English, and its later influence. East Anglia - the easternmost
area of England - was probably home to the first-ever form of
language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had
a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English,
and contributed importantly to the development of American English
and (to a lesser extent) Southern Hemisphere Englishes; it has also
experienced multilingualism on a remarkable scale. However, it has
received little attention from linguistic scholars over the years,
and this volume provides an overdue assessment. The articles, by
leading scholars in the field, cover all aspects of the English of
East Anglia from its beginnings to the present day; topics include
place names, non-standard grammar, dialect phonology, dialect
contact, language contact, and a host of other issues of
descriptive, theoretical, historical and sociolinguistic interest
and importance. Professor JACEK FISIAKteaches in the Department of
English at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland; Professor PETER
TRUDGILL is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of
Fribourg. Contributors: PETER TRUDGILL, JACEK FISIAK, KARL INGE
SANDRED, GILLIS KRISTENSSON, LAURA WRIGHT, CLAIRE JONES, TERTU
NEVALAINEN, HELENA RAUMOLIN-BRUNBERG, KEN LODGE, DAVID BRITAIN,
PATRICIA POUSSA
DREAM OF YOU: Abby Erickson isn't looking for a one-night stand, a
relationship, or anything that involves any one-on-one time, but
when she witnesses a shocking crime, she's thrust into the hands of
the sexiest man she's ever seen - Colton Anders. His job is to
protect her, but with every look, every touch, and every simmering
kiss, she's in danger of not only losing her life but her heart
also. STRIPPED DOWN: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author Lorelei James, a new steamy story of the Blacktop Cowboys...
Never challenge a cowboy to a little naughty competition... A
flirty game of sexual truth or dare between best man, Wynton Grant,
and maid of honor, Melissa Lockhart during their BFF's wedding
reception results in a steamy hookup. But their plans for a one and
done change when a family crisis leaves Wyn shorthanded at the
Grant Ranch. Experienced horsewoman Mel volunteers to help out and
gets way more than she bargained for living under the same roof as
the sexy rancher. Playing house has never appealed to Wyn...until
now. But the feisty redhead is keeping secrets and Wyn's not above
stripping her bare-body and soul-to get to the bottom of it...
RAGE/KILLIAN: RAGE Rage might be an aggressive Hunter by nature,
but the gorgeous male has never had a problem charming the females.
All except Lucie Gaudet. Of course, the lovely Geek is a born
troublemaker, and it was no surprise to Rage when she was kicked
out of the Wildlands. But now the Pantera need a first-class hacker
to stop the potential destruction of their people. And it's up to
Rage to convince Lucie to help. Can the two forget the past-and
their sizzling attraction-to save the Pantera? KILLIAN Gorgeous,
brutal, aggressive, and human, Killian O'Roarke wants only two
things: to get rid of the Pantera DNA he's been infected with, and
get back to the field. But the decorated Army Ranger never
bargained on meeting the woman-the female-of his dreams on his
mission to the Wildlands. Rosalie lost her mate to a human, and now
the Hunter despises them all. In fact, she thinks they're good for
only one thing: barbeque. But this one she's guarding is testing
her beliefs. He is proud and kind, and also knows the pain of loss.
But in a time of war between their species, isn't any chance of
love destined for destruction? DRAGON KING: A Woman On A Mission
Grace Clark has always done things safe. She's never colored
outside of the law, but she has a book due and has found the
perfect spot to break through her writer's block. Or so she thinks.
Right up until Arian suddenly appears and tries to force her away
from the mountain. Unaware of the war she just stumbled into, Grace
doesn't just discover the perfect place to write, she finds Arian -
the most gorgeous, enticing, mysterious man she's ever met. A King
With a Purpose Arian is a Dragon King who has slept away centuries
in his cave. Recently woken, he's about to leave his mountain to
join his brethren in a war when he's alerted that someone has
crossed onto Dreagan. He's ready to fight...until he sees the
woman. She's innocent and mortal - and she sets his blood aflame.
He recognizes the danger approaching her just as the dragon within
him demands he claim her for his own...
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