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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in the literature. This three-part survey is the first study to address this. Archaeology and Language II examines in some detail how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. This collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. Where there is evidence for migrations and expansions these can be explored through both disciplines to produce a richer interpretation of prehistory. An important part of this is the origin and spread of food production which can be modelled through the spread of both plants and words for them. Archaeology and Language II will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, archaeologists and anthropologists.
"The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason" traces the complex, scattered
criticism of Poe's most anomalous work, as it has steadily grown in
prominence to a central position in the study of Poe and American
literature. The winding route the criticism of "Pym" has charted,
as convoluted as the narrative itself, has been a history of
disagreement at almost every level at which critics and scholars
read texts--including the nature and genre of the work, the
seriousness or levity of the author's intent, and its stature as a
work of genius, hackwork, or something in between. The unique set
of thematic and narrative problems the work poses has eluded every
hermeneutic structure brought against it so far, consistently
undermining the very reading strategies it seems to invite.
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