Prospero's Son (Inbunden)
avSeth Lerer
ISBN: 9780226014418 - UTGIVEN: 201304This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is, as fits our latter days, altogether more compli[...]
Children's Literature (Häftad)
avSeth Lerer
ISBN: 9780226473017 - UTGIVEN: 200911Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". The only[...]
Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern (Inbunden)
avProfessor Seth Lerer
ISBN: 9780231123723 - UTGIVEN: 2003-02-24
Error and the Academic Self (Häftad)
avSeth Lerer
ISBN: 9780231123730 - UTGIVEN: 2003-02How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book ill[...]
Inventing English (Inbunden)
avSeth Lerer
ISBN: 9780231137942 - UTGIVEN: 200703Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's Inventing E[...]
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Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England (Pocket)
avSeth Lerer
ISBN: 9780691029238 - UTGIVEN: 1996-12-09
