This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the "horizon of expect...(展开全部)

Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lovers and, ultimately, the complete unraveling of the narrator. In a voice that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to hubris, compulsive repetition to sublime reflection, reticence to vulnerability, it can be read as both the author’s masterpiece and ...(展开全部)

The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir...(展开全部)

雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

雷蒙德·威廉斯（Raymond Williams，1921-1988），英国卓越的小说家、社会理论家和文化评论家，在文化研究领域里影响深远。他关于政治文化、大众传媒与文学的著作在西方马克思主义文化与艺术评论领域做出了重大贡献。

What do the following have in common? Let there be light - Whited sepulchres - A rod of iron - New wine into old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - A thorn in the flesh - Wheels within wheels They're all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book has 'contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other lit...(展开全部)

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this book surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. The author re-reads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the "Iliad", the "Aeneid", Dante's "Divine Comedy", "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Othello", the "Henry IV" plays, "Paradise Lost", Blake's "Milton", Wordsw...(展开全部)

This book is a journey through our increasingly visual culture. A journey where we consider how technological change has influenced the way we think, the way we see and the way we communicate. We will look at the way that the development of language has gone hand in hand with the development of technology. The rise of alphabetic literacy – reading and writing – has reconfigured...(展开全部)

查理．裴列格里諾（Charles Pellegrino） 著有超過十餘本小說和非文學類書籍，包括暢銷書《鐵達尼號上的幽靈》（Ghost of the Titanic）等。以其在古生物學、太空探險的核子推進系統，以及從龐貝和鐵達尼號到世貿中心的鑑識考古學 的卓越工作為基礎，為許多科學期刊撰文。他是詹姆斯．卡麥隆的鐵達尼號探險隊和電影《阿凡達》的科學顧問。現居紐約。

查理．裴列格里諾（Charles Pellegrino） 著有超過十餘本小說和非文學類書籍，包括暢銷書《鐵達尼號上的幽靈》（Ghost of the Titanic）等。以其在古生物學、太空探險的核子推進系統，以及從龐貝和鐵達尼號到世貿中心的鑑識考古學 的卓越工作為基礎，為許多科學期刊撰文。他是詹姆斯．卡麥隆的鐵達尼號探險隊和電影《阿凡達》的科學顧問。現居紐約。