An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language—and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women’s bodies, experiences, and sexuality So many of the words that we use to chronicle women’s lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second-rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks at, among other things, swearing, spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble. No self-respecting English speaker should open his mouth without reading it.

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplici...(展开全部)

An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing...(展开全部)

An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing...(展开全部)

Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and politica...(展开全部)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent --brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproa...(展开全部)

W. H. 奥登W. H. Auden 英国诗人、散文家、剧作家，被公认为叶芝与T. S. 艾略特之后二十世纪最重要的英语诗人。他青年时期就蜚声英国文坛，与斯蒂芬·斯彭德、路易斯·麦克尼斯、塞西尔·戴- 刘易斯、克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德等形成“奥登一代”，影响深远。代表作有组诗《在战争时期》，长诗《给拜伦勋爵的信》《暂时》《海与镜》《焦虑的年代》，诗集《看，异乡人》《下一次》《双重人》《阿喀琉斯的盾牌》，散文集《染匠之手》等。 【译者简介】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当...(展开全部)

In this provocative work, John McCumber asks us to understand Hegel’s system as a new approach to linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with completing metaphysics or developing historical critique. According to McCumber’s radial interpretation, Hegel constructs a complex ideal of how we should use ...(展开全部)

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the "word become flesh" is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Ranciere leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals ...(展开全部)