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A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar. An eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to major tongues like Chinese, and with copious revelations about the hodgepodge nature of English, John McWhorter shows readers how to see and hear languages as a linguist does. Packed with big ideas about language alongside wonderful trivia, What Language Is explains how languages across the globe (the Queen's English and Suriname creoles alike) originate, evolve, multiply, and divide. Raising provocative questions about what qualifies as a language (so-called slang does have structured grammar), McWhorter takes readers on a marvelous journey through time and place-from Persia to the languages of Sri Lanka-to deliver a feast of facts about the wonders of human linguistic expression.

Langues --- Changement linguistique. --- Littérature comparée. --- Étymologie.

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Etude sur l'apport dans la réflexion de J. Green sur la foi, le mal et le salut de sa lecture de l'oeuvre de Dostoïevski, et sur les points de rencontre de leurs oeuvres.

Comparative literature --- Littérature comparée --- French and Russian --- Française et russe --- Green, Julien, --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, --- Themes, motives --- Influence --- Littérature comparée --- Française et russe --- Influence.

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This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D'haen examines: The return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning. Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates. Theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures from around the globe. The possibility and implications of a definition of world literature. This book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation and postcolonial studies and anyone with an interest in these or related topics.

Literature --- Comparative Literature --- History and criticism --- Comparative literature. --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte. --- 82.091 --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Comparative literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Literature - History and criticism --- Littérature comparée --- Littérature --- Histoire et critique

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This title is intended for upper level undergraduates, MA students and lecturers in American Studies and Literary Studies.This is the first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies.This Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.In a substantial Introduction to the volume, leading experts, Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor suggest ways in which the transatlantic model can be most effectively used within literary studies. The readings that follow are organised around key ideas - the nation and cosmopolitanism, theories and practice of comparative literature, postcolonialism/imperialism, translation, style and genre, and travel - and provide accessible, annotated examples that demonstrate the different possibilities of comparative analysis. The book represents and promotes an understanding of British, European and American literary culture within a broader framework of transatlantic activity.This title defines the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies as taught in English and American Studies departments. It includes important readings from key critics including J. Hillis Miller, Paul Giles, Edward Said and Paul Gilroy. It provides a full introduction and section headnotes that contextualise the field. It presents material that explores transatlantic encounters from the early modern period to the present day.

Amerikaans. --- Bellettrie. --- Comparative literature --- Cultuur. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern. --- Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. --- American and English. --- English and American. --- History and criticism. --- Gro�britannien. --- USA. --- Verenigde Staten. --- American literature --- Literatura comparada --- Littérature comparée --- Littérature moderne --- Américaine et anglaise --- Anglaise et américaine --- Histoire et critique

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Pollution, réchauffement climatique, catastrophes naturelles, épidémies, manipulations génétiques font partie de notre quotidien, engendrant une culpabilité et des angoisses dont nous avons de plus en plus de mal à nous défaire. Les fictions, littérature et cinéma en tête, exploitent ces nouvelles peurs, réactivant d'anciens mythes et créant de nouveaux. À la lumière de plus de deux cents romans, films, bandes dessinées, documentaires, essais ou publicités, Christian Chelebourg démonte pour notre plus grand plaisir les mécanismes de ces 'écofictions' qui nous divertissent autant qu'elles nous effraient, qui nous invitent à méditer sur notre fragilité autant qu'elles nous persuadent de notre puissance.

Einde van de wereld in de literatuur --- End of the world in literature --- Fin du monde dans la littérature --- Disaster films --- Films-catastrophes --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Fin du monde --- Catastrophes --- Accident environnemental. --- Film-catastrophe. --- Fin du monde. --- Thème littéraire. --- Thème cinématographique. --- Catastrophes écologiques dans la littérature. --- Catastrophes écologiques au cinéma. --- Fin du monde dans la littérature. --- Fin du monde au cinéma. --- Épidémies dans la littérature. --- Littérature comparée --- Dans la littérature. --- Au cinéma. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Histoire et critique. --- Fin du monde dans la littérature --- Catastrophes écologiques. --- Science-fiction. --- Pollution. --- Réchauffement de la Terre. --- Virus. --- -- Dans la littérature --- Au cinéma --- Dans la littérature --- -- Thèmes, motifs --- Ecology --- In literature --- Catastrophes écologiques --- Science-fiction --- Pollution --- Réchauffement de la Terre --- Virus --- -- Dans la littérature. --- -- Thèmes, motifs. --- écologie --- pullotion --- réchauffement climatique --- catastrophes naturelles --- épidémies --- manipulations génétiques --- les arts --- culture --- anciens mythes --- fin du monde