Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic
Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core pred literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged pre unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule.
Titles in this series have been specially written to provide students with extra guidance in areas of language which they find particularly difficult.
HELP WITH WORDS compares and contrasts words which are similar or confusing in meaning or form, such as borrow and lend, say and tell, live and life. It is intended for intermediate-level students and is ideal for self-study or classroom use.
This book assembles 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
Inspirational and informative, "Write Like the Masters" is the first book-length explanation of the rhetorical technique of imitation for the modern writer. Comprised of practical, inspirational, easy-to-apply advice, this helpful guide analyses the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, explaining how readers can imitate these authors and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up their own work.
This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of studies in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts. By bringing together key players and critics in a setting of interdisciplinary dialogue, this volume captures the goals, gains and gaps of this emerging field.
