Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach

Accessibly written, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. The book examines systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya and each writing system is presented in the light of four major aspects of writing: history and development; internal structure; the relationship of writing and language; and sociolinguistic factors.

Flinders & Sweeney, English 365 Level 1

English 365 is a course for adult learners who want to develop their English skills for their work as well as their social and travel needs. Level 1 is for post-elementary to low intermediate level students. Key features include stimulating content and activities, listening material based on authentic interviews with working people. A variety of topics provide opportunities to practise speaking.

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

An autobiographical, self-reflexive meditation that traces the critic's remarkable routes of growth into a world-class scholar

Literary Criticism: A New History

Gary Day has made a thought-provoking and highly readable contribution to one of the most difficult categories of critical writing: a history of literary criticism.... There is a great treasure trove of curiosities here, economically expressed, which really adds to the great pleasure of reading this book

Ancient Literary Criticism

The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism.