' Savitch et al. have done an excellent job, both in their selections and in their commentaries, of giving a solid introduction to a sparsely cultivated but already complex field. They have also done much to foster the dissemination and the comprehension of formal complexity results in liguistics and to encourage accuracy and lucidity in the formulation, presentation, and interpretation of such results.' A. Manaster-Ramer in Computational Linguistics, 14:4 (December 1988)
Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today “remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys,” observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller.
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McDougal Littell Literature invites students to explore the world of art, literature, and life’s big questions. The unique organization around clusters of standards allows for the teaching of major literary concepts across genre. Standards that belong together are taught together. Students analyze fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and media across clusters of standards. Special features support visual and media literacy, along with research strategies.
World Literature and Its Times, Volume 6: Middle Eastern Literature and Their Times
The works chosen for inclusion in World Literature and Its Times, Volume 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times have been carefully selected by the university professors listed in Acknowledgments. Keeping the literature-history connection in mind, the team made its selections based on a combination of factors: how frequently a literary work is studied, how closely it is tied to pivotal events in the past or present, how strong and enduring its appeal has been to readers in and out of the society that produced it, and how well it helps represent the breadth of the four major literatures of the region (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish)