Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric lan...
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading is perhaps the essential ...
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A Robin's Egg Renaissance: Chicago Modernism & the Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there. London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicag...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed ...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed ...
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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...
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What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unma...
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